So it's been a while since I've posted anything, mostly due to an increase in school work. I've had 3 classes this past term, including my senior thesis as well as a practicum and and internship teaching at an elementary school. As part of my practicum experience at McDowell Sr. High School (Erie, PA) I presented the fallowing slide show and discussed ways in which students can use the technologies available to them for more purposeful things than...Oh I dont't know, say Farmville. The students were incredibly excited about the applications and sites I showed them and many expressed interest in using them for both school and personal work. It was also interesting to hear these students express their fear of technology and it's impact on their future. I was also interviewed by a author of www.paragonmedione.com blog page for a write up. CLICK HERE! (to read full article)
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
What You Wikin' At?!?!
For the last four months I have been maintaining a wiki on www.wikispaces.com. Some of you may be saying what's a wiki? I know the term was new to me when I first heard it but it is now part of my daily vocabulary. A wiki is an awesome way to integrate technology into the classroom. It provides numerous opportunities for students to colloborate both in and out of school as well as to easily share information with their teachers and ask questions when school is not in session. A wiki can make "getting together" to work on a group project as simple as waking up and grabbing your computer...work with your group from bed, at the kitchen table, heck even from the bathroom. Click the video below, which I created using Jing, for a brief intro on what a wiki is and how to create your own. I will be posting more tutorial videos on how to manage and edit wikis in the days to come. Stop limiting learning to the classroom and get on board...over 230,000 educators already have!
Do More Than Type...Use Your Voice!
One of my tech savvy professors recently introduced me to voicethread and I was completely blown away by the project. The video below will explain all the meat and bones of how voicethread works, it's pretty simple by the way. What I found to be most exciting was the ability to have online critiques of art work for art teachers, story telling sessions for reading and language arts teachers, online group discussions, etc. CLICK HERE to visit voicethread and check out some of the projects that have already been done using the program. Search by your content area or interests to see the opportunities for use in your own classroom.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Google Gets Real...Time.
Mr. Byrne, from freetech4teachers.com posted the latest on Google's new real-time search options as part of an update to their current search. Google real-time will collect feed from Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, and a variety of other places.
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