What I learned this week and how I hope to apply it..
Well, this last week had a number of firsts. I was able to send off a bunch of tokbox videos to friends via email. I also had some students come in over lunch and create a tokbox video. It was actually pretty fun and interesting. I was able to send it via email from my own computer to my school account, then I brought it up on the classroom computer and project the video for the entire class.
This week I also watched a bunch of great videos because I picked up on their links via the Twitter account. What I am starting to like about it is that there is little extra junk that I really don't care to read. It can be short and to the point and harder to abuse because it limits how much people can write.. and I like that.
I watched a very cool post that Louis posted about technology in the future.. it was a wonderful conversation while this guy went out and picked up some Lobsters and cooked them. It was awesome so I reposted it again. (retweeted)
Today was also a new for something else at school. I have been having the students create wiki pages and present them on the projection unit. Now we all open their projects on a laptop at the same time. Then the students can comment on their projects. It was much more interactive this way and the students enjoyed it.
Every day, something new.
Me
Monday, April 19, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
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Wow life gets busy.
What we have learned and how we hope to use it.
Two weeks ago I became rather frustrated with screen toaster. After a couple attempts from school, I was ready to scream. Then once I came home and tried it, it worked like a charm. What I learned was that something like screen toaster could be a very useful tool for teaching student how to do almost anything. The possibilities are somewhat endless. The way that I intend to use it is to teach students how to access their online textbooks and how to use the wiki.
More importantly, I have been asked to do a presentation to the staff on how to create and use a wiki. Since I am not much of a public speaker, I plan to have a screentoaster tutorial all set up so I will not have to say much in front of the staff.
I have also started a classroom blog as an experiment. I have only told a few students about it and the love the idea. I also convinced my wife to check it out and she thought it would be a great way to give parents updates on what is going on in the classroom. I like the idea of having students updating the site with their interpretations about what we are learning about.. or they could even share some funny stories that I could post to the blog. These are just some ideas about. I wonder if I will do away with my classroom website and replace it with a blog next year.
What we have learned and how we hope to use it.
Two weeks ago I became rather frustrated with screen toaster. After a couple attempts from school, I was ready to scream. Then once I came home and tried it, it worked like a charm. What I learned was that something like screen toaster could be a very useful tool for teaching student how to do almost anything. The possibilities are somewhat endless. The way that I intend to use it is to teach students how to access their online textbooks and how to use the wiki.
More importantly, I have been asked to do a presentation to the staff on how to create and use a wiki. Since I am not much of a public speaker, I plan to have a screentoaster tutorial all set up so I will not have to say much in front of the staff.
I have also started a classroom blog as an experiment. I have only told a few students about it and the love the idea. I also convinced my wife to check it out and she thought it would be a great way to give parents updates on what is going on in the classroom. I like the idea of having students updating the site with their interpretations about what we are learning about.. or they could even share some funny stories that I could post to the blog. These are just some ideas about. I wonder if I will do away with my classroom website and replace it with a blog next year.
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