Teacher and Technology - Nov. 7, 2012

Lab
Google Search Education - teaching students to search better
Yodio - audio and images (and track lists)
Timelines - TimeToast,  Capzules (make a timeline of history, a major writer, an athlete or sport or whatever with either of these timeline creators)
Bubbl.us
Assign 3 - How many others did you view? Poll

survey service

Class
Presentation -   Matt/Amy/Lindsey/Nick J/ Matt G - Comments

Exam Questions ??? How many booklets? How many will use the lsb?

SUMMARY
Tech Ed and you - look back to where you were, look forward to where you go from here.

   - it’s not about the tech, but the tech can help
- keep in mind that it's all a social experiment

Blatant Ad - SY Themes course next year

Video games can teach important skills!

40 Quick ways to use mobile devices in your classroom

More on AAC Devices

OARC wiki of apps - iTouch For Special Needs Apps
The Sound of Learning - Edutopia
Enabling Dreams - Edutopia - search for others
Assistive Music Tech Lab
The AAC Workshop Band


Good Luck - stay in touch!

Teacher and Tech - Music Nov 6, 2012

Lab

Timelines - TimeToast,  Capzules (make a timeline of music eras, composers, instruments with either of these timeline creators)
Bubbl.us
Enquiring Minds
Integrating Aboriginal Perspective into Music

Class

Exam Questions ??? How many booklets do I need? How many lab spots? How many are doing multimedia?

How to survive the final term - what do you still need to learn about yourself, about teaching, about learning, about people who are different than you? (Meta-teachnition)

Assign 3 - Web Presence

survey service

The Sound of Learning - Edutopia
Enabling Dreams - Edutopia - search for others
Assistive Music Tech Lab
The AAC Workshop Band

From the RWL
Pick any three (text or video) of these (or other) articles/videos (check the video tab) that promote technology in the music classroom - for those of you in the EY stream check the PDF that is the first item listed. These are not here to convince you that you should use tech, but to get you some perspectives of what some others are thinking.
Take notes and come to class ready to comment on / critique these.

SUMMARY
Tech Ed and you - look back to where you were, look forward to where you go from here.

    - it’s not about the tech, but the tech can help

40 Quick ways to use mobile devices in your classroom (Really???)

Techy comic by a former student - Interesting Times

Teacher and Technology - Nov. 2, 2012

Presentation -   Lacey W/Martha M/John B/Thy T - Comments

Exam Questions ???

Environment  and the Tech Influence - Food, Inc excerpt

Important Ideas # 21 - 25

Assign 3 - main idea sharing - find the people who also worked on your topic (if there are any) and come up with the three main points we should all know. Share them with us all.

Video games can teach important skills!

40 Quick ways to use mobile devices in your classroom

More on AAC Devices

OARC wiki of apps - iTouch For Special Needs Apps
The Sound of Learning - Edutopia
Enabling Dreams - Edutopia - search for others
Assistive Music Tech Lab
The AAC Workshop Band

Course Evaluation !!!!

Next Class

Presentation - Matt/Amy/Lindsey/Nick J/ Matt G
Course Review



Slideshare
TeacherTube
Survey Monkey - free online surveys.
PollEveryWhere - text in surveys

Teacher and Tech - Music Nov 1, 2012

Are video games preparing our kids adequately for a post-apocalyptic world?

Last Presentation -Laura/Kati/Jordanna   --- comments

Exam Questions ???

Meta-Teachnition Part 3 - SMART Boards
- only one person can touch the board at a time
- what is the best use?
- can we get beyond low level skills
- what are the higher levels of thinking in music anyway?

Important Ideas #21 - 25

Comments on Food, Inc excerpt ?? - a counter argument to bigger is better, faster is better, efficiency is better.

Assign 3 - main idea sharing - find the people who also worked on your topic (if there are any) and come up with the three main points we should all know. Share them with us all.

From the RWL
Pick any three (text or video) of these (or other) articles/videos (check the video tab) that promote technology in the music classroom - for those of you in the EY stream check the PDF that is the first item listed. These are not here to convince you that you should use tech, but to get you some perspectives of what some others are thinking.
Take notes and come to class ready to comment on / critique these.

Video games can teach important skills!

40 Quick ways to use mobile devices in your classroom

Course evaluation

Next Class
Summaries- yes you still have more to learn!!
Exam review - how many of you will want ot use the lab??
Lab ??

Teacher and Technology - Oct 31, 2012

Mr Bean and the Invisible Drum Kit

Lab
Exam questions are on the wiki - questions???
Action - clean up U of M art wiki Figure out among you how to organize the wiki. Then make a VoiceThread with a couple of other people to highlight a grouping of images. You each need to make a comment on each image that you incorporate into your VT.

Class
The Flipped Classroom - “Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day”

Meta-Teachnition Part 3 - SMART Boards - what have you noticed about our use of the SMART Board for presentations. What was most effective and what was least effective? What are your current comfort levels. Do you see it as an effective part of your abilities or will you leave well enough alone?
Due: today in D2L (Happy Halloween!)

Presentation -   Kate / Matt / Jenna - Comments

Comments on the AAC presentation and 10 Wishes of An AAC Student

Environment  
Food, Inc excerpt This time for sure!!!

Techy comic by a former student - Interesting Times

Important Ideas #18,19 & 20

Assign 3 - main idea sharing - find the people who also worked on your topic (if there are any) and come up with the three main points we should all know. Share them with us all.

Video games can teach important skills!

40 Quick ways to use mobile devices in your classroom

Next Class
Course Evaluation !!!!
Presentation - Lacey W/Martha M/John B/Thy T

RWL for Oct. 30
More on AAC Devices

OARC wiki of apps - iTouch For Special Needs Apps
RWL at least two of these please.

Read

MobileLearning4SpecialNeedsKids
Mobile Devices in Special Ed

Watch

The Sound of Learning - Edutopia
Enabling Dreams - Edutopia - search for others
Assistive Music Tech Lab
The AAC Workshop Band

Listen

Martin Pistorius story on CBC
Listen to a special education edition of the Science Podcast -  Chris Dede
iTouch4SpecialNeeds links

App Lists and Recommendations
iTouchForSpecialNeeds
http://itouch4specialneeds.pbworks.com/w/page/32672136/FrontPage
MobileLearning4SpecialNeedsKids




Slideshare
TeacherTube
Survey Monkey - free online surveys.
PollEveryWhere - text in surveys

Teacher and Tech - Music Oct 30, 2012

Mr Bean and the Invisible Drum Kit

Lab

More Comments for Lori from OARC would be appreciated - Assistive Technologies

Action - clean up U of M art wiki Figure out among you how to organize the wiki. Then make a VoiceThread with a couple of other people to highlight a grouping of images. You each need to make a comment on each image that you incorporate into your VT.

Rubistar - for some help with rubrics (thanks Janna!)

Class

Meta-Teachnition Part 3 - SMART Boards - what have you noticed about our use of the SMART Board for presentations. What was most effective and what was least effective? What are your current comfort levels. Do you see it as an effective part of your abilities or will you leave well enough alone? Due: today in D2L

Presentation - Janna/Helen/Michal  --- comments

Important Ideas #21 & 22

Food, Inc excerpt - a counter argument to bigger is better, faster is better, efficiency is better.

Assign 3 - main idea sharing - find the people who also worked on your topic (if there are any) and come up with the three main points we should all know. Share them with us all.

Video games can teach important skills!

40 Quick ways to use mobile devices in your classroom

Next Class
Presentation - Laura/Kati/Jordanna

RWL for Oct. 30
Pick any three (text or video) of these (or other) articles/videos (check the video tab) that promote technology in the music classroom - for those of you in the EY stream check the PDF that is the first item listed. These are not here to convince you that you should use tech, but to get you some perspectives of what some others are thinking.
Take notes and come to class ready to comment / critique on these.



Slideshare
TeacherTube
Survey Monkey - free online surveys.
PollEveryWhere - text in surveys

Teacher and Technology - Oct 26, 2012

OARC speaker - Lori Wiebe - AAC technologies - comments

Presentation -  Josh Bergmann/Phil Cook/Christel Hildebrandt - Comments

Exam questions are on the wiki

Techy comic by a former student - Interesting Times

Important Ideas #18,19 & 20

Meta-Teachnition Part 2 - comments? or just Wow! This is why you need a variety of RSS feeds and twitter, etc

Meta-Teachnition Part 3 - SMART Boards - what have you noticed about our use of the SMART Board for presentations. What was most effective and what was least effective? What are your current comfort levels. Do you see it as an effective part of your abilities or will you leave well enough alone?
Due: Oct 31, 2012 in D2L (Happy Halloween!)

Environment  
Food, Inc excerpt

Next Class

Presentation -  Kate/Matt/Jenna

RWL for Oct. 30
More on AAC Devices

OARC wiki of apps - iTouch For Special Needs Apps
RWL at least two of these please.

Read

MobileLearning4SpecialNeedsKids
Mobile Devices in Special Ed

Watch

The Sound of Learning - Edutopia
Enabling Dreams - Edutopia - search for others
Assistive Music Tech Lab
The AAC Workshop Band

Listen

Martin Pistorius story on CBC
Listen to a special education edition of the Science Podcast -  Chris Dede
iTouch4SpecialNeeds links

App Lists and Recommendations
iTouchForSpecialNeeds
http://itouch4specialneeds.pbworks.com/w/page/32672136/FrontPage
MobileLearning4SpecialNeedsKids




Slideshare
TeacherTube
Survey Monkey - free online surveys.
PollEveryWhere - text in surveys

Teacher and Tech - Music Oct 25, 2012

Meta-Teachnition Part 2 - comments?

Meta-Teachnition Part 3 - SMART Boards - what have you noticed about our use of the SMART Board for presentations. What was most effective and what was least effective? What are your current comfort levels. Do you see it as an effective part of your abilities or will you leave well enough alone?
Due: Oct 30, 2012 in D2L

Presentation - Kristi H / Ashley S / Stephanie Y - Comments

Important Ideas #19 & 20

OARC presentation - Lori Wiebe - Assistive Technologies - Comments

Action - clean up U of M art wiki Figure out among you how to organize the wiki.

Food, Inc excerpt
Rubistar - for some help with rubrics (thanks Janna!)

Next Class
Presentation - Janna/Helen/Michal  --- comments

Assign 3 - main idea sharing - find the people who also worked on your topic (if there are any) and come up with the three main points we should all know. Share them with us all.

RWL for Oct. 30
Pick any three (text or video) of these (or other) articles/videos (check the video tab) that promote technology in the music classroom - for those of you in the EY stream check the PDF that is the first item listed. These are not here to convince you that you should use tech, but to get you some perspectives of what some others are thinking.
Take notes and come to class ready to comment / critique on these.

More AAC inspirational stuff

Read

MobileLearning4SpecialNeedsKids
Mobile Devices in Special Ed

Watch

The Sound of Learning - Edutopia
Enabling Dreams - Edutopia - search for others
Assistive Music Tech Lab
The AAC Workshop Band

Listen

Martin Pistorius story on CBC
Listen to a special education edition of the Science Podcast -  Chris Dede
iTouch4SpecialNeeds links

App Lists and Recommendations
iTouchForSpecialNeeds
http://itouch4specialneeds.pbworks.com/w/page/32672136/FrontPage
MobileLearning4SpecialNeedsKids

Techy comic by a former student - Interesting Times



Slideshare
TeacherTube
Survey Monkey - free online surveys.
PollEveryWhere - text in surveys