Teacher and Technology - Feb 29, 2012

Lab

The Final Survey
Livebinders - Redekopp, Serious Games, Ed Tech,  Avatars
iPad apps for student productivity

Photostory - images and voice → movies (for any age level)

Library research?

Class

Exam questions - questions???
Important Ideas are done!

The Happy Planet Index - Nic Marks

Debriefing the social media/wireless access experiment

• for yourself - helpful _________________ distracting
• for those round you  - helpful _________________ distracting
• for your students ??? - helpful _________________ distracting

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

The Summary - it’s not about the tech, but the tech can helps

Digital Divide - Aleph Molinari

No RWL !!

Teacher and Technology - Music Feb 28, 2012

Lab

Livebinders - Redekopp, Serious Games, Ed Tech,  Avatars
iPad apps for student productivity

Photostory - images and voice → movies (for any age level)

Library research?

Class

Nathanaël W. & Michael D. - TBA
Mike M & Matt - TBA

Exam questions - questions???
Important Ideas are done!

The Happy Planet Index - Nic Marks

Debriefing the social media/wireless access experiment

• for yourself - helpful _________________ distracting
• for those round you  - helpful _________________ distracting
• for your students ??? - helpful _________________ distracting

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

• What have you learned?

The Summary - it’s not about the tech, but the tech can helps

Digital Divide - Aleph Molinari

Formal Course Evaluation
No RWL

Teacher and Technology - Feb 24, 2012

Presentation

Alice & Arlene- Virtual Museums and e-scrapbooking

Exam questions - questions???

next lab - Photostory

Important Ideas 24 and 25

Assessment - sorting out the content we want from the wow of the technology

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The Happy Planet Index - Nic Marks

Digital Divide - Aleph Molinari

Debriefing the social media/wireless access experiment

• for yourself - helpful _________________ distracting
• for those round you  - helpful _________________ distracting
• for your students ??? - helpful _________________ distracting

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

Apps

Pockets of Potential Ideas - and Carly Shuler
Dragon Search/Dictate
Our Choice and new ‘books’ from Apple (ibooks author)

Future technologies

Formal Course Evaluation

Teacher and Technology - Music Feb 23, 2012

Class

Macy and Jessica (web link)  - SongSmith (Partners In Learning Web site - join to get SS free)
Courtney, Michelle, Ainsley (web link) - Wagner, music history,art, Tumblr) and the Smartboard
Exam questions - questions???

next lab - Photostory

Important Ideas 24 and 25

Assessment - sorting out the content we want from the wow of the technology

Teacher and Technology - Feb 22, 2012

Lab

Google - advanced search techniques - narrowing searches by quotes, country, file type, restricting words
Google Images search - click on the camera
Google Scholar - nice but often leads to restricted links
Xtranormal
GoAnimate

Class

Exam questions

Matt, Mitch, Jon J, and Phil - TBA

We have 2 classes after this - what do you feel you are missing???

Important Ideas 22 and 23

Assessment - sorting out the content we want from the wow of the technology

Apps

Pockets of Potential Ideas - and Carly Shuler
Dragon Search/Dictate
Our Choice and new ‘books’ from Apple (ibooks author)

Teacher and Technology - Music Feb 21, 2012

Lab

Google - advanced search techniques - narrowing searches by quotes, country, file type, restricting words
Google Images search - click on the camera
Google Scholar - nice but often leads to restricted links
Response to Jodi’s session on soundboard setup
Measuring Happiness
GoAnimate
Xtranormal
GoAnimate.com: Burgers by rredekopp

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

Music Teach Wiki

Class

Exam questions

We have 2 classes after this - what do you feel you are missing???

HipHop Genius

Important Ideas 22 and 23

Assessment - sorting out the content we want from the wow of the technology

Apps

Pockets of Potential Ideas - and Carly Shuler
Dragon Search/Dictate
Our Choice and new ‘books’ from Apple (ibooks author)

RWL for Feb 21/22

RWL for Feb 21/22

Assessment of Digital Stuff

Assessment & planning
Evaluation sheet What makes a good podcast?
Rubric for assessing podcasts For self-assessment and peer-assessment.
Rubric_2 for assesment of podcast
Podcast storyboard from CTAPIV Podcasting workshop for teachers

James Gee Part I_ Answers to Questions-Games and Learning - NYTimes.com.html
James Paul Gee Part II_ Answers to Questions About Video Games and Learning - NYTimes.com.html
Podcasts and Assessment
Assessing Podcasts - rubrics and other ideas

Watch

Grading With Games - James Paul Gee
Implications of New Media in Ed - Henry Jenkins

Listen

Effective Assessment in a Digital Age - also has text
Assessment When Using New Tools - this page has links to readings, video and audio

Teacher and Technology - Music Feb 17, 2012

Friday - at Fort Garry MB Church at 8:30 with Jodi Durham showing us how to set up mikes and a soundboard.

Jodi's materials are on our wiki.

Teacher and Technology - Feb 17, 2012

Class

Presentations
Shawn, Sam, Chelsey, & Elise -- English/Drama
Chelsea, Jessica, Jaylyn- Socrative Learning

What?? Webquests ?????? Best and worst of your web questing experience

Curriculum Navigator

Important Ideas 22 and 23

Apps

Pockets of Potential Ideas - and Carly Shuler
Dragon Search/Dictate
Our Choice and new ‘books’ from Apple - Biology and  ibooks author
iTunesU

In case you missed them:http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
Free online music editing - see chart at http://teacherandtech.pbworks.com/
Get More Out Of Google Print sheets
Online poll/survey sites comparison chart

Teacher and Technology - Feb 15, 2012

Lab

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

Responses to the Assistive Technology presentation
Free online music editing - see chart at http://teacherandtech.pbworks.com/
Get More Out Of Google Print sheets
Online poll/survey sites comparison chart
Video and videoish -  
Middlespot - web mashups
animoto - video from images
Doink - simple drawing and animation
Glogster - create posters with pictures, movies, etc
VoiceThread - images, comments (video, text, audio, phone)

Class

Presentations
Aisha, Lindsay, Tania

Important Ideas 20 and 21  

Games

Which games? Which kids? How often? How to assess it?

Jane McGonigal, Kurt Squire and James Gee

Teacher and Technology - Music Feb 14, 2012

Lab

Aboriginal Ideas in music
Online music editing - SoundJunction, Creating Music (elem?), ClubCreateMusicLab, SoundationStudio, Aviary Roc Music Creator, JamStudio, iNudge, Aviary Myna (advanced),

• Take the link you have been assigned and get the details and pros/cons and add them to the class page on Online Music Editing.

Best Download/Stand Alone software review
4 Best Online Beat Making Tools
More reviews and resources

Class

Feb 17 - Friday - 8:30 at Fort Garry MB Church -

Responses to the Assistive Technology presentation

Presentations
Steph  -
Karli  -


HipHop Genius

Important Ideas 20 and 21  

Games

Which games? Which kids? How often? How to asses it?

Jane McGonigal, Kurt Squire and James Gee

Apps

Pockets of Potential Ideas - and Carly Shuler
Dragon Search/Dictate
Our Choice and new ‘books’ from Apple (ibooks author)

RWL for Feb 21/22

from Feb 7/8

Teacher and Technology - Feb 10, 2012

Class

Feb 10 - Guest Lori Wiebe from OARC (assistive technologies)
x iTouch For Special Needs Apps

Presentation
Jen, Leanne, Alyson - See it! Cell it! Sell it

Important Ideas 18 and 19  

A Day Made of Glass

Creative Commons by CommonCraft
Facebook License explained - Nathan Fehr

Games

Which games? Which kids? How often? How to asses it?

Jane McGonigal, Kurt Squire and James Gee

Apps

Pockets of Potential Ideas
Dragon Search/Dictate
Our Choice and new ‘books’ from Apple (ibooks author)

Teacher and Technology - Music Feb 9, 2012

Class

Check wireless connections

Guest Lori Wiebe from OARC (assistive technologies)
x iTouch For Special Needs Apps

Feb 17 ??? Friday - working on it

RWL for Feb ⅞ and 14/15

Teacher and Technology - Feb 8, 2012

Lab

Google Docs for writing
ibooks Author Guide
Twitter in education?

Timeline creator
Social bookmarking - Diigo, using pInterest
iTunes U

Class

Feb 10 - Guest Lori Wiebe from OARC (assistive technologies)
    x iTouch For Special Needs Apps
Presentations
Paul, Christina, Sara - TBA
Jen, Leanne, Alyson - See it! Cell it! Sell it

Important Ideas 16 and 17  

A Day Made of Glass

Creative Commons by CommonCraft
Facebook License explained - Nathan Fehr

Games

Which games? Which kids? How often? How to asses it?

Jane McGonigal, Kurt Squire and James Gee

Apps

Pockets of Potential Ideas
Dragon Search/Dictate
Our Choice and new ‘books’ from Apple (ibooks author)

RWL for Feb 14/15 - same as Last week