Wednesday, October 31, 2012

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

Monday, October 29, 2012

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

Thursday, October 25, 2012

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

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

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

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Teacher and Technology - Oct 24, 2012


Lab

Google Search - advanced and images
Cybrarians - why waste time in Google?
Getting YouTube videos - keepvid.com, or  savevid.com


Rubistar - for some help with rubrics


PhotoStory - PC only (or Animoto on the web)
Editing YouTube videos - blurring faces!
One list of 20 tech skills for educators and many resource links
SmartBoard Exchange
Bob's Place - SmartBoard


Class
Presentation -  Jeremy Ritchot /  Kerri Huff / Valdine Anderson - Comments

Important Ideas #15,16 & 17

Meta-Teachnition Part 2 - keep a mental note of the sites that you regularly visit which are not related to your school work or job. This could be by looking at the ones in your Bookmark bar, or the ones that you need to check daily or pretty close to daily, and perhaps, if you have some that you check weekly. Provide a brief explanation of why you choose those sites, and if you are willing list them. Due: Wednesday Oct 24, 2012 in D2L

Environment  
Food, Inc excerpt
Runaway Train - A short film (and commentary) about how we unthinkingly race to our own destruction: http://bit.ly/aolDpu and http://bit.ly/rcQAXT by Winnipeg animator - Cordell Barker

The Story Of Electronics and Electronics TakeBack Coalition websites present ideas about how to turn the tragedy around, thankfully.
Kyle suggests:


Next Class
OARC speaker
Presentation -  Josh Bergmann/Phil Cook/Christel Hildebrandt

RWL for Oct. 30




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

Monday, October 22, 2012

Teacher and Tech - Music Oct 23, 2012


Meta-Teachnition Part 2 - keep a mental note of the sites that you regularly visit which are not related to your school work or job. This could be by looking at the ones in your Bookmark bar, or the ones that you need to check daily or pretty close to daily, and perhaps, if you have some that you check weekly. Provide a brief explanation of why you choose those sites, and if you are willing list them. Due: Today, 2012 in D2L

Important Ideas #16 & 17

Turkle - Are kids building up walls or just creating ‘safer’ places for themselves?

How does tech run us?
Runaway Train - A short film (and animator’s comments) about how we unthinkingly race to our own destruction: http://bit.ly/aolDpu and http://bit.ly/rcQAXT by Winnipeg animator - Cordell Barker

Action Break - we are starting a U of M art wiki and you are to go out and take pictures of art around the campus and learn as much as you can about it and post this to the wiki. You have 20 minutes to start this project today - statues, paintings, gargoyles, stained glass, wood carving, etc. Also figure out among you how to organize the wiki.


Environment

Coltan Mining - TED talk Cell Phones and Mining
x find other info about coltan mining
SNL Video - iPhone 5 complaints
Food, Inc excerpt (an argument against ‘progress’ as we generally see it)
Environment  - 60 Minutes documentary
Ethical Reyclers
The Story Of Electronics and Electronics TakeBack Coalition websites present ideas about how to turn the tragedy around, thankfully. No more “Designed for the Dump”?

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.