Teacher and Technology Feb 6 2013

Lab

Hand back marking

Xtranormal (the free version is pretty limited) and GoAnimate (free version is ok) - script to 3D animation

• for reluctant writers and others
• create a scene where you try to explain why RWLs are gooder

OR
PowToon - a sort of RSA animation thing. This has a learning curve. There is a free version - maybe here.
My PowToon sample

Class

Important ideas for_teachers  14 and 15
The Twitter Distortion Field
5 Good Sources for Math Teachers
Virtual Chemistry experiments
12 Academic Search engines

Metateachnition 2 (on D2L soon please) - How broadly do you use the internet and all its resources?

A16 - Brain control - MindWave mindreader!

Marshall McLuhan - the medium is the message and the ‘tetrad’
     - “We shape our tools and then they shape us.”
“We are always living way ahead of our thinking”
Winston Churchill - “We shape our buildings and then they shape us”
Research of the Future (start at 1:00)

     x McLuhan tetrads - open this on your device and with 2 or 3 others try and guess at the answers (before looking) and be ready to try and explain the concept.
     x ENHANCE, REVERSE, RETRIEVE, OBSOLESCE

Darin Barney - fundamentalism of technology

Barney and google from Reynold Redekopp

Digital Games (not COD or GTA) and Education

Apps for specific courses - demo of some apps