Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Teacher and Technology Oct 30 2013

Lab

Assessment Apps (Thanks Kelsey)
Vialogues - add questions to your video
Alternatives to Powerpoint and presentation rules
10 tips  and 10 more tips (no more than 15 words per slide?)
Keynote (Mac only)
Howard Rheingold - Net Smart

Class

Presentations
A15 - Kathy Silva, Monique Davidson, Rosalie Girouard - Classical History (Comments)
- Kelsey Jones + Morgan Cross - HEALTH (Comments)
A17 -
SNL iPhone Complaints (1st world problems)
Exam Questions - first look


Techno-thinking and Electronic Waste
Look up Manitoba solutions to e-waste
Assumptions we make
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:
The Story of Electronics - See comments/solutions at the very bottom of this post.

Video / Games
ARIS

RWL - for Nov 6

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Teacher and Technology Oct 23 2013

Lab



Flipped Classroom Ideas


Glogster - posters with audio, video, text, images, etc


Class
Presentations
A15 - Tom Friesen + Steve Okolita (Comments)
A17 - English/Art Stephanie Waddell, Jeff Armstrong, Orysa Stein (Comments)
       - Jeremy Lomonaco and Scott Delong (Comments)


“We become overwhelmed by technology when we neglect the pedagogy” - this may turn into an exam question.


Assignment questions? REFERENCES for your web content assignment!!!! You are to have a separate section for text, audio, video, websites, etc on your references page. You are also to link to these (audio, video, images, websites, etc) within your pages.
Comments/followup on the AAC presentation?
Rules for BYOD? From your discussion comments:
How will you handle this? How will you help students ‘manage’ their device time? Is there a difference between using them during ‘lecture’ time and assignment time? Is sending one text in class ‘bad?’ How about two? Are ‘tech breaks’ the answer?




The Flipped Classroom
The idea of the flipped classroom is that students can watch video lectures at home (or not during school time) and then spend their class time doing homework, group work, special projects, etc with the help of their teacher.
Some teachers insist on making their own lecture videos, but others choose to direct their students to other sites


Video / Games



RWL - for Oct 30

- do good research for your web assignment!!!

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Teacher and Technology Oct 18 2013

Only one class next week!  :( or possibly none

Sign up for SAGE!
Presentations
A15 - Jonathan+Ryan (Comments)
       - Alex Kozub & Janessa Brunet & Jenn Sonnenberg (Comments)

Guest presentation - AAC technologies/ Lori Wiebe from OARC (Comments)

A17 - Sara Oswald, Jared Suderman & Evan Maltman (comments)
       - Dale Thiessen & Gabrielle Wiebe (music) (comments)

New MetaTeachniition Discussion - by Friday Oct 18, 4:37 pm
Consider your own experience with the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) idea in our classroom. How has it changed your classroom experience? How has it changed your 'learning' experience? How has it influenced those around you (don't use names please)? Are you comfortable with it? Is it too much of a distraction? How might this affect how you will run your classroom? Write 250 - 500 words to describe your experience. You may comment (nicely and constructively) to other posts


RWL - for Oct 23

The Flipped Classroom
The idea of the flipped classroom is that students can watch video lectures at home (or not during school time) and then spend their class time doing homework, group work, special projects, etc with the help of their teacher.
Some teachers insist on making their own lecture videos, but others choose to direct their students to some of the sites listed below.
1) Learn more about it (Is this much different that having a RWL for your students?):
Video
Choose a couple from among these videos and articles to get an idea of what and why for the flipped classroom
Text
Image
Audio

2) Try some of it.
Video
Try two lessons of your choice from Khan Academy, don’t create an account, just go to the Learn menu
TeacherTube Note that there are more than vidoes available - check out a few resources for your subject area.
Games
- find a game or two to try for your subject or try these. Keep in mind what you might be learning!!!
Science games web site - not all links work.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Teacher and Technology Oct 16 2013

Lab

More Connected - more isolated - WFP article
Screen shots and how to take them
Spreadsheet fun - your marks gone wild! (Sample Excel Gradebook)
Gizmos - enroll in a class (bottom of page) A15 use UCJXQC5DN4    A17 use GE6NVBHD9P
Google SketchUp - create a house no larger than 15m x 18m. Add features such as windows and doors and finishing touches as you wish.


Presentations
A15 -
A17 - Human Ecology-Oleksa and Leanne (Add your comments here)
New MetaTeachniition Discussion - by Friday Oct 18, 4:37 pm
Consider your own experience with the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) idea in our classroom. How has it changed your classroom experience? How has it changed your 'learning' experience? How has it influenced those around you (don't use names please)? Are you comfortable with it? Is it too much of a distraction? How might this affect how you will run your classroom? Write 250 - 500 words to describe your experience. You may comment (nicely and constructively) to other posts


The rubric for the Web Content Assignment. What changes does it need?
Should we do a structured peer review of your sites before you submit them? Have you found the ones done in previous years?

Assessment

Your A/V assignment assessment - were you ok with getting marks on D2L first before the ‘feedback’? Did you want more comments or was a mark sufficient?


Assessments must measure all five results that matter —
  • core subjects;
  • 21st century content;
  • learning and thinking skills;
  • ICT literacy; and
  • life skills.


Do you know what these are? Why do we need to assess ICT literacy????


RWL - guest speaker on Friday on AAC

AAC (adaptive and augmentative communication) or special needs technologies - choose two or three from the options below.Read
Watch

Listen
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2010/02/19/february-19-2010/ part 3  - about the first 5 minutes

Apps