Science Journal of Video Experiments

from:
Maclean's online

"Are you tired of reading textbooks and journal articles? Imagine if you could research your lab report or learn an experimental technique by watching a YouTube video.
I just learned that you basically can, thanks to the Journal of Visualized Experiments. It’s like YouTube, except you’re not watching videos of kittens playing patty cake or people doing stupid stuff with trampolines. JoVE publishes peer-reviewed research just like any other academic journal, but in video format. It’s even indexed in PubMed Central, which is the Google of biochemical and life sciences research. At five-years old, JoVE may be the only journal of its kind. But one can imagine there will soon be more like it.
According to JoVE, the increasing complexity of modern research means that traditional print articles just don’t cut it anymore. Research has evolved, so the way we share the information needs to evolve too. And that’s where JoVE comes in. Instead of reading about a new method for rapidly genotyping mice, students and scientists can actually see the experiment unfold."

Environment issues in Schools

The Important Ideas of TIme Travel

e-waste Movie
by: LindaPugh

T and T Weekend Dec 3, 2011

9:00   Featured guest for 20 - 30 minutes (via Skype)
Carly Shuler (Learning: Is There an App for That?) from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center (Sesame Street Research Division)  - have some questions about kids and apps ready.
Participation ??
Exam questions ??????

Presentations

Terri, Gerald & Meriam
Nicole, John and Jenn
Linda P, Jodie, Ashleigh

Practicum stories and questions

Lab
Go Animate!
SchoolTubeYouTube Tools

Important Ideas 15 and on to maybe 20



Washington and Madrid

Important Ideas for Teachers
by: cryssischau


Exam question 0
by: laser74

Stikz Discussing Teaching and Technology
by: lindamoyer

GoAnimate.com: Interview+with+Don+Fuentes by gerald_villegas22


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

T and T Weekend Nov 26, 2011

Exam ??? Take home???
Exam questions

Presentations

Marilena & Kyle &; Jewels
Linda M, Lisa & Lindsay M
Lotte, Karen, Lindsay
Leah, Lincoln, Rob

Comments about the Assistive Technologies presentation

Lab
Go Animate!
SchoolTube

Important Ideas 12 and and 13 and 14

Washington and Madrid

T and T Nov 6 Weekend Edition

Class

Why will Rennie be gone?
Nov 19 start time - 10:00 - assistive technology speaker - Lori Wiebe (oarc.ca)
Dec 6 presentation, exam?, lunch
Exam Questions
Edmodo - sign up and join my course - code 1jb40o
GPS and your camera

Apps I like (you can share too as the course goes on)

• Languages
• History
• Periodic Table of the Elements

Important Ideas #10 and 11

Technology Bias!! 
Ways of thinking

• Clip from Food, Inc - Efficiency
• Language and metaphor

Postman’s Five Ideas

• First, that we always pay a price for technology
• Second, that  there are always winners and losers.
• Third, that there is a bias embedded in every great technology
• Fourth, technological change is not additive; it is ecological,
• Fifth, technology tends to become mythic

What we value

• Speed
• Efficiency
• Resources
• Personal distance
• Basic information over thought
• Are we any happier?

Mobile Learning

Carly Shuler RWL
Upsides of Games
Gary Small and iBrain review

Break - Posterous - take pictures, make comments and email to mlcourse123 at gmail.com

Lab

Video and videoish -  
Middlespot - web mashups
animoto - video from images
Doink - simple drawing and animation
Glogster - create posters with pictures, movies, etc

Podcasting - iPadio (phone to web)

Getting YouTube videos - keepvid.com, or  savevid.com

RWL - Assistive Technologies

RWL at least two of these for Nov 19 please.

Read

Bridging the Gap
MobileLearning4SpecialNeedsKids
Mobile Devices in Special Ed

Watch

The Sound of Learning - Edutopia
Enabling Dreams - Edutopia - search for others
MobileLearning4SpecialNeedsKids

Listen

http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/podcast.html    Part 3  - about the first 5 minutes
Listen to a special education edition of the Science Podcast. ????
iTouch4SpecialNeeds links

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

Exam Questions Fall, 2011

Exam Questions

RWL for Nov 6 Weekend Edition

RWL - Mobile Learning

Do this with a focus on applying mobile technology to a specific topic or lesson

Read

• pockets_of_potential_ExecSum.pdf  

• pockets_of_potential_1_.pdf,

• Cellular Learning website

• Social Media policy example One to

• One Computing Compute Scotland - Check the Brain Training area

Listen/Watch

• Google Carly Shuler videos or Edutopia

• Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age

• How To Teach Math as a Social Activity

• 10 Tips for Personalized Learning Howard Gardner on Digital Youth or http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-howard-gardner-video

EduCause
A page of Podcasts - (more university level) check Classroom Engagement or Creating Tools for a Mobile Campus

T and T Oct 30 Weekend Edition

Class

My Blackberry’s not working

11:59?
Nov 19 start time?
Dec 3 lunch?

Wikispaces and Project Based Learning

Smart software download and some extra Galleries for specific subjects

Apps I like (you can share too as the course goes on)

• Dragon Search
• Dragon Notes
• Educate
• 3D Brain

Important Ideas #8 and 9

Games review - Are problem-solving, collaboration, communication, literacy, critical thinking enough?
    x Employability skills

Assessment - James Paul Gee on Games and Assessment (Video)

Technology Bias!!
Environment

• Garbage/Recycling Report
• Energy

Ways of thinking

• William Kurelek's art
  and views on technology - does he distinguish between the technique and
  the machine? Some samples: (from the Our World Today) The Dream of
  Mayor Crombie, This is Our Nemiesis, He Gloats over Our Skepticism. And
  from the first gallery, The Tower of Babel and The Maas Maze. and from
  the 3rd section, Cross Section of Vinnitsia in the Ukraine.

Postman’s Five Ideas

• First, that we always pay a price for technology; the greater the technology, the greater      the price.
• Second, that  there are always winners and losers, and that the winners always
  try to persuade the losers that they are really winners.
• Third, that there is embedded in every great technology an
  epistemological, political or social prejudice. Sometimes that bias
  is greatly to our advantage. Sometimes it is not. The printing
  press annihilated the oral tradition; telegraphy annihilated space;
  television has humiliated the word; the computer, perhaps, will
  degrade community life. And so on.
• Fourth, technological change is not additive; it is ecological, which
  means, it changes everything and is, therefore, too important to be
  left entirely in the hands of Bill Gates.
• And fifth, technology tends to become mythic; that is, perceived as
  part of the natural order of things, and therefore tends to control
  more of our lives than is good for us. …

In the past, we experienced technological change in the manner of sleep-walkers. Our unspoken slogan has been "technology über alles," and we have been willing to shape our lives to fit the requirements of technology, not the requirements of culture. This is a form of stupidity, especially in an age of vast technological change. We need to proceed with our eyes wide open so that we many use technology rather than be used by it."

What we value

• Are we any happier?

Lab

Half way survey

Great page for MY Smart lessons

iTunes search for educational apps (preferably free). Add the names of good ones to your subject page on our class wiki.

Screen shots
Mac - Command+Shift - 4, then drag your cursor around the part of the screen you want
PC - Print Screen (top right area of keyboard), then paste it into a graphics program



Script to 3D animation - Xtranormal

Great online paint programs - SumoPaint, Art Pad, Odosketch, SketchPad, Photoshop Express (online)

RWL - Mobile Learning

Do this with a focus on applying mobile technology to a specific topic or lesson

Read

• pockets_of_potential_ExecSum.pdf  

• pockets_of_potential_1_.pdf,

• Cellular Learning website

• Social Media policy example One to

• One Computing Compute Scotland - Check the Brain Training area

Listen/Watch

• Google Carly Shuler videos or Edutopia

• Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age

• How To Teach Math as a Social Activity

• 10 Tips for Personalized Learning Howard Gardner on Digital Youth or http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-howard-gardner-video

EduCause
A page of Podcasts - (more university level) check Classroom Engagement or Creating Tools for a Mobile Campus

T and T Oct 22 Weekend Edition

Class

Smart software download and some extra Galleries for specific subjects

Pre-service teacher tech info session Oct 20 - Invitation letter
Questions about assignments??

Apps I like (you can share too as the course goes on)

Important Ideas #6 and 7

Games in Education - beyond Jeopardy and review

1. Are they beneficial?
2. What is learned?
3. How do we 'assess' progress?
4. How do we ‘justify’ using games to admin and parents?
5. Are problem-solving, collaboration, communication, literacy, critical thinking enough?

    x Employability skills

Assessment - James Paul Gee on Games and Assessment (Video)
What Exactly Are Kids Learning From Games?

Smartboard games

Digital Natives and the Brain
Gary Small and iBrain review

Course overview - continue from slide ??

Lab

Half way survey

Digital Goonies web site

Games Sites
Bio Games link - Spongelab Interactive
explorelearning.com - class code: 3FRYNF7PEQ
Stu's Quiz Boxes (requires a download and install on a WIndows computer)
The Problem Site
Canada Quiz
Nobel Prize Site - Games
FutureLabs
HIstory Games - BBC
Colorado U project
English Games

Game Creation software
Kodu - easy to learn 3D game cration
Game Maker