Teacher and Technology - Music Sept 13, 2012

Lab

Class web presence (this is an ongoing experiment in digital culture and ‘metateachnition’):
Desire2Learn - only to show your marks
Twitter: @rredekopp
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/rredekopp
Class Notes - http://rredekopp.blogspot.com
Class wiki (where you contribute - request access) - http://teacherandtech.pbworks.com
Redekopp Online Newspaper - http://paper.li/rredekopp

Course Outline and assignments

SMART Notebook

Open Source Software - free to download and use. Wide variety of programs - eg TTA lossless codec
ex. Music notation - scroll down a bit to MuseScore
Bibliography makers - bibme.org. refworks, easybib.
Audacity / Garageband

Class

Questions about course or assignments

Important Idea #2

How I approach tech for teachers

• Admin tasks
• Communication with parents and students
• CAL
• Creativity and expression of learning
• Assessment

ISTE Standards for teachers and students

Next class

Video and Audio tools

Read/Watch/Listen list for Sept 18 and 20

Sept 18

These are all short articles - please

• Nicolas Carr – Is Google Making Us Stupid?

• We can still read! - Why Digital Doesn't Mean Dumb!

• What is a good teacher?

• Gladwell - How to Identify a Good Teacher Prospect

Sept 20

• The Brain -  “Will fast facts do to our brains, what fast food has done to our bodies?” R. Redekopp

• Start with this short NY Times article: The Science of Concentration

• Then choose one more from among the following and bring your notes to class:

• Gary Small - iBrain - text or video choices or audio

• Multitasking or Paying Attention: Winnifred Gallagher - the book Rapt, or video (around the 30 minute mark to find the multitasking stuff)

• Your Brain on Technology - audio

  
  

Teaching and Learning With Mobile Devices - Sept. 12, 2012

Lab

Class web presence (this is an ongoing experiment in digital culture and ‘metateachnition’):
Desire2Learn - only to show your marks
Twitter: @rredekopp class hashtag is #mlcourse
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/rredekopp
Class Notes - http://rredekopp.blogspot.com
Class wiki (where you contribute - request access) - http://mobilelearningcourse.pbworks.com
Redekopp Online Newspaper - http://paper.li/rredekopp

Course Outline and assignments

Bibliography makers - bibme.org. refworks, easybib.

Open Source Software - free to download and use. Wide variety of programs - eg TTA lossless codec
ex. Music notation - scroll down a bit to MuseScore

TEXTBOOK??? Which device is best???

Class

Connecting to the wireless network - use your umnet ID

Introductions - R Redekopp
Pictures with name tags
Least/worst option???
You - name, work - job and location, reason for taking course, your mobile device (if you have one), gut feelings about Mobile Learning
Contact info - phone tree, text, twitter, or whatever for snow days/cancellations
Class structure - times and breaks
R/W/L  ???

Class behaviour and etiqutte re: mobile devices

Meta-Teachnition - what to do when you disagree with everyone else or are distracted.

What is education? What do the experts think? The Agenda

Overview (the overture!) of ML Course

Themes in learning with moblie devices from Reynold Redekopp

Read / Watch / Listen for Sept 19, 2012

Best Practices Discussion Group from LinkedIn
iPadQuest - a blog by an iPad using teacher

For an overview of some terminology see the Educause collection of 7 Things You Should Know About ... - look through the list and update yourself on one or two!

Choose THREE from the list below. Since they are not all the same, be prepared to share your info based on what you read, watch OR listened to.

Read (options)

Social issues - some entry points
Bowling Alone - America's Declining Social Capital - Robert Putnam - also a book version.
One Nation Under Google (pdf) - Darin Barney
Anarchy and the internet - Gordon Graham
Digital Media and Youth.pdf
Youth, Identity and Digital Media.zip

Watch

Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is The Message and Media and The Global Village
One Nation Under Google - Darin Barney (Part 1)
TVO - The Agenda - The Myth of Digital Literacy
Digital Etiquette on YouTube
Privacy and Ordering Pizza! (just for fun!)

Listen

Start with BTR and Liz Kolb (Choose any or all) - BTR Cell Phones in Learning series
TVO - The Myth of Digital Literacy (click on the tab for the episode). You can download thiese from the iTunes store as well.
Born Digital excerpt - John Palfrey and Urs Gasser (they also have podcasts available)
or any of these
Interview with John Palfrey - Perseus Publishing

Teacher and Technology - Sept 12, 2012

Lab

Class web presence (this is an ongoing experiment in digital culture and ‘metateachnition’):
Angel - only to show your marks
Twitter: @rredekopp
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/rredekopp
Class Notes - http://rredekopp.blogspot.com
Class wiki (where you contribute - request access) - http://teacherandtech.pbworks.com
Redekopp Online Newspaper - http://paper.li/rredekopp


Bibliography makers - bibme.org. refworks, easybib.

TEXTBOOK! - a portable device that has internet access.

Course Outline and assignments

Class

Intros - course, me, you (school placement, something interesting about you)

A Head Teacher’s Story

Pencil Technology (in case you thought twitter was useless)

Important Idea #1

MetaTeachnition - a new word for you to know. It means to think about your (or anyone else's) teaching and what is going on in terms of the you, the students, the classroom environment, your lesson, etc.

Next class

Finish course intro / Questions / What good is Google?

Read/Watch/Listen list for Sept 18 and 20

Sept 18

These are all short articles - please

Nicolas Carr – Is Google Making Us Stupid?

We can still read! - Why Digital Doesn't Mean Dumb!

What is a good teacher?

Gladwell - How to Identify a Good Teacher Prospect

Sept 20

The Brain -  “Will fast facts do to our brains, what fast food has done to our bodies?” R. Redekopp

Start with this short NY Times article: The Science of Concentration

Then choose one more from among the following and bring your notes to class:

Gary Small - iBrain - text or video choices or audio

Multitasking or Paying Attention: Winnifred Gallagher - the book Rapt, or video (around the 30 minute mark to find the multitasking stuff)audio

Your Brain on Technology - audio

Next lab

Video and Audio tools

Teacher and Technology - Music Sept 11, 2012

Smart start - add your name to the survey on the Smartboard

Class web presence (this is an ongoing experiment in digital culture and ‘meta-teachnition’):
Angel - only to show your marks
Twitter: @rredekopp Our class twitter hastag is #UMTandT
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/rredekopp
Class Notes - http://rredekopp.blogspot.com
Class wiki (where you contribute - request access) - http://teacherandtech.pbworks.com
Redekopp Online Newspaper - http://paper.li/rredekopp

TEXTBOOK!

Course Outline and assignments

Class

A Head Teacher’s Story
Pencil Technology (in case you thought twitter was useless)

Shift Happens - are you ready?

Important Idea #1

MetaTeachnition - a new word for you to know. It means to think about your (or anyone else's) teaching and what is going on in terms of the you, the students, the classroom environment, your lesson, etc.

Intros - course, me, you (music major, school placement, something interesting about you)

Next class

First lab (normally labs will be on Tuesdays)

Read/Watch/Listen list for Sept 18 and 20

Sept 18
These are all short articles - please
Nicolas Carr – Is Google Making Us Stupid?
We can still read! - Why Digital Doesn't Mean Dumb!
What is a good teacher?
Gladwell - How to Identify a Good Teacher Prospect

Sept 20

The Brain -  “Will fast facts do to our brains, what fast food has done to our bodies?” R. Redekopp

Start with this short NY Times article: The Science of Concentration

Then choose one more from among the following and bring your notes to class:
Gary Small - iBrain - text or video choices or audio
Multitasking or Paying Attention: Winnifred Gallagher - the book Rapt, or video (around the 30 minute mark to find the multitasking stuff)audio
Your Brain on Technology - audio

Welcome to the 2012-2013 Teacher and Technology Course

Welcome to Teacher and Technology.

Some details:
Class blog - you are here. This is my space to post class notes and stuff
Class wiki - this is where you will get to contribute and sign-up for presentations and topics.
My Twitter account - @rredekopp

Technology is not just a tool - it has an inherent set of values and expectations.

Things we will do in class:
I will share some 'important ideas' from my teaching career
We will learn some practical things that can be used in the classroom
We will learn to think about how best to use technology to help students learn and demonstrate their learning
We will learn how you can use the technology to make your life as a teacher gooder.


Some dates I have to remember:

Sept 13 and 14th - lab days
Sept 21 Donna Masson
Sept 27 and 28 - John Finch

Some sites I'm looking at to see how they might work in classrooms:
Pearl Trees   --  http://www.pearltrees.com - digital portfolios online?
TitanPad - http://titanpad.com/ - take group notes with no signup
Tagxedo -- http://www.tagxedo.com/  - upscale Wordle that I haven't looked at lately - free.
Sticxy - http://www.stixy.com/ - online bulletin board.
Pinterest - really???

More image editors
Besides Sumopaint:

http://pixlr.com/ - can be downloaded (Windows) or can work online with no signup.
http://www.picmonkey.com/

Here's a list from "I'm the iPad Guy" - apps for elementary: