Friday, February 21, 2014

Teacher and Technology Feb 21, 2014

No Presentations

Exam questions coming next week.
Important Ideas - #24 and 25

Assessment ???? What do we hope to achieve? What do we report?

Authentic Assessment ideas (evidently paragraphs don’t matter in blogs posts)


For, As and Of Assessment - video, text


1) In subject area groups:
  • Take a typical project and discuss alternate ways students could present their learning.
  • How do you make this open-ended without giving too few or too many options?
  • Which, if any, of the web tools we have used in the lab might be good for your project?
  • What would be in your rubric?


2) List the pros and cons of collecting and marking digital assignments. How has your experience been handing in these kinds of projects?
3) How late is late? How many changes are acceptable after the assignment is posted? Has ‘fair’ changed in the digital assignment age? Will kids try to spin the ‘roulette wheel’ and guess when you will start marking? Does it matter?
4) Explain how you feel personally about getting digital feedback - Word track changes, email, comments in the D2L dropbox, audio feedback. Are these better or worse than paper? Does it matter what kind of assignment it was?


13 REASONS WHY DIGITAL LEARNING IS BETTER



Apps to try
Your favorites??
Remind101 - great for coaches and supervisors
HaikuDeck - presentations that don’t have too many words. iOS and online.
Google Play for Educators (see bottom of page for links to android ‘educational apps’
NearPod - download this for your iOS or Android device
PopBoardz - new style presentation/organization tool
Skitch - mark-up tool (iOS and Android)
RWL coming later - near midnight.


Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Teacher and Technology Feb. 20 2014

Web Presence Assignment Questions??

No Presentations
Rennie has to leave for 15 minutes at 10:50 to do an Info Days presentation

Assessment ???? What do we hope to achieve? What do we report?

Authentic Assessment ideas (evidently paragraphs don’t matter in blogs posts)

For, As and Of Assessment - video, text

1) In subject area groups:
  • Take a typical project and discuss alternate ways students could present their learning.
  • How do you make this open-ended without giving too few or too many options?
  • Which, if any, of the web tools we have used in the lab might be good for your project?
  • What would be in your rubric?

2) List the pros and cons of collecting and marking digital assignments. How has your experience been handing in these kinds of projects?
3) How late is late? How many changes are acceptable after the assignment is posted? Has ‘fair’ changed in the digital assignment age? Will kids try to spin the ‘roulette wheel’ and guess when you will start marking? Does it matter?
4) Explain how you feel personally about getting digital feedback - Word track changes, email, comments in the D2L dropbox, audio feedback. Are these better or worse than paper? Does it matter what kind of assignment it was?

13 REASONS WHY DIGITAL LEARNING IS BETTER


Apps to try
Your favorites??
Remind101 - great for coaches and supervisors
HaikuDeck - presentations that don’t have too many words. iOS and online.
Google Play for Educators (see bottom of page for links to android ‘educational apps’
NearPod - download this for your iOS or Android device
PopBoardz - new style presentation/organization tool
Skitch - mark-up tool (iOS and Android)

RWL coming later - near midnight.

Teacher and Technology Feb 19, 2014

Presentations

Arielle Slijker, Jessica Guspodarchuk, Kristjana Michaluk
Abdou, Nic, Alex

Somewhere in here Rennie has to go do 10 minutes to Info Days students.




Lab
PopBoardz and Skitch (watch the walkthrough video) - backup shots for your presentations
Rethinking assessment


Voicethread - create a short two page voicethread and ask two other people to add comments
https://voicethread.com/share/5456308/
https://todaysmeet.com/A16Feb19
 
Japanese Virtual Science Center - not tested, but you can see if it works well.

Monday, February 17, 2014

Teacher and Technology Feb. 18 2014

Web Presence Assignment Questions?


Presentations
A13 -  Amanda, Virginia, Nicholas    feedback
Jason Morris & Andrew Smith    feedback


A14 - Brent Berry, Geoff Wright    feedback


Further comments on AAC  presentation


Assessment ???? What do we hope to achieve? What do we report?

Authentic Assessment ideas (evidently paragraphs don’t matter in blogs posts)


In subject area groups take a typical project and discuss alternate ways students could present their learning. How do you do this without giving too few or too many options?

13 REASONS WHY DIGITAL LEARNING IS BETTER



Apps to try
Your favorites?? (and mine)
HaikuDeck, Gizmos (see twitter feed. Join my class or create a teacher account)
Google Play for Educators (see bottom of page for links to android ‘educational apps’


SAMR vs McLuhan


Lab


PopBoardz and Skitch (watch the walkthrough video) - backup shots for your presentations
Rethinking assessment


Voicethread - create a short two page voicethread and ask two other people to add comments
https://voicethread.com/share/2737244/
 
Japanese Virtual Science Center - not tested, but you can see if it works well.


Friday, February 14, 2014

Teacher and Technology Feb 14, 2014

Presentation

Dean, David, Jay - feedback


AAC Presentation - Lori Wiebe from OARC - feedback

Apps to try
Your favorites?? (and mine)
Remind101
HaikuDeck, Gizmos (see twitter feed. Join my class or create a teacher account)
Google Play for Educators (see bottom of page for links to android ‘educational apps’

Useful Apps

NearPod


13 REASONS WHY DIGITAL LEARNING IS BETTER


SAMR vs McLuhan

New RWL is up  - assessment

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Teacher and Technology Feb. 13 2014

Web Presence Assignment Questions?



Presentations
A13 -  Bryce B., Josh W. Feedback
Candice and Raelyn Feedback


A14 - Alia W., Jordan M., Michelle G. Feedback
Evan G, Braelin N, , Corrine Feedback


13 REASONS WHY DIGITAL LEARNING IS BETTER



AAC Presentation - Lori Wiebe from OARC
x feedback for Lori -- A13,   A14

Apps to try
Your favorites?? (and mine)
Remind101
HaikuDeck, Gizmos (see twitter feed. Join my class or create a teacher account)
Google Play for Educators (see bottom of page for links to android ‘educational apps’


SAMR vs McLuhan

RWL to come by midnight

Teacher and Technology Feb 12, 2014

Presentation

Clarisse, Nicole, Rajvinder




Useful Apps

NearPod?

GoogleHangouts


13 REASONS WHY DIGITAL LEARNING IS BETTER



SAMR vs McLuhan

LAB

Social Bookmarking (part of your PD network) - diigo, delicius.com


Timelines -TimeToast (samples),  Capzules, TimeRime, (make a timeline of history, a major writer, an athlete or sport or whatever with either of these timeline creators)
Google SketchUp (on the computers) - create a house no larger than 15m x 18m. Add features such as windows and doors and finishing touches as you wish.


Next class - guest speaker about AAC technology and presentation(s)