Teacher and Technology March 8 2013

Last Class

Exam questions are here

Don't cheat - but if you are going to, cheat off someone smarter than you!

BTW
Themes in the Senior Years - a compulsory course for you next year, but there are 4 choices. I teach the one called ‘Teaching the Social Media Driven Learner.’

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Teacher and Technology March 6 2013

Lab

Spreadsheets
Yodio - add your voice to a picture
Google Earth - more than geography (Lit Trips)
Exam Prep

Class

Presentations

A16 - Basil - start here

A17 -  Amrit and Michelle

Exam questions ???

MetaTeachnition #3 in D2L - Do this today please!!
SMART Boards - what have you noticed about our use of the SMART Board for presentations. What was most effective and what was least effective? What are your current comfort levels. Do you see it as an effective part of your abilities or will you leave well enough alone?

Course Summary

Tand t course summary from Reynold Redekopp

Teacher and Technology March 1 2013

Presentations

A16 - Chris B, Blair F, Albee E: Topic TBD
Delaram - Topic Pending

A17 -  Maya, Monique, Natalie: Topic Pending
Mike, Brandon: LiveBinders

Important ideas for_teachers  26

Exam questions ???

MetaTeachnition #3 in D2L - Do this today!!
SMART Boards - what have you noticed about our use of the SMART Board for presentations. What was most effective and what was least effective? What are your current comfort levels. Do you see it as an effective part of your abilities or will you leave well enough alone?

Apps for specific courses - demo of some apps

What to really believe about teaching.
10 Cool Apps for teachers from FETC

Course evaluation (remember when I gave you licorice?)

Teacher and Technology Feb 27 2013

Lab

31 Top Apps from FETC - and how to view them all at once

Opavote.com - alternate voting siteFree polling web sites
Pixabay is a good place to find and download quality public domain images.
Mentormob - ‘playlists’ (or collections) of resources.
Maple - MB education networking site. We are trying to create a TC group with RRC, BU, and UW
Symbaloo - consolidate social networks with your personal internet desktop.

VoiceThread - Use this to create a debate or group info site
Thinglink - an image plus a thousand words (and more)

Class

Presentations
A16 - Erin R., Agnus & Lydia G. - Comments

A17 -   Kendall, Jocelyn, and Lily: Edmodo - Comments

From Friday’s assignment on Edmodo and BYTE 2013 Conference What is your one new idea to share? Polleverywhere?

Important ideas for_teachers  24 and 25 (22 and 23 for A17)

Exam questions ???

MetaTeachnition #3 in D2L -
SMART Boards - what have you noticed about our use of the SMART Board for presentations. What was most effective and what was least effective? What are your current comfort levels. Do you see it as an effective part of your abilities or will you leave well enough alone?

Apps for specific courses - demo of some apps

What to really believe about teaching.
10 Cool Apps for teachers from FETC
31 Top Apps from FETC

Feb. 22 2013

Check some of the groups you joined in Edmodo for the BYTE 2013 Conference and come up with one new idea to share in class next Tuesday.

Teacher and Technology Feb 20 2013

Lab

InkleWriter - creating interactive stories
Timelines -TimeToast,  Capzules (make a timeline of history, a major writer, an athlete or sport or whatever with either of these timeline creators)
Text to speech - Natural Readers (free voice is pretty bad, but ...). Try the box on the web site to see.

Class

Presentations
A16 - Daniel Ayers, Ryan Jubinville & Catherine Fayokun  - Comments

A17 - Andrew, Jen  - Topic Pending - Comments
Shane, David, Robin - Internet Scavenger Hunt - Comments

Exam questions ???

Edmodo demo - create a teacher account now and join my group (v64fhd).

Friday’s assignment (in class or at home) - Login to your Edmodo teacher account and join at least two ‘active’ groups, other than mine, from the BYTE 2013 Conference (active means that the presenter is posting something there). Come to the next class with at least one new idea to share.

Images and copyright
28 ways to use Twitter in the classroom
Important ideas for_teachers  24 and 25

Apps for specific courses - demo of some apps

Teacher and Technology Feb 15 2013

Questions about Web space assignment ????

Presentations

A16
Leianne, Lisa, & Brandy- Jeopardy - Comments
Sam, Chelsea & Nicole - Conjugating French "ER" verbs - Comments

A17
Kaitlin, Shelley, Katelyn - Jeopardy - Comments

Questions about web space assignment and rubric???
How to do Assign 3 references

• Regular APA references page BUT divided into categories for text (web and print), images, audio, video and whatever else you might use.
• ALSO - wherever possible put links directly into your text references, images, video, etc.

Important ideas for_teachers  20 and 21

Gradebooks and D2L

Digital Games (not COD or GTA) and Education

Apps for specific courses - 3D Brain, iTunes U, TED, TED books, Classic Books, Music, Art, Ubersense, Quickgraph, Visual Anatomy, ShowMe, Physics Free, ToonTastic

RWL for Feb 20

AAC (Adaptive and Augmentative C or Special Needs Technologies - choose two or three from the options below.

Read

MobileLearning4SpecialNeedsKids - check the video case studies and the app lists page Computer Unlocks Teen's Voice Apps for Autistic Kids Speaking APPropriately Pros and Cons of Apps AAC-RERC White Paper

Watch

Tech and Autism - ABC 20/20 Report or Full Report (9 min) The Sound of Learning - Edutopia
Enabling Dreams - Edutopia - search for others
MobileLearning4SpecialNeedsKids - check the video case studies and the app lists page

Listen

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

Apps
iTouchForSpecialNeeds
http://itouch4specialneeds.pbworks.com/w/page/32672136/FrontPage
MobileLearning4SpecialNeedsKids

Teacher and Technology Feb 13 2013

Lab

iTunes U (through iTunes) - resources for the kids that know way more than you.
TED.com - for inspiration for you and your students
Glogster (EDU) - create a poster of a significant person (and their contributions) in your subject area

Class

Presentations

A16
Katie, Maddie, Donna, Candace - Topic Pending - Comments can go here

A17
Sam Tease, Kristen Schmidt- Voki - Comments can go here

Important ideas for_teachers  18 and 19

Death of the SMART Board?

Mid-way survey for A16
Mid-Way survey for A17

Digital Games (not COD or GTA) and Education

Apps for specific courses - Dragon speak and search, 3D Brain, TED,

Teacher and Technology Feb 8 2013

Presentations

A17
Avery, Kat - Japanese Numerals - you can put comments here
Jon, Guy, Stephen - Interactive Simulations - you can put comments here

Important ideas for_teachers  16 and 17

     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

Mid-way survey for A16
Mid-Way survey for A17

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

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

Teacher and Technology Feb 1 2013

A16 Presentations -

1. Lydia Caligiuri, Carissa Schettler, Chantal Jacques - Canadian Geography Review
2. James Young, Pamela Miller, Demeris Wilson - Astronomy, constellations
3. Ainslie Bailey, Steven Greyeyes, Larissa Rempel - Geography of Central America

x note that if there are no questions the presentation gets a zero.

Important ideas for_teachers  12 and 13

Advice from experienced teachers

Metateachnition 2 (on D2L by Friday 11:59 pm please) - How broadly do you use the internet and all its resources? Think about how much you use the vastness of the internet when you are not doing something for school or work. Do you tend to go to more than 10 websites on any given day or week or do you pretty much go to the same places all the time? Why/why not? If yes, would you list some of the sites (your choice to list or not to list). When do you you branch out?

Brain control - MindWave mindreader!

Bigger Ideas - Social Impact of technology
Work on the creation you started last class

Find 2-3 other people who have RWL’d to the same author/speaker. Create an educreations (iPad or laptop) presentation or find another format to summarize what you think is important.
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

Watch options

Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is The Message and Media and The Global Village
One Nation Under Google - Darin Barney (Part 1)
The Myth of Digital Literacy - Video


Apps for specific courses - demo of some apps

Teacher and Technology Jan 30 2013

Lab

Google Search Education- teaching students to search better
Getting YouTube videos -keepvid.com, or  savevid.com
Prezi - new presentation format (Edu license)
Animoto - images and music to video (30 seconds)

Class

A17 Presentation - Samantha Einarson & Asifa Bokhari - Weebly

x note that if there are no questions the presentation gets a zero.
A16 - presentations start Friday

Important ideas for_teachers  10 and 11

MetaTeachnition 1- feel free to read other responses to broaden your understanding of how others experience this.

Metateachnition 2 (on D2L by Friday 11:59 pm please) - How broadly do you use the internet and all its resources? Think about how much you use the vastness of the internet when you are not doing something for school or work. Do you tend to go to more than 10 websites on any given day or week or do you pretty much go to the same places all the time? Why/why not? If yes, would you list some of the sites (your choice to list or not to list). When do you you branch out?

Facebook and privacy follow-up - Privacy and Ordering Pizza!

Bigger Ideas - Social Impact of technology

Find 2-3 other people who have RWL’d to the same author/speaker. Create an educreations (iPad or laptop) presentation to summarize what you think is important. We'll display these shortly.

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

Watch options

Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is The Message and Media and The Global Village
One Nation Under Google - Darin Barney (Part 1)
The Myth of Digital Literacy - Video


Apps for specific courses - demo of some apps

Teacher and Technology Jan 25 2013

Important ideas for_teachers  8 and 9 (and overheads to support them)

MetaTeachnition 1- please respond by TODAY in the D2L discussion area. Thanks to those of you who did already.

Facebook - Privacy changes - please read this with both your own professional aspirations and what you think we might have to teach students.

The Brain - iBrain review (A16 from slide 14)

50 Android apps that teachers are using
Go through the list with a couple of other people and find apps where you think that we can go beyond learning facts, and get students to really start thinking.
Post the best apps to this poll

Production Apps that you might use - Educreations - small groups - PLAN and create a short lesson on a topic in your major area.

Neil Postman - Five Things we should Know About Technological Change

x The summary

Apps for specific courses - demo of some apps

RWL for January 30

Bigger Ideas - Social Impact of technology

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

Watch options

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