Teacher and Technology - Oct 24, 2012

Lab

Google Search - advanced and images
Cybrarians - why waste time in Google?
Getting YouTube videos - keepvid.com, or  savevid.com

Rubistar - for some help with rubrics

PhotoStory - PC only (or Animoto on the web)
Editing YouTube videos - blurring faces!
One list of 20 tech skills for educators and many resource links
SmartBoard Exchange
Bob's Place - SmartBoard


Class
Presentation -  Jeremy Ritchot /  Kerri Huff / Valdine Anderson - Comments

Important Ideas #15,16 & 17

Meta-Teachnition Part 2 - keep a mental note of the sites that you regularly visit which are not related to your school work or job. This could be by looking at the ones in your Bookmark bar, or the ones that you need to check daily or pretty close to daily, and perhaps, if you have some that you check weekly. Provide a brief explanation of why you choose those sites, and if you are willing list them. Due: Wednesday Oct 24, 2012 in D2L

Environment  
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:

• Asking manufacturers to design and make more recyclable, longer lasting, non-toxic products
• Sponsoring or participating in design competitions (like this one) that encourage sustainable innovation
• When they’re spent, taking electronics to E-Stewards, recyclers that promise not to export them
• Supporting legislation that would curb exports of toxic e-waste, at the moment the U.S. HR 6252
• Buying from companies that take back electronics when they are broken or obsolete, to dispose of them responsibly

Next Class
OARC speaker
Presentation -  Josh Bergmann/Phil Cook/Christel Hildebrandt

RWL for Oct. 30




Slideshare
TeacherTube
Survey Monkey - free online surveys.
PollEveryWhere - text in surveys

Teacher and Tech - Music Oct 23, 2012

Meta-Teachnition Part 2 - keep a mental note of the sites that you regularly visit which are not related to your school work or job. This could be by looking at the ones in your Bookmark bar, or the ones that you need to check daily or pretty close to daily, and perhaps, if you have some that you check weekly. Provide a brief explanation of why you choose those sites, and if you are willing list them. Due: Today, 2012 in D2L

Important Ideas #16 & 17

Turkle - Are kids building up walls or just creating ‘safer’ places for themselves?

How does tech run us?
Runaway Train - A short film (and animator’s comments) about how we unthinkingly race to our own destruction: http://bit.ly/aolDpu and http://bit.ly/rcQAXT by Winnipeg animator - Cordell Barker

Action Break - we are starting a U of M art wiki and you are to go out and take pictures of art around the campus and learn as much as you can about it and post this to the wiki. You have 20 minutes to start this project today - statues, paintings, gargoyles, stained glass, wood carving, etc. Also figure out among you how to organize the wiki.

Environment

Coltan Mining - TED talk Cell Phones and Mining
x find other info about coltan mining
SNL Video - iPhone 5 complaints
Food, Inc excerpt (an argument against ‘progress’ as we generally see it)
Environment  - 60 Minutes documentary
Ethical Reyclers
The Story Of Electronics and Electronics TakeBack Coalition websites present ideas about how to turn the tragedy around, thankfully. No more “Designed for the Dump”?

Assign 3 - main idea sharing - find the people who also worked on your topic (if there are any) and come up with the three main points we should all know. Share them with us all.

RWL for Oct. 30
Pick any three (text or video) of these (or other) articles/videos (check the video tab) that promote technology in the music classroom - for those of you in the EY stream check the PDF that is the first item listed. These are not here to convince you that you should use tech, but to get you some perspectives of what some others are thinking.
Take notes and come to class ready to comment / critique on these.

Teacher and Tech - Music Oct 18, 2012

Presentation
Christina B/Krista J/Ryan M - Comments!!

Eva Clare Hall for playing with Sound Boards

Meta-Teachnition Part 2 - keep a mental note of the sites that you regularly visit which are not related to your school work or job. This could be by looking at the ones in your Bookmark bar, or the ones that you need to check daily or pretty close to daily, and perhaps, if you have some that you check weekly. Provide a brief explanation of why you choose those sites, and if you are willing list them. Due: Tuesday Oct 23, 2012 in D2L

Music apps - ?

Turkle - Are kids building up walls or just creating ‘safer’ places for themselves?

Food, Inc (an argument against ‘progress’)
Environment  - 60 Minutes documentary

NO RWL this week - finish your projects!
We will deal with environmental issues next week.

Teacher and Technology - Oct 17, 2012

Deadlines ?

Lab
Make a poster about a specific topic in your subject area.
Glogster -
BigHugeLabs

Class
Presentation -  
Elizabeth Ginther/Caitlin Parr - comments at TodaysMeet
Shirley E/Tyler Z - comments at TodaysMeet

Meta-Teachnition Part 2 - keep a mental note of the sites that you regularly visit which are not related to your school work or job. This could be by looking at the ones in your Bookmark bar, or the ones that you need to check daily or pretty close to daily, and perhaps, if you have some that you check weekly. Provide a brief explanation of why you choose those sites, and if you are willing list them. Due: Wednesday Oct 24, 2012 in D2L
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.

SNL iPhone Complaints (1st world problems)

Sherry Turkle - is it ‘walls’ that kids are creating or are they open to say things that they otherwise wouldn’t?

Food, Inc excerpt
Runaway Train - Two short films 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:
Asking manufacturers to design and make more recyclable, longer lasting, non-toxic products
Sponsoring or participating in design competitions (like this one) that encourage sustainable innovation
When they’re spent, taking electronics to E-Stewards, recyclers that promise not to export them
Supporting legislation that would curb exports of toxic e-waste, at the moment the U.S. HR 6252
Buying from companies that take back electronics when they are broken or obsolete, to dispose of them responsibly

important Ideas 14 & 15

Teacher and Tech - Music Oct 16, 2012

Lab

Choose one of the following to create a product that expresses your notions of what kind of teacher you will be, or to make the sound track for the animation we saw in the presentation last week (there is a cost to the apps, but have a look at what they can do):
BeatSurfing Music App
VJay App - mix and master music videos on your iPad
Glogster - posters with sound, video, text, images, .....
Garageband - multi-track recording

Class

Class Survey - thanks for the comments.
Thursday is in Eva Clare again BUT should we do the presentation first? You need to think ahead of time of some nice rounds or canons to sing while people play with the controls (with Joel and Janna helping figure it our)

Meta-Teachnition Part 2 - keep a mental note of the sites that you regularly visit which are not related to your school work or job. This could be by looking at the ones in your Bookmark bar, or the ones that you need to check daily or pretty close to daily, and perhaps, if you have some that you check weekly. Provide a brief explanation of why you choose those sites, and if you are willing list them. Due: Tuesday Oct 23, 2012 in D2L

Responding to your BYOD comments - what should the rules be? Check the following comments and others on D2L. In groups of three come up with some ideas and post them on polleverywhere please.

“So the important thing then is to be able to engage students so that they don’t feel the need to resort to playing games on their device.” Thanks to Mitchell

“However, I have noticed the influence of the devices on those around me.  I often notice my peers playing games, checking their e-mail or doing other unimportant and unrelated things. “ Thanks to Laura

“I wouldn’t mind if a student looks at their phone during class, but I would make sure students understand that they need to grasp the concepts I’m teaching” Thanks to Helen

“I now realize, after looking back on what I just wrote, that technology impacts HOW we do these things and not the actual things themselves... but maybe, like what was discussed in class today, the how we do things makes up most of what we actually care about.” Thanks to Joel

“A boring lecture is still a boring lecture no matter what I have in front of me, and if I did not have a computer to play cards on I would just be doodling on my paper.” Thanks to Stephanie

Important Ideas # 14 and 15

Music apps - the above ones and more?

Turkle - Are kids building up walls or just creating ‘safer’ places for themselves?

Food, Inc (an argument against ‘progress’)
Environment  - 60 Minutes documentary

Read/Watch/Listen list for Oct 18

Technology and Society

Environmental Issues
Web sites
Wiki on Cell Phone manufacture and disposal - multiple pages with text, images and video
Choosing environmentally ok devices and EPEAT
This is from "Can the Story of Electronics Ever End Happily Ever After":
Privacy Game (goes with the cartoon from last time)

Videos
TED talk on Cell Phones and Mining
Garbage/Recycling Report
Videos of waste dumping in other countries
The Story of Electronics - See comments/solutions at the very bottom of this post.

Teacher and Technology - Oct 15, 2012

Lab - on Wed

Class
Creative Commons
Previous assignments are on our wiki

Presentation - comments at http://todaysmeet.com/EDUB1990Oct15

Kathryn W/Tahnee H/Riley S

Meta-Teachnition Part 2 - keep a mental or physical note of the sites that you regularly visit which are not related to your school work or job. This could be by looking at the ones in your Bookmark bar, or the ones that you need to check daily or pretty close to daily, and perhaps, if you have some that you check weekly. Provide a brief explanation of why you choose those sites, and if you are willing list them. Due: Wednesday Oct 24, 2012 in D2L

Responding to your BYOD comments - what should the rules be? Check the following comments and others on D2L. In groups of three come up with some ideas and post them on polleverywhere please.

“So, in closure, I pose the question: how can we integrate technology into the classroom in a way that is both feasible and relevant? How do we ensure that every student has the means of acquiring a device, and that we as teachers, make their purchase worthwhile?” - Thanks to Jeremy for this!

“but am not totally sure whether students would be able to develop that control unless short specific tasks such as polls and short quizzes are used.” Thanks Nick!

“I believe that for BYOD to work in my classroom I would have to give it a purpose and allocate time for its use.’ Thanks to Martha!

“Therefore, it would be our jobs to make sure that we create lessons and activities that encourage proper use of this technology” Thanks to Tahnee!

“also if there is something I am not sure about in a lesson, having my own device and being able to look into that question right away without disturbing the rest of the class has had huge benefits for me.” Thanks to Amy J for speaking out!

“I believe the distraction is always going to be there, and the distraction is manageable and can be regulated in the classroom. Talk about the issue on the first day of class, bring students into the conversation, and make your own rules. Treat your students like intelligent beings; they are capable of reason.” Thanks Lindsey for speaking out!

Sherry Turkle reprise- is it ‘walls’ that kids are creating or are they open to say things that they otherwise wouldn’t?

Environment  - 60 Minutes documentary
Food, Inc excerpt
Runaway Train - Two short films about how we unthinkingly race to our own destruction: http://bit.ly/aolDpu and http://bit.ly/rcQAXT by Winnipeg animator - Cordell Barker

Runaway Making of: Animator Cordell Barker by Cordell Barker, National Film Board of Canada

The Story Of Electronics and Electronics TakeBack Coalition websites present ideas about how to turn the tragedy around, thankfully.
Kyle suggests:

• Asking manufacturers to design and make more recyclable, longer lasting, non-toxic products
• Sponsoring or participating in design competitions (like this one) that encourage sustainable innovation
• When they’re spent, taking electronics to E-Stewards, recyclers that promise not to export them
• Supporting legislation that would curb exports of toxic e-waste, at the moment the U.S. HR 6252
• Buying from companies that take back electronics when they are broken or obsolete, to dispose of them responsibly

Teacher and Technology - Oct 12, 2012

NEXT CLASS is MONDAY (Yes you are supposed to go to SAGE!!)

Meta-Teachnition Assignment #1 - comments now that you are done?

Presentations - http://todaysmeet.com/EDUB1990Oct12  - to make comments on the presentations

• Thisaru N/Scott P/Amy H

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 # 12 and 13

McLuhan - “We shape your 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 1:07)

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

Turkle - what were the main ideas / examples that stuck with you? Is ‘live’ conversation really that scary?

Next Class
Environment  - 60 Minutes documentary

Read/Watch/Listen list for Oct 15

Technology and Society

Environmental Issues
Web sites
Wiki on Cell Phone manufacture and disposal - multiple pages with text, images and video
Choosing environmentally ok devices and EPEAT
This is from "Can the Story of Electronics Ever End Happily Ever After":
Privacy Game (goes with the cartoon from last time)

Videos
TED talk on Cell Phones and Mining
Garbage/Recycling Report
Videos of waste dumping in other countries
The Story of Electronics - See comments/solutions at the very bottom of this post.