One of your assignments this week is to review three "new tools for teaching." Your content page gives you two links and I have a good third choice for you:
TeachWeb2.0 is the one with the annotations regarding the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats of each tool and has some great info.
Go2Web20 has category tags to help you find an appropriate tool.
DiscoverySchools (which is a great website anyway) has another very teacher-friendly Web 2.0 tool kit - it's considerably smaller and organized very logically.
And for Assignment 4, here is an excellent article about integrating technology - BONUS! It's short and includes concrete examples. Read "Replace Completion with Creation" and you might get some good ideas for your assignment.
So, what did you decide today? Do you have many of the 21st Century Fluencies? Where are your strengths and weaknesses?
AND ONE MORE THING - did you think of any additional uses for that broken computer monitor?
Tech 'Eds: A blog for users of technology in education
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Friday (yesterday) in class we watched this video:
We noticed that the teachers based the unit on state standards, that teachers across disciplines collaborated to create the unit, that the students were engaged, and that grant money was used to purchase equipment.
If you were not able to attend class today, please make sure you watch this video.
Happy Weekend!
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Old Tech
Saturdays you'll often find me tooling around town in my old van (it has 235,500 miles on it) visiting garage sales. I have always loved garage sales and love finding bargains and treasures.
Just last Saturday, I snagged a little something I've always thought was cool. It's practically an antique now. It's a great example of how technology has changed.
The man who sold it to me for $2.00 was quite elderly. He asked if I knew what I had in my hand. I did, because my dad used one every day as part of his profession. In fact, when I called Dad to tell him about my find, he asked if I got the brand K&E - you can see its logo on the case. He laughed and told me he still has his full-size and his pocket-sized at home. Can't bear to give them up. Of course, he had to be taught how to use it in his college classes.
Anyone know what it is or what it's used for? Anyone ever actually used one? When my parents come to visit in October, I'm going to have Dad show my son Robin how to use it.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Options for Ed Tech Assignments
When completing assignment numbers 3, 5, 6, and 9, you now have some additional options for showing your learning. Instead of simply typing into a Word document and posting it in the dropbox, you may try out some of the great tools available on computers and on the web.
Check D2L's content page for a document that will tell you more about the options available to you. We can also visit about other options if you have something you'd like to try that isn't listed.
Ed Tech and Us
Greetings! This blog will serve several functions:
- It'll act as an additional communication tool for our class
- Changes to assignments, due dates, additional options for assignments, etc. will be posted here
- It will allow me to learn about blog use (currently, I've spent the last 3 hours this morning just to get to this point. And that, my friends, is a major reason I've never been able to do a blog while teaching. Three hours on a Sunday would have been spent on lesson planning and prep, not "playing around with a blog.")
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