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Wow I can't believe how easy this was. But it did say your grandmother could do it. I am sure with the right equipment, this would be just as easy with a video podcast. I reserve the right to try that later and maybe I even post it when I decide to do one of those.
Through the use of a podcast, you could let your students actually talk about the project they have completed for class and then let of student make productive comments about it and let each others comments lend to the final grade of that project. But, reserve the right to take points off of the person making them if the comments are not giving good criticism for the project.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Thing 18
I signed into the NPR podcast site. http://www.npr.org
There is a great podcast with the new Secretary of Education talking about all of the changes he is going to make. However he said it will take years for all of his ideas to come into reality. Hence I here the government saying we have all of this money for Education Reform but you the teachers will not wee any of it.
I was having computer issues and it was saying that it could not play the pod cast, but I jumped over to another computer and was able to hear it.
http://smartboards.typepad.com/smartboards
is another current favorite of mine right now. It teaches things that you can do with you Interactive WhiteBoard.
I am still contemplating what all I could find as resources for my classroom, and as I start expanding my searches I will get into more class based podcast.
There is a great podcast with the new Secretary of Education talking about all of the changes he is going to make. However he said it will take years for all of his ideas to come into reality. Hence I here the government saying we have all of this money for Education Reform but you the teachers will not wee any of it.
I was having computer issues and it was saying that it could not play the pod cast, but I jumped over to another computer and was able to hear it.
http://smartboards.typepad.com/smartboards
is another current favorite of mine right now. It teaches things that you can do with you Interactive WhiteBoard.
I am still contemplating what all I could find as resources for my classroom, and as I start expanding my searches I will get into more class based podcast.
Thing 17 part 4
Well until this class I had never even heard about a Ning or even microbloging for that matter.
I did join Classroom 2.0, and posted the badge in an earlier post. I did not get very much out of the site until I was a member. I could spend hours and hours scrolling through the site and blogging in it, if I had that much time on my hands, but since I don't, I tried to stay with things that I could actually start using and maybe keep up with. My blog Thing 17 part 2 is the ning I thought I could utilize first and then maybe expand as I go along.
I decided that starting a classroom web site through schoolrack was a good free way to start with something that I could use and my students and parents could look at for additional information. http://www.schoolrack.com/panedlife
I think there is a lot of information out there we as teachers just have to be able to find it. I recall in one of your videos, that you said you did not get much out of something, until you spent the time to create what you needed out of the site. I think this is so often the case, we don't want (or have) the time to find out everything that we can about what we teach. It is always a race to the finish line to make sure material is covered before test time.
As for my own microblogging site I am not sure about that. I think I would be more comfortable joining someone else's for a while to see what I really could or would use it for.
I have a plurk http://plurk.com /user/panedlife and I have a twitter www.twitter.com/pannellcatlanta So I think I need to play with these a while and get more comfortable with them. Then who knows I will see where it takes me.
I did join Classroom 2.0, and posted the badge in an earlier post. I did not get very much out of the site until I was a member. I could spend hours and hours scrolling through the site and blogging in it, if I had that much time on my hands, but since I don't, I tried to stay with things that I could actually start using and maybe keep up with. My blog Thing 17 part 2 is the ning I thought I could utilize first and then maybe expand as I go along.
I decided that starting a classroom web site through schoolrack was a good free way to start with something that I could use and my students and parents could look at for additional information. http://www.schoolrack.com/panedlife
I think there is a lot of information out there we as teachers just have to be able to find it. I recall in one of your videos, that you said you did not get much out of something, until you spent the time to create what you needed out of the site. I think this is so often the case, we don't want (or have) the time to find out everything that we can about what we teach. It is always a race to the finish line to make sure material is covered before test time.
As for my own microblogging site I am not sure about that. I think I would be more comfortable joining someone else's for a while to see what I really could or would use it for.
I have a plurk http://plurk.com /user/panedlife and I have a twitter www.twitter.com/pannellcatlanta So I think I need to play with these a while and get more comfortable with them. Then who knows I will see where it takes me.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Thing 17 part 2
http://www.schoolrack.com/panedlife
Well this something I have wanted to try to see if it can keep me more focused and on top of what I want my classes to do. I found http://www.schoolrack.com through the nings search. I started my own very basic web page and I hope I can keep building it.
Well this something I have wanted to try to see if it can keep me more focused and on top of what I want my classes to do. I found http://www.schoolrack.com through the nings search. I started my own very basic web page and I hope I can keep building it.
Thing 16
Prior to this course I was just getting started with social networking. I got on Facebook to keep in touch with some out of town relatives that I don't get to see very often. Then it was a good way to keep up with church stuff and our friends there.
I had never thought about using a networking for professional purposes, but hey why not. We all want to try new things in our classrooms to get and keep our students engaged. With all of the teaching professionals that there are this could be a great asset. I once had a professor that always said "Don't recreate the wheel."
This made sense then, but now through the internet you may be able to find what someone else has done and tweek it to what your classroom needs are.
I signed up for Plurk http://plurk.com/user/panedlife and and I know it takes time, but you should be able to search for friends without going through your email accounts, so for right now I am not sure about this PLN. Maybe this could be set up for Barrow County teachers and then let us pull our teacher friends, that could be a large base of teachers and resources, in its own right.
I always am willing to try something that has already been done by someone else and I just make adjustments as I need to. So I would say that there is a strong reason to join a PLN or create your own. Since I teach so many subjects and three different grade levels, I would benefit from others more than my own. But, one I might create would center around technology.
I had never thought about using a networking for professional purposes, but hey why not. We all want to try new things in our classrooms to get and keep our students engaged. With all of the teaching professionals that there are this could be a great asset. I once had a professor that always said "Don't recreate the wheel."
This made sense then, but now through the internet you may be able to find what someone else has done and tweek it to what your classroom needs are.
I signed up for Plurk http://plurk.com/user/panedlife and and I know it takes time, but you should be able to search for friends without going through your email accounts, so for right now I am not sure about this PLN. Maybe this could be set up for Barrow County teachers and then let us pull our teacher friends, that could be a large base of teachers and resources, in its own right.
I always am willing to try something that has already been done by someone else and I just make adjustments as I need to. So I would say that there is a strong reason to join a PLN or create your own. Since I teach so many subjects and three different grade levels, I would benefit from others more than my own. But, one I might create would center around technology.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Thing 5c
http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/06/15/links-for-2009-06-15/
"Curriculum Mapping is sweeping the country as a dynamic tool for communication. By collecting data about what is actually taught during the course of a school year and sharing those data, teachers are able to work together to reach an efficient and powerful level of decision-making."
Wow I think people in education have been saying this for years. Maybe if the higher up Education people would listen to some things teachers say, we might could accomplish some things and better our test scores also.
"Curriculum Mapping is sweeping the country as a dynamic tool for communication. By collecting data about what is actually taught during the course of a school year and sharing those data, teachers are able to work together to reach an efficient and powerful level of decision-making."
Wow I think people in education have been saying this for years. Maybe if the higher up Education people would listen to some things teachers say, we might could accomplish some things and better our test scores also.
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