You have listed most of the sources for online learning that I already use in your Wiki.... K12 Online Conferences and TED talks are my favorites. I love the paperless classroom on the K12 online Conferences. I have taken it a step further with the open courseware that is available to anyone and is of top educators at the universities and colleges.
MIT http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm
Princeton http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/
misc. http://www.ocwconsortium.org/use/use-dynamic.html
I love to watch the experts teaching algebra!
Monday, April 5, 2010
"Thing 21
I often use videos in my class, but I use real player to download them into my computer to play for my class. We are blocked from using You Tube in our school district.
We will be starting Hands on Algebra on Monday and I found this video on You Tube. I struggle to find videos that are specific enough and I would like to create some of my own.
The risks of using vidoes are nill if you check them out ahead of time and the rewards are that the students gain from the content and presentation. I would not consider playing a video without checking it out first.
We will be starting Hands on Algebra on Monday and I found this video on You Tube. I struggle to find videos that are specific enough and I would like to create some of my own.
The risks of using vidoes are nill if you check them out ahead of time and the rewards are that the students gain from the content and presentation. I would not consider playing a video without checking it out first.
Thing 19 and thing 20 combined
I was able to secure a grant for Camtasia software from Techsmith and I have produced my first Screen cast and placed it in this blog. Previously I was doing screen casting using Jing. Please, play the screen cast to see all the reasons why I like using them in the classroom. I must tell you that I am not yet pleased with the finial product and if I continue to use this screen cast I will record it again. I left it as is, because, I want to make the point that the students still like watching it. The students will also listen closer when they know that I have some cat sounds in the background or I have a place where I stuttered. I want you to know that it doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to serve the purpose.
I am most disappointed with the fact that I am unable to use equation editor in the power point software, because that would enable me to create complex math equations easily. I have searched other screencasts and discovered that most screen casts use photos to make a point rather than typing it out.
I prefer to use my own screen casts, rather than use other peoples because I can adjust presentation, content and pacing to what my students need. I often go to other peoples videos and screen casts to get ideas to improve my teaching.
I am most disappointed with the fact that I am unable to use equation editor in the power point software, because that would enable me to create complex math equations easily. I have searched other screencasts and discovered that most screen casts use photos to make a point rather than typing it out.
I prefer to use my own screen casts, rather than use other peoples because I can adjust presentation, content and pacing to what my students need. I often go to other peoples videos and screen casts to get ideas to improve my teaching.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Thing 18
Widgets are fun and I am more impressed with the widgets that I use on my home page (I-google). I can get all of the information on one page using I-google and all the widgets. I could encourage all of may parents and students to set up a widget that lists updates to my class blog or my Wiki page and then they would know about everything that is happening in my classroom.
Thing 17 Wiki vs. Blog
Thing 17 Wiki vs. Blog
In a blog you can comment about (add posts) and in a Wiki you can share with other editors to make a better final product. I personally have used my Wiki for my class to post assignments and interactive sites that I want them to visit in the computer lab. I also have my syllabus posted. I have used my blog just for professional development for myself. I did try to use a Wiki for creating a collaborative newsletter but I found that I did not have all the formatting capabilities that I needed for a great looking product so I used MSN office live workspace. This enabled me to share editing with certain people and use all the formatting capabilities of word 2007.
In a blog you can comment about (add posts) and in a Wiki you can share with other editors to make a better final product. I personally have used my Wiki for my class to post assignments and interactive sites that I want them to visit in the computer lab. I also have my syllabus posted. I have used my blog just for professional development for myself. I did try to use a Wiki for creating a collaborative newsletter but I found that I did not have all the formatting capabilities that I needed for a great looking product so I used MSN office live workspace. This enabled me to share editing with certain people and use all the formatting capabilities of word 2007.
Thing 13
Thing 13
Creating a photo cube that describes how to find surface area and volume of the cube created with the student's pictures would be great. I wondered about making trading cards for math concepts and have the students find a photo that represents that concepts. I thought I wouldn't find anything and now I am interested in trying it out in the classroom.
Creating a photo cube that describes how to find surface area and volume of the cube created with the student's pictures would be great. I wondered about making trading cards for math concepts and have the students find a photo that represents that concepts. I thought I wouldn't find anything and now I am interested in trying it out in the classroom.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Flickr in the Classroom-thing 12
I do use Flickr to find photos that explain the math topic that my students are learning about and sometimes I just find photos that keep my students interested in coming to school everyday to see what the photo is that day. I have been talking about copyrights with the students lately and we have searched for photos that are under the creative commons license. I am always inpressed when the students remember and ask me if a picture is okay to use. Recently the class viewed several photos and needed to decide if they where rep-tiles or tessellations. The students where very involved and argued for what they thought was correct. I have invited the students to submit photos and some students have, but I have not made it an assignment.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Thing 11
I will continue to bring technology into my class by demonstrating the use of it and talking about technology and the new terms (released last month) with my students. I will use my projector to show them sites daily, but I still feel the need to control the content that they view. I will try to make it relevant to their lives.
I am still trying to see the big picture and how it will affect the masses of people using the internet. How are we changing? Are we more polarized because of the internet and how it functions? Are we more in tune with small pieces of information and do we shun more wordy documents. What is the big picture? If lots of brains put together make better decisions than why isn't the internet solving world problems or is it and we don't see it yet. Why does the world seem more polarized and some people appear less informed than before or even miss informed?
I continue to work among many digital immigrants and that affects the movement towards online development. I become frustrated when the conversation ends up at the level of click on this and then click on that. 21st century learning is about solving your own problems!
You can find answers to anything on the internet and just last night I discovered the answer to everything is 42 (you will have to Google it-check Wikipedia under the internet usage). I will not stop learning and I hope to impart that on my students by sharing the things that I am interested in and asking them what they are learning.
Thank-you again for this opportunity and thanks to the other bloggers- I enjoyed reading the posts. I will keep the blogs in my Google reader and hope that everyone will continue their journey.
I am still trying to see the big picture and how it will affect the masses of people using the internet. How are we changing? Are we more polarized because of the internet and how it functions? Are we more in tune with small pieces of information and do we shun more wordy documents. What is the big picture? If lots of brains put together make better decisions than why isn't the internet solving world problems or is it and we don't see it yet. Why does the world seem more polarized and some people appear less informed than before or even miss informed?
I continue to work among many digital immigrants and that affects the movement towards online development. I become frustrated when the conversation ends up at the level of click on this and then click on that. 21st century learning is about solving your own problems!
You can find answers to anything on the internet and just last night I discovered the answer to everything is 42 (you will have to Google it-check Wikipedia under the internet usage). I will not stop learning and I hope to impart that on my students by sharing the things that I am interested in and asking them what they are learning.
Thank-you again for this opportunity and thanks to the other bloggers- I enjoyed reading the posts. I will keep the blogs in my Google reader and hope that everyone will continue their journey.
Thing 7 Delicious
I love Delicious and please connect to me so I made add you to my network on Delicious because when I have access to your bookmarks is it like thinking with two brains and if I add many people to my network I am picking many brains in an organized manor. Using the tags enables me to put all of these scattered sites in to an organized and usable format. When I search in Delicious I know that I am getting the sites that are the best of the best because other people have already used them. It is better than Google!! I have the delicious toolbar and I have been using that to add the sites that I visit often. Example: I needed a worksheet quick for Pythagorean; triangles and it was on my Delicious and; when I don't have something in mine I can search other peoples bookmarks and when I like the bookmarks they have I can; look at other bookmarks they have and I can; add them to mine. If a bookmark has a high number next to it I know that it is a popular site.
http://delicious.com/elaineadkins
http://delicious.com/elaineadkins
Here is my bloglines and I am in the process of updating it from the 23 things
also because I put all of your blogs in my google reader which is where I go several times daily and it functions like the bloglines I also made a gadget for my Igoogle to make it easier to check my bloglines if I want to go that route. Elaine Adkins
http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs
also because I put all of your blogs in my google reader which is where I go several times daily and it functions like the bloglines I also made a gadget for my Igoogle to make it easier to check my bloglines if I want to go that route. Elaine Adkins
http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs
Friday, January 1, 2010
Thing 17 Wiki vs. Blog
In a blog you can comment about (add posts) and in a Wiki you can share with other editors to make a better final product. I personally have used my Wiki for my class to post assignments and interactive sites that I want them to visit in the computer lab. I also have my syllabus posted. I have used my blog just for professional development for myself. I did try to use a Wiki for creating a collaborative newsletter but I found that I did not have all the formatting capabilities that I needed for a great looking product so I used MSN office live workspace. This enabled me to share editing with certain people and use all the formatting capabilities of word 2007.
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