Saturday, November 9, 2013
Friday, November 8, 2013
Lappenrranta Snow Website for Students
Website for the Lappenrranta Snow - not real - fantasy hockey team
https://sites.google.com/site/lappenrantasnow/home
What is something you learned in this class that you will be able to incorporate into your teaching?
One of the biggest things I learned over the course of this class was basically how easy it is to incorporate technology into the classroom. In learning new tools, its always intimidating at first, but in working with these new tools its been great to experience with how intuitive these programs can be.
With using screencasts, incorporating websites to be student specific and creating avenues for communicating for student-to-student, as well as, student-to-teacher. When I started this class, I thought it was going to be all PPT's and movies, flash and flare, but I have found new ways of incorporating clear and more efficient means of communication with my students, as well as, interactive tools to help them with questions, in and out-side of class.
I've been pleased with this course / program so far and hope to continue to work with these skills. I think the biggest take away, has also been the blog.
The blog was something I was against at first, but in creating a digital footprint to actually demonstrate first hand that I have these skills in a tangible way that can be taken to the next job. rock - n - roll.
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Favorite Tools and Something to Say to the Education World
Over the course of this class, so far my favorite tool was the Screen Cast because it was incredible to see how easy it was to demonstrate in less than a minute how to effectively navigate a site to find what your looking for. Initially, I have to admit, I didn't see any value in it. Now, I have to admit the Screen Cast done by Zack Latif would be the desired result. Concise, informative and right to the heart of showing a first hand account of how to....
Using it class has so many applications, especially since you can show someone where to find your Screen Cast for when they have time to follow the steps. I cannot imagine how much frustration this could have saved me when I was at University, since in less than 30 seconds you have 1:1 tutoring on how to get around in any particular site. What its capable of and how to play with the options, at your pace. Pause, follow, find, play, pause, follow, find, play, etc... It's simplicity is genius.
If that leads me to say anything to the world of education today, I feel the same as before; how more than ever before these digital tools are easy to implement in your class and can make your class so much less frustrating, as well as, engaging with the correct tools. Not just movies and Funny Cats and Dogs from Youtube. With schedules, both students and teachers alike, becoming busier and busier, its great to have additional tools to offer outside of the classroom and in-class to make the learning process the center and not the other shit that can be frustrating and really turn students away.
- Engage your kids using a medium that is intuitive to them
- Don't pretend you are the only class students have
- Make it easy for them to find the core material in one place
- Cut the crap and get to the meat - quickly..... please
Over the course of this class, so far my favorite tool was the Screen Cast because it was incredible to see how easy it was to demonstrate in less than a minute how to effectively navigate a site to find what your looking for. Initially, I have to admit, I didn't see any value in it. Now, I have to admit the Screen Cast done by Zack Latif would be the desired result. Concise, informative and right to the heart of showing a first hand account of how to....
Using it class has so many applications, especially since you can show someone where to find your Screen Cast for when they have time to follow the steps. I cannot imagine how much frustration this could have saved me when I was at University, since in less than 30 seconds you have 1:1 tutoring on how to get around in any particular site. What its capable of and how to play with the options, at your pace. Pause, follow, find, play, pause, follow, find, play, etc... It's simplicity is genius.
If that leads me to say anything to the world of education today, I feel the same as before; how more than ever before these digital tools are easy to implement in your class and can make your class so much less frustrating, as well as, engaging with the correct tools. Not just movies and Funny Cats and Dogs from Youtube. With schedules, both students and teachers alike, becoming busier and busier, its great to have additional tools to offer outside of the classroom and in-class to make the learning process the center and not the other shit that can be frustrating and really turn students away.
- Engage your kids using a medium that is intuitive to them
- Don't pretend you are the only class students have
- Make it easy for them to find the core material in one place
- Cut the crap and get to the meat - quickly..... please
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