Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
10 Tips for Blogs
- Keep it organized
- Keep it updated and current
- Upload presentations through SlideShare
- Design of blog needs to be simple and clear
- Title of blog needs to be informative
- Make sure links on the blog work
- Cite the websites and links you use
- Make it accessible
- Clear and easy to read
- Keep content concise based on your audience
Monday, April 9, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
10 Tips of Video
- Make sure the lighting is bright enough to see people's faces
- Avoid shaking and bouncing of camera
- Make sure audio is clear
- Utilize the editing settings
- Make it an engaging video - movement
- Using titles to introduce or transition between scenes
- Create the right environment for the video
- If talking to the audience, have eye contact with the camera
- Save/Upload video to a place where it is easily accessible
- Distribute the time in the video appropriately
10 Tips for WebQuest
- Clearly define and point out objectives
- Easy to follow
- Make sure the links work and take you to correct site
- Make sure all links are age appropriate
- Consider how long it will take to accomplish assingment
- Use more specific questions - close to exact answers
- Number the questions to the answer sheet
- Use pictures, diagrams, etc. to keep assingment "fun"
- Make all instructions (including after clickng on link) very clear
- Have meaningful links for students to look at
Thursday, February 23, 2012
10 Tips for Prezi
- Consider Prezi's usefulness
- Think about optional placement of words and images
- Create a path that will minimize possible motion sickness
- Utilize framing when it makes sense
- Group similar items to limit panning and increase understanding
- Use color schemes that enhance the project and go together
- Brainstorm a path or overall pattern before you begin
- Arrange your paths at the end of the Prezi
- Keep information at a reasonable distance
- Keep the Prezi interesting with pictures and videos
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
10 Tips for Powerpoint
- Bullets concise and to the point
- Don't over animate
- Keeping in mind age of the audience
- Adding videos, sites, etc. to make it more engaging for the viewer
- Ordering of slides make sense to the viewer
- Time of PowerPoint isn't too long or too short
- Go for aesthetic appeal
- Don't rely completely on the PowerPoint
- Don't read the entire PowerPoint
- Consider your lesson plan and how it works with your PowerPoint
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Technology In Schools Survey
Survey
1.
School
name:
Woodstock Elementary
2.
Name
of Principal:
Amy Martz
3.
Names
of teachers talked with whose classrooms you visited and grade level:
Mrs. Luck – 3rd grade and Mrs. Schaap – technology
supervisor
4.
Ask
the teachers/principal their perspective on current and future use of
technology in the classroom:
Mrs. Luck said that she thinks technology will definitely continue to
grow in the classroom. She said there are good and bad aspects to learning.
Mrs. Schapp said she was excited for the school to continue to have
more technology in the classroom.
5.
Does
the school have its own website? If so who maintains the site what is the URL?
Yes – Amy Martz, the principle
6.
Do
teachers at the school have class blogs? If so who has access to them?
No – They say that they don’t have enough time to keep up a blog or
facebook page.
7.
Is
there a school technology supervisor? Name?
Yes – Mrs. Schaap
8.
Do
all the classrooms have computers in them? Explain what you find:
Yes – There are at least one or two computers in each classroom. One
for the teachers to use and the other is for the students if it is needed.
9.
Is
there a computer lab/s? If
so how is it used and by whom?
Yes – There are two computer labs at the school. Soon they are going to
have an Ipad lab. It is used by all the students at different times and used to
learn how to use the computers or Ipads. They also use some programs for their
lessons and school projects.
10. What kinds of computers are in the school –
PC’s, Laptops, Mac’s etc.? Overhead projection equipment etc.:
PC’s and one or two laptops, overhead projectors, Ipads, Smart boards,
document camera, microphones, digital cameras, and soon they will have
Itouches.
11. What software programs are regularly used
by teachers?
Testing programs, Microsoft office tools, kids inspiration, and others
that the teachers couldn’t remember at the moment.
12. Can/do teachers use the Internet in their
instruction? Detail findings.
Yes they can use the internet – They use websites like UEN,
starfall.com, nlvm.com which is a Utah State program. They are interactive
websites used by the students and they can research also.
13. How does a teacher get further training to
use technology?
Yes – When they get a new technology they usually get a two hour
training session.
14. See if you can get a sense of the % of
students who might have a computer in their home:
I
would say at the most probably 90% of the kids how some kind of computing
device like a computer.
15. Did you observe students using computer
based technology? If so detail what
you observed:
Yes – Ipads, computers, and the document camera. The students were
learning how to use an Ipad and using the computer to see they websites the
teacher was talking about. Also, a student was using the document viewer in
class to show their assignment.
16. Other:
a.
Mrs.
Luck said that she feels technology gets in the way of teaching sometimes
because she doesn’t know how to work it and it takes too long to figure it out.
Or it takes to long to look something up.
b.
Students
know more about technology than some teachers do and that could cause students
to be “more advanced”.
c.
Technology
has made it easy for students to get what they want when they want it,
therefore it’s hard to keep their attention without technology.
d.
The
use of microphones makes it easier for teachers to talk over students and make
their voice louder. Yet, it also raises the voices of all the students.
10 Tips for Using Inspiration
1.
Less is more/ simple and clear
2.
Relevant pictures
3.
Adding likes when possible
4.
Questions to think about
5.
Fitting color scheme
6.
Distinct connections
7.
Keep it on one page
8.
Think of appropriate layout/design
9.
Remember your audience
10. Leave
it open to additions
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Question...?
How much of an effect do you think technology is going to have on education in the next 20 years? What effect is it having on us now? Do you think it will change the way we teach our students? Or do you think we will stick to tradtitional teaching methods?
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