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5 Lesson Planning Tips for Incorporating Technology - TheApple.com on 2009-11-23
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The signs of technological revolution are everywhere
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Since we are teachers working in a digital age, we also need to think a bit more
digitally in both the user and learner sense of the word.
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In an ideal media based lesson, we use technology to cater to motivation and
(media) literacy. And like a regular pen and paper lesson, we still need to
think how to engage students while we also monitor their behavior on-task as
well as measure their progress and achievement.
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While there are endless possibilities on how to engage students, we also need
to feel comfortable with whatever digital technological media we are using.
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Stick to the technological type that best suits you and your personality and
your students’ learning needs
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Here’s an important but tricky tip… LEARN the new
technology as often as possible.
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How do you mediate the technology before, during and after students have
worked?
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How will you assess their work?
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Learn bit by bits (either on your own or with a partner) to avoid stress and
being overwhelmed.
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Every well-planned digital lesson has its flop.
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Make sure you have Plan B and even Plan C
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Keep learning the new technologies and plan successfully, and your students will
be more engaged.
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Tips for Incorporating Technology and Multimedia into Lesson Plans on 2009-11-23
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Since students have the ability to utilize technology, more teachers view
technology as a way to reach out to their students.
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If you would like to incorporate online research into the classroom, you should
begin by teaching your students how to determine a source's credibility
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Often, school computers are loaded with presentation software such as PowerPoint
and Keynote. This software allows students to utilize various forms of media
elements in their presentations.
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Ten Sigma - All About Rubrics on 2009-11-18
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Rubrics are both a tool and a method for communicating expectations
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They tell students how they will be graded on an assignment, both what items
will be graded and what level of quality is required to earn a particular grade.
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When you give an assignment, students are far more likely to meet your
expectations IF YOU TELL THEM UP FRONT WHAT YOUR EXPECTATIONS ARE
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Rubrics make grading more clear, consistent, and equitable
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Clarity comes from stating up front on the rubric what is to be evaluated.
Consistency is gained by providing this information to all students via the
rubric and then using that rubric to grade each student's work. Equity is gained
when every student knows what is expected and is given the information they need
to succeed.
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Rubrics raise the quality of work students produce
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A good rubric gives students a clear picture of what the end result should look
like and what range of quality is acceptable for a given task.
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Rubrics save teachers time.
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Grading an assignment using a rubric is much less time-consuming since the
rubric spells out very clearly what to look for and how to rate it.
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Rubrics save classroom time.
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Rubrics give students the information they need to start an assignment,
information that you would otherwise have to convey verbally, thus freeing you
to move on to other material.
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Rubrics save students time.
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When a teacher provides a rubric at the time an assignment is given, students
immediately know what is expected of them.
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Holistic rubrics, so-named because they focus on the whole or the big picture,
provide students with one score—their "whole" score for an assignment
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List rubrics, as the name implies, are a detailed listing, often in outline
form, of what is important or what should be included in completing a task,
project, or performance
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Students don't always understand the importance of quality, and often try to get
by with an attitude of "it's good enough."
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Rubrics are the perfect tool for teaching the Quality
Process—draft-analyze-revise
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After using rubrics for a time, your students will have developed some
invaluable habits.
- Students will be able to define quality and describe a quality result.
- Students will enjoy producing a quality product.
- Students will possess the skills necessary to produce quality
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Web Sites For Kids - Cool Kids Web Sites - Common Sense Media on 2009-11-08
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integrating wikis into the curriculum - Using Wikis in the Curriculum on 2009-11-01
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Wikis offer educators an opportunity to create a different type of web resource
in which both the instructor and the student group can have equal active roles
as contributors and editors
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Wikis can be used in classroom based, hybrid, and online courses
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- Wiki integration into the curriculum assists in transferring from
instructor-centered to learner-centered educational opportunities.
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It would be a good idea to provide students with tutorial or quick-start-guides
that define wiki editing functions.
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Why Integrate Technology into the Curriculum?: The Reasons Are Many | Edutopia on 2009-10-19
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Technology is ubiquitous, touching almost every part of our lives, our
communities, our homes. Yet most schools lag far behind when it comes to
integrating technology into classroom learning
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Properly used, technology will help students acquire the skills they need to
survive in a complex, highly technological knowledge-based economy.
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Integrating technology into classroom instruction means more than teaching basic
computer skills and software programs in a separate computer class
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In particular, it must support four key components of learning: active
engagement, participation in groups, frequent interaction and feedback, and
connection to real-world experts
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Learning through projects while equipped with technology tools allows students
to be intellectually challenged while providing them with a realistic snapshot
of what the modern office looks like.
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The Web connects students to experts in the real world and provides numerous
opportunities for expressing understanding through images, sound, and text.
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And, as an added benefit, with technology tools and a project-learning
approach, students are more likely to stay engaged and on task, reducing
behavioral problems in the classroom.
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Technology also changes the way teachers teach, offering educators effective
ways to reach different types of learners and assess student understanding
through multiple means
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Digital Storytelling: My Top 10 Lessons Learned | ISTE Connects - Educational Technology on 2009-10-19
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Digital Storytelling takes on so many forms
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I can see that this is the perfect marriage of standards-based teaching and
learning with integrative technology
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Over the course of this year, I can say that I have learned some very valuable
lessons. I would like to share these with you now in the form of a top ten
list
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Number 10 Do another project soon after this first
one, to solidify the skills
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With the “story” being the key focal point, practice makes perfect, as you ask
your students to do another prompt, again personal in nature, that shows impact
to them and their lives.
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Number 9 Collaboration with multiple team members in a
secondary level would speed up the process and enhance the learning.
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If you plan on working cross curricularly, this is a great way to divide up the
work time
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This is one way to maximize the resources you have
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Number 8 Utilize as many parent volunteers and other adult
help as possible, only be sure to train them in story circle (a form of group
writer’s workshop), and be sure they fit in the safe culture of your classroom
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I might bring them after school one day and pre-train them as to what you need
from them or the expectations necessary
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Number 7 Keeping a schedule chart up helps keeps students on
track.
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As students finish their work step by step, this chart helps them stay on track
and pay attention to the process
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Number 6 Conduct any discussions within the context of
the 7 elements of digital storytelling
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As you show samples of digital stories and critique them, the more you discuss
each story through the lens of the 7 elements of storytelling, the better grasp
the students will have as they begin to self reflect on their own projects.
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Number 5 Don’t compromise the writing-get it right
before ever starting the media.
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The key point about any digital storytelling project is the writing. The
story
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Number 4 Recording the voice over is difficult-but should be
right
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This can be the second most time-consuming piece of the process, if you’re not
careful
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If you have helpers assist, be sure to train them in what to listen for:
The 3 Ps- pacing, pops and pizzazz
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Number 3 Keep soundtrack until the end-the last thing
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Introduced too early will surely take student focus off the task at hand and
place them smack dab in the middle of creating soundtracks
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Number 2 Showing samples is extremely valuable in
setting the stage to understand the 7 elements of storytelling.
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For students to see their own writing and projects through the lens of the 7
elements of digital storytelling, they must see samples
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Certainly the personal story is not compromised for “show” but seeing emotional
content, feeling emotional content, hearing pacing, seeing economy, these are
things that are extremely valuable to the students’ process and
understanding.
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And the Number 1 thing that I learned this year teaching DST with
students… The prompt is the most important.
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However, with classic digital storytelling, which is the type we are talking
about here, these digital stories are best when they convey global messages
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The well-crafted prompt is key
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With a quality prompt, and solid foundation of the 7 elements, students will
understand how to create their own powerful personal digital story.
Transformational
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YouTube - Computer Hardware in Plain English on 2009-10-12
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Social Networks – The Personal vs. The Professional : Social Media World on 2009-10-03
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My profile, photos, and information are only available to those people that I
have accepted as my friends, and when it comes to the number of Facebook friends
I have it is no longer about quantity, but about quality.
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As I Tweet, I am more guarded than on Facebook, and I’m always careful to not
put anything incriminating in a Tweet.
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Tumblr is my most recently joined social network, and it is arguably my
favorite. It’s fairly easy to have an anonymous blog that it completely open to
the public eye.
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Of course, if you do choose to let loose on this blog, do not put it on your
resume
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For this you may want to create an additional, cleaner blog that is a good
representation of you as a professional
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. It is fairly easy to balance the personal and professional as long as you keep
in mind your audience. However, when in doubt, privacy options never hurt
anyone.
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Free software is dead. Long live open source | The Open Road - CNET News on 2009-09-28
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The first is
led by
free-software advocates like Richard Stallman (who, importantly, largely
eschew the term "open source" as not being sufficiently concerned with freedom),
while the latter is led by no one, but was
formally organized in 1998 by Tim O'Reilly, Eric Raymond, and others in Silicon Valley.
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While free-software advocates provided the early backbone of the larger
open-source movement, the market has been made by open-source backers
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Free software demands one way. Open source encourages many ways.
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The open world needs interoperability, not shut itself off from other standards
just because they originate from proprietary sources.
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Open source embraces interoperability, whereas free software takes a hard line
that even Microsoft, despite its preference that customers use its complete
software portfolio exclusively, won't take.
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The path forward is open source, not free software. Sometimes that openness
will mean embracing Microsoft in order to meet a customer's needs. After
all, fierce partisanship and an unwillingness to compromise in software
accomplishes is just as pointless, distasteful, and useless as it is in
government.
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