This document provides an agenda and overview of a technology in the classroom presentation on October 23, 2009. The agenda covers introductory presentations on various classroom technologies from 9:00-12:00 and 1:00-2:30, with coffee breaks in between. Technologies discussed include Smartboards, podcasting, blogs, social networking, clickers, and online testing and notes. The document also shares a student survey on the use of classroom technology and ideas for finding more technology integration resources and examples online.
1. Technology in the Classroom October 23, 2009
Cam Bennet Trevor Sytnick
DRCSS DRCSS
cabennet@mvsd.ca tsytnick@mvsd.ca
No need to take notes, all slides will be posted on the Internet.
http://mvsdfeb23day.wikispaces.com/
Try backchanneling on the discussion page
"In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find
themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists." Eric Hofer
What content are we teaching kids today that
may be obsolete in the future? Why are we
hand writing? teaching it?
http://www.bookofjoe.com/2007/05/funfact_of_the_.html
What have we stopped teaching lately? What did you learn as a
kid that you really did not need to learn?
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2. Agenda
9:00 Intro
Presentation
Sympodium Smartboard
Podcasting recording lessons
class blogs
Blogs
Social Networking
10: 15'ish coffee
10:30 play time
12:00 LUNCH
1:00 Presentation
Senteo clickers
survey monkey
texting to kids
ExamView test generator
Pod Casts
TED Talks
2:15 coffee
2:30 play time
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3. web 1.0 vs web 2.0
think back 10 years ago, 1999 what was teaching like?
What has changed?
Edline, ipods, cellphones, email addresses, dvd's, texting , cloud computing?
10 years ago internet use in Australia
10 years ago, if you asked who has a DVD player at home?
10 years ago, internet at home?
10 years ago, who has a cell phone?
Now think back 20 years ago,
Now think 10 years from now, what do you see? 15 20 years from now?
whatif.wmv
calculator use in DOSA?
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7. 3. What technology did you find the most useful? Please comment on why it was useful.
.The podcasts and the notes on the website because I am an athlete and my team was gone many fridays and on
some occasions even earlier in the week. I was able to access the days notes from any location that there was
internet access. Wed, 1/21/09 9:51 AM
Recorded lessons, very useful if you miss a class, or did not getenough time to finish writing notes. Wed, 1/21/09 9:50
AM
.i think getting the notes off the website was most useful especially when i listened to the podcast to Tue, 1/20/09 2:59 PM
The online solutions(laptops) because i can see where i went wrong on my questions and i can look through them at
my own pace. Tue, 1/20/09 2:56 PM
Clicker Tests, because they tested your knowledge on an everyday basis and got you thinking. Tue, 1/20/09 2:55
PM
Clicker Quizzes, mainly because they were more interactive and it made it easier to may attention. Tue, 1/20/09
2:54 PM
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11. some examples of class blogs are
Applied Math 30S DRCSS 2009
Applied Math 40S DRCSS 2009
Swan River Applied 12 math 2009 Feb June
Highway 10 Conexxus
sargent park mathzone Grade 8 Math
AP Calculus Blog
Elementary Class Blogs
http://mrcsclassblog.blogspot.com/
http://itc.blogs.com/thewriteweblog/ individual student blogs see links at left
Video on Blogs in the Elementary Class
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12. Where do you find ideas?
BLOGS
<http://freetech4teachers.blogspot.com/> best I have seen
<http://blog.mrmeyer.com/> new teacher with lots of ideas
http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/ Karl Fisch big idea guy
http://edtech101.com/ educational podcasts
http://calnewport.com/blog/ Study Hacks great "big ideas" how to study university and secondary based
http://adifference.blogspot.com/ MB math teacher
<http://makeitinteresting.blogspot.com/> MB middle school math teacher
<http://falconphysics.blogspot.com/> Teaching With Technology
<http://www.techsavvyed.net/> The Tech Savvy Educator
<http://langwitches.org/blog/> Elementary Ideas
<http://edtechpower.blogspot.com/> The Power of Educational Technology
OR just try googling for "educational technology blogs" maybe
add a subject area
or try these
Teachertube.com youtube for teachers
TED.com
Teacher's Domain.org digial media for the classroom
You have to get wet to learn how to swim
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14. Social Networks
What has 640,000 NEW users per day?
Population Winnipeg (2006 census) 633,451
Who's teaching kids
how to use this
FACEBOOK technology
appropriately?
http://facebookforparents.
org/
Social Networking Video http://beyond3rs.ning.com/
United Breaks Guitars You tube Song
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