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15 years ago @ http://10techsecondary... - Week 11: Great Idea! P... · 0 replies · +1 points

That's a great idea - you guys got some very good feedback, too.

15 years ago @ http://10techsecondary... - Week 11: Great Idea! P... · 0 replies · +1 points

Too cool. Some of those menus look just amazing. This would be a great way to send out the menus to the people your students invite!

15 years ago @ http://10techsecondary... - Week 11: Great Idea! P... · 1 reply · +1 points

I'm getting carried away with this, but here's a great example of what it looked like when done in class:http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/speechresponse1. Very cool. I love the interaction they had, particularly when their names were associated with their response.

15 years ago @ http://10techsecondary... - Week 11: Great Idea! P... · 3 replies · +1 points

What a great tool. I like the ease of use and that students don't need an account. I asked some students to post responses to their peer's speeches on a wall (http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/speechresponse). I'm excited to see how they interact with each other and what kind of feedback they offer.

What most excites me about tools such as Wallwisher is that, as access increases and students work on computers almost daily, this will be a great way to do formative assessments and get a general idea of where students are at without having to grade exit slips.

15 years ago @ http://10techsecondary... - Week 10: From Mike to ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Like Gavin, I was disappointed with the English options in Interactives, but fortunately I noticed that there was a "Cinema" interactives under art, so I figured I'd check it out to see if it would work for our film lit unit in 9th grade. I was please with what I found, but I think this site would be better in a blended classroom - it essentially asks students to read a lot of text and do some little application activities (which are pretty neat). I should add that I really like Annenburg (I have a great book by them, called unSpun).
I looked at the other sites very quickly, and both were pretty neat.

15 years ago @ http://10techsecondary... - Week 9: Copy Right wit... · 0 replies · +1 points

I've actually found something even better than Citation Machine (thanks to our amazing librarian, Loretta) - Word 2007! I learned only a couple weeks ago that Word 2007 will actually do in-text citations and works cited pages for me. All I have to do is fill out some text boxes, click a button and voila! Just go the References tab in Word 2007. I've also put together a little step-by-step instructions document for my students that I'd be happy to share with you, as well.

15 years ago @ http://10techsecondary... - Week 9: Copy Right wit... · 0 replies · +1 points

This is a tough topic for me; I'm glad it came up. I've taught several lessons involving Creative Commons, but have hit a wall every time: apathy. And not just my students - I'm also apathetic about using CC. For images to include in presentations, it is just more efficient and productive to use Google Images. When I do, I don't pay attention to copyright or attributing sources.
I know it just comes down to being willing to invest the time to model these skills for my students. When I want to use images, I have to commit myself to locate, use, and attribute copyright-friendly materials (like Flickr).
On the student end, I need to create consequences, whether negative or positive. Loretta, our amazing librarian, shared one great idea: when researching, require students to evaluate their sources in paragraph form. For those that choose better sources (or, in this case, CC sources), they don't have to write the evaluation. This encourages good habits, and also rewards those who put in the work to find good sources.
I'd love to hear some other ideas for encouraging students to put in this extra front-end work.

15 years ago @ http://10techsecondary... - Week 8: May I Present ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I can't help but agree with pretty much everything that's been said thus far. Google Presentations is an excellent tool - several students (9th graders - all older than 13) have used it to both create and share presentations this year, and it's been very successful. As with Google Docs, it is nice that students can access the same file from anywhere, and the revision history would be very helpful for group presentations.
I also love Slideshare. So far I'm purely a consumer and haven't started putting stuff on there, but I've found some fantastic presentations on a variety of topics (from edtech to football).
Finally, I really like the Pechu Kucha presentation format because, as Melissa mentioned, it has to be rehearsed. Just as important, though, this sort of presentation encourages students to think about what's on the screen and what they're saying as two distinct things, which is an important mental shift. Ideally, what's on the screen would be more "Presentation Zen" as a result.
Good stuff.

15 years ago @ http://10techsecondary... - Can\'t Get Enough of G... · 2 replies · +1 points

I love Google Forms. I've used it on many different occasions to get feedback from students and from parents. It's an easy way to collect information, whether it's book numbers or feedback on my teaching. I particularly like that I see the responses in spreadsheet form, which makes organizing and analyzing the data much easier.
Most recently, I created a semester feedback form for parents. I sent out a link via Skyward and asked parents for feedback on how the year is going and what I could improve on. I was very pleased to get about 20 responses, and have been able to use the results to make changes in how I teach and how I communicate with parents.

15 years ago @ http://10techsecondary... - Week 6: Mid-term--How\... · 0 replies · +1 points

At the midway point of the Learn and Earn experiment, I'm pretty content with it. What I most appreciate about the online discussion format is simply that everyone involved has a voice. My experiences as a student in other PD classes is that some people talk and ask questions while others mostly listen. I enjoy the balance of participation that the online discussions allows us.

For this reason, interactive online discussions are definitely something I'd like to do more with my classes. My biggest worry with that is that students I teach (8th and 9th graders) tend to be less invested and less motivated to engage in the discussion. My limited experience with online learning has been that students go through the motions and do the minimum they feel is required.

However, without the actual experience, I can't say this for sure. I'm wondering if there's anyone else out there that has used more interactive online discussions such as the one we're using, and more importantly how the students have reacted to them.

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