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Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Two Interactive iPad Apps that Work!

I recently learned about two iPad Apps that allow you to get immediate feedback from your classes. They both work really really well.

Nearpod puts teachers in control of student iPads

1. Nearpod allows the teacher to control what students see on their iPad. Teachers can upload any PDF file and Nearpod separates each page into a slide. Students sign into a "room" and the teacher takes control of the slides that each student sees. If that wasn't cool enough, Nearpod also allows you to intersperse different types of interactive questions throughout the presentation to check for understanding. I tried this recently with a grammar lesson and it was great. I was able to see who was getting the concepts and who wasn't immediately.


Space Race on Socrative
2. Socrative allows the teacher to create interactive quizes which students answer on their iPads. Students can see immediately if they are right or wrong. You can also show a graph of the answers after students have responded and use that to spur discussion about the topic. Socrative will send you data from the session in an excel file with each student's response. The other fun feature is the Space Race which puts students in competition to answer questions first and win the race.

Both of these Apps are free, Nearpod allows you pay to upgrade for more features such as large response groups and the ability have more students in a session, store more slideshows and share them with others.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Arguments for the iPad in Education

As we continue to explore the possibility of becoming a 1:1 iPad school, I am starting to put together my arguments in favor of this adoption. Here are some of my thoughts so far. I would welcome your feedback on this document!

Why 1 to 1?
In a digital world where information on a multitude of subjects is both abundant and immediately available, students today must learn to effectively access, analyze, synthesize and integrate this information on a regular basis. By providing our students with immediate access to a digital tool, such as a laptop or a tablet, we provide them with the world at their finger-tips (literally). In a time when the ability to discover an answer is more important than the ability to memorize and regurgitate the answer, we must make those answers readily available to both our students and faculty. If we want a pedagogical shift, 1:1 access to a digital tool will help both to facilitate and to force this change to happen.

Why the iPad (and not a laptop)?
There are many reasons that the iPad makes the most sense as the best tool for our 1 to 1 transition. The low screen profile makes a huge difference in a Harkness/discussion classroom, retaining the intimacy of the classroom conversation without the distraction of a laptop screen. The portability and tablet format allow the iPad to double as an e-reader for textbooks. This will lighten student backpacks and lower their textbook costs. Finally, in addition to internet access, iPad education Apps provide new and engaging ways for students to learn and understand complex concepts.

Why the iPad (and not a different tablet or a bring your own device model)?
Given that we are an Apple school, the iPad makes the most sense for us as an institution. Our faculty are comfortable with the MacOS and many already use iPhones and iPods. Maintaining a single platform for all students will make for the smoothest transition to 1 to 1 by giving all students access to the same tools, books and Apps.

What about the iPad 3 (or 4 or 5...)?
At this time the additional features of the iPad3 are not meaningful enough for us to upgrade and the new lower price of the iPad2 make it even more attractive and accessible to us. As newer models of the iPad are released, we will have to consider the lowest version when we make our App and book choices. If we look at the iPhone as a model, as each new iPhone was released, the newest Apps and Operating system continued to function on older models. Just as we replace our faculty laptops every 3 years, we will need to consider a replacement schedule for our iPads. Students should be able to make it through grades 7-12 with no more than 2 iPad purchases.

Will students and faculty continue to need access to a laptop or desktop computer?At this time faculty will definitely continue to need laptops or desktops for word processing, printing and more complex computing tasks. For some students the iPad may be sufficient for their needs, but many will continue to need access to a computer.


Photo Credit: A Bit of How I Study on Flickr by wwward0

Technology is NOT just a tool...

I just attended a (fabulous) conference where the Key Note speaker made the point that technology is just a tool. Now believe it or not, I have heard that before. I have even said it myself. I understand the point that everyone is trying to make. It isn't really about the technology it is about the pedagogy, technology should be like oxygen,  the technology shouldn't come first, etc. etc. etc.

All of that is true, but really technology is not just a tool. Marshall McLuhan famously said "The medium is the message." The technology tools we use impact teaching and learning in more ways than we realize. We use these tools as status symbols (as I write this on my brand new Chromebook) and as political statements (are you a mac or a pc?). The tools we use send many messages about who we are as learners and teachers and schools. Are you a 1 to 1 laptop school, an iPad school, a virtual school, are you an innovative teacher, a traditional teacher, are you a 21st century teacher?

We shouldn't fool ourselves that these things don't matter. They do. The more we are aware of the messages we send through the tools that we use, the better able we are to send the right messages.



Tuesday, August 13, 2013

To blog or not to blog...

that is the question. Why read blogs? Why write a blog?

We are living in an amazing time in history. Speech is truly becoming free. People everywhere are saying what they want to say and publishing their ideas for people around the world to read. Web 2.0 has given a voice to millions of people and also given us the ability to share our voice with other people around the world. Web 2.0 has taken out the middleman (middle person). We don't need a publisher to tell us that what we want to say is worth reading. It is the readers who will decide. And the readers who can tell you what they think. We no longer write in a vacuume.

What does this mean for teachers? Teachers are learners at heart. Reading blogs provides teachers with a community of colleagues beyond their own school. That community has ideas and opinions about teaching that can motivate and inspire. Writing your own blog is a learning experience in itself. You have to ask yourself, what do I have to say and how do I want to say it? Finally, it makes the teaching of writing that much more important. If blogging is the future, then writing is the future. We want our students to be prepared to make a point and argue it articulately and creatively.

What does this mean for parents? Parents are also learners. Reading blogs provides parents with a community with ideas and opinions about parenting that can motivate, challenge and inspire. Writing your own blog is a learning experience and also lends your own voice to the voice of parents everywhere. There is so much propaganda about parenting. Parents need to take control of their own issues. Finally, blogging by teachers lets parents in on what is happening in the classroom. It opens the black box. It allows conversations to take place within a classroom community that can lead to better understanding and learning for everyone in the community.

What does this mean for students? Blogging provides a public voice for students. It makes writing authentic. When writing a blog, you really have to consider your audience and be open to feedback. This provides incentive to students to think before they write and to write well. Blogging forces students to dress up their writing for a public audience.

What does this mean for school administrators? School administrators should be participating in a community of bloggers. Administrators can learn from each other about what is working and what isn't. They can provide each other with support, feedback and ideas to make schools work better. They can model writing and participating in the future of technology for their teachers, parents and students. And, they can make their goals and intentions transparent to the school community. Nothing keeps you more honest than laying it out on the table and opening yourself up to your community for ideas and suggestions.

Of course, the public nature of blogging is scary. Is anyone listening? Are they going to criticize my writing, my spelling, my ideas? As a community we need to respect the risk that bloggers are taking by laying their ideas and opinions out there. We need to presuppose the good intentions of the writer and honor his or her vulnerability by contributing in a caring and nonjudgemental way.

What do you think - teachers, parents, students, administrators? Are you willing to come on board? Are you willing to lend your voice to the blogosphere? To submit your ideas to the conversation? Do you need help to do that? Do you have questions? Ideas? Ask me, ask others. Let's get this party started.

David on classroom 2.0 at ning just shared this amazing wiki site on how to start blogging. Check it out!

Monday, August 12, 2013



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Sunday, August 11, 2013

A new literacy...

I am a reader. I love books, especially young adult and adult fiction. I know how to read a book. I know how to look at the cover, to read the inside flap, to find out about the author, to make predictions and connections as I'm reading. I know how to read from left to right and down the page. Reading books is a two dimensional experience. I'm pretty fast and I usually remember a lot of what I read.

Reading Online is a whole different animal, a "three dimensional animal" (Warlick, page 22). The more I do it the more I learn how, but it requires attention and practice. In a Web 2.0 world, it is just as important to teach kids to read and navigate information Online as it is to teach them on paper.

Just reading this blog takes a different kind of attention and approach. There is a lot on this page, pictures, videos, and links. As you are reading this blog there are opportunities to go elsewhere, to read and reference more than just what is on this page. That is the beauty of Online literacy, but also the challenge. It is easy to get lost, to wander off to explore a link and then lose the train of thought where you began.

I myself am just learning how to do this. So far this is what works for me: I first look over the whole page, reading headings, looking at pictures and reading links. I then read the article that interests me from start to finish. After I have read it through once, I start exploring the links on the page. This works for me, but I have had to figure this out for myself.

As teachers, we need to be able to support and help our students to do this as well. I think this is an essential skill for students to have. Students are constantly interacting with Online information. We need to give them the tools and skills to do so in an effective and efficient manor. And, this needs to happen inside the classroom, not just in the lab. This is not a "technology" lesson, but a reading lesson that involves technology. Check out this interesting Website: 21st Century Literacies, Tool for Reading the World You will find a lot of resources on how to teach these skills.

What do you think? Are you addressing this type of literacy in your classroom? If so, how are you doing it? If not, what kind of support do you need to start bringing this into your "reading" lessons? Do you agree that it is important?

Works Cited: Warlick, David F. Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century. Linworth Publishing, Inc. 2004

Thursday, July 18, 2013




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A user can certainly employ a Concept data widely to ready ezines, memos, plans, proposals, essays plus more. The suitable using of the expression plan allows a user with publishing finest leads to the actual manufacturing prerequisites.

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013



The advantages of Protection

Each and every house comes with an growing requirement for protection day to day. Since the criminal offense price improve in the roads, homeowners ought to foresee the actual introduction associated with legal components within their house. The actual failing in order to identify crooks within your house might lead to house reduction or even harm as well as even worse, the actual impossible demise associated with family members.


What exactly are SECURITY CAMERA Digital cameras?

Closed-circuit tv (CCTV) digital cameras are more comfortable with keep track of and document those activities within an region with regards to security as well as safety associated with house. They may be possibly camcorders or even electronic images digital cameras, which could generate pictures or even recordings with regard to monitoring reasons. They may be popular in numerous home as well as industrial institutions. SECURITY CAMERA home security alarm technologies as well as gear may be used within round inner as well as exterior conditions to view as well as safeguard individuals, house as well as belongings.

SECURITY CAMERA digital cameras can become advertising agency or even electronic, meaning that these people function through delivering advertising agency or even electronic indicators to some hard disk drive like a movie strapping recorders or even desktop computer or even laptop and even your own cell phone. IP digital cameras or even system digital cameras could be advertising agency or even electronic camcorders, in addition a good inlayed movie machine having an Internet protocol address. It really is effective at loading it and even sound.

The characteristics of the SECURITY CAMERA digital camera program tend to be monitoring, documenting as well as play-back. SECURITY CAMERA monitoring allows the actual watching associated with footages through SECURITY CAMERA digital cameras through a number of SECURITY CAMERA screens. SECURITY CAMERA documenting may be the procedure for keeping footages through SECURITY CAMERA digital cameras on the VCR, Electronic Movie Recorders, pc or even some other storage space press with regard to immediate or even upcoming play-back as well as back-up.

The reason why A purpose with regard to SECURITY CAMERA Digital camera?

The reason why require a SECURITY CAMERA digital camera program in your own home? The significance is actually obviously shown within the advantages it may give a person and also to your house.

Prevent possible legal components through busting within your house. On viewing the actual digital camera, they might choose to not focus on your house. Extremely noticeable digital cameras addressing susceptible regions of your house slow up the criminals' chance to splurge criminal offense within your idea.
Much more your family seems more secure as well as decreases the worry associated with criminal offense. Men and women really feel more secure, it has been confirmed to avoid possible crooks through assaulting. This provides reassurance towards the home owner which not just is actually their home secure, however so might be themselves.
This is a most affordable method to safeguard your own outside places, for example vestibule as well as home gardens, through criminal behaviour.
You may use SECURITY CAMERA recordings in courtroom. SECURITY CAMERA digital camera recordings will help capture as well as prosecute robbers as well as crooks.
You are able to keep track of your home as well as belongings looking aside as well as all over the world.

Factors within Purchasing a House SECURITY CAMERA Digital camera

There are some things have to think about picking out the SECURITY CAMERA digital camera.

Subject/object -- Choose what you need in order to. Encounters? The whole individual? Entire throngs of people, products or even goods?
Area -- Does the SECURITY CAMERA digital camera become situated inside or even outside? At the backyard, hall, front yard or even family room?
Quantity or even difference of sunshine -- Does the SECURITY CAMERA digital camera need to document within little light circumstances for example during the night? The black-and-white SECURITY CAMERA is more preferable within lower illumination circumstances, as well as colour within great illumination circumstances.
Area associated with see necessary for the actual SECURITY CAMERA -- Exactly how broad or even thin a good position associated with eyesight is needed within your preferred area?
Central size -- What lengths would be the items you intend to document is going to be through the SECURITY CAMERA?
Spending budget -- The number of digital cameras do you really need?
Servicing -- Cleansing as well as sustaining your own SECURITY CAMERA program regularly may identify and stop main issues in order to keep program within great operating circumstances.
Legalities -- Problems might occur whenever you keep track of many people without having their own permission. It really is regarded as a good invasion upon personal privacy.
Justify as well as assistance -- Purchase your SECURITY CAMERA digital camera program from the trustworthy organization} that provides privileged guarantees as well as good after-sales assistance.
Looking for Specialist within Setting up Your own SECURITY CAMERA

Setting up the SECURITY CAMERA digital camera in your own home will invariably need a expert within setting up the SECURITY CAMERA digital camera in your own home. You are able to set up the actual SECURITY CAMERA by yourself, however, you may not still do it. If you wish to obtain the best of the investment decision, you had better obtain a expert for your work. The SECURITY CAMERA professional has got the resources as well as processes to set up your own SECURITY CAMERA program within the correct process and the best areas.

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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Zynga and therefore the Perils of turning into a Platform


I will offer Zynga (ZNGA) this much: the corporate has some serious stones for fitting Zynga.com as an area for its own games and people of third parties to measure outside Facebook. You can’t very blame it for doing therefore. After all, an excessive amount of dependence on somebody else’s social network—whether or not it's for users, revenue, or both—is ne'er an honest issue. however being a platform supplier associate degreed an someone of diversion choices could be a arduous business that’s to not be taken gently.

The launch of Zynga.com is over a little of a reversal for the casual-gaming company. After all, Zynga exists these days solely as a result of it abroach into Facebook’s app platform and rode the wave of social sharing to success. that's not essentially a foul issue. Zynga has merely been higher at social than anyone else in terms of obtaining users to share and win over their friends to sign in, gaining rewards all the whereas.

Prior to Thursday’s announcement of the new web site, Zynga and Facebook had a dependent relationship during which, just like the Nile crocodile and therefore the Egyptian shore bird bird, every party helped the opposite out. Nearly all of Zynga’s revenues have come back from Facebook and concerning twelve p.c of all Facebook revenue has come back from Zynga.

That might are a fine relationship to possess once Zynga was a aggressive very little startup. currently that it’s a in public listed company, its reliance on Facebook could be a Brobdingnagian risk issue for investors. therefore it is smart that Zynga would wish to possess slightly additional management over wherever and the way users access its games—and slightly additional independence from Facebook.

But I question what number casual gamers acknowledge that Zynga makes FarmVille, Words With Friends, and Mafia Wars—and what number, knowing this, can take day out of their Facebook recreation sessions to travel to another web site to play those games instead. Games can still be connected to a user’s Facebook profile. Zynga is simply giving individuals the choice to play on Zynga.com. however it’s notoriously troublesome to make a platform associate degreed a destination web site and to mixture an audience, even one that's already mistreatment your product.

A lot can rely upon what proportion actual price the Zynga.com platform can give to customers. Facebook works as a result of (surprise) individuals pay longer on Facebook than just about the other web site on the Internet—as very much like seven hours every week, per a recent study.

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