COURSE SUMMARY

Things I will use as a result of this webcamp in the classroom include:
incorporating having students set up a blog for open house for parents to read; incorporating using my delicious website account for various computers and having my students set up accounts; showing students how to create avatars for their blog page. I might use flicker to upload various pictures that our students can download into powerpoint presentations. I probably will use podcasting since we tend to have many auditory learners. I will need to do some research to acquire the links to be demonstrated in class.

I felt the class was very beneficial for me and I learned a nice variety of key technology tools to facilitate my overall knowledge of key components that are used in todays communication process.

Boy, things sure have come a long ways from taking shorthand and keying on electronic typewriters in the years I was taking college!

Everything we do, from working to playing, is now so utterly dependent on computers and technology that the world seems lost when the technology is down. I know it's a bit crazy to imagine, but if computers all around the world would go down for one day unfortunately some societies would semi-crumble, some lives would be dis shoveled...but maybe we'd actually start communicating with each other in real life again; an art that is quickly becoming obsolete.

I can see how students will love using Wikispace for brainstorming and doing keyboarding techniques at the same time. We could follow thinking map ideas while using this technology approach. Neat idea to have different periods collaborating with each other.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Today we are learning about Wikispace. I hope to learn how to use this in the classroom for students to collaborate in the classroom.

http://kleinweb20.blogspot.com/

Day 2 -- Learning Flicker, RSS

I was successful at downloading a picture into my flicker account. I can see when we teach a unit on Fireworks, that flicker will be useful for our students to set up there photo image accounts in. They will enjoy having a photo selection to select from and customising their photos.

We might even incorporate this into our first few weeks of class when doing open house handouts for moms and dads.

This is the Old Hider Gang!