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Brenda Sherry

Teacher Tech Connect - 3 views

sites.google.com/...iictip1_spring2013

iicti teacher tech technology project

shared by Brenda Sherry on 20 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Brenda Sherry on 20 Jan 14
     
    This was the project site created by the IICTI Part 1s from last Spring
Peter Skillen

Tech2Learn - Project-Based Learning - 0 views

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project based learning project

shared by Peter Skillen on 18 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Peter Skillen on 18 Jan 14
     
    Brenda's PBL page on her wiki. Great resources for many topics.
Amanda Berry

Idea of the Week - susanwatt.ca - 3 views

www.susanwatt.ca/idea-of-the-week.html

susanwatt idea

shared by Amanda Berry on 21 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Amanda Berry on 21 Jan 14
     
    This is a website by Susan Watt (who was our Monday guest speaker!), who posts a tech "idea of the week". When I first got my iPad, I used her site to find some starter apps which I could explore in the classroom. When you click on the idea, you will see a great summary and "how-to" section, to help you get going with the specific Idea of the Week!
  • Christine Marsden on 25 Jan 14
     
    Thanks for sharing Amanda, this is a great resource, been reading up on QR codes!!
  • Cindy Brown-Leigh on 27 Jan 14
     
    I used Susan's snowflake making app in my classroom last Friday. We all had a great time, especially those who lack the fine motor skills to make the snowflakes with paper. Many of the students kept their designs to try and replicate them for "real" on paper.
Amanda Berry

Educational Blogging (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 2 views

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blog blogging classroom education

shared by Amanda Berry on 28 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • "virtual extension of the classroom."
  • support tool to promote reflective analysis and the emergence of a learning community that goes beyond the school walls."
  • the events of September 11 brought home to me the immediacy of blogging.
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  • ‘logs’ all the other webpages she finds interesting.
  • Personal journals, or online diaries,
  • Blog now refers to a Web journal that comments on the news—often by criticizing the media and usually in rudely clever tones—with links to stories that back up the commentary with evidence."
  • Blog posts are short, informal, sometimes controversial, and sometimes deeply personal, no matter what topic they approach."
  • Though consisting of regular (and often dated) updates, the blog adds to the form of the diary by incorporating the best features of hypertext: the capacity to link to new and useful resources. But a blog is also characterized by its reflection of a personal style, and this style may be reflected in either the writing or the selection of links passed along to readers. Blogs are, in their purest form, the core of what has come to be called personal publishing.
  • First, teachers use blogs to replace the standard class Web page
  • instructors begin to link to Internet items that relate to their course
  • Third, blogs are used to organize in-class discussions
  • The student who usually talks very loud in the classroom and the student who is very timid have the same writing space to voice their opinion. It puts students in a situation of equity."
  • Fourth, some instructors are using blogs to organize class seminars and to provide summaries of readings.
  • "group blogs"
  • fifth, students may be asked to write their own blogs as part of their course grade.
  • Blogging software breaks down into two major categories: hosting services and installed applications.
  • (http://www.blogger.com),
  • (http://www.livejournal.com),
  • weblogs break down barriers. They allow ideas to be based on merit, rather than origin, and ideas that are of quality filter across the Internet, "viral-like across the blogosphere." Blogs allow readers to hear the day-to-day thoughts of presidential candidates, software company executives, and magazine writers, who all, in turn, hear opinions of people they would never otherwise hear.3
  • writing weblogs is not for everybody.
  • It merely means that you participate in a different way.
  • What happens when a free-flowing medium such as blogging interacts with the more restrictive domains of the educational system? What happens when the necessary rules and boundaries of the system are imposed on students who are writing blogs, when grades are assigned in order to get students to write at all, and when posts are monitored to ensure that they don’t say the wrong things?
  • No matter how much we want to spout off about the wonders of audience and readership, students who are asked to blog are blogging for an audience of one, the teacher."
  • unconstrained
  • "great value in terms of developing all sorts of critical thinking skills, writing skills and information literacy among other things. We teach exposition and research and some other types of analytical writing already, I know. Blogging, however, offers students a chance to a) reflect on what they are writing and thinking as they write and think it, b) carry on writing about a topic over a sustained period of time, maybe a lifetime, and c) engage readers and audience in a sustained conversation that then leads to further writing and thinking.
  • As soon as these activities are put into the context of school, focused on topics the students are unlikely to care about much, they automatically lose a level of authenticity and engagement. These disengaged students (non-writers and writers alike) won’t get the main benefits of true reflective learning no matter how good the instruction and tools are."
  • Blogging is about, first, reading. But more important, it is about reading what is of interest to you: your culture, your community, your ideas. And it is about engaging with the content and with the authors of what you have read—reflecting, criticizing, questioning, reacting. If a student has nothing to blog about, it is not because he or she has nothing to write about or has a boring life. It is because the student has not yet stretched out to the larger world, has not yet learned to meaningfully engage in a community. For blogging in education to be a success, this first must be embraced and encouraged.
  • Amanda Berry on 28 Jan 14
     
    While slightly outdated, the article provides many crucial thinking points for educators who are interested in initiating a blog in their classroom(s). Educational Blogging is meant to be a "virtual extension of the classroom", but is most effective when students are allowed to read and write about what interests them. This article argues that when students are assigned a topic to discuss, with a main audience (the teacher), that they become disengaged, and their blogging becomes less authentic. Questions worth considering about blogging include: "What happens when a free-flowing medium such as blogging interacts with the more restrictive domains of the educational system? What happens when the necessary rules and boundaries of the system are imposed on students who are writing blogs, when grades are assigned in order to get students to write at all, and when posts are monitored to ensure that they don't say the wrong things?" Some suggestions for blogging software/tools are made in this article, but might not be relevant anymore. However, the point that blogging can develop critical thinking, writing, and reading skills, remains pertinent.
  • Brenda Sherry on 30 Jan 14
     
    Crazy that it could be outdated but that's how fast things change! Stephen Downes is one of the first ever bloggers!! and he is from Moncton NB and the National Research Council of Canada. He and George Siemens created the concept of Connectivism and created the first MOOC ever! (Massively Open Online Course) He is one famous Canadian dude in the tech world!
Brenda Sherry

A snapshot of learning innovation - YouTube - 0 views

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samr laurier

shared by Brenda Sherry on 08 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Susan Hersey on 15 Feb 14
     
    Watching this was a great way of brainstorming tech applications in my classroom!
Brenda Sherry

Teacher Tech Connect 2014 - 10 views

sites.google.com/...teachertechconnect2014

sites iicti 2014 technology project

shared by Brenda Sherry on 19 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Brenda Sherry on 19 Feb 14
     
    This year's IICTI website for our class projects!
Rebecca Mottin

7 habits of highly effective tech teachers - 0 views

elearninginfographics.com/ational-technology-infographic

technology iicti digital

shared by Rebecca Mottin on 02 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Rebecca Mottin on 02 Mar 14
     
    A good visual demonstrating some similar characteristics of teachers who use technology including starting with the WHY, being adaptable and willing to embrace change.
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