I am a maker! This video shows the Morse Code generator/trainer that I created as an introductory Arduino project. I used the Elego Super Starter Kit which goes for about $30 right now on Amazon. I used three tutorials for the bits and pieces: Green LED; Push Button; 1602 LCD Module. I then wrote C code to write the Arduino sketch that makes it all work together. I am looking forward to making more and more fun electronics video in the future. But what to make next?
Great! I didn't know you can create a Facebook quiz! I really have to check that out. I also thought having a chat with celebrity authors, etc. is a wonderful idea.
Dear Norm, thank you for the article. Some very interesting things are using polls on Twitter (great for student feedback/opinion), creating YouTube video lessons to replace the classroom lecture with a video lecture in a f2f class, and using a blogging website on collaborative group projects.
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Prof. Garrett, What a great article to read! I was intrigued with this question, which I have tweaked a bit - "How can we as educators make the best use of Twitter or Diigo to help connect our students with amazing, inspiring personalities in the various fields we teach"?. Please, I will be interested in any response or comment on this?
Colleges and universities are beginning to embrace social media and realizing
the potential power and implications for using it as a component of their overall
marketing mix. This guide will introduce you to some of the more popular forms
of social media, including Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, blogs,
and del.icio.us.
This is an easy app to use to provide videos for your students. I used this to prepare a video of a teaching model for my A&P students.
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/-9ZBZSHqqzo
What a great video! Actually, my class on Film Appreciation may benefit from this type of interaction, considering that I cannot have all of my 35 plus students talk all the time.
Thank you Heather!
I'm glad you like it - I was fascinated too, Jim. I really expected to not love Twitter in the classroom, but I've been rethinking it since I saw this.
@chreych I am always curious about this. Since twitter is free, if they do not have an account - can't we ask them to create one for use in the classroom?
I was taking a look at "free tech tools" and came across this video. Much of it not relevant in my teaching, as it is specifically designed for K-12 educators, but it does offer links to the various tools they mention. The link at the end to acquire the pdf with the various sites is still alive and active (as of 6/8/20).
This video goes through the benefits of setting up outcomes in Canvas and how the student can see that information. This is the key to getting students to care about outcomes.
