Technology+in+Education

Hi Folks, I can't believe how long it has been-- time has FLOWN by!! I just ran across the sweet card you all signed for me and Baby Girl-- who now has a name, Cate Thornton Reynolds and I realized that I haven't sent pictures or any updates--
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July 16, 2009 She arrived at 2am-- it was truly miraculous and humbling. Ever since, she has been SUCH an easy baby! She's babbling and starting to sit up and I spend RIDICULOUS amounts of time playing with her! Her are a couple of pictures. I hope you are all well and I wish you all a wonderful Holiday Season-- I know I am so blessed and have so much to be thankful for from this past year and you all were a part of that! Thank you, thank you, thank you!! All my best! Peace~ Jeanie and Cate Thornton 1st family photo @2 weeks 17 weeks after a walk June 30, 2009 If you are having trouble with your video playing in PowerPoint on your Ning-- here is a site that will walk you through it. []

June 30, 2009 Last day: I wanted to post exactly what is due:** This has been a wonderful course and you are wonderful folks! I wish you all the best and please stay in touch! Jeanie and Baby Girl
 * revised Unit map with a brief letter outlining the changes you made and why you made them
 * all Reflections
 * all Curricular Connections
 * everything uploaded onto Wikispaces or Ning
 * finally--if you could shoot me an email with an informal sort of evaluation of the course--what should I keep, what should I change, and what should I throw out.

June 22 Pre-Class: Hi folks-- I hope you had a good weekend. I am sorry that I haven't sent you the articles sooner (please check your email to be sure you have them)--I had a server issue at my home over the weekend. I don't expect you to read them for today-- but we'll discuss them tomorrow. I also understand that a couple of you are having an issue with the .mp3 track-- not to worry, we will try to remedy in class ( I actually only saw a problem with 2 of them--).

June 19th: Today we uploaded .pdf documents onto your wiki as well as your .mp3-- Please be sure you upload any other pieces that you want to showcase for assessment onto your front page of your wiki. Please be sure you post Curricular Connections and Reflections to your wiki page. We also began exploring Inspiration/Kidspiration--no later than Tuesday, I would like for you to have uploaded your Inspiration .pdf of your Unit to your wiki. This mindmap should briefly touch on the content of your unit and highlight how you will use technology as a teacher tool as well as a student-centered tool.

For Monday-- we will be playing with iGoogle-- I will be sending you a couple of articles regarding copyright laws to read. Expect to receive those later this evening and we will discuss them briefly on Monday. Have a great weekend and please be sure your wiki is updated by Sunday.

For Friday, we will be finishing up your recording and converting to an MP3-- If you want to do this on your own computer at home, you MUST have Audacity and Lame (both are free uploads). Here is a link that tells how to upload these on your computer: http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/15-audacity-download.htm
 * June 18th:**

We also will be using Inspiration/Kidspiration to create a mind map of your unit--so be sure to bring your unit.

Please post Curricular Connections and Reflections to your wiki page and finish your 1pg MSPublisher Newsletter. In class we will convert the finished product to a .pdf and upload it to your wiki. Be sure that your wiki is up-to-date so that I can assess our progress this week! See you tomorrow. JMR~


 * June 17th Please note:

ONE MORE THING-- We will be working with your Where I'm From Poem-- so be sure you have a draft of it to play with on Thursday-- See you tomorrow!

ISTE standards for [|students]

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For tomorrow-- please write your reflections and curricular connection for MSPublisher-- how could you use it in your classroom? in your unit? how can you connect it to both teacher/student standards?

If you haven't, please be sure to play with __[|Voicethread]__

Thursday we will focus on inserting audio and playing with Voicethread. You can finish MSPublisher tomorrow and Friday I will show you how to upload it to your wiki page.

Friday we will be working with your Unit plan-- please bring it with you to class.

From this page we will begin our collaborative learning journey.**

Confession: Okay, I admit it. I do not know every technology out there nor do I have sole authority to say which technologies are best suited for your classroom. But I do think that this journey is one that is meant to be taken together. It is through collaboration that we come to know how things work and how we can better teach. So, in this Wiki space we, as a class, will explore our thinking about the ways we can use technology to better enable our students to understand, think and create.

I will be asking you to not only explore and play with various technologies, but more importantly I want you to connect the technologies to the content and curriculum you are teaching. That is where Curriculum Connections comes into play--a page for us to brainstorm ideas and consider the possibilities.

1. You will need to create your new page by clicking on your name in the navigation toolbar (left) 2. Click on the edit tab in the top right corner and create a navigation toolbar by copy and pasting the navigation toolbar from the top of this page onto your page. Then select the “Bullets” icon. Brainstorm 5 to 10 ways that you might be able to use wikis immediately. 3. Remember to click “Save.” 4. Choose one or two ideas that you want to share and go to our class Curriculum Connections Post your ideas to our collaborative page. 5. As the course progresses, be sure to re-visit the class page and look at your fellow travelers' ideas. If there are any that you can use, add them to your list by copying the idea, going to your page and clicking the Edit button, paste the idea and then make chnages to suit the needs of your class. 6. On your Wiki page, create a new page called "Reflections." Link to that page (in the navigation toolbar on your page) by using the hyperlink button at the top (it looks like a chain link). The reflection page is where you can begin to consider how the technology might fit into your unit plan-- what would you ask students to do? How would it enable them to better learn the material than what you are already doing? How does it fit into the ISTE Technology Standards? What role do you envision you playing in the classroom with this technology? What role will the students play? Assuming that you will not have one computer for every student, how will you assure that every student has the opportunity to use the computer? How will you decide if your use of these technologies is effective? Reflections