my video and my piciture

SMARTboard Playlist

a selection of SMARTboard videos ...

how sure are we that students who graduate from high school are literate ?

Below is my YouTube Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoUKSdHfMOg

Just how sure are we that students who graduate from high school are literate in information technology?

Watch the tutorial on blogger and homework

Watch the tutorial on blogger to review directions covered in class.



Day one
1. Post a comment to the class blog using your google account.
2. Create a blog
3. Add a Youtube Video to your blog, link and image
4. Post a link in the class backchannel indicating your blog url
5. Homework, access the following from home
- igoogle
- RSS feeds in google reader
- Your blog
- Class Blog, wiki and backchannel
- Twitter or Tweetdeck - post a tweet
- Skype - download on home computer and connect with a classmate
note: you may need a microphone to connect or type to chat.

Link to class wiki materials and support.

Tools Day1

Post a comment below regarding day one.
What was your favorite tool?

RSS
igoogle
google reader
skype
Backchannel http://www.chatzy.com/499283145387
twitter TOGETHER WE'RE BETTER Twitter can be like a virtual staff room, where teachers can access in seconds a stream of links, ideas, opinions, and resources. www.techlearning.com/article/20298
Blogger
Note: All topics covered in class wiki http://integrating.wikispaces.com/

Class Google Presentation

Back online and reading

Over the summer I have continued to follow professional development topics on Twitter and the ISTE vision channel from the NECC conference I attended in Washington DC. A great tweet from Dennis Richards today post

I just finished reading Outliers Outlier" is a scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lie outside normal experience.

I started The Element, by Sir Ken Robinson. I would like to incorporate as a reading assignment in one of my Web 2.0 class. The book offers readera a series of mini-biographies, the life story of people who have become successful in spite of the education they received in the schools they attended. As Robinson explains the process, they have found their way to their Element, “the meeting point between natural aptitude and personal passion.”

Sir Ken Robinson On Transforming Education from Dennis Richards on Vimeo.

The Power to Transfrom by Stephanie Pace Marshall is also on my list to read.
A few more videos from following Twitter today.... Escalator Temporarily Stairs
Clay Shirky: How social media can make history | Video on TED.com
Dr. Seuss - The Zax

Technology Integration Matrix with Videos in Florida Schools. Great way to model best practices!

What are you learning this summer?