In my district we are working on a new technology vision statement. We are using a wiki to help us continue our discussion and work on this project. I posted something to the wiki in response to a comment about the rather complex statement. I wanted to share and expand on that thought here. These thoughts also reflect some of the discussions in a course I am currently teaching where some our concerned we are loosing the human contact that…
Keta Erosion.jpg Originally uploaded by bknittle. Today I took some time to play with flicker. I have had an account for a while but never had time to explore the features from a teacher’s perspective. After watching the presentation on flickr by Jeff Utecht at the K12 Conference Online, I decided to try out the map features. Like Jeff I have worked as an overseas educator. I have lived or travelled in many places; Ghana, Jordan, Korea, Thailand, England, Syria,…
A simple experiment in art, created for one student’s illustration course, Line Rider is a unique online toy which allows users to hurtle a hapless scarf-clad man down steep hills of dizzying height, huge jumps, and end over end flips with just a pencil. The Tech Savvy Educator I needed a good laugh and really enjoyed this. I’ll think about the educational implacations later. Thanks Ben ! Blogged with Flock
Ross is the prototypical digital native. He says, “We all know Âpeople…who have all this content that they are not publishing stored on their computers. We’re trying to persuade them to live their lives online.†If this is how young people think, is it any wonder that their digital immigrant teachers don’t understand them? The Savvy Technologist I was reading the comment above, it got me thinking. Do I want to live my life online? I know that my communication…
I work with some terrific teachers and am currently working closely with about 20 teachers doing various long term PD classes. They are very much like most of the teachers I work with every day. They see all the new tools, they see the possibilities of the tools, they see how it could impact their students learning. They get it. But they are overwhelmed by it all, the many options, the need to teach the state mandated curriculum, 21st century…
In the spirit of universal design I have created a free Talkr account which allowed me to install a Talkr plugin. This plugin turns my blog posts to mp3 audio files. It is a computer generated voice but is not to bad to listen to. This allows people to subscribe to the audio feed, and listen to them on their mp3 player, or right from the blog post. This is a pretty amazing tool. Let me know what you think.
I have spent the day attending the K12 Online Conference. I am finding a little bit for everyone. I am most taken with the Basic/Advance training category. There are great presentations on how to use and integrate web tools in the classroom. These presentations include movies and resources. I wish these resources were available to me when I began my navigation of the read/write web, I must say I have learned a great deal today and hope to share this…