Plan for Today, July 3, 2007

1. Quiz on Chapters 11 and 12
   1. How can a teacher "get ready" for students using computers as learning tools in the classroom? Include in your answer logistical, environmental, and philosophical issues the teacher can address.
   2. From chapter 11, briefly describe the five elements of effective instruction.
   3. Explain an alternative to the traditional role of the teacher as described in chapter 12.
   4. Write an example of a higher level question (from Bloom's taxonomy) on the topic of U.S. history.
2. discuss good presentation style. Larry Lessig, Dick Hardt, presentation zen
3. videoconference experiment
4. skype accounts
5. review chapters 9,10,11,12
6. review blog posts (2) and delicious posts (2)
7. revisit databases
8. visit Flickr
9. create a wiki with wikispaces, wetpaint, or pbwiki
10. learn about blogs in education. Will Richardson, David Warlick
11. learn about course management systems. Moodle, Angel, Desire2Learn, Blackboard, WebCT,
12. learn about content management systems. drupal, joomla, plone
13. learn about self-organizing communities. slashdot, digg
14. learn about youtube, googlevideo, teachertube, iTunesU
15. learn about podcasting, videocasting, screencasting

Today's notes

Website for software, Filemaker Pro 8.5 mac/win is $149.75

PowerPoint - You can use PowerPoint buttons to link slides within a presentation or to other presentations, Word document, Excel files, etc.

Video Chat - We experimented with the iChat program, talking to each other. What fun!

Skype Another video messaging client. You can also text IM and make calls to phones (although I think they charge a small fee these days for that feature). Skype is another video messaging client. You can also text IM and make calls to phones (although I think they charge a small fee these days for that feature).

Audacity....Free/open source software for editing. You can edit any audio file with the proper equipment and this program. Audacity link for downloading!

Dr. M bought an AppleTV

We created Wiki's at one of the following sites:

• Wet Paint
• Wiki Spaces
• PB Wiki

We all created Wet Paint accounts. Two main issues - it doesn't work well with Safari and there is no way to get rid of the ads since there is not a paid version of Wet Paint.

Content Management Systems: People with the correct permissions can submit/correct information on a page. This helps keep things current and correct. For example see IDT Dept. They use Drupal which is free. It is created by a group of people, not a company. Although it is not a beginner level program. Dr M's del.icio.us Drupal tagged items.

Another Content Management program is Joomla

Course Management Systems: Allow you to create a system for your class that includes, documents, discussions, etc.

• Moodle
• WebCT
• Blackboard

are all examples.

To Do for Next Class Meeting

• Unit Plan Due
• Quiz on Chapter 13 & 14

Here is what Dr. M was talking about in class. Two examples of people using visuals to energized their prepared speeches.

• See Larry Lessig (the Stanford Law professor) and how he presents. Watch his presentation.
• Included in this post is a link to a researcher named Dick Hardt who I mentioned used several hundred slides in his 15-minute talk "Identity 2.0". Watch his presentation.