How Would You Use this Technology?

While I am at the Social Studies Conference, here is your brief assignment.

There are 2 Animoto videos below.  Watch both of them - they are quite short - and think about how you might use this technology in your classroom.  To learn more about Animoto, go to http://animoto.com/.

Please consider the following:

• Content area and grade level of your students
• Who is making the video?  The teacher to demonstrate something to the students or the students to present their learning?
• Why are they making the video?
• What are the students learning?

Video #1 - Who am I?
As part of the non-fiction biography unit (Language Arts), 5th grade students will research a scientist or inventor (Science) and create a brief video biography. 



Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.


Video #2 - Carl Sandburg Home

After a field trip to the Sandburg home in FlLat Rock, NC 4th grade students will demonstrate what they learned.  Students will use photographs that they took, archive photos and will write a short poem.  This assignment combines Social Studies (famous North Carolinians), Language Arts (poetry), Science (animal behavior), Computer Technology (making the video) and Art (photography).   



Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.


Post your idea about integrating this technology in the comments below.  Please sign your comment as this is a graded assignment (10 points).  It is due by Sunday evening (2/27) at 11:55 pm.

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Classroom Video with Animoto

So, here is the animoto video that my 'students' made after their field trip to the Carl Sandburg home.



Created at Animoto.com on November 23, 2010 as a class sample.

1920's

1920's

Who is this Woman?

This week we will begin our study of Civil Rights - a significant time in our nation's history.

Who is this?

Where might this be taking place?

Why is this significant?

What does this have to do with us?

If you know, post your hypothesis in the comments.  What evidence makes you think you know who it is?

Facebook in the Classroom

There is an ongoing discussion in the EdTech world these days about the value of Facebook in the classroom. Here are a couple of links that may interest you.

Using Facebook in the Classroom
Notes from a conference presentation about using Facebook in the classroom.
http://org.elon.edu/CATL/conference/documents/FacebookEducation.pdf

The Facebook Classroom: 25 Facebook Apps That Are Perfect for Online Education
I have not tried these applications, but some are quite intriguing.
http://www.collegedegree.com/library/college-life/15-facebook-apps-perfect-for-online-education

Point/CounterPoint: Should you 'Friend' your Students on Facebook?
Some say yes; some say no. How do you weigh in?
http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/LL/LLIssues/Volume3720092010/AugustNo1/37110s.pdf

Teaching with Clickers

Written for college professors, this article is a good summary of using clicker technology in the classroom. Dr. Erping Zhu is the coordinator of instructional technology at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan. Good list of references at the bottom of the article.

This is a link to MikeW's blog archive 'clickers'. He has written a couple of posts that may be of interest to you.

Image credit: Ohio University Student Response System (http://www.citl.ohiou.edu/index.cfm?pageID=29) The links on the left side of that page is another good overview of the system.

Learn NC

Great resources for North Carolina (or any) teachers.

Find it at http://www.learnnc.org/