This past week, my senior classes have been working on video projects. All of the video work was to be done outside of the classroom, so when students brought in their work, the classroom was full of various electronic devices used to record the videos, everything from tablets to laptops to phones of several different [...]
Posts Tagged ‘technology’
Presenting student video projects without a headache
Posted in Movie/Video, tagged classroom, technology, Video projects on May 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Pencil vs. computer in education: And the winner is….
Posted in Why Tech?, tagged ed tech, education, technology on April 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In her recent article on Mashable, Sarah Kessler examines data from a one-to-one laptop program in Peru. The title of the article gives the final conclusion in the study: “2.5 million laptops later, one laptop per child doesn’t improve test scores.” This is a hard pill to swallow for those of us who spend everyday [...]
Unpredictable
Posted in Random Stuff, Why Tech?, tagged ed tech, education, technology, web 2.0 on February 8, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Tonight, I was working on some fake Facebook resources and clicked on My Fake Wall, a resource that I have used in the past. The link took me to a page that said the site was offline. There was no indication of when it would be up and running again. There is a chance that [...]
Never enough technology
Posted in Why Tech?, tagged classroom 2.0, education, technology, web 2.0 on January 31, 2012 | 2 Comments »
My dream classroom would include the following: Class set of laptops (preferably Mac Book Pro’s) Class set of iPod Touches complete with a charging station A Smart Board (even if they aren’t quite as nifty as they seem) Document Camera Clickers (probably SMART since I have the board) Surround sound speaker system (Bose would be [...]
