I'm a thinker. I tend to usually spend lots of time taking in all of the new information, rolling it around and then wondering and semi-planning how to incorporate those new ideas into my classroom. Oftentimes I come up with vague ideas that "I'll work on later and refine it."
I wasn't two minutes into VoiceThread and I came up with several concrete ways to incorporate that particular technology into my personal life as well as in the educational field. I've learned tons throughout this program so far, but I have to say that this tool has been one of the most exciting as far as potential for me. A few ways that I've already figured to utilize it include visual tours of our cottages, lectures available online for students on medical leave or absent (or even the parents) as I can link to the presentations in the school Moodle, & classroom lessons on fingerprint analysis and investigation. I believe that VoiceThread has really increased the ways in which presentations can be made accessible to the creator, collaborators and the audience. The beauty is how simple they've made it - I worked on it for about 20 minutes once I got my educator "upgrade" and confirmation and I already had a presentation uploaded and commented on. VERY COOL!
I also would like to comment on Ken Robinson's "How Schools Kill Creativity" - I know that we watched it in another one of the classes but I did watch again because I wanted to share it with my mom. I have to tell you, the second time around gave me even more to think of in relation to how I want to set up my presentation in the classroom as well as how I can inspire my students to at least attempt more creativity without fearing it so much.
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I was just up in the Eagle River area and must say you have a very nice high school. We were go-cart racing and horse back riding near the school. What an awesome area.
ReplyDeleteI agree we have learned so much in this program. I'm trying to keep up. I'm glad to hear you like voice thread. I like it, but need to use it more to get comfortable. When you say you can use it for "cottages" do you mean on line information for seasonal renters? I can see how useful this would be in mnay areas including education.
I'm interested in hearing your ideas on how to make presentations appeal to the creative side of our students more. I also have watched the Sir Ken Robinson speech several times. I actually used a short clip of it in an inservice presentation I ddi. It really inspires me but I feel like I am still lacking some ideas on how to appeal to the more creative side of my students.
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