It was nice to see everyone's Prezi last week during class with their top 6 pics. I didn't have a chance to look at the pictures on everyone's Posterous site on a regular basis so it was fun to see what everyone considered to be their best 6 pictures along with an explanation. Just by doing that activity, I feel like I learned so much about my classmates. It would be fun to do this type of activity with my students next time I teach the Web 2.0 class; unfortunately I only had enough students to run 1 section at the beginning of the year but hopefully I'll have many more sign up for the class for next year.
I'm still working on my Pecha Kucha. It is nice having the storytboard as my guide while going through the creation process. It is like my roadmap to my end product; without it, I would probably not have as clear of a picture in mind of what I want my end product to look like. I'm not sure if I'll make another one of these Pecha Kuchas after I'm done with this assignment but I know I got something out of this activity....the storyboard template & really understanding the importance of it when doing any digital storytelling project.
As a side note....I had the amazing opportunity to attend a 2 day workshop in Milwaukee with my 2 principals. The workshop was called the Great Lakes 1:1 Institute. I had 2 days of professional development and listened to some great speakers. The focus of the workshop was for schools with a 1:1 or moving towards that initiative. We are in the process of doing some research to see if that direction is the one we'd like to go towards, and this workshop was a great start in that process. The workshop also had many sessions on 21st Century learning & teaching and technology integration. I went to a few sessions with Naomi Harm on Intel's resources they put out for educators. If you haven't explored this site, I highly recommend taking some time to do so. There are SO many resources (including 100's of rubrics) for project based learning and technology integration assignments. Here's the link to their site.
Becky - isn't Naomi Harm wonderful?? I've seen her at WEMTA and she's presentating at one of our workshops for our ISSAC grant consortium. Also, I love Intel! I and another teacher participated in a 2-day training seminar this past summer to become "Intel mentor coaches". Basically, we were trained on how to mentor/train teachers in our district on how to incoroporate 21st century skills into their lessons. The idea is that when we are done with their mentoring, then next year we'll have 4 teachers in the district who will be mentors...it's kind of like the trickle-down effect. Thanks for sharing the link...it's fantastic. Maybe it should go on the class diigo page?
ReplyDeleteNaomi Harm is also here at the SLATE conference in the Dells. She has a session tomorrow I am considering. This SLATE conference is also a very good one for techies (and even non-techies) because you get so many new ideas and get pumped up to take them back to the classroom. An amazing speaker I just attended was Steve Dembo. His blog is at http://www.teach42.com/. He showed us a new app in beta testing that he will give you the code to test if you like. It's called ujam and turns spoken word into song with a variety of background music possibilities.
ReplyDeleteYou are so lucky to have attended that workshop. I would love to have gone as well. I would like to see how things are really being integrated in other schools. It's fun to talk about doing it at our school (and we are), but I really am curious about how things really work.
ReplyDeleteAlso, thank you for the link. It's been bookmarked for future use.