June 21st

In Class Discussion:

Today we learned about how to make a movie. It seems very much like working with Audacity, but it would be far more useful for narrating over PowerPoints for students that missed class or to help them aid in there finals. In addition, classmates presented online forms of quizzes and interactive timelines.

 SmartBoard resources:

This is a list of different things you can do on a SmartBoard. The Jeopardy quiz/lesson seemed pretty interesting. Sadly, there are no real history things to choose from. If teaching geography one could use the 50 states game, and have students have to place the 50 states.

Copy Right Laws:

In is interesting that they seem to want you to send links instead of printing out material. It seems the best practice is to check with your library first before you make a move.  To be honest the difference between a lot of these seem extraordinarily tedious. Also, this pamphlet assumes most articles are easily to find in library databases, in my experience that is not the case.

Using Skype in the Classroom:

This article had some really cool ideas. Being able to have a guest speaker or lecturer come to your classroom when you are learning about their book would be really fun and insightful. I don't know if I would use Skype to hold make up classes, I guess it would depend upon the class.

More Copyright Law:

Why even mention that music that is 300 years old is in the public domain, but the performance is not. I guess this is applicable for a music class only dealing in notes. These "fair use" laws seem extremely ticky-tack I'd be amused to see whose job it is to enforce them and how they go about it.

Applying technologies to the classroom:

As mentioned videos would be a great way to help students prepare for tests or help students who missed class. Active timelines would be really cool to build for the class then have individual students or groups fill in the events on the timeline.