Assignment: Video Podcast
Create, edit, and post one standards-based video podcasts. Podcasts:
• Can be instructional, or an example of a project.
• Must focus on an academic area (math, science, P.E., etc) or professional development area.
• Should be 1-3 minutes in length.
• Include you, students, church friends, or family members.
• Have an RSS feed.
• Must be posted with the RSS feed to your blog/website.
As you film:
- Ensure subjects are properly lit.
- Implement the rule of thirds.
- Use at least five different shot types.
- Shoot to edit.
After shooting:
- Upload video to computer.
- Import footage into editing software.
- Edit footage
Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)
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Graphic organizers have been shown to increase congnitive level of thinking on any subject matter. Check this, you can make your own graphic organizer!!!!
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Here’s a great ed tech professor to follow.
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The skype and itouch+kindergarten links are great!
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Word Clouds
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With technology weaving into our K-12 schools, this site is usefull for all teachers to learn how all these new tools are used. They are step-by-step tutorials so you won’t be left in the dark
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For all you math nerdy teachers, here is a HUGE collection of math tutorials. This is a good link to add to your teacher site for students to visit and you could use for those absent students.
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Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » Toward a New Future of “Whatever”
example of how to diigo with diigolet
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comment management tool
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9 Tips for Enriching Your Presentations With Social Media
Interested in growing your social network and advertising your product, service, or message. I really like the point on making your key points tweetable and engaging your audience through social media during the presentation
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Free Technology for Teachers: 25 More Educational Games and Game Builders
More Game resources! Can’t get enough of these!
I had a lot of fun trying out Newblasters through the MSNBC site.
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Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day: iPhone Apps for Education
Here’s a list of iphone/itouch apps that are great to use for educational purposes.
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“Gangs On Tribal Land” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Larry has great lists of different links for sooooo many different topics. This one happen to be an addition to his resources about Street Gangs. I had been shown a project LA Times has going and shared it with him.
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The Greatest Book of All Time! Part 2 of 2 | Learn This
Its impossible to review great books, teachers, storytelling and personal development guides without including the greatest book of all time, the Bible.
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Does using social media make your writing gooder? – Teach42
Education and Technology by Steve Dembo
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Making the Implicit Explicit | always learning
One of the issues that comes up again and again in our CoETaIL program is the essential technology skills that all of our students (and teachers) need to
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What Do You Wanna Be When You Grow Up? – Chaplain – Elizabeth’s Posterous
Interview with a hospice chaplain.
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Character Trading Cards – Podcast3 – schooldays’s posterous
Plan for students making trading cards for reading activities.
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“Tattle Tale” – schooldays’s posterous
Discussion on encouraging teamwork and discouraging selfishness in classroom settings.
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Education Jobs & Popular Teacher Careers | Recently Popular Interview Tips Articles – TheApple.com
Posted from Diigo. The rest of educ515 group favorite links are here.
Flickr slideshow
Here is how to create a search-based Flickr slideshow of any search term:
- Visit Flickr‘s advanced search at http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced.
- Scroll down, and click on “
- Type in a keyword and run a search.
- Sort by “Most relevant” or “Most interesting.”
- Click the Slideshow button in the top right corner.
Here is an example of a slideshow, from a search on “canyon”:
Poll Everywhere: Check for Understanding
Please vote:
Assignment: Faith Integration Paper
Reflect on how church or missionary organizations reach out to the community. Include a reflection on what you learned talking to people of other faiths, and how you can share your faith in the future. Write a summary using the knowledge and ideas gleaned from your forum conversations. Your paper should:
• Be 1-2 pages in length.
• Reflect upon how missionary organizations can (or should) reach out to communities using social media.
• Include responses to the key questions listed on the forum by instructor and classmates.
Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)
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Hands on activities with videos
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did i do this correctly?
What’s your blog URL?
In the comments, please share your posterous blog address?
Mine is
feed://billselak.posterous.com/rss.xml
Who should I follow on Twitter?
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Here are some great places to visit to get started on Twitter.
- Students in 515 (that’s you)
- Bill’s ed tech twitter list
- Bill’s web design twitter list
- Jason Rhode’s educators list
- Jason Rhode’s ed tech list
- 100 Great Twitter Tips
Take a look at my ed tech twitter list. These are the ed tech people I follow. Follow them. Then, see who they follow, and follow them.
It takes a while to build up a personal learning network, but it’s well worth it. As with blogs, make sure to reply to people you follow, and help out when you can.
What other lists do you recommend?
Weekly Assignments
Each week, make sure you visit the 515 forum, and comment on social media websites:
Forum
Every week, visit http://www.billselak.com/forum Read the weekly post. Add your initial response by Saturday at 10 p.m. Justify the importance of your contribution. Respond to at least two other classmates’ posts by Sunday at 10 p.m.
Comment on Social Media
Create a strong web presence by commenting on five educational technology blogs each week. Bookmark the website you commented on at Diigo.com, and add the sites to http://groups.diigo.com/group/educ515.
Assignment: Weekly Blog
Create a web site with an educational, or educational technology, blog. Share relevant insights geared toward either the student or professional community. Publish weekly posts from December 2 through January 13.
Here’s how:
Send an email to post@posterous.com. On the email, attach the audio file (your podcast). The subject of the email is the title of the blog post, and the body of the email is the post. People can subscribe to this blog with the rss feed: feed://yourblogname.posterous.com/rss.xml.
