David Warlick is presenting a session on A Beginners Introduction to Games and Learning here at NCETC. Handouts are at his handout wiki. Video Games are an interesting issue for me as I see students coming to the lab at lunch to get on a computer so they can play games. Runescape is huge and [...]
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David Warlick again takes a hard topic and makes it easy to understand. His introduction to wikis was interactive as he had us work on a wiki as we were active learners. Check out my notes.
I am now in Patrick Crispen’s Complete and Total Waste of Time.Zombo.com is a web site where you can do [...]
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Students in Ms. Liszka’s Spanish 2 class have been working on creating Identity Poems constrasting their public and private selves. Students wrote poems in Word, took photos in Photo Booth, Edited the photos in eZedia QTI to add illustrations. Finally they used iMovie to narrate and create and movie. Some students even used Garageband to [...]
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I am attending the NCETC conference in Greensboro, NC where I have took a half-day workshop on Lego Mindstorms NXT. Kristie Brown showed us how to use Robo Educator so we could program the robots. I think we need to bring the instruction of Robotics back to DA in the Middle and Upper School. Her [...]
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Mrs. Birgel had Philip Shabbazz come and talk with her classes on Monday the 20th. 3 students were so moved by the experience that they wrote a rap to thank Mr. Shabbazz. Using an iPod and a Belkin Tune Talk, they recorded their rap during tutorial. I then put it in my iTunes and created [...]
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