Right on cue, after we learned about wikis in the Internet Communications segment of class, comes this post highlighting the top educational wikis of 2011. Check them out (especially you history teachers!)
Notice that this blog emphasizes wikis on wikispaces.com. There are also other great wikis on other wiki platforms.
Here’s a few great examples of the class website assignment! Kara leads off and I’ll add others as I come across them.
If you haven’t seen the assignment page lately for the class websites assignment, check it out again as we now have a new tutorial for using the embed gadget, as well as an example from Alisha about what a finished website assignment could look like.
Thanks!
It looks like we’re introducing mobile technology into our class not a moment too soon! If you haven’t heard, Apple announced they have made deals with major textbook publishers to create affordable, but perhaps most importantly interactive, textbooks for use in the iBooks app.
To be honest, what I’m MORE excited about is they have now created a textbook-developing app, so it’s as easy for teachers and students to make their own textbooks as it is to make a movie or a poster. Just drag and drop content and add media and assessments. Cool!
I think making your own textbook would be a fabulous activity for students to engage in, because you learn more by having to explain a concept to someone else. How could you use textbook creation in your classes?
If this is interesting to you, you could make a simple textbook on the new iBooks Author app for your Personal Technology Project in our class, using the ipads in the TEC computer lab. Fun!
Photo by Steve Landeen, Deseret News
How many of you have used “clickers” in your classes here at BYU? They are remote-like devices that allow every student in the classroom to give a response to a question prompt, and the results are shown immediately and dynamically to the teac
her. Teachers like it because every student has to respond and be engaged, and they can quickly see what concepts are not being understood. Students, as this article explains, like it because they can be anonymous.
Read more about the use of clickers in the classroom in this Deseret News article. Do you think you would use clickers in your classroom? In what ways?
Also, did you know you can use cell phones as clickers?
I have added direct links to the Google tutorials for various parts of our assignment, and in the FAQs given directions for how to edit a Google Map that may not be showing up correctly. Also, Alisha provides a link to an example website showing a basic completion of the assignment. Check out these new goodies on the assignment page!
Also, check out a few posts down below for an example of a teacher who “gets it” and has an awesome class website for her students!
Apparently so, according to this article about the newest 4G networks. Granted, the article explains that for the near future, home broadband is still better able to handle more bandwidth, and thus, more video streaming and stuff like that.
Still, if cellular networks continue to grow as fast as they have been, will we see a future in a couple of years where we have high-speed, affordable broadband Internet access on cellular networks? Can you imagine having the same Internet speeds you have at home anywhere in the country on your phone or tablet? What opportunities would THAT create?
Welcome to class! The online students will meet in Canvas, and the face to face students will meet on Mondays 4-5 p.m. in the TEC lab of the MCKB building. I look forward to meeting you!
This K-12 teacher contacted one of our IPT286 instructors and shared with us her great virtual classroom website. What do you like or find effective about her site?
