Wednesday, May 27, 2009

10.7 eFolio Minnesota

Reflection Questions:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      What privacy and security concerns do you have for your students publishing their own content online?

      How will you address these concerns?

Thursday, May 14, 2009

9.8 Virtual Meeting Rooms

Reflection Questions:
  1. What did you like/dislike about DimDim?.
  2. How do you envision using a tool like this in teaching an online class?
  3. How do you envision using a tool like this in teaching a face to face class?
  4. Are there any other ways you might use a tool like this?

Monday, March 9, 2009

6.5 Online Broadcasting

Reflection Questions:
  • What are some potential applications for this tool in your own classroom?
  • What are some potential ethical problems you see with this application and how will you address them?

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

8.3 Self Publishing - Discussion Board

Reflection Questions:
  1. What are some ways you can think of that these tools could be beneficial to your classroom or school?
  2. Provide a link to your publication or lesson plan.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

9.6 Educational & Social Networks

Reflection Question:
  1. Weigh the pros and cons of using such a tool.
  2. Where do you see a tool like this being useful for your classroom, school, or profession?

Monday, February 23, 2009

8.4 Custom Search Engines

Reflection Question:
  1. Post an explanation of your custom search on the discussion board along with a link to your custom search engine.

4.5 Sharing & Sending Large Files Online

Reflection Questions:
  1. What is the url for your download link?
  2. Has there ever been a time you could have used a service like this?
  3. Have you used a service like this before?
  4. How might you use a tool like this in the future?

Friday, February 20, 2009

9.7 Microblogging

Reflection Question:
  1. Please post your integration/professional development plan to the discussion board.
  2. What value do you see in a tool like Twitter?
  3. What is the likelihood you will continue to use Microblogging?

Thursday, February 19, 2009

12.3 Virtual Worlds

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      How could virtual worlds be useful to you or your students?

      What educational content did you find?

12.2 Serious Games

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Did you find any good games or simulations that could enhance or support your curriculum?

      What are they?

      How do you see these being used in your practice? Are they something you will have your students do in class or just give to students to do at home for enrichment?

12.1 Open Source & Propreitary Software

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      What appreciable differences did you see between open source and proprietary software?

11.4 WebQuests

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Did you find any good WebQuests?

11.3 SMARTtech lessons and teacher toolkit

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Do you have any questions?

11.2 Online Lesson Plan Sharing

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Did you find any of these sites useful? Which ones?

11.1 Rubistar

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      What is the URL of your rubric?

10.6 Digital Dropbox

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Will a tool like this be useful for you and your students?

10.5 Online Quizzes and Worksheets

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Which tool did you choose to use? What are the pros and cons of using a tool like this?

10.4 Widgets

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      What type of widget did you put on your webpage? Why did you choose to use it?

10.3 Embed Code

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      What did you embed on your website?

10.2 HTML Tricks

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      What changes did you make to your webpage?

10.1 Updating Your Website

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      What did you change/add to your website?

9.5 Skype

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Do you have any questions?

9.4 Power of the Comment

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Do you see any implications for your own professional development? Do you see any applications for your students?

      Do you have any questions?

9.3 RSS

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      What blog posts have you found interesting lately?

      Do you have any questions?

9.2 Social Bookmarking

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      How could you use this tool with your students?

9.1 Blogs

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      What is your blog's URL?

8.2 Wikis

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      How could a wiki effect learning?

8.1 Concept Mapping Software

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      How could you use one of these tools in your curriculum?

7.3 Creating Podcasts

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Post a link to your podcast.

7.2 Audio Recording & Editing

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      How could a tool like Audacity improve learning?

7.1 Using Podcasts

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Post the name of one or two podcasts you found useful or interesting.

6.4 Publishing Video Onine

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      How might you engage students with vodcasts as media consumers or as media producers?

6.3 Video Editing

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Post the link to your TubeChop video.

6.2 Digital Video (content)

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Do you have any questions?

6.1 Capturing Digital Video

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Do you have any questions?

5.3 Image Sharing

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Post a link to your online photo album.

      Do you have any questions?

5.2 Digital Image Software

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Do you have any lessons that would benefit from the use of these tools with the kids?

      Do you have any questions?

5.1 Digital Cameras & Digital Images

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4.4 Online Storage

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Which services did you try? Which one did you like the best and why?

      How might these services be useful to your students?

4.3 Online Presentation Programs

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      What did you post on your website?

      Did you create a new presentation or upload and embed an existing one?

4.2 Zoho

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Do you think you would use this program again?

      Would you encourage your students to use it?

      How might you integrate it in your lessons?

4.1 Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      How could you use this tool with your students? What advantages do you see to using this as opposed to Microsoft Excel?

4.1 Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      How could you use this tool with your students? What advantages do you see to using this as opposed to Microsoft Excel?

3.1 Copyright and Fair Use

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      What sites did you find that could be useful sources of intellectual property safe to use in your classroom or on your webpage?

2.5 Netiquette

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      What implications does this have for our online behavior?

      How are you going to address digital citizenship in your classroom?

2.4 Anatomy of a URL

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Where do you think advanced search techniques and URL syntax could or should be taught in your curriculum?

      How might you do this?

2.2 Foreign Web Pages

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      What could you do with a tool like this in your classroom that you could never have done before? How might your students use this tool in your classroom?

2.1 Search Engines

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Is it important for students to know about different search engines?

      Why or why not?

      How will you address this with your students?

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

1.7 Computer Froze, Now What?

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      What did you do the last time your computer (or a lab computer) froze up on you?

      Do you have any questions?

1.5 Backing Up Your Data

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Which type of device did you use to backup your files and why?

      Do you have any questions?

1.6 Wireless vs Ethernet

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Where did you go to find a wireless signal?

      Do you have any questions?

1.4 Burning a CD or DVD

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      What type of disk did you burn? What purpose does it serve?

      Do you have any questions?

1.3 Ports & Peripherals

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      What peripheral devices do you have in your classroom?

      Do you have any questions?



1.2 File Formats & File Extensions

Reflection:
    Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to the discussion board:

      Which produced better results: Cute PDF or Medi-Convert?

      Which do you prefer?

      Do you have any questions?

1.1 Understanding File Properties



Respond to the following questions by adding a comment to this post:

    Did you notice any improved performance after running disk cleanup or disk defrag?

    Do you have any questions about about any of these computer functions?