100 posts which direction should I Go? User Poll
Wow! I have reached the 100 post mark. I have recently been posting rapidly and the posts, are adding up quickly. I currently have about 60 regular subscribers, and I also receive between one and two hundred hits a day. I want to provide you the readers with the best information possible in a format that will benefit you most. My recent posts have been mostly short one or two paragraph reviews of cools sites, tools, and software I have found. I think this is good for teachers because it introduces you to useful tools that make teaching a little more fun. In the past I have also created guides to using technology. For example I did a guide to movie making in which I discussed the tools used and needed for this specific type of project. Which Direction would you like to see Ed Tech Review? Please answer the poll question, and leave comments on this post for your suggestions.
posted by Mr Yardley at
12:29 PM
2 Comments:
I like the little reviews because I get a lot of good ideas, but I would like to see it come in a more organized way like a guide, perhaps even with lesson plans and helps ect.
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Anonymous, At
April 16, 2007 4:32 PM
Mr. Yardley,
I am most interested in the issues posed by sustained, inventive, and intensive (deep) use of new technologies. I'm a career changer that loves the educational possibilities in blogs, wikis, multi-media, productivity apps, hypermedia, geometry modeling, etc. I use tech to support my fifth grade teaching and expose the students to safe net use.
BUT:
1. I'm still managing my Principal's concerns about security.
2. Most of my students don't have access to a computer at home
3. It's hard to make enough computer time in the classroom with the few machines I've scrounged or bought at yard sales
4. I haven't found a blog technology that has the right combination of user permission-level categories for the most secure student use.
5. Most wiki/blog hosting is too easy to "wander" away from.
6. even the upper grades here are really slooooooooww typists.
7. yada yada: more complaining...
But seriously folks, what we could learn from each other is likely pitfalls, surprises, weaknesses, AND positive examples of good tech use. If we share the problems we have we'll be much more ready for anything that comes along. The real issues to me aren't finding cool programs, it's the speed and efficiency of student uptake of the capabilities.
How do you prepare for
1. parents scared (in a vague, non-specific way) that your site will cause harm for their student.
2. How do you make student content flexible and easy to find on line
3. How do you get someone to pay for all the good machinery?
Along the way it's fun to read about administrative use of technology to make our jobs easier. For instance, I'm going to try to scan all our math sheets into pdf with a searchable database overlay so I can "pull" a needed set of sheets by standard ##. I'm going to try SnagIt and Camtasia to multiply my ability to "talk" a student through practice with a application. I'm experimenting with my tablet PC and OneNote2007.
I could use some help and I guess I might occasionally have help for others.
The biggest and hardest task for me has been making the tech stuff compelling for more students-- beyond two or three that take a shine to it right away--and having enough hardware to allow all students to do projects with the applications in a reasonable amount of days.
Sorry for the long comment, folks!
Jonathan Rawle
Waimea, HI (Big Island)
jonathan_rawle@notes.k12.hi.us
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Anonymous, At
April 22, 2007 1:28 AM
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