We made strawberry jam!

This week in EDTEC 448, we will be letting our creative juices flow! We'll begin with an introductory presentation by Sir Ken Robinson

and a discussion about how to get our students to be creative. After a discussion about thinking differently about our teaching and our students' learning (what we've been doing all term), we will begin to create our own podcasts. We will be using Audacity but we'll also discuss other tools that are available. We'll close tonight with the following sample digital story done in Voicethread (www.voicethread.com).



During the next class, we'll be continuing the Digital Storytelling conversation with flickr and several other publishing technologies.

My goal for teaching the Internet in the Classroom class at Penn State Great Valley is to motivate my students to "...think differently about their classrooms and the potentials of the technologies...in terms of pedagogy and curriculum" (p. viii, 2006, Richardson), we will be discussing their classroom web portals this week. As I thought about what their classroom portals might look like (and some already have one), Web 2.0 is going to have a huge influence on the appearance, purpose, etc.

I will ask them 3 questions just to see the "sign of the times" (Link to our Ning discussion.)
1. Where is your web page hosted (include the URL and discuss if it is a district mandated issue)?
2. What is the purpose of your web page (or web site)?
3. How do you use your web page for instruction?
4. After this class, what changes will you make to your web page?

Here is the slideshare presentation that I will share with my students:

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