Here is my cell-phone-created digital story. I used my Blackberry 8310 to shoot images in my classroom, and culled images from my wife’s LG Neon (much better camera!). I Bluetoothed my images from the phones to my Macbook, and used iMovie for editing, recording voiceover, adding text, and “scoring” it with Apple’s “Daydream” jingle.

adams_u06a2_cellphoneDST

Whew … what a week. Between coaching each night, doing daddy duty, and getting midterm grades done, I was not able to attend a live webcast at EdTechTalk, as assigned. I have my sights set on the EdTechWeekly webcast this Sunday at 7 p.m., so that I can experience one of these shows real-time. I’ll post another blog post about the experience Sunday night.

I also explored a few of the recorded shows this week, including Seedlings and Teachers Teaching Teachers. The show I listened to in its entirety, and enjoyed the most, was the K12 Virtual LAN Party. Click to continue »

I have attended a handful of webcasts, but prior to this assignment it had never occurred to me to host one. Who would want to tune in? Isn’t it kind of pretentious to get online and record/broadcast yourself talking? Click to continue »

The power of online social networking to engage students and provide means for their collaboration is attractive to me as a teacher. Students who have little comfort with traditional computer applications seem to know the ins and outs of Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter with confidence and pride.

I’ve long been seeking ways to allow students to critique each others’ writing and thinking work in a more meaningful forum than traditional “peer editing.” Unfortunately, standard peer editing typically becomes “peer rubberstamping” at one extreme, or “peer rewriting” at the other.

With online social tools, however, I may have found my vehicle for meaningful peer feedback. Click to continue »

Evaluating technology tools for classroom use is an important new function of the 21st Century teacher.

Each student in the EDIM 514 Internet Tools for Teaching course I’m taking created his or her own rubric for evaluating Web2.0 sites. These rubrics were combined to create a super rubric. Click here to see that rubric.

In addition to the rubric, I’m consulting three “human filters”: discussions on Classroom2.0, comments on delicious.com, and discussion with my school’s Classrooms for the Future coach. Click to continue »

For my latest EDIM 514 Internet Tools for Teaching assignment, I bookmarked five valuable online resources. These particular entities are repostitories of media that have been made available under Creative Commons licenses.

These links are bookmarked at the following link http://delicious.com/adamswriting/EDIM514-CC.

adamswriting.com/learning on teaching, learning, and technology by Jeremy R. Adams is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://adamswriting.com/learning/?page_id=100.

Click to continue »

The first assignment of EDIM 514 Internet Tools for Teaching requires me to set up a blog … check … and to use a social bookmarking site to chronicle the links to useful tools that I discover while studying over the next seven weeks.

Click to continue »