Follow this link to Kathy Kellen's blog and view her format for linking to her comment on Abbie Toy's blog!
http://kathykellen.blogspot.com/2010/01/bp72010012link-to-comment-on-abbie-toys.html
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Linking a Comment Example
Follow this link to Kathy Kellen's blog and view her format for linking to her comment on Abbie Toy's blog!
http://kathykellen.blogspot.com/2010/01/bp72010012link-to-comment-on-abbie-toys.html
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Games in Education?
Hmmmm - let talk about games. Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 2 (which was released two months and two days ago) just surpassed a BILLION dollars in retail sales. It's ENGAGING!!!! Learning through games and simulations MAY be the way to go - huh?
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
BP25_2009124_PeerReview_Lodes
BP#6_2009112_Web2.0: Vuvox
video
Hello! The great clip at the start of my post here was made at http://www.vuvox.com/
This site hosts very sophisticated media mashers - they combine sound, still images, and video images into one dynamic presentation. There are three different Vuvox studios which offer different types of interaction. The one I created above was made in the Vuvox Studio, which offers mash programs already designed that just pull your pictures and sound into an artist-designed template.
The example above showcases a recent project completed by my students, where they used GarageBand to create a background track and wrote a melody on their instrument to add to their song. The Vuvox video shows photos from the project, and the audio clips are two of the students' finished products (my full video is longer and features multiple students). I think this is how I'll primarily use this tool at school, as a presentation tool for me. My students and their parents will enjoy this fun example of what we did at school. The site is completely free and offers many options. It's possible that at some point I'll invite my students to use it as well, but it is primarily helpful as a way to showcase their work and our music program.
Some of the other tools on Vuvox, besides the Studio which I’ve used, offer more options and may be better suited for a long-term project. I am looking forward to exploring these advanced tools more and brainstorming ways of using them. If nothing else, I learn over and over that my students have great ideas when I turn them lose with a new tool!
Posted by Erin at 5:35 PM
Labels: Web2.0 vuvox education
2 comments:
cmills said...
Erin,
This was a very impressive project. It seems you are really providing excellent opportunities for your students. Keepo up the good work.
8:29 PM
RenaJ said...
Erin, this is something I discovered through teaching video and television production. If you give them the opportunity and let them go...guiding, supporting and encouraging as they go...they do AMAZING things. And they teach you back! Great post and video!
video
Hello! The great clip at the start of my post here was made at http://www.vuvox.com/
This site hosts very sophisticated media mashers - they combine sound, still images, and video images into one dynamic presentation. There are three different Vuvox studios which offer different types of interaction. The one I created above was made in the Vuvox Studio, which offers mash programs already designed that just pull your pictures and sound into an artist-designed template.
The example above showcases a recent project completed by my students, where they used GarageBand to create a background track and wrote a melody on their instrument to add to their song. The Vuvox video shows photos from the project, and the audio clips are two of the students' finished products (my full video is longer and features multiple students). I think this is how I'll primarily use this tool at school, as a presentation tool for me. My students and their parents will enjoy this fun example of what we did at school. The site is completely free and offers many options. It's possible that at some point I'll invite my students to use it as well, but it is primarily helpful as a way to showcase their work and our music program.
Some of the other tools on Vuvox, besides the Studio which I’ve used, offer more options and may be better suited for a long-term project. I am looking forward to exploring these advanced tools more and brainstorming ways of using them. If nothing else, I learn over and over that my students have great ideas when I turn them lose with a new tool!
Posted by Erin at 5:35 PM
Labels: Web2.0 vuvox education
2 comments:
cmills said...
Erin,
This was a very impressive project. It seems you are really providing excellent opportunities for your students. Keepo up the good work.
8:29 PM
RenaJ said...
Erin, this is something I discovered through teaching video and television production. If you give them the opportunity and let them go...guiding, supporting and encouraging as they go...they do AMAZING things. And they teach you back! Great post and video!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
BP24_2009122_From_Michael_McCurdy
Sunday, December 6, 2009
BP9_2009122_FlickrLesson
user created graphic from Screenshots of Flicker and Microsoft Words Clipart Gallery
Okay Science Teachers this is as an awesome lesson!
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/action/lessonplan/?WTSESSID=0e92a7c24f1a09ca4bb5c29fab2ee548&/1/iVar/279
The creator of the lesson uses digital camera to take photos of cells and tissue samples as seen under a microscope.
The students are taught how to properly use a microscope.
The students are taught how digitally photograph the microscope samples.
Students then upload the photos to Flickr and tagged the photos with the appropriate descriptions.
Lastly, the students compare similar tissue samples for looking for photos with matching tags.
This lesson could be easily adapted for almost any subject area.
Physical Education - students upload photos of various callisthenic exercises (push-ups, pull-ups, etc). These photos are tagged with the targeted muscle groups for each exercise. Student would then have a resource to use when tested on which exercise develops a specific muscle group.
Music – Students upload photos of various instruments. The photos would be tagged according to instrument type (brass, woodwind, percussion, string), instrument range (bass, tenor, alto, soprano), uses in music genres (jazz, classical, rock, etc.), etc.
Art – Photos could be uploaded of various art techniques (tessellations, perspectives, etc.), tagged with those techniques, and used for comparison and contrast.
Math (Geometry/Trigonometry) - Students upload photos/jpeg graphics of formulas. Students upload photos of graphs. Students would tag both sets of photos with the name of the graph (parabola, hyperbola, etc.). Students would be able to develop an Online Flash card system.
English – Students upload photos/jpeg graphics of sentence types/writing errors (imperatives, declaratives, exclamatory, interrogatives, fragments, active voice, passive voice, double-negatives, proper/improper subject-verb agreement. Students tag photos/graphics with correct type of sentence/writing error, and compare similarities.
NOTE ON TAGGING: If you use double-quotation marks around two words, Flickr records it as one tag. Blue Moon = 2 tags blue, moon, but “Blue Moon” = 1 tag, Blue Moon.
As a part-time photographer, I used to simply think of Flickr as a nice online sharing network for photographers, after this week’s reading and this Blog post, I really beginning to see the versatility in so many Web 2.0 tools.
BP9_2009122_FlickrLesson
user created graphic from Screenshots of Flicker and Microsoft Words Clipart Gallery
Okay Science Teachers this is as an awesome lesson!
http://www.wikiteach.org/index.php/wikiteach/action/lessonplan/?WTSESSID=0e92a7c24f1a09ca4bb5c29fab2ee548&/1/iVar/279
The creator of the lesson uses digital camera to take photos of cells and tissue samples as seen under a microscope.
The students are taught how to properly use a microscope.
The students are taught how digitally photograph the microscope samples.
Students then upload the photos to Flickr and tagged the photos with the appropriate descriptions.
Lastly, the students compare similar tissue samples for looking for photos with matching tags.
This lesson could be easily adapted for almost any subject area.
Physical Education - students upload photos of various callisthenic exercises (push-ups, pull-ups, etc). These photos are tagged with the targeted muscle groups for each exercise. Student would then have a resource to use when tested on which exercise develops a specific muscle group.
Music – Students upload photos of various instruments. The photos would be tagged according to instrument type (brass, woodwind, percussion, string), instrument range (bass, tenor, alto, soprano), uses in music genres (jazz, classical, rock, etc.), etc.
Art – Photos could be uploaded of various art techniques (tessellations, perspectives, etc.), tagged with those techniques, and used for comparison and contrast.
Math (Geometry/Trigonometry) - Students upload photos/jpeg graphics of formulas. Students upload photos of graphs. Students would tag both sets of photos with the name of the graph (parabola, hyperbola, etc.). Students would be able to develop an Online Flash card system.
English – Students upload photos/jpeg graphics of sentence types/writing errors (imperatives, declaratives, exclamatory, interrogatives, fragments, active voice, passive voice, double-negatives, proper/improper subject-verb agreement. Students tag photos/graphics with correct type of sentence/writing error, and compare similarities.
NOTE ON TAGGING: If you use double-quotation marks around two words, Flickr records it as one tag. Blue Moon = 2 tags blue, moon, but “Blue Moon” = 1 tag, Blue Moon.
As a part-time photographer, I used to simply think of Flickr as a nice online sharing network for photographers, after this week’s reading and this Blog post, I really beginning to see the versatility in so many Web 2.0 tools.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Woopid from Tim Bemiller - Check it out!
BP10_2009112_Web 2.0 Tool_Woopid
Woopid is a web 2.0 tool that allows you to watch free technology training videos. Students can get help and answers for their computer and gadget questions with thousands of video tutorials for PCs, Macs, and tons of different applications. This service sort of reminds me of Lynda.com, but with one big difference. It’s free.
There are multiple uses for the classroom in this web 2.0 tool. I think that students need a site like this one to help them when a teacher is not around. If a student can go online and in minutes find a free tutorial to help them finish a project, I say that is invaluable. With “bundles” the site groups up related videos for the user to easily access. If I wanted to learn about a program all I need to do is find the bundle associated with that file and presto, I have 10 or so videos thoroughly explaining aspects of the program.
Another very interesting feature is custom tutorials. You can have tutorials created for you by Woopid. When you click on the "Request Tutorial" button, you can describe what you're looking to have explained to you. The tutorials are in the same video format as every other tutorial on the Woopid site. Once requested, a Woopid representative will communicate with the user to iron out all of the details.
I have been looking for a site like this one for a while now and I am glad to have found this one. I recommend this site for anyone looking for a free alternative to high priced tutorial sites.
Woopid is a web 2.0 tool that allows you to watch free technology training videos. Students can get help and answers for their computer and gadget questions with thousands of video tutorials for PCs, Macs, and tons of different applications. This service sort of reminds me of Lynda.com, but with one big difference. It’s free.
There are multiple uses for the classroom in this web 2.0 tool. I think that students need a site like this one to help them when a teacher is not around. If a student can go online and in minutes find a free tutorial to help them finish a project, I say that is invaluable. With “bundles” the site groups up related videos for the user to easily access. If I wanted to learn about a program all I need to do is find the bundle associated with that file and presto, I have 10 or so videos thoroughly explaining aspects of the program.
Another very interesting feature is custom tutorials. You can have tutorials created for you by Woopid. When you click on the "Request Tutorial" button, you can describe what you're looking to have explained to you. The tutorials are in the same video format as every other tutorial on the Woopid site. Once requested, a Woopid representative will communicate with the user to iron out all of the details.
I have been looking for a site like this one for a while now and I am glad to have found this one. I recommend this site for anyone looking for a free alternative to high priced tutorial sites.
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