Before I delve into some home-brew projects to show how teachers can get technology into a classroom, I should probably mention the fact that many, many teachers don’t even deal with the technology they have in front of them. This is endemic of a huge technology ‘digital gap’ amongst teachers.
Monthly Archives: January 2010
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January 30, 2010
I have been getting more and more involved in ways to use Google Earth as a classroom presentation tools. First, I am in the midst of preparing a variety of different interactive ways to use this program while using a projector. This will include a variety of experiments and tests using the ‘Atlas gloves’, and [...]
Wiimote / Whiteboard information…
January 29, 2010
I have a start on the ‘Atlas gloves’ project, I still need to assemble all of the components… In the mean time, I have been looking over Wiimote/white board resources on the internet. I first heard of this hardware/software hack in 2007, and since then it seems that a whole cottage industry has sprung up! [...]
the Flat classroom project…
January 28, 2010
What is the Flat Classroom™ Project? The Flat Classroom™ Project is a global collaborative project that joins together middle and senior high school students. This project is part of the emerging trend in internationally-aware schools to embrace a holistic and constructivist educational approach to work collaboratively with others around the world in order to create [...]
Presentations beyond PowerPoint…
January 27, 2010
I have already shown how I will be working on building and setting up a variety of ‘replacements’ for a smartboard. This is because effectively presenting information in a classroom has become quite stale over the years. Reliance in presenting a series of PowerPoint slides filled with some bullet points can cause students to wish [...]
Atlas gloves…
January 26, 2010
There are a number of alternatives to smartboards that I will be examining (and for some…constructing…). All of these little projects will fall under the broader umbrella of presentation aides. As a student, I have been subjected to tedious, boring, time consuming presentation…or decades… The current standard is to project a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of [...]
Smartboards (a start…)
January 25, 2010
From my previous post about Google Earth (if only for social studies classes…), I think that you can see that this is an ideal application to teach Geography, as well as (to a lesser degree…) World History, American history, and even some topics like current events, and even some of the life sciences. The advantage [...]
Preliminaries for Google Earth…
January 24, 2010
I teach social studies (whenever I can…), and I am always a bit dismayed by how little used Google Earth is. Google Earth is a free program (Windows and Mac…) that allows you to look ever the whole planet earth, by its presentation of satellite imagery, laced together into a useful replica of the planet [...]
It doesn’t make sense…
January 23, 2010
I guess that this counts as a rant… I see so many things that don’t work in education, or are under so little practical scrutiny, I wonder if the system can be fixed… I have been taking undergraduate classes, on and off, since the early 1970’s and there is one thing that always seems to [...]
Reading and Writing…
January 22, 2010
I see a practice that takes place in almost every middle school and high school, in almost every class that has a profound negative impact upon most students reading comprehension. This takes place in the classrooms of some of the best teachers I have had the pleasant opportunity to observe and even substitute for.
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