Web 2.0 in Educational Practice

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In the previous presentation, A Systems Framework Examination of the Impact of ICTs on Educational Practice, I suggested a few ideas for how to start thinking about integrating technology for your own professional development and teaching.

I also would like to share an opportunity to enroll in course that has just started - MoodleMOOC 2 on Wiz IQ. I highly recommend that you consider taking it as it promises to have something for new and experienced Moodle users as well as other topics of interest related to technology integration.

Adding Formative or Summative Grading to G Forms Using Flubaroo

Google Forms: are a great way to create surveys, quizzes, etc, but combined with Flubaroo instructors now have a quick way to grade.

Flubaroo: http://www.flubaroo.com/ is an tool that integrates with Google Forms [just add the Google App Script from the gallery in the spreadsheet drop down menu] that lets you easily perform diagnostics, grade assignments and do in-class assessments [such as dipsticking or thumbs up/down but on an individual student basis], as well as exit slip/tickets to see how well students have understood content. The tool allows the isntructor to create a report and these results can be emailed or shared out to students [with an individualized message and their score]. 

More information on how to use Flubaroo can be found at Google Education - which includes an archived webinar]:  https://sites.google.com/site/eduonair/conference-sessions/using-google-apps-to-enhance-instruction

The history of technology in education

This short video provides an timeline of some of the technologies that have influenced how we teach and learn through the centuries [The only thing I saw missing in the 510BCE Pythagoras Academy the was the use of wax tablets]. The journey ends in 2011, with the Smartboard. What struck me was how, in the short time between then and now, we have had an explosion in mobile learning and Apps.

PowToon

In this cMOOC I'm currently taking, we have to create an artifact each week summarizing what we have learned. In addition to doing my reflective post in my blog, I decided to do a summary of the highlights using a tool that one of the other MOOC participants shared called PowToon - http://www.powtoon.com/edu-home/. I have by no means used all of the features in this tool [I didnt add sound for instance] but I'm sharing what I created just to show that it is a fun way to pull together an animated video presentation. It's quite intuitive and downloads either to your computer or YouTube. The tool is in beta, so hopefully it will continue to develop [and continue to be free]

Cool tools

http://www.wordle.net/


Also here is another tool for Firefox browsers for downloading videos to your desktop and it can reformat too

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006