More thoughts on keeping up with technology

I am going to commit to using a “voice-over” technology like Explain Everything for grading this fall on at least one assignment, and I am going to create a blog on blogger for my new world history course–to use at least twice this fall. The other tool that I am determined to try out for some homework assignments is Voice Thread.  Finally, based on some of our “flipped classroom” discussions this week, I am going to experiment with having students watch video for home work and comment/respond to questions (Voice Thread?) before coming to class, so we can use class time to dig deeper–would like to try this twice during the fall term. I have to set small goals or else I’ll panic!

 

Alison

After three days, I’m excited about using some of the tools we’ve been introduced to, but I’m also feeling overwhelmed by the amount of time it will take me to really get comfortable with and to integrate these technologies into my classroom/teaching. My project for the week is to try and make a short film using Google Earth, and my “take-aways” for now are Explain Everything for grading papers and Voice Thread for flipped classroom homework assignments. I have so many applications on my iPad now I don’t know where to start!

I’m realizing too that I don’t actually spend that much time “online” in my everyday lived life, but maybe I should spend more time using the computer to get my news, connect with people, etc. I didn’t realize what a dinosaur I was until this week…