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**Reflection (Class room learning)** Technology introduced today: Factory format (converting files) and Windows movie maker (Editing) Discussion on smart boards. About 600 smart boards in Thames Valley District school board are not being used. Reason being the lack of smartboard training of the teachers. As a recommendation to learn smart board features is to look for tutorials on line. Another student centred approach can be to use slateboard. Here is link to a tutorial for using smart board that I found using advanced search on Google.

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Another discusison was on iPad. Some of the not so good features include that it doesn't allow the user to multi-task. They are expensive for schools. But iPad, ebooks, tablets etc will soon be common in schools. Androids, Vclickers are another examples of technology that can be used in the classroom. It will force students to participate. I found some more information on vclickers [|SRS]   There was also discussion on iTunes and the movie Avatar. This brought up the issues of depression, dopes etc in the school.
 * Discussion on iPad: **

Following questions were discussed:  a. Do you see yourself using podcasting? Why or why not? b. Theoreically, where could you use podcasting? c. What are some of the perils of podcasting? d. What are some of the advantages of podcasting? e. Let's listen to a few student podcasts created during the last week. Kids like whatever is real. Screen capture and podcasting can be used for online courses. Advantages of using podcast: Differentiated learning and engagement
 * Discussion on Podcast: **
 * Marking through podcast.
 * Summative task example for core french class, podcast can be used for summative task of finding images corresponding to the words in the podcast.
 *  Summary of the homework in written and audio format as a podcast and putting some images to it.
 * Students can make their own music.
 *  Students with learning difficulties can benefit a lot. In this way we are allowing differentiated learning.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Presentations or students afraid of public speaking can use podcasting

**<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Codecs: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Required for compressions and decompression. We need compression for bandwidth. Size is huge. Difference between container and codec. Examples of some movie container are avi, wmv etc. We played around with the pocket camcorder, downloaded format factory and converted .avi files into .wmv. Here is the link to the video that we created (very basic); used factory format to convert files from .avi to .wmv and windows movie maker for editing: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bridging the gap of digital natives and digital immigrants, Marc Prensky recommends few steps: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">As an educator, I believe, adaptations have to be made for all subjects and at all levels to incorporate legacy and content.
 * Reflection (Reading)**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Learning to communicate in language and style of students
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Learn to teach legacy and future content in the language of digital learners

In class learning** SRS (vclickers)[|SRS] Codec[| codec] Format factory[|Format Factory] Smartboards[| Smart board]
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**Reading:** <span class="wiki_link_ext"> Digital natives, Digital immigrants <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">[]