Week+last+-+Mar+22


 * Day of Multimedia presentations!!! **

 Link to our multimedia presentation: http://ped3119aad.wikispaces.com/

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 We have incorporated technology in the form of: They all highlight the integration of technology in our 21st century class room.
 * 1) Wiki space
 * 2) Google forms for the survey
 * 3) Power point presentations
 * 4) Comic Life
 * 5) Audacity
 * 6) You Tube
 * 7) Video
 * 8) Smart board
 * 9) Laptop
 * 10) iPod
 * 11) cell phone

Andrea Read Alex Mohr Daljit Dhaliwal
 * Group Members:**


 * Changing Perceptions:** My use of technology has changed a lot ever since I started teacher's college. This particular course introduced me to so many other areas of technology that could actually be used in a class room to make lessons engaging, fun, differentiated, and beneficial to student learning. Last semester, I was introduced to maintaining class websites as part of teaching tool but my comfort level in actually maintaining it wasn't very high. To me it seemed like a complicated, time consuming task. It has changed now and I feel it's better and easier this way as students who are absent or parents/guardians can access class assignments and announcements through class website. Similarly with podcasts, photo story, comic life etc. In my upcoming practicum, for language arts course, I would be using podcasts as part of my lessons. These are student created podcasts as part of their assignments and tasks. I have used this technology and am comfortable in going ahead and using it in the class room instead of having any anxiety of not using it before.

The reading were great. The papers on digital generations, their differences etc by Ian Jukes were quite informative. I do feel that to some extent I understand the differences and I look forward to brining in use of technology in my lessons and take a step forward in the direction that is expected of from the teachers today.


 * Digital Portfolio:** During class discussion, we talked about different ways in which we can present our digital portfolio. It can be in the form of website, CD, pdf file etc. I have created my digital portfolio and will use it in my interviews and job applications. I found that portfolio created on "applytoeducation" job website is very convenient and great tool to use for candidates as well as schools.

**Presentations:**

Helene : Video on Teacher tube. Great presentation!!

Jenny and Karen: using scratch to create games to integrate technology in student learning.

Jesse and Allison: Great use of comic life and audacity (Excellent video!!)

Alex, Andrea and Daljit: Our presentation (Excellent use of technlogy available in 21st century!!!)

Luca and Justin - Liked the flashback thing in their video. Fun to watch!

Dane and Matt: focus on differentiated instruction and motivation - Nice one!

Natasha, Kristin and Taylor: Liked the idea of KNT news, used Ian Jukes idea of 21st century learner (vloGI)

Brad and Alex: Introduced gabcast. Great!

Stephanie, Lilly and pat: Also talked about acceptable use policy for internet in schools. Nice!

Sejal and Lisa: Great video!

Laura and Jen: Nice!

Steve and Graham: Great !

Amanda and Shannon: Awesome!

It was amazing to see how for one single topic, all the students in the class came up with excellent ideas. The ideas was similar and yet treated so differently, projected differently and presented in a different manner.

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