Cloud Computing Apps

Happy New Year! 

Check out: SymbalooEDU
Sign up and explore the site.  

Check out some of the movies, especially this one: Welcome to my PLE

Create a webmix page that would be useful for one of your current classes this semester.

Comment on your observations about symbaloo in the weeks blog. Share your webmix with me and plan on presenting  to the class on Monday January 11th.  Have some fun with this...

Happy Holidays

As the year ends and you have time off, here are a few websites to look over tech innovations of the last year.

Popular Science - 100 Greatest Innovations of 2010  
Top ten technology firsts of 2010  
Best Technology 2000-2010: The Decade in Tech

In January we will explore new technologies that will most likely change the way we live.  

Warm wishes this holiday season...  Ms K

 PS Just watched this today: IT hiring next year

 

Cloud computing

1. What is it?  

2. How are you using it now?  

3. How will this technology affect your future?

All about the GenYes blog

Over the weeks you have contributed many interesting comments relative to questions  posed, through independent research or suggested readings.

This week you will comment solely on each others posts for any week prior to this week. 

Specifically, your mission is to find 3 postings from different weeks and different people. Identify the topic and people in each:

1.  Find a comment you agree with and describe why you agree.

2.  Find a comment you disagree with and support your counter position.

3.  Find a comment where you learned something or caused you to gain a new perspective.   This could be from a link presented or ideas provided in posts relative to the readings. Share what you gained. 

Happy Thanksgiving

 


Enjoy the week with your family and friends.

No homework!  Cheers, Ms K

(If you want to make up any work this week I will accept it for half credit)

Tech Tips

Here's a link for Tech Tips:  Daily Tech Tip   

It's just so-so in quality I think.

Your task is to find an EXCELLENT site for Tech Tips.

Your site choice can be a reference for information.  It can be Mac or PC.  It can be breaking news or just cool tech stuff.  It just has to be EXCELLENT...or close to it!  Just ONE site!

No repeat sites! So check out the sites posted before you! 


That's it.  Easy homework!

Stop Motion Photography

Next week we are going to create stop motion movie shorts.

Explore these websites to see various techniques:

You Tubes 10 Best Stop Motion

Stunning Stop Motion 

50 Incredible Stop Motion Videos

Pick 3 of your favorites and comment on each:

• List the title and web link
• Describe the mediums that were used: wire, chalk, sticky notes, clay...
• Describe how you think they did it: what were the technical aspects of production...overhead cameras, lighting, sound...
• Why did you like it: appealing content, cool idea or creative theme... 

Have fun! 

Future School, Future Life

The year is 2035.  Your kids are entering high school. What does it look like?

Read all the questions before beginning.

1.  Will schools be more modern? Will there be more technology?  Are classes bigger? Virtual classrooms? How has the structure changed?

2. Are the subjects the same?  Math? English? Science? Social Studies? Art?  Music? How are they different?  Are there books?  Is there still paper?

3.  Watch about 2 minutes of this video: High School 1968 It's pretty accurate of what high school looked like when I was there.  Skip around a bit and get a feel for it.  We couldn't even fathom using computers at school.  We used encyclopedias for information. We predicted the future would look like this: Jetsons!  It didn't happen that way! But then I could never have even imagined the Internet, cell phones, GPS, ipads, etc.  It's pretty amazing to consider how things have changed during my lifetime. Someday you will be looking back at old videos of your time in high school.  So thoughtfully consider the vast amount of change I presented in this paragraph and predict with great detail what your life will look like in 2035. 

(Grading Rubric: 1=10pts, 2=10pts, 3=30pts)

PS I plan on printing this assignment for each of you to take to Year 2035 to chronicle your accuracy!

Invisible Web

What is this?














Student:  Uh...Ms K there is no picture.
MsK: Yes.
Student:  Well how am I supposed to respond to "What is this?"
MsK: It's invisible.
Student: I don't get it.
MsK: It's about the web.  There is an invisible web.
Student: Huh?
MsK: Go discover it.  The invisible web.  You will probably google it.  But wait...does google have an index to ALL the deep web information out there?  Hmmm... maybe not.

1.  What is the invisible web?  How big is it?
2.  What are other names for it? 
3.  What kind of information is buried there and how can you find it?

The Mobile Learner

To assist in your quest for educational resources for ipods and smart phones this week check out: Mobile Learner

There are thousands of apps and many are educational.

1. Look at the 2 poll boxes to the right.  Choose answers.   How do you predict this poll will play out?

2. Comment on why you think more teachers don't use mobile devices in class.

3.   OK...now go for it! You have been commissioned to speak at the next teacher staff meeting. Highlight the attributes of ipods/smart phones.  Convince teachers of the potential benefits in using these devices in their classroom.  Consider what their objections might be and comment about how you'd alleviate those concerns.