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Date Assignment(s) Link to Work or Work Posted
Week 1 Assignments 
 PBWorks - I really misunderstood and created an entire separate ePortfolio on top of my WordPress portfolio which took quite a bit of time, but it was not wasted.  I gained so many valuable skills, far more than I would have by just creating the single page I would have needed for this course.  Sometimes confusion creates clarity, because I can now see so many valuable ways I could use this in my career.  I probably would not use it with my students, as I would not want them to work outside of closed systems like Edmodo, where their personal information and identities were vulnerable, but the value to me is greater in collaborating with my peers in my PLC.  I could see us meeting asynchronously and sharing materials in a place that we could share with others and that could be monitored by our administrators.  What a valuable tool!

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Week 2 Assignments 
 ClassDojo - ClassDojo is a fun way to track attendance, behavior, participation, and create incentives for students to do their best in my classroom.  It allows parents to log on and see their student's behavior and so much more, providing a pathway of communication between school and home that does not give an already overloaded teach another task to complete.  It has some of the features of Edmodo, but is way more fun and has the "silliness" factor that I try to bring to each class period each day.
 Copyright Issues in the Classroom version 1.pptx
Week 3 Assignments 
 Zondle -  Playing on Zondle was a lot of fun, but I'm not sure how I would use it with my high school students.  However, the fun gamification elements would be perfect for elementary students.  Anyway to can make learning more fun for kids is a good thing as state of mind is so beneficial to information retention.
 Web 2.0 Tools Wiki
Week 4 Assignments 
 Diigo - I am still really confused by Diigo I think.  I think I understand the concept of making bookmarks and notes and sharing them with others, but I can't figure out how to do it effectively or how I would use it in my classroom.  Honestly, I think this one is either over my head or I just need some more time to play around with it maybe.
  
Week 5 Assignments 
 Rubistar - Rubrics can be hard to make from scratch, but this site allows the user to customize templates and see what other skills teacher are evaluating, keeping you from creating and disseminating a rubric, only to realize later that you left something important off.

Copyright Issues in the Classroom.pptx

 

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Week 6 Assignments 
 Slideshare -  This tool is the perfect way to share PowerPoints online, especially with those who might not actually have PowerPoint themselves.  It is also an amazing tool for research.
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Week 7 Assignments 
 Screenr - I adore Screenr and I've been using it for a little under a year.  I've also done a training at my school and I have many other teachers using it now too.  It is ridiculous how easy and fast it is and unbelievable that it's free considering other software that doesn't work as well, like Camtasia, is so hard to learn and expensive.

Week 8 Assignments 
 Google Drive/Docs

Copyright Issues in the Classroom version 3.pptx

 

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Week 9 Assignments 
 Google Forms

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Week 12 Assignments 
 Capzles - I found this program slow and difficult to use, but perhaps my project was too large.  Also, I was never able to upload a Word Document or PDF because each time I tired to upload a document I was only able to select media files.  I tried for days and emailed Capzles.  I eventually got a response that said that that function was temporarily disabled, but the little light bulb reminding me that I could upload a Word document of PDF was still there taunting me each time I tried to upload.
 
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Week 15 Assignments 
 Prezi - While I find Prezi has a larger learner curve than most tools that I recommend to my coworkers, it is by far the most fun and dynamic presentation tool I have ever used.  I find it especially useful for adult trainings especially ones that embed video, but less useful for presentation notes to students as they are often distracted.  However, I think it is extremely useful for students to collaborate on to create presentations together.

My portion of the Prezi:

Prezi Contributions

 

 

They Snooze You Loose Lynel Burmark - Chapter Responses

Chapter 1 -  While I have nothing but respect for Dr. Burmark and I think her research and conclusions are impeccable, I think they leave out students with learning and visual differences.  For instance, she writes about the research done with colors and advertizing and the well-documented conclusion that yellow draws attention and that blue is calming, so she concludes that a slide with a blue background with yellow writing is ideal for PowerPoints.  This made me think immediately of my eleven color-blind students, three of which are blue-yellow color-blind.  Also, students with dyslexia often struggle with reading from blue backgrounds and tend to favor pink and orange, colors that most viewers would find visually searing.  She also advocates the use of color rather than underlining or bolding text, but I have personally done this and learned my lesson when color-blind students were unable to detect the difference.  I changed my PowerPoints in a hurry.  I would rather “bore” the majority of my students than not properly serve my students with visual differences.
Chapter 2 - This chapter resolved some of my initial irritation with chapter one.  Dr. Burmark advocates in this chapter black and white text with underlining and bolding for handouts and resolves that she feels that images are better for PowerPoint slides.  Most teachers that I know really use PowerPoint to present students with notes to copy, rather than printing notes out for the students.  Overall, this means that there is no difference in philosophy, but rather a difference in objective.
Chapter 3 -  I really enjoyed this chapter, especially the tips for presentation from Steve Jobs.  While I find the concept of multiple intelligences to be outdated as related to education (all the research from the last 15 years shows that good instruction is good instruction, no matter the learning type or intelligences) I could not agree more that if you are having fun while making your presentation, your audience will have fun too.
Chapter 4 - This brief chapter focused on the kinds of "hooks" a presenter can use to grab the listener's attention and make personal connections.  I connected personally with this chapter because I work so hard to make personal connections with my students and I teach writing.  This sounds so much better than the standard writing "hooks" that are taught to high school students.
Chapter 5 -  This chapter begins with a discussion of making the abstract tangible and a warning about clip art.  The idea of making that which is abstract tangible is actually know as symbolism, but really Dr. Burmark is advocating the limitation of clip art.  This one hit home for me, as I use a lot of clip art in my classroom, largely because it is free to use and doesn't have to be cited.  I think I will take her advice and use more high quality photographs and use it as an opportunity to model proper citation, rather than being so lazy.  Burmark then goes on to discuss how activities can be embedded into a presentation.  This I often do, as I think it increases comprehension, engagement, and memory.  I also liked the idea of digital flashcards, although I tend to have my student produce their own on sites like Quizlet.  Last, I was a little confused by the part about names and it's inclusion, but I can say that I am a studier of names and I often talk to my students about their name's meaning, many of whom had no idea what it meant.  I have many students every years comment to me later how they felt a personal connection to me, their parents, and themselves after my, typically off-handed, comment.
Chapter 6 - OK, I loved this chapter!  Dr. Burmark and I agree so much on how and why to use humor in a classroom.  I know so many teachers who think that tangential story-telling or jokes distract the audience from learning, but as Dr. Burmark said, "I am serious about content, so I am serious about my humor."  These kinds of found moments are necessary to engage and audience and keep interest in the content up.  I plan my own jokes, but I also create an environment where students are encouraged to make appropriate jokes (and I think that moments when they don't are often teachable because many students don't yet know where the line is).  Then next period and next year I shamelessly steal my students jokes and add them to my "act".
Chapter 7 - I really appreciated how this chapter showed HOW to reduce text and add images to slides in a step step by step way.  I have some PowerPoints to update (and I don't just mean my Copyright one).  I'll do anything to help my students retain and recall what I've taught, but I tend to be a text driven presentation creator, so it was nice to be shown exactly how to make the shift.
Chapter 8 - This was another chapter that challenged me because I tend to find music infinitely side-tracking.  Don't get me wrong, I love music, but when it's playing I tend to forget everything and just listen.  I for sure have almost zero ability to speak over music, background, instrumental, or otherwise.  However, Burmark wasn't advocating the use of music or sounds during a Presentation as I feared, but rather was advocating the use of music to teach lessons.  I do this also.  There is nothing better to teach literary concepts like tone and mood than with music and paintings.
Chapter 9 - I really liked the activity ideas in this chapter.  Each of them would be so appropriate for a high school English class.  Dr. Burmark's suggestions for the lessons were about how they could help change the school environment and buoy kids' self esteem, but each has direct connection to language skills as well.  Finding images to abstract terms like loneliness helps students connect with vocabulary, imagery, diction, symbolism and character, all complex concepts in an English class.  I am going to do some of theses assignments next year for sure!

Chapter 10 - I know this chapter had a lot more to it than finger puppets, but OH MY GOD I WANT ALL OF THOSE FINGER PUPPETS! http://www.philosophersguild.com/Finger-Puppets/ OK, now that I got that out,  I again, must agree with Dr. Burmark about how important story telling is.  I like how she spoke about teachers telling stories, but really focused on how students can write and share their stories and how that empowers them as people and learners.
Chapter 11 - This chapter was about how to and why we should work to engage the senses, especially at the beginning of a lesson.  However, Dr. Burmark makes sure to emphasize the balance that must be struck between sensory information and overwhelming the audience due to the limited processing capacity that all people have.  Smell is the most effective activator of memory, but most teacher have a limited ability to use smell in their classroom.  However, the next best activator is body-kinesthetic, which is much easier to incorporate.  The best way to remember is to use as many senses as possible or to take the multi-sensory approach.
Chapter 12 -  This chapter brings it all together and offers practical, step-by-step instructions on how to incorporate the lesson learned into our own presentations.  As a person who loves a good review at the end of a lesson I appreciate that there is a chapter I can go to and use a checklist to make sure I've done the most with my presentations that I could.

 

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