Now that you have an idea of the required reading list – reconstruct the ultimate year 3 experience Grab a planning calendar from MS Office templates or Google Docs Templates (or heck, just use plain old text) and -decide which readings to keep or chop- are there any that should be added? -spread the readings [...]
GOAL – summarize all the readings in the archive (posted yesterday) and how they connect to your (collective) discipline(s)/classroom(s)/personal interests 5 minutes – divide yourself into five teams and figure out how you’re going to divide and conquer the reading workload 30 minutes – summarize using an online social and collaborative tool Return and share
Inspired by the Google Teaching Academy, this quickfire challenge is intended to prepare you to create a short 1 minute video on either Motivation & Learning or Classroom Innovation. About Google Teacher Academy: The Google Teacher Academy is a FREE professional development experience designed to help primary and secondary educators from around the globe get [...]
You will be placed in teams of four and given a haiku (in french) to visualize using stop motion techniques. (You may have to use Babelfish (or Jean Pierre) to translate the haiku.) Sean will give you a brief tutorial on how to make a basic stop motion video using the tools you have been [...]
It’s time for the annual MAET Jing-Off! Here’s the challenge – as a group we’re going to create 10 screencasts, in 10 minutes! We did it last year (http://edublog.techsmith.com/2009/07/michigan-state-university-maet—its-a-jing-off.html) and now it’s time to raise the bar. We will put you into teams of 2 and you will have 1 hour to decide what the [...]
Remix culture is a term employed by Lawrence Lessig to describe a society which allows and encourages derivative works. Such a culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that [...]
Congratulations on your band making it BIG! Now you need to get a cover ready for your band’s debut album. For this quickfire you will be using image editing tools to create a cover for your Band’s new album. Activities: 1 – Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random Wikipedia article you [...]
Now that you have begun the process of creating your iVideos, and are currently working on your storyboards I thought it would be a good idea to share with you some inspirational/informative videos that might help get your creative juices flowing.
Go Right Through for MSU!!! WE ARE SPARTANS!!! Below are the lyrics for the MSU fight song. Learn them, learn them well so you can cheer and connect with Spartan’s all across the globe! Fight Song Lyrics: On the banks of the Red Cedar, There’s a school that’s known to all; Its specialty is winning, [...]
BOOM! Its just about go time… By now everyone should have received Leigh’s email with a wonderful welcome packet attached to it. I would like to second Leigh’s statement: if you have any questions or concerns make sure you don’t sit on them, ask away. Any year 3 course type stuff, send that to myself [...]
Quickfire – You be the professor, you imagine the future
Quickfire – Reading Assail
Google Teaching Academy – Quickfire
Quickfire – Stop Motion
MAET Jing Off Quickfire
Remix Reuse Recycle – Quickfire Challenge
Album Cover – Quickfire Challenge
iImage – Resources
iVideo – Editing Resources
iVideo – getting the creative juices flowing…
