WIKIPEDIA

Hello everyone, Please visit the Wikipedia link below.

http://teacher-roberts.wikispaces.com/

Wikis are cool ways to share information with students the way you want them to learn a particular topic. It allows a teacher to better guide research assignments and the diversity of information posted. A wiki was produced for Mathematics, particularly the topic Geometry: Angles. There were no challenges in creating this  item.

Creating Videos

Drugs! What is it? Are they all bad? Who's idea was it to make certain drugs illegal? The video below gives you a brief basic set of information on what we want you to know about drugs. The intended audience for this video would be teenagers.The video shows you what they look like and ways to say no when someone tries to pressure you into taking drugs. This video could be used in the classroom as an entertaining way to educate students on the basic types of illegal drugs that are out there. Instead of dictating or writing on the board  or even having to create handouts and print multiple copies, one could just have students watch the video and watch it again outside of school time once it is posted on the blog.

This video was created using Windows Movie Maker. The video was chosen under the topic Social Issues. We thought it was an important issue because to most teenagers friends are important and some friends might influence you to do something that is not wise or healthy for you. There was not really any challenges in creating the video besides trying to decide how much content to put in, how long should the entire video be and the order of each information.                           

To improve this situation, a plan was written down of the order for the information to be displayed.

Podcast

A podcast is a multimedia digital file made available on the Internet for downloading to a portable media player, computer, etc. A podcast is an easy way to appeal to audio learners which makes it an essential teaching tool. A podcast appeals to the attention of creativity, students will find creating their own podcast for a class assignment a fun and exciting exercise. A podcast posted on a teacher's blog gives students an easier way to get information outside of school hours. 

For Technology in Education, we created as a group, a podcast which spoke about a  the issues in education.    

We asked a few people, security guard, teacher and students, what they felt were missing from their classroom. Some said furniture, some said space, some just wished they had a room.

 A podcast could be used as a narrated story for comprehension. Another use for a podcast would be putting a topic to song or have the students create a song about a particular topic as an assignment.