Bridging Our Future (Video, Future of Classrooms).

We've all seen the funniest things about the future. It's like watching Total Recall about the year, what? 2000? (lol). But this doesn't seem too far off base.

Smartboards are something I just saw this semester, which I've previously discussed. This video using the complete board and tablets is exactly what I'd expect over the next 10 years, if schools are able to keep funding by then.........

The whole thing is a promo for Intel, which I apologize about. But the ideas behind the classroom just seem attainable and wonderful.

Using Dojo

Class Dojo is an interactive program that records student behavior. No longer do teachers have to rely on memory in order to give students good scores for behavior, participation, attendance and any other methods of monitoring student progress. I played with the program in order to see what features it has, and added the names of the students in our Educational Technology classroom. You can also use it to call on students randomly. I planned to play with this during my powerpoint presentation, and now, I am not sure if it fits. We'll see what happens :-)

An ode to podcasts.

I often think of podcasts as the distant, old cousin of newer technology. Although, to be perfectly honest, I realize after listening to a podcast, how convenient it is. It allows me to listen to my computer while I'm doing other tasks (and not be distracted by video footage), it doesn't constantly freeze because images are moving, it is often clearer, than many of the videos I watch daily. But podcasts simply are not going to garner the kind of attention that videos get, because videos are visual. And with that, I now post a really amazing podcast that I saw (heard) earlier today.