Nine Thoughts to Ponder

To what extent do you agree with these 9 statements?

1. I have brand new technology in my classroom. Therefore, I should use it every day.

2. Incorporating technology into my classroom is a simple task.

3. I use technology to keep student’s interest in the classroom. This reduces bad behavior in my class.

4. Technology is all the fancy gadgets that I have in my classroom.

5. Technology engages students in learning.

6. Technology gives students a voice in the classroom.

7. Using technology in the classroom will transform my teaching.

8. I have to use technology to help students be comfortable learning new things.

9. Technology makes learning fun.

These statements were adapted from this web site.

Final Project!!!

Kevin's Keys for the Final Project

1. Make sure your strategies are verbs. "Group project" as a strategy is vague and contains many components.
2. Make sure you use key words in each cell. The purpose of the matrix is not to cram loads of text into one box. When you abbreviate things, you make it easy to read and understand.
3. Your blog entry should be a narrative to your spreadsheet.
4. For this project, assume you can have training in whatever technology you would like to use.

Final Project Information Sessions

For the final project, we will be holding information sessions to answer any questions you may have. You can sign up for one of these sessions here.
Please only sign up for ONE session.

Thanks!

Interactivity #5

Kevin’s Keys for Interactivity #5

1. Do not manufacture the interview. If it’s fiction, we will find out! Plus, interviewing a teacher in the field will be beneficial beyond the requirements of the assignment.

2. It may be common for teachers not to have an idea about this concept. That’s ok. Just report back the facts, and you should be fine.

3. Ask questions earlier, rather than later!

Interactivity #4

Kevin's Keys for Interactivity #4

1. Make sure you clearly note exactly what you have changed/modified from the original lesson plan.
2. It's ok to select a lesson plan with gaps.
3. Please provide the link to the original lesson plan.

Keep working hard!

Interactivity #3

Kevin's Keys for Interactivity #3

1. If you haven't heard from your group members, make sure to start a spreadsheet yourself. Also, make sure you share the document with your group members, Dr. Domine, and me.
Then, you can make your contributions to the spreadsheet and your work is done.

2. Make sure that someone in your group has not already created a spreadsheet. If they haven't shared that spreadsheet with you, then you won't know what's going on.

3. Make sure you sign in before you enter information on the spreadsheet!! If we don't know it's you that wrote something, we can't give you a grade for this assignment.

4. Make sure you contribute at least 10 technologies with corresponding URLs.

Merging Engrade Accounts

If you have not yet registered on Engrade for CURR 316 this semester and still have an active account from last semester:

Merge the two accounts: Go to: http://www.engrade.com/students and log in with your credentials from last semester.

Once logged in, you should see the option to Add a course. When prompted, enter your access code for CURR 316.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or Dr. Domine.