While there was a lot of great resources on the Articles & Reference Links page, I have to admit that I am a sucker for TED Talks. I probably ate up all of my required time watching films from the TED links.
I loved the set-up of the TED Talks for Teachers link, organized by content area. As a lover of math, I was excited an amazed by some of the videos in the math section, but I did wonder a bit about wether I could find some more films that would fit in this category that would be appropriate to share with my students. Arthur Benjamin's Mathemagic talk would certainly engage them, I just wish that he had spent a little bit more time explaining how he performs his "tricks".
Teaching with TED was also really cool. The talk I watched by Dave Eggers through this site was so inspiring. My only disappointment was that some of the links in the Glogster section of the blog (that I was really excited to watch) didn't work for me.
This led me to the TED Talks by Name link which seems to be just a spreadsheet of just about every TED Talk out there. I wish there were better organization tools. I could not see exactly how the list was organized and wound up using the Find tool (command F) to find what I was looking for, which isn't very efficient.
I will definitely be spending some more time on all of these sites!
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Summer Work
The big thing I did as summer work for the Tech course was remotely attend Edmodocon. The annual Edmodo conference. For those of you that don't remember, my project revolves around using Edmodo (to over-generalize, an educational "Facebook") in my classroom to facilitate class discussions and check-in with student learning.
The conference was kind of intense. A solid eight hours of presentations over the course of the day (I had to step away from the screen after about six). There were some really cool projects. One of my favorites was Pernille Ripp's talk about The Global Read Aloud project. It was very inspirational and hopeful to hear the tale of this women who had never used Edmodo before, but had this little idea that just grew exponentially and how the Edmodo community helped it grow so much further than she could have ever imagined.
I felt like the conference was largely for veteran users of the platform and I was a little frustrated that there weren't more "nuts and bolts" type sessions for new users. As a result, the two things that I found most useful were the talk about Edmodo's support team by Kevyn Klien and the Digital Citizenship presentation by Christine Baker.
Overall, it was a great experience. I still would like to go back and watch the few archived presentations that I didn't have energy for on the day of the event. I'm looking forward to attending again next summer when I have more of a background using Edmodo with my students.
The conference was kind of intense. A solid eight hours of presentations over the course of the day (I had to step away from the screen after about six). There were some really cool projects. One of my favorites was Pernille Ripp's talk about The Global Read Aloud project. It was very inspirational and hopeful to hear the tale of this women who had never used Edmodo before, but had this little idea that just grew exponentially and how the Edmodo community helped it grow so much further than she could have ever imagined.
I felt like the conference was largely for veteran users of the platform and I was a little frustrated that there weren't more "nuts and bolts" type sessions for new users. As a result, the two things that I found most useful were the talk about Edmodo's support team by Kevyn Klien and the Digital Citizenship presentation by Christine Baker.
Overall, it was a great experience. I still would like to go back and watch the few archived presentations that I didn't have energy for on the day of the event. I'm looking forward to attending again next summer when I have more of a background using Edmodo with my students.
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