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Collaborative and Resourceful 21st century teens

Nicole — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:07:34 +0000

Aah yes. Students need a little help learning how to become resourceful. When they ask me a question I say the answer is a click away. Students can construct their own learning with the web. It used to be that knowing the facts was satisfactory. Well, 21st century students need………..

A collaborative lesson: Analyzing, Predicting. and Suggesting Marketing solutions

Learning Objectives:

Students will comprehend marketing news
Students will analyze predict and suggest solutions for marketing companies and their customers.
Students will collaborate together on writing using Google Documents web application.
Students will define two industry terms found in the article.

You can read the lesson from my web site but tech tools used are:

Firefox Colored Tabs for organized searching and composition
Firefox Add on: Dictionary Tool-tip for defining unknown terms while reading
Google Docs for collaboration
Wireless Laptops

Day One Across the Board

Nicole — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:55:33 +0000

Quick post of day one’s agenda for all my Business classes. Content objectives are center. But I do believe students can carry computer and internet skills integrated in our course over to other classes, people, and hobbies. Therefore learning the technology is important. So, day one is the day to orientate students to the tools we will be using for the course. It is amazing how quickly they understand how Firefox helps organize their leariing with the web. No windows open all over the place. Just swift mastery of data. Comment to add to my outline.

Course Overview
1. Content Objectives
2. Projects overview
  1. Audio Recordings
  2. Videos
  3. Slideshows
  4. Others particular to course
3. Final Projects and Exam
4. Supplies- jump drive
Wireless Overview
1. Assign students laptop #s
2. Discuss various seating arrangements
3. Laptop daily deployment and return procedures
Course Tools
1. Course Website
2. Firefox
  1. Toolbars
  2. Integrated Search Engine
  3. Extensions
    1. Quicknote
    2. Text Size toolbar
    3. Colorful Tabs
    4. Highlighter
    5. Dictionary Tooltip
3. Google Docs
  1. Set up account
4. Resources
  1. Advertising Age Magazine
  2. USA Today RSS News
  3. Business first
  4. Buffalo News RSS
5. Ice Breaker Activity
6. Lesson 1 of course
Stay tuned to see posted lessons………..:):):):)

Wireless Teaching

Nicole — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:44:37 +0000

I will start teaching with laptops this fall. I am excited to change from stationary seating. That is the first thing that pops into my head of why I am excited. I will be able to give students the opportunity to work collaboratively with different people. I am going to strive to make that happen this year. It will allow for a lot more audio recording for students because of their ability to move. I am going to use student recording/teaching with audio in different ways this year to help to with the comprehension of vocabulary, ” pass the mike” discussion, ” and podcasting for starters. Any others ideas for using mics and audio in class, comment away.

Students in my classes have always been able to learn using technology. It changes now though because of the mobility they will have. My classes have always had the benefit (sort of) of a “one to one” classroom, except that they can’t take the computers home and have them in all their classes. Ok, so there is still a big difference. I really want to take the opportunity and have students become aware of their learning and all that “one to one” computing can do by differentiating instruction. I will keep you posted on how it is going by posting my wireless lessons.