Techforlearning

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

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You cannot get any more up to date on news related to class than to have its source syndicated to your browser! My class and I were discussing Apple news when exactly at that moment a new article surfaced on our news feed. The news was that Apple decided to refund early buyers of the iPhone $100. The new report supplemented our conversation. Thank you, Firefox.

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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.

1. 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
2. Wireless Overview
   1. Assign students laptop #s
   2. Discuss various seating arrangements
   3. Laptop daily deployment and return procedures
3. 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………..:):):):)

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Today a colleague of mine, Ann, and I were discussing how to set up a blog with a familiar blogging software included in our district web site solution to discuss best practices in block scheduling with our school faculty. The blogging software is limited in that the dialogue box where you type your post does not offer a special area to title the post. The software offers only the option to title the the blog itself which can have many topics. The post dialogue box does not allow you to format text or add hyperlinks for posts either.

So, we had to fix the look of the blog so that each post was not just separated by a date of post. We wanted each post to have its own title.

To give the post a title we typed a little bit of html code in the dialogue box where we type our post. We typed <b> then typed the title of our post. We typed a <p> to skip a double space or block then typed our actual thoughts.

This resulted in our post having a bolded title, a space, then our posted thoughts.

After our post we added a few links using html. We added the links using html code < a href=”url”>the name of the link</a>.

Here is the actual code we used to tweak the blogging software.

<b>Block Scheduling and Professional Practices</b>
<p>The goal of this <b>post</b> is to create a dialogue amongst our faculty about quality instruction, and expose everyone to <i>professional practices related to teaching in the block.</i> Professional, scholarly articles have been provided. When commenting, tell us what you think of the attached articles as they relate to your own experiences teaching in the block.<p>
<a href=”http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/asobol/files/analysis%20of%20research%20on%20block%20scheduling.pdf”>Article #1</a>
<p>
<a href=”http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/asobol/files/blockscheduling.pdf”>Article #2</a>

The more html code teachers know the more flexibilty they will have in their design when confronted with the limitations of their web page software.:)

Click here Alden HS Faculty Blog to see the actual blog post.

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