Saturday, December 31, 2011
As The New Year Approaches
As the new year approaches I am excited. I have updated both my professional and classroom webistes. I have created blogs for both of my classes and created LiveBinders for both. I will be "flipping" my classes. I will be conducting a two hour hands on workshop at MACUL12 in March. I will be leading PD on Monday to our HS staff. I will updating this blog regularly, learning from my PLN on Twitter. I will also be finishing my MERIT11 requirements. Finally, this February I will be making a major decision about my career. So here's to looking forward to a very productive new year for my students, my colleagues and myself. If you want to follow some interesting people on Twitter check out @colonelb, @Dowbiggin, @gcouros, @wfryer, @bennettscience, @ramusallam among others. Just go to my feed at @dprindle and check out who I am following. Happy New Year.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
My Tech Plan For My Classroom
The following is my plan for the use and integration of technology into my classroom. The views here are not those of my employer or any associated faculty or staff. However, it is my hope that some of my colleagues will consider doing the same.
Beginning with the new year I will begin the process of flipping and blending my classroom . It is my hope by using this methods that I will become a better teacher and my students will become more engaged and will will enjoy coming to school and learn something new everyday.
By flip-blending my class I will use video, pod-casts, online learning activities and more hands-on and in depth classroom activities. When possible my students will use 1:1 computers in the classroom for data analysis, writing activities and assessments. These will include the students creating and using ePortfolios (see here), blogging and responding to blogs (http://bchs-learned.blogspot.com), creating videos to explain concepts to others (www.nextvista.org), analysis of writings and crime scene (for Forensic Science). I will use multiple tools to keep the students apprised of assignments and class materials including a class LiveBinder (www.livebinders.com), daqri (www.daqri.com) and my professional website. Students will learn to use and leverage Google Apps for Education, Evernote, LiveBinders, daqri along with other web and mobile apps. I will create Twitter pages for my classes for "flash" traffic. I will use various social media sites for further communications and for use with and by students.
I will have and will create paper.li for professional and classroom use. The trick will be to balance the use of all of these tools while at the same time not overwhelming my students.
Walt Disney once said "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." Ready-Set Go!
Beginning with the new year I will begin the process of flipping and blending my classroom . It is my hope by using this methods that I will become a better teacher and my students will become more engaged and will will enjoy coming to school and learn something new everyday.
By flip-blending my class I will use video, pod-casts, online learning activities and more hands-on and in depth classroom activities. When possible my students will use 1:1 computers in the classroom for data analysis, writing activities and assessments. These will include the students creating and using ePortfolios (see here), blogging and responding to blogs (http://bchs-learned.blogspot.com), creating videos to explain concepts to others (www.nextvista.org), analysis of writings and crime scene (for Forensic Science). I will use multiple tools to keep the students apprised of assignments and class materials including a class LiveBinder (www.livebinders.com), daqri (www.daqri.com) and my professional website. Students will learn to use and leverage Google Apps for Education, Evernote, LiveBinders, daqri along with other web and mobile apps. I will create Twitter pages for my classes for "flash" traffic. I will use various social media sites for further communications and for use with and by students.
I will have and will create paper.li for professional and classroom use. The trick will be to balance the use of all of these tools while at the same time not overwhelming my students.
Walt Disney once said "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." Ready-Set Go!
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