USING CURRENT TECHNOLOGY IN THE SCIENCE CLASSROOM
ACHIEVEMENT? Teacher comfort / confidence = success! Student access = success. Learning Styles Self paced learning ?
CURRENT TECHNOLGY Computing in the Cloud Google Docs Drop.io The Right Blog Wordpress.com Uninventing Forums! You Tube / NFB Open Source Open Office Paint.net
THE CLOUD computing in which scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet.
THE CLOUD Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the "cloud" that supports them
Storing files on the Internet THE CLOUD LITE Storing files on the Internet
GOOGLE DOCS Get a Gmail account Free better email better filtering 7 x the storage you have with First Class (Their share price is better than ours)
Documents, presentations, spreadsheet Microsoft compatibility GOOGLE DOCS Docs Documents, presentations, spreadsheet Microsoft compatibility Open Office compatibility Download as, PDF etc. upload files of same type gets around compatibility issues
GOOGLE DOCS 7 GB of Storage (That's a lot) I've been using for 4.5 years I'm only up to 32% usage Access anywhere! Share with anyone!
like a file folder online Access anywhere! Share file sharing website like a file folder online Access anywhere! Share upload, download and email files to the drop tks Tom Sheppard (Frank Roberts)
100 MB free unlimited # of drops CT 3200 example
WORDPRESS.COM please note .... Not wordpress.org (content management system) good but more involved
WORDPRESS.COM Why not blogger? It's googlefied Wordpress is much more flexible Supports many more filetypes 3GB free Scalable (for a fee)
WORDPRESS.COM Why not build a site at school? HTML! and worse School sites; access should be limited to within the building!
UNINVENTING Why re-invent? Reduce (your workload) Reuse (a colleague's work) Recycle (post your edited version)
UNINVENTING Use the Forums! All you have to do is ask! Don't be shy!
UNINVENTING Great Resources! show in class share a worksheet assign as homework have the kids find them and write a "review"
YOU TUBE TITLES: A SAMPLING Structure of the earth The Early Earth and Plate Tectonics Birth of the Solar System Space School- Earth Space School- Solar System The Earth's Water Cycle - Environmental Science Soil Texture - Environmental Science Global Warming 101 Ecosystem Dynamics The Nature of EcosystemsBill Nye the Science Guy - "It's The Food Web Garbage Warrior - Michael Reynolds Sustainable Living The Intertidal Zone Ecological Footprint How To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint Nutrient Cycling
OPEN SOURCE FAVOURITES
OPEN SOURCE The price is right .... FREE Support is there Open office compatibility is great Complete emulation of Microsoft Office
FREE more stable than GIMP Just works Does everything I need Intuitive
Why do we care? OPEN SOURCE Allows kids to access software to create they can learn by doing
OTHER STUFF Hot Potatoes http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ Audacity http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMdTBep3W9c
LINKS http://www.nytimes.com/ http://www.theteacherlist.ca/ http://www.thecanadianteacher.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMdTBep3W9c
YOUR TURN What would you like to add?