Stephen+and+Alex

=Final Project Description= ====We will be submitting an "enhanced" podcast that utilizes visuals in a meaningful and entertaining way. Our podcast could be used in a science classroom concerned with weather. Our podcasts topic is Nor'easters.====

=Final Project Rubric=



Here is our podcast about Nor'easters. Make sure the artwork window is open in iTunes to show our visuals. [|Nor'easter.m4a]

=Final Assignments=

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 * Alex's Concluding Assignment**

Forcing technology into a lesson will slow the learning process. The students will experience these technological interjections as an awkward hiccup. You know the kinds. Where you're like, knee deep in an awesome milkshake. You may have even sprung for the extra 75 cents to have malt put in with it. BAM, hiccup. Satisfaction delayed.

It is just as detrimental to force a lesson into technology. This is along the same lines of basing a lesson around an activity and not the other direction. The only person that benefits in this situation is the teacher, as they have already gotten the hardest part of the lesson out of the way.

All that being said, I think I've learned a great deal about the ways in which students will benefit from technology in the classroom. We are moving past the "fancy whiteboard" effect of the Smartboard and into a new field of fully integrated, student initiated exploration learning using valuable new and evolving tools.

The message I was trying to convey with this video is just this. We have been given a vast amount of information and resources. I used a Wordle of my blogs posts to make this list as to make these resources more personal. But a class wide Wordle will hopefully look similar. I chose to write mine on a whiteboard as opposed to a Smartboard. Why? Because it's easier, and gets the point across just as well. Are there other ways to do this? Absolutely. And they're all just as legitimate. It's the teachers job to know their lesson and in which way they can communicate their ideas the most effectively.

I have a huge number of new tools to take from this class. But, hopefully, I have also gained the kind of discretion needed to use these tools the most effectively. And I feel like I have and will continue to develop this sense as I explore the technology more.


 * Stephen's Concluding Assignment**

I completed my concluding assignment and posted it to my blog as an entry titled "Concluding Assignment (Choice 1)." As stated in the title, I picked the first out of our two choices and my blog can be found here**.**