Discussion

Here are Week 8's discussion questions.

What do you consider multimedia and how would you use it in a classroom?

Case Study #1: A kindergarten teacher has manila envelopes for each student. Each student's firstname is carefully printed on the front of the envelope and color coded. However, with 20 children in the class, some colors are pretty close together. The children seem to be unable to put their work in the right envelopes. That means that each day, the teacher has to check each envelope before they leave the classroom and get the right papers into the right envelopes and the kids are always late for the bus. Keeping the Multimedia chapter in mind, what solutions could you offer the teacher?

Case Study #2 This one comes from my sister who is a Health teacher in a high school in Connecticut. She told me that after the computer, her favorite multimedia tool was the video camera. She likes to videotape students role playing situations. She has 5 classes and she videos them all on a series of tapes. However, when it comes time to show the students their particular role playing, she can never find which tape it is on and where on the tape it is. Then at the end of the year, she would like to keep the two best role playing to show to the next year's class. However, that is a whole box of video tapes to watch and she never has time to do this. Help! She will take any and all suggestions.

Who has an iPod? What kind? If I did a podcast, would you listen to it on your iPod?

Give us your ideas and observations in the conference in Week 8 discussion.

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TRG = Textbook Reading Guide

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Using Scholastic's Class Homepage is the EASY way to build a school web site. No coding or programming needed! It will make the links for you and publish your page on the web, which means that you will be able to access this long after this course is finished!

 

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Weekly updates of Portfolio Competencies and Annotated Bibliography

Getting closed to the end!

Review the NETS in your textbook.

Web Resources

One of my favorite web sites. This artist creative writer has free materials for teachers. You can send for your free kit. Her site includes coloring pages, holiday ideas and multimedia audio - see the Hedgie gram and video - see the video of her reading the Gingerbread Baby and making gingerbread cookies. The only thing missing is the smell of ginger wafting from the oven. Yum!

http://www.janbrett.com

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