Mrs. Utley's classroom blog

English Survey 10, period 5: First Day! No homework. Remember to complete your 2 truths cards! Next time, the first day of Drug and Alcohol discussions and activities.

James' Yodio

SKYPE in the geography classroom

Students were able to have a video conversation with a man (my son) who lived in the Amazon Rainforest for two years (and now lives in New York City.)

We projected him on the classroom screen. He talked to the students about Brazil, then they asked him questions.

Geography Yodios

H ere's a couple of yodios from my geography class

Here is a link to more information related to the Billy Joel song "We didn't start the fire." This link has internet links to all the pictures. I posted the link to the song/video that we watched in Ed Tech on our family web site, and my sister posted this link in return.

This site would also be a real resource for teaching about resources--because it goes all over (not just wikipedia). For example, for "Lawrence of Arabia" is links to the IMDB site.

Also, most of my grown kids commented that teachers they had in high school used the song for activities--such as having students write a couple more verses.

http://musiced.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=musiced&cdn=education&tm=263&gps=106_1507_1020_544&f=20&su=p554.2.150.ip_&tt=2&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.teacheroz.com/fire.htm

Final Ed Tech Post--Assessments

Here is the final assessment of progress in technology for EDU 520.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AQw6iZIhEMqvZHNtbnZueF8xOWc3ZGJ6ZGQ0&hl=en

Multi-media presentation about TOKBOX

Danielle, Chris and I went to tokbox and recorded a tokbox video about tokbox. We discovered that it is an interesting tool with some classroom applications, but that it also has limitations and is evolving all the time.

Students would really enjoy making videos like these--and they could be manufactured COMPLETELY IN THE CLASSROOM using any laptop with a webcam. I'm planning on giving students the opportunity to give short oral reports on rainforest stakeholder groups--maybe I'll use tokbox! The videos could be emailed to me and I could grade them, show them, embed them.

Another good application for education would be the video conferencing feature, that could be used by students working in groups--no more trips to the library to "work on our report"! We can all work from home.

Tokbox is a natural to be combined with screentoaster, as a teacher would combine computer screen presentation pictures with a tokbox video about it.

A tokbox video could be part of a larger presentation made with dabbler, or google presentations (combined with screentoaster) and probably with other tools I don't know about.

TokBox - Free Video Chat and Video Messaging