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Teaching and Learning with Technology at Maret 
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<ul><li>learn more about <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://carla.umn.edu/cobaltt/" rel="nofollow">Content-Based Language Teaching with Technology</a></li><li>create a <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://mactips.info/2011/02/make-a-screencast-or-audio-recording-with-quicktime-player-10" rel="nofollow">screen and voice recording with quicktime player</a> (Mac only)</li><li>make a slide <a class="wiki_link" href="/Presentations">presentation</a></li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Video">convert VHS or DVD into digital format</a></li><li>use epub documents in the classroom</li><li>use <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://voicethread.com/" rel="nofollow">VoiceThread</a></li><li>create a podcast</li><li>create a vidcast</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Presentations">Presentations: best practices and available tools</a></li><li>Create an introductory presentation for the advanced <a class="wiki_link" href="/Latin">Latin </a>class that can later be used as a template for student projects.</li><li>Learn how to create a standard, weekly (powerpoint) <a class="wiki_link" href="/Presentations">presentation </a>that includes, for example,</li></ul>a motto of the week and other elements ( Latin/Greek stem of the week for vocabulary development) that is easily transmitted to students who are absent(may include clip from Nuntii Latini--audio news in Latin) 
 
 
<ul><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Technology%20Trends">Technology Trends and what this means for the classroom</a></li><li>Media Distribution Tools</li><li>Images: shooting, scanning, snagging, and sharing</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Video">Audio and Video Basics</a></li><li>Mobile Devices</li><li>Collaborative Writing/Research Tools</li><li>Paperless Classroom: Annotating PDFs</li><li>Providing Audio Feedback to Student Work</li><li>Digital Story Telling</li><li>Read/Write Classroom Culture</li><li>remember how to scan documents</li></ul> 
 
 
Hi. Please drop here your ideas, suggestions for this summer workshop by clicking on &quot;EDIT&quot; 
 
Use the &quot;DISCUSSION&quot; button if you want to ask questions directly to Teb or me. 
 
Jaime 
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Trish 
I am somewhat familiar with a wikispace and ways that I can use it as a language teacher, but how does it compare with Haiku? Which one gives me more flexibility in terms of sharing information with students and having an interactive online space for conversations/blogs/etc.? 
 
May 20 -- Trish 
I was just sifting through old emails and came across one from Jen Mandeville about Glogster. I also heard about it at the annual NECTFL conference in April. I want to explore this as a tool to use with students so that we don't have to do the old poster board project that just ends up getting pitched when we're finished. 
 
Also, I watched part of a webcast that was streamed on the Internet here at Maret, and I thought I would share some bites that I jotted down while watching/listening to some Harvard professors. 
 
--Approximately 94% of U.S. teens have some form of Internet access (although students on the lower end of the economic spectrum may have limited access -- the public library or school) and the remaining 6% who don't have it is mostly due to religious purposes. 
 
--Talk centered around Facebook and other social technologies that are &quot;big business&quot; -- there are now 600 million registered users of Facebook. 
 
--One female professor from Harvard's business school argued that, like other developments throughout our history (the telephone, email, etc.), we don't really know how to use Facebook and the like to sell and communicate efficiently and it is obvious that we don't know. The technology is &quot;outstripping&quot; Harvard's educational models and they are being &quot;outpaced&quot; by the many changes in technology. 
 
--A Harvard Econ. professor was talking about his blog, which I would like to use more effectively in my classes next year. This professor found himself sending so many emails out that he decided to shift to blogging and he now has over 10,000 visitors to his site. From his blog he can give students advice, he can post articles related to economics that he comes across in the New York Times and other newspapers online, he puts in links to econ. cartoons, links to talks that he has given and updates on his published papers. To keep things positive and avoid too much criticism, this professor shut down the &quot;comments&quot; feature of his blog. He also noted that he does a lot of work on the blog that he doesn't have time to do in his curriculum, so it serves as a kind of extension of his class. 
 
--Another professor who teaches a course on Justice spoke about how he televised his course online in order to make education a &quot;public good&quot; accessible to all. He stated that this seems like a great opportunity to see what we (the U.S.) can learn collectively from others who listen to these courses around the world, like in China for example.learn 
 
 
Erika 
I attended a technology educators' conference in June and came away with a list of resources and products that could be useful in language classrooms. Here are some that might be useful for note-taking and/or for presentations: 
 
GLOGSTER: this is a site that allows you to make online posters. In a session I attended, a teacher offered Glogster as a way for her students to take notes, and to collaborate on the taking and sharing of those notes. Check it out! <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://edu.glogster.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://edu.glogster.com/</a> 
 
Diana: Here is the link for the Tarheel Reader, volunteer-created and submitted &quot;books&quot; in a number of languages, sorted by topics, 
<a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://tarheelreader.org/" rel="nofollow">http://tarheelreader.org/</a>