Week+10+(March+22,+2010)

To contact Bruce after this course is over: bruce.summers@ocdsb.ca (please put your name in the header)

You should have an electronic professional portfolio. ** Save your documents as PDF files **and have links in a table of contents that lead to each piece of info. Scan documents and stick them onto the web. You can leave a disk with the interviewer or a business card with your address on it. This will give you an extra advantage and make sure to update it often. Make a really nice label for the CD. Use anything to make it look professional. Always watch your spelling and grammar. Here is a link to a website with some great resources for digital portfolios: []

__Acceptable Policies__ Why do we have it? It covers our ass. If the students haven't signed it and they do illegal things, you don't have a leg to stand on. For French, teach them how to use Google translator and acceptable use. That way they can't say, 'you never told us about that'. We should include something about mobile devices. What is acceptable and what is not? Where should they be stored? If they bring that technology to class, where should they put it? Is it the teacher's responsibility if it goes missing? The OCDSB will coming out with a new one next year. It should be:
 * Complete
 * Adaptable
 * Unique to a school

Discussion: Sir Ken Robinson: A creative educator. "School kills creativity" Here is a video where he discusses this: media type="custom" key="5707409" align="center"

Lots and Hots The pyramid: how do students learn, what do they remember for the most amount of time? Project based learning is so important because they learn to do it and then they should teach someone else. Is Jukes SOS (the same old stuff)?

**__ Presentations __** Here are some notes of the presentations we saw...

1. Helen
 * an overview of education through the decades
 * she used her own photos (no worries about copyright)
 * interviewing her daughter was cool

2 - Jenny & Karen
 * 3 generations of learners (digital immigrants, the in-between generation, and digital natives)
 * sample of PhotoStory for a history class and a Comic Life scene for an english class novel study

3 - Jesse & Allison
 * collaboration and online learning showed with Bitstrips, Google Docs, and MSN

4 - Alex, Andrea & Daljit
 * a wiki with many different resources... cool idea
 * Used a variety of technology including a Google Docs survey to illustrate how 21st century students learn
 * dialogue should be added to a film after recorded, sound quality is bad

5 - Justin & Luca
 * with Bitstrip characters, this presentation takes us back in time and looks at 21st century learners
 * we need to keep evolving with our students and not grow stagnant as teachers

6 - Dane & Mathew
 * differentiated instruction and student motivation
 * awesome use of //Ferris Bueller's Day Off// to show how boring lecturing can be

7 - Kristin, Natasha & Taylor
 * news broadcast outlining how 21st century students learn
 * Bruce recommends use of vlogit to do newscasting

8 - Alex & Brad
 * how to use cell phones to record podcasts: gabcast

9 - My presentation
 * acceptable use policies and different software available


 * 1) 10 - Sejal & Lisa
 * Used camtasia to make their multimedia presentation
 * jing is the free version of this program

11 - Jenny & Laura
 * Public Service announcement: great use of sound to contrast old learning styles and new students

12 - Graham & Steve
 * Created original music using garage band
 * Clear message that technology has a place in the classroom and should be used