Teaching with Technology: Week 1

What does teaching with technology mean to you?
To me teaching with technology means development of my approaches. 
Making my classes more challenging and more exciting was my reason to search for the different methods.

After over thirty years of teaching, I felt bored with my traditional technics and wanted 

to find some inspiration, as well as improvement.

Happiness is when... You Learn with Technology ?

Teaching with Technology

http://www.wiziq.com/teachblog/whats-ahead-2015/

 

 

Teachers will Learn to Blend and Flip your Classes with Technology. The course is available from January 5 – December 4, 2015.

The course offers new, veteran, and future teachers theoretical and practical knowledge on how to teach and learn using technology. The topics of the course will focus on applying the science of learning, ways to transform teachers, promote a learning partnership with students, will how to set up team and motivate students to become lifelong learners, and finally to teach small chunks in a live online class or micro teaching in pairs. Teachers will develop a philosophy of education statement and learn how to share it with the world.

Link to enrol: https://www.wiziq.com/course/92339-teaching-with-technology

 

By Dr. Nellie Deutsch

From " The Travelling Teachers: A Christmas Carol: a flipped lesson."

The Travelling Teachers: A Christmas Carol: a flipped lesson.: Every year at Christmas time I talk about A Christmas Carol in my classes for many different reasons. It is a wonderful Christmas t

"Weird" Al Yankovic - Amish Paradise

 

 

 

What is – "Paradise" –

What is –  "Paradise" –

Who live there –

Are they "Farmers" –

Do they "hoe" –

Do they know that this is "Amherst" –

And that I –  am coming –  too –

Do they wear "new shoes" –  in "Eden" –

Is it always pleasant –  there –

Won't they scold us –  when we're hungry –

Or tell God –  how cross we are –

You are sure there's such a person

As "a Father" –  in the sky –

So if I get lost –  there –  ever –

Or do what the Nurse calls "die" –

I shan't walk the "Jasper" –  barefoot –

Ransomed folks –  won't laugh at me –

Maybe –  "Eden" a'n't so lonesome

As New England used to be!

                                                            F241 (1861)  215

We learn here that Dickinson found New England “lonesome.”

 

Coolio Featuring L.V. - Gangsta's Paradise

Coolio Feat L.V. & Stevie Wonder - Gangstas Paradise (Live @ 1995 Billbo...

Queen - 'The Show Must Go On' (Music Video)

Empty spaces - what are we living for?
Abandoned places - I guess we know the score?
On and on...
Does anybody know what we are looking for ?

Another hero, another mindless crime
Behind the curtain in the pantomime
Hold the line!
Does anybody want to take it anymore

Show must go on!
Show must go on! Yeah!
Inside my heart is breaking
My make-up may be flaking
But my smile still stays on.

Whatever happens, I'll leave it all to chance.
Another heartache, another failed romance.
On and on
Does anybody know what we are living for?

I guess I'm learning, I must be warmer now.
I'll soon be turning, round the corner now.
Outside the dawn is breaking
But inside in the dark I'm aching to be free

Show must go on!
Show must go on! Yeah!
Inside my heart is breaking
My make-up may be flaking
But my smile still stays on.

My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies.
Fairytales of yesterday will grow but never die.
I can fly my friends!

Show must go on!
Show must go on!

I'll face it with a grin.
I'm never giving in
On with the show!

I'll top the bill.
I'll overkill .
I have to find the will to carry on [On with the show]
[With the - ] Show!
Show must go on!

Dr. Cheryl Lentz

We met online on WizIQ.  Cheryl came to Poland and gave this presentation

at my Wroclaw University of Technology,

Foreign Languages Department and Department of Polish for Foreigners.

Free Technology for Teachers: Engage Students in History With Fake Facebook and Fake SMS

Free Technology for Teachers: Engage Students in History With Fake Facebook and Fake SMS
What do you think about Fake FB and  Fake SMS?

Are you going to use it?

 Applications for Education

Creating a fake Facebook profile could be a fun way for students to organize information that they know and or find about a famous person. You could also have students create profiles for characters in a novel that they are reading for your literature course. Take a look at the Fakebook profile gallery for more ideas about using Fakebook in your classroom.

You could have students use the Classtools SMS Generator to create simple conversations between historical characters as way to get them to think about those peoples' lives and the conversations that they might have had.