Extras from chapter readings (week 3)

I was initially pleased to discover new resources for royalty-free images and clipart.  In addition to teaching media literacy lessons and co-teaching content area lessons, I also advise our student yearbook staff and student morning news crews.  Teaching them not to use anything they find during a Google image search takes up much of the first week of class!  I was disappointed to find out though, that the iClipart for schools the text recommends in chapter 8 requires a paid subscription.  It is no longer free.  Discovery Education, the other site the text recommends, is still free, but its image library is much smaller. 

Extras from chapter readings (week 2)

The biggest take-away for me in chapter 6 was probably the technology evaluation rubric example.  I have something similar in place in my library media center for apps.  It's more of a form or survey than a rubric, and since it requires some time and effort on the part of the teacher, it's not very popular.  I have had very few teachers actually go through the process in order to try out a new app.  I much prefer the rubric as a process for evaluation and plan to implement something similar this year for all technology.

Extras from chapter readings (week 4)

I am completely inspired by and in awe of Sugata Mitra.  His TedTalk, "Build a School in the Cloud," was referenced in chapter 12's cloud computing section, and made me a fan!  Here's the link.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3jYVe1RGaU&list=PLfAPeARVYiRjdkw88S10zjlIscSiEtJbJ
I love this idea of self-organized learning environments.  I can imagine it may not be too popular with mainstream educators, but wow...just wow!