Hot Topics, Hot Technologies
- video editing
- Glogster
- movies / digiStories / podcasts
- VoiceThread for things like oral histories
- stop-motion animation (think Gumby or Mr. Bill)
- Wall Wisher (online notice board, maybe?)
- GooSites
- PhotoShop
- manipulating graphics/photos/pictures
- how to start the school year (and continue throughout it) with technology: two birds with one stone
- how to introduce the technology: making tech feel/work like a natural, organic part of the curriculum so that it doesn't feel like an add on or, worse--gasp--like busywork
- how to keep the techCurriculum fresh, how to find different ways to do things with the same students (over time, over classes)
- how to be a better blogger, for instance: depth vs. survey, one subject over time
- how to do one thing very, very well in every conceivable fashion
- how to prevent the technology feel like an abdication of precious time--how not to make it feel like a substitution rather than a supplement (or something)
- how to identify teaching "problems" that tech can help solve
- how to make a specific assignment (like, say, an argument essay) more tech improvable
- how tech can help us meet standards
- establishing a technology framework that spans grades: a school technology plan
- plans for improving access: unblocking GooDocs, YouTube, etc.
