Day 2 started with a BANG! Dr Baldev Singh presented an enlightening introduction to today’s Technology Tasks! His excitement and passion radiated through the room as he showed funny snips from youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz3lD03a_rE Baldev spoke many home truths, confidently conveying his message that as innovative educators we may find it easy to train one person in our schools but we will find it much harder to train all the teachers and indeed the whole school! He also wisely quoted that “technology might be the answer, but what was the question”!
Then it was on to the technology labs to learn, learn, learn!! We started with Bing Maps (www.bing.com/maps) – a fully interactive piece of technology that could easily be incorporated into many lessons! The Bing Apps easily allow users to calculate distances, map routes and events and you can even see the cost of petrol at certain locations! We then briefly touched on Windows Live Movie Maker (http://explore.live.com/windows-live-movie-maker?os=other) and AutoCollage (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/autocollage/). Then it was on to business creating a Learning Activity using all of these ‘new’ products. My new partner in crime Jan (@janwebb) and I decided to create a cross curricula, multi-media task where students from the UK and Australia collaborate on various tasks with the end product being a digital story about the travels of Dan the Dalmatian. (Drawing from inspiration from our friend Dan @chickensaltash) More details to follow later but the task involves the use of Photosynth, (http://research.microsoft.com/enus/um/cambridge/projects/autocollage/) OneNote, a Wiki, and GreenScreen technology.
Then it was on to the technology labs to learn, learn, learn!! We started with Bing Maps (www.bing.com/maps) – a fully interactive piece of technology that could easily be incorporated into many lessons! The Bing Apps easily allow users to calculate distances, map routes and events and you can even see the cost of petrol at certain locations! We then briefly touched on Windows Live Movie Maker (http://explore.live.com/windows-live-movie-maker?os=other) and AutoCollage (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/autocollage/). Then it was on to business creating a Learning Activity using all of these ‘new’ products. My new partner in crime Jan (@janwebb) and I decided to create a cross curricula, multi-media task where students from the UK and Australia collaborate on various tasks with the end product being a digital story about the travels of Dan the Dalmatian. (Drawing from inspiration from our friend Dan @chickensaltash) More details to follow later but the task involves the use of Photosynth, (http://research.microsoft.com/enus/um/cambridge/projects/autocollage/) OneNote, a Wiki, and GreenScreen technology.
Jan and I with our super Microsoft mPhone!
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