Creating 21st Century Classrooms, Students, and Teachers

2010 Technology and Deaf Education Symposium  
Creating 21st Century Classrooms, Students, and Teachers (Session M11C)
Mari Lyles
Technology Director,
Texas School for the Deaf
Symposium Resources Available: Photos, Captions, Media Handouts, Links

Take Aways
Mari Liles showed one of the Did You Know videos (4.0, I think) and talked about technological tools used at the Texas School for the Deaf.

"At Texas School for the Deaf we believe that technology engages students and makes learning more fun... it's what the kids are doing so we might as well find a way to use those tools to present the information that we want to share with our students." 

 She talked about how tools such as Web cams, document cameras, digital projectors, student response systems, and a variety of Web 2.0 tools augment constructivist educational approaches by allowing students to collaborate and direct their own learning. I've listed the specific tools and their functions below. Your task: think of classroom applications that will allow students to direct, construct, and collaborate in their own learning.

Voice Thread -- Create presentations to which viewers may add comments. Demo
Animoto -- Creates videos for you from your still pictures, video snippets, and music
*Big Huge Labs -- Create media - newspapers, magazine covers, calendars, etc.
Blabberize -- Create animated "talking heads" using your still photo and audio clips.
DocsPals -- Convert from/to a wide variety of file formats
Glogster -- Create multimedia posters which may include video, audio, photos, and text. Demo.
ImageChef -- Create posters with text documents
Issuu -- Create and publish slick documents with pizzazz. Free version contains ads. Demo
KickYouTube -- Download and convert format of YouTube videos
NewspaperGenerator -- Create newspaper clippings from your existing documents
PhotoPeach -- Create a slideshow with text, music, and a quizz - similar to photo story
Print What You Like -- Print only selections of Web pages that you want - very handy!
Spell With Flikr -- Should make words with photos of alphabetic letters on Flickr, but link provided doesn't go to app!
Wall Wisher -- Post discussions, photos, links, announcements to a group
Wordle -- Create a word cloud from existing text


I thought that the most intriguing technology use was that of video iPods for home/school vocabulary instruction, but I can't find the site for it. Still looking.

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