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=Topic #2 - Process=

Discuss a different way of processing the information in your content area using technology.

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Jill Firestone Description: For my high school history classes, students could utilize a class wiki to review for a test. I could post key concepts from a unit of study and the students could log in and add information and details to the prompt. Essentially, the students would be creating their own review sheet. I would have the ability to add additional prompts and information as well. I could also project the wiki on the overhead screen for review during class. A voicethread could also be used for the same purpose. I could initiate prompts for review and the students can hold a class "discussion' on their own time. Both give me the ability to monitor for correctness but I suspect that students may regulate each other for that as well.

Walt Ellet Description: I like being able to show students the methods and techniques they have used to solve problems. Using a document cameras and digital stills, students would be able to post their solutions and techniques using shutterfly or voice thread. This way using comments others students would be able to aske questions and gain futher knowledge of an experiment, example or practice problem. Also, I could provide the textbook/ogt/given method as a suppliment to the materials given in class. This would reach those those like to produce the examples and products as well as get those who can futher the explaination or reexplain something in their own terms, while showing them what it actually looks like.

Coy Buckeye Local I have been looking to use either iWeb or wiki spaces as a means to communicate with parents/students. I would like to use a calendar for events and record daily announcements and post them. We could also allow for links to resources for the school. We could include information about yearbooks, graduation, act, etc. I need to make a decision about which to use both are great options. I think it necessary to have open access to content of the school.

JEFF BUCKEYE LOCAL One of the biggest things I run into when I am teaching Calculus is that when we are doing algebraic processes, some students struggle with the process because they want to SEE what is going on. When this happens, we take a break, get out our graphing calculators, I pull up my graphing calculator emulator on my computer and we LOOK AT the same problem graphically. Many of our students need to SEE and not just DO the math and this is a very simple technology I use to reinforce many of the concepts I teach in my Calculus class. Many of them have an AHA moment after they SEE what the algebra looks like.