Google Reader, RSS, Subscribe to Blogs

Google.com to more to reader
Organize blogs to folders
RSS - Really Simple Syndication
Use a folder and add a subscription to put all students into one class
Cellphones in the Classroom by Liz Kolb
I ordered this to use in my Personal Finance Classroom. She talks about banking and bill pay with the cell phone.

Web Quests, Videos and Virtual Tours

Web Quests
I found several web quests that would be excellent to use with my students. Sometimes the links did not work so I can see that they could be used as a take off point for creating my own.

Videos
I found many videos available through iTunesU from the UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business. There are so many--I couldn't show them all in a year--but great topics for my course of study. This past year students in my class created a project called Marketing Marketing. They designed class sweatshirts, wrote a Marketing Rap song, performed & filmed it. Then all students used the raw footage from my Public Directory in Movie Maker to produce a finished ad for the class.

Virtual Tours
I found very good virtual tours for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Also virtual tours have become standard selling practices for the real estate industry. Taking off from there it would be great for my students to create a virtual tour of the businesses that they work at, community businesses, or their own family business.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Group presentations for use of blogs, wikis & email in the classroom
Created a Teacher Web Page in my wiki and included photos of the last year class project with the assignment for the next class to do the same.
Created many more pages for my wiki mainly copy/past/credit to J.Schiffbauer-Teachingtoday2009.pbworks.com
Learned about Curriculum Pages, Scavenger Hunts, Videos, WebQuests
Found several webquests to use with business ethics, personal selling, entrepreneurship. Links to them are on the webquest page of my wiki.
Sample Webquests for Copley Business students:
http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/judie/businessethics/introduction.html
http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/judie/personalselling/index1.html
http://www.gecdsb.on.ca/d&g/DP/locatorn.asp (Idea builder)

Blog Comments

June 9, 2009

Commented on blog page for J.Schiffbauer. Found many useful links on her blog page as well as her Wiki. see her blog at http://teaching21c.blogspot.com/

Wikis, Podcasting & Blogs OH MY!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/19490596/in/photostream/

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

Tuesday, June 9, 2009





Wiki Day--My wiki is starting to take shape. Posting lots of information shared generously by J. Schiffbauer, excellent teacher of classroom technology at Malone University.





You will find the source of most of the info on my wiki came from her wiki at http://www.teachingtoday2009.pbworks.com/





I'm really looking forward to starting the new school year and sharing blogs, wikis, and podcasts (oh my!) with students. I can see this will add a whole new dimension to the computer classes at Copley High School!


Today I feel like jumping onto the Wiki Wiki bus!

iTunes--Podcasts -- iTunes U

1. UC Berkeley>Hass School of Business - Video
2. This Week in Advertising
3. US News & World Report - Financial Planning
4. Doing Business In.. Global Business considerations

Free Podcasts to use with Personal Finance and Business Technology

Shift in Tech Teaching

Teaching technology has changed drastically since 1985 when I got my first Apple IIe for classroom use. Teaching tech classes has begun to change at ever increasing rates each year.

I'm now starting to feel like I'm lagging too far behind my students! Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, My Space, Facebook, blogging, podcasting, iPod, Skype....I'm taking this class to try to catch up on it all...and feeling rather sluggish.

I'm starting to learn more from my students as I find they have depth of knowlege in their own areas of interest. I would like to incorporate more opportunities for my students to share their own area of expertise with other students in the coming school year.