Here is a webmix (a Symbaloo page of related links) that I made as a result of completing some of the certification exercises:
I recently complete the Basic Certification course for Symbaloo. It's a self-paced series of videos and assignments, followed by a final exam. I earned perks after the completion of the program, including the badge on my site's home page. Here is a webmix (a Symbaloo page of related links) that I made as a result of completing some of the certification exercises:
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My featured teacher presentation on Classroom 2.0 Live! has concluded. I was extremely excited and honored to be featured. The link to the recording is here.
I included FreedomProject Education, Adobe Presenter and Captivate projects, and especially Scratch. I featured a current Algebra 1 student's extra credit project, which can be found at this site, under the Student Scratch Projects, in Resources. On Saturday, November 16, I will be the guest on Classroom 2.0 Live. This is the first time I'm presenting solo.
I'm going to share how I teach online. I'll share some of the resources I use, such as Adobe Captivate and Presenter, Moodle, and Weebly. I am a little anxious, and also very excited to present. I've had technical troubles in the last 2 weeks of shows as co-host. I hope the"tech gremlins" will go away on Saturday. I began using Scratch only yesterday. Here is my first animation. I think the video is self-explanatory. There's no sound. My 8th grade math class has asked to play Jeopardy practically each day we've met in the past few weeks. I can share a website with Jeopardy-like games with them during class. I'd like to add game-show-type sound effects to the game experience as well. I have some sound effects in Sound Byte. Now, I need a virtual sound card and dj-type program to control sound output. Once I have the sound output, I can input into the online classroom. I'll be playing the sound effects through the 3 programs and into the online classroom, during live classes. This Virtual Audio Streaming , virtual sound card tool, sounds exactly like what I need to accomplish my sound effects project. I think that once I "connect" the programs together, it ought to work. Over the past two days, I have been working with Adobe Captivate 6 to make a drag and drop activity for algebraic phrases. I wanted to create a fun activity for my 8th grade math students to practice this concept. This is my most-involved drag and drop activity so far, with 5 question slides that are part of the quiz. I like the effect of dragged objects disappearing into the target objects. I hope that will keep students interested, especially for some extra credit Try the file yourself below: I recently purchased the drag and drop widgets for Adobe Captivate 6. I wanted to see if I could improve upon the Hot Potatoes file for the quadratic formula proof review that I made over the school holiday break. It took much trial-and-error to figure out the basics to create the drag and drop files with Captivate. I had two major errors with my first couple of attempts. The first was not creating the objects themselves before running the widget. The second was trying to use a theme as the background. Using a theme only confused the widget. The files that I created are below. I have already added the the first file, practice without scoring, to the Algebra II course page. Go ahead, try it yourself. Drag the steps from the right-hand column to the left side of the slide in the correct order. For now, students will use the Hot Potatoes version for the extra credit. The proof will be a test question in the fu It took most of a day, but I think I have updated my website!
Those looking for my first blogging adventures can find theme here: http://loriemoffat.weebly.com/blog.html My New Year's goal is to reflect more on my teaching. Specifically, do more reflecting in writing. At the beginning of the school year, I was teaching 6 online classes. That proved to be far too much. I had only the last classes for 6th grade math and 7th grade math to prepare them for my departure. I asked the 2 groups to write something. Most of the comments were to the effect of missing me as their teacher; that math was fun in my class. Currently, I'm teaching 2 high school math classes and 1 middle school math class, all online. Each class meets twice a week in 3 different Blackboard Collaborate classrooms. The reason I kept the 8th grade class was that a student's parent had emailed me about how much her daughter enjoys my math classes. Her daughter never had liked math before my class. An entirely different student said the same thing in class this past week. She told me she had hated math before. Now, she really likes math and has fun in my classes. She also told me I'm a good teacher. I need to focus on positive comments like these. I get far too many negative comments, especially from some of the students' parents at progress-report time. I'm currently teaching 3 math courses online. I'm teaching 2 high school classes and 1 middle school class.
Today, before class started, a student of my mine commented that I am a good teacher. The student said that she had never liked math and now she likes math. She thinks my class is fun. What a wonderful way to start the new year! That's always good to hear. I usually hear more negative comments than positive ones. I have recently updated my website. I'm still in the process of moving all of the resources to this site. |
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