Ways to Use Technology

What is a great about a blog, and why educators should be using them right a long with their students, is that they are a great platform for distributing and sharing content. Here is an example.

Here is a Keynote presentation I developed on using Cell Phones in class.

Sure, I can do the old fashioned approach and go through it in class. I've embedded videos to make it entertaining for students and to drive home my points. But how many of us have been bored to death by a slideshow where the presenter chooses to read every word? Exactly.

Instead of going over it in class, I can embed it in a variety of ways on a blog and offer students a number of ways to view it and to interact.

Here is one way to share it with slideshare:

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Here students can go through the content at their own pace. They also have the option of downloading it onto their computers and watching it whenever they wish.

In addition to those benefits, Slideshare also allows students to like it via Facebook, Tweet it, and email it.

Here is yet another way to share it using youtube:



This allows students to view it as an actual video, from their phones, iPods, or computers.

Distributing content is good.  But allowing students to engage and interact with it is vital.  This is something my generation never had the opportunity to.  We were simply treated as empty vessels and the teacher was the sage on the stage who was expected to fill us all with knowledge.

There was often little interaction.  That's now how the millennials learn.

They expect (or crave) to interact.

Here are two ways we do this in class.

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