Engagement

I have done some of the other options for this assignment in my classes; therefore, I chose to do the Movenote. I was thinking that this would be a great tool for flipping some of my classes and getting content out very quickly. I always struggle when it is a big lecture day in class because I feel that I am working harder than my students (plus, I commonly get frustrated by dealing with inappropriate behavior as I am trying to teach). This gives me the options to have students watch the lecture at home; use the Chromebooks and headphones in class, and/or have a review session without having students stay after school. I really like this option and feel that it will provide the opening of time in-class for more hands on activities.

My only issue that I had with this site was that it wouldn't allow me to just insert my presentation from google slides.  I had to save it to my device as a pdf first and then post it.  It works great now that I know, but it appears that this shouldn't be the only option.  Just a heads up to anyone else struggling with it.

Why we need to teach geography...

I always enjoy showing this video to my classes at the beginning of the year.  This year, I may have my students do some pre-learning by looking up the answers to some of the questions even before they watch the video.

The way I see using blogs in my class are to share information with other teachers and the students.  In reality, it could easily replace the traditional webpages that we currently use.  This for the parents combined with the use of google classroom for students and teachers...is there any wonder why some feel that google is taking over the world?  The question becomes, when will education be mostly done through the internet?

Kickoff:

• What motivated you to become a tech nerd this summer?
• I want to never be complacent.  I want to continually learn the next and greatest thing for my students.  Things change so quickly.  I want to try and stay in front of it all.
• What you hope to learn about in Tech Nerd Camp 2.0?
• I hope to learn tools that will supplement my instruction and allow my students to learn and demonstrate learning in fun and creative ways in my class.
• How would you describe your current comfort level with technology?  What tools do you use already in your classroom (if any)?
• I feel very comfortable with the current tools that I use; however, I want to learn new tools.
• Currently, I use the following (to name a few)
• Flipboard
• Google sites
• Google classroom
• Kahoot
• Socrative
• Storyboardthat
• Pear Deck