- What two strategies did you choose and why? I tried Ping-O-Matic, so I will see how it goes. I was interested in seeing how many people are exposed to my website. I had never heard of this before the night we all got together. I am also putting my site on Facebook for friends and family to visit. I have quite a few friends that are teachers or work with kids, so this might be a good opportunity for them to use this.
- How useful was this project to your overall professional development as an educator? I think this is a wonderful tool to help get information out to a wide audience. I like the input of a blog for teacher to teacher use. At the beginning of the school year the 7th grade math teachers put together a website to help other teachers teach math during remediation time. I think a blog would be a much better tool to get feedback for all the teachers of what is difficult for the students or how we might need to work extra hard on a skill. The blog would let all of the math teachers see how all the others are dealing with skills across the county. I would love to use this in a class setting and I will work on ethical and logistical issues to try to get this in the classroom.
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McGonigal has written a book stating how computer games help make kids smarter by using a delivery system they will embrace. Visit the Smithsonian.com to read about her views ans make sure you read the comments as well. Whenever you have a new way to reach kids that mirrors such a hated medium (by parents) you get a great discussion.
One of the things I love about natural history museums is that you sometimes get to see real dinosaur bones. There is no substitute for seeing the fossilized remains of creatures that lived millions of years ago. If you want to see dinosaurs running around you will have to look to the movies, but a new exhibit tries to bring dinosaurs to life in a museum setting. Next week Canon will open its “Dinosaurs—Miracle of the Desert” exhibit in Chiba, Japan. This is not going to be your standard fossil casts and models display, but an entirely digital show featuring moving dinosaurs that visitors can see only by looking through special 3D goggles. Just make sure that you don’t run into anyone else while walking around!
This is from Smithsonian.com
This is from Smithsonian.com
This is cool and silly. Technology is a great way to engage kids in learning without them realizing. As I watch this video, I wonder if the girl will but the Lego box to play with the mundane cubes inside.
Putting images on a flat surface is really expanding into all kinds of territories.
Putting images on a flat surface is really expanding into all kinds of territories.
This new site offers the latest news in augmented reality. They now have an AR app for smartphones and Total Immersion coming soon for iPads.
Augmented Planet
This video is featured on the site and shows the latest AR aimed at teachers. The kids would LOVE this!!!!
Augmented Planet
This video is featured on the site and shows the latest AR aimed at teachers. The kids would LOVE this!!!!
This is Popular Science's second cover in AR. The 3-D projection is not as fun as the baseball cards, it is fun to think of textbooks showing the Battle of Bull run in 3-D or an octopus camouflaging in many different environments.
Here is something for your student who always wants to know "When am I ever going to use this?\"
3/10/2011
This is a cool video to teach students how this new technology is starting to revolutionize the workplace!
Wow your students with a new version of AR using baseball cards. Hopefully this technology will make its way into the classroom.
This video is sure to get your students brains buzzing! When you first try to explain what AR is to a group of middle students, they don't know and it is something that is hard to explain to them.Showing videos of what they are about to experience is a great introduction.
It is also nice for a change to know something about technology that they don't!
It is also nice for a change to know something about technology that they don't!
White Board Blog
This website is a great way to 'try out' the latest technology in AR. You do have to print out a marker for the object to 'stand' on before you can interact with the object. You will also be using your computers webcam for this. The teacher in me loves the first example of AR where you can superimpose the body systems over top of your own body. What a great learning tool! If you like to experiement with technology check it out!
This website is a great way to 'try out' the latest technology in AR. You do have to print out a marker for the object to 'stand' on before you can interact with the object. You will also be using your computers webcam for this. The teacher in me loves the first example of AR where you can superimpose the body systems over top of your own body. What a great learning tool! If you like to experiement with technology check it out!