5 posts tagged “micca”
After hemming and hawing for far too long, I decided on the topic I want to present at MICCA. Here it is:
Free Online Resources
Blogs, podcasts, photos, movies ... there are many projects students can do to integrate technological literacy, but applications, servers, and bandwidth can get expensive.The purpose of this session is to introduce a variety of free and easy to use services that are available for you to use with your students.
Now granted, there's no guarantee that my proposal will be accepted. Last year I got lucky with my session on blogging, I know.
But I'm not sure I can afford to attend this year unless I'm a presenter, and I don't want to miss this opportunity to see David Warlick present the keynote.
The deadline to submit proposals is February 2nd, so I've got a while to go before I find out if I'm in or not.
I hate the waiting game.
One of the nifty things about being a member of MICCA is the monthly newsletter. Sure, most of the stuff either doesn't apply to me or doesn't interest me (or both), but the parts that I like more than make up for the rest.
This month's newsletter had a whole section on web-based photo applications, including Snipshot. This site lets you edit pictures online. It isn't as powerful as Photoshop, but then most people don't need Photoshop. After I've played with it a while I might even start recommending it to my students.
I've heard of online image editors before, including MyImager, Phixr, and PXN8. I'm sorry to say I haven't played with them as much as I'd like to, but I still think they're cool.
I'm still looking for MICCA ideas, and now I have more time since PUWT '06 is over. As I was going through my neglected RSS feeds in an attempt to catch up I came across this:
The Social Web: Building Interactivity into Our Sites' Websites
I'm a fan of the stuff that Bud the Teacher has been doing, and this is no different. It's also very close to what I think I should be doing for MICCA.
Of course it's not a duplicate of what I want, but that's a good thing. If it was, then I would just be copying.
John Hubbard of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries made this cool online workshop explaining wikis. I haven't had a chance to go through it all yet, but it looks cool.
I'll be running workshops on PowerPoint design and blogging (& podcasting netcasting) at this weekend's Powering Up With Technology Conference, and I am looking forward to it, but I just got notice asking for presenters at this year's MICCA Convention and I don't want to do the same thing as last year.
So how about a workshop on two way teaching? The concept's been around for a while, but there are a lot of websites and other tools that can help make two way teaching a LOT easier.
Info:
K12 Online Conference Presentation on 2WT (The presentation that made me think this would be a good topic.)
Two Way Teaching Wiki (As of this posting it's very sparse, but could grow if it gets some help from others.)
