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Welcome To EDCI 336 Wednesday, December 15



"Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse.

As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.


 * Here is a secret hidden in plain sight: ** good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

In fact, knowing my students and my subject depends heavily on self-knowledge. When I do not know myself, I cannot know who my students are. I will see them through a glass darkly, in the shadows of my unexamined life—and // when I cannot see them clearly I cannot teach them well. // When I do not know myself, I cannot know my subject—not at the deepest levels of embodied, personal meaning. I will know it only abstractly, from a distance, a congeries of concepts as far removed from the world as I am from personal truth.

In every class I teach, my ability to connect with my students, and to connect them with the subject, depends less on the methods I use than on the degree to which I know and trust my selfhood //—//and am willing to make it available and vulnerable in the service of learning".

Parker J. Palmer- The Heart Of The Teacher, Identity and Integrity In Teaching

Great/Fun Resources Posted This Week: Melissa posted a link to some great Canadian Social Studies Resources and Find A Park Nearby Elf Yourself


 * This Week's Topics: **

Taking Your Blog To the Next Level Course Experience Survey Learning Management Systems: Moodle

In order to do this seamlessly you need to upgrade your Wordpress account or follow these instructions.
 * Embedding Audio In WordPress **

Working With Audio and Podcasting: Recording, Editing, Sharing This week's podcasting assignment due Friday December 10

Ideas and Resources This Week :
= **Facebook Template** = If you would like to create a “fake” facebook page for a character in a novel or play here are some resources.

===Hi everyone! For the summer institutes I am trying to gauge the interest for a French session. I am looking at possibly doing the French Immersion certificate or an FSL option depending on what the interests, needs and abilities of the people who want to take this on. If we have about 15-20 people interested we can bring a proposal to the dean and they will have to at least respond to us. If you are interested you can contact Shannon O'Halloran at ohallora@uvic.ca.===

In response to the French session, we talked about this at the PDPP meeting a week ago and we learned that it's not that they can't offer the courses or create an institute, it's that they can't find professors to teach the courses. This is obviously a problem; so in your proposal you might want to bring this up. Good Luck!

Claire (A04) posted a website that could be used as a "Current Events" "Community Time" resource Website Link: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/ News Stories in Photographs

Andrew posted a useful link for storing and sharing files WeTransfer

For those of you in Carmen Rodriguez De La France's Indigenous Studies class and anyone else who is interested, here is the promised summary of your mind-mapping on teaching methods for resistance and supporting indigenous learning styles in challenging situations:



This wiki seems to be a powerful tool for sharing information beyond the 336 course (easy and accessible), thanks for the opportunity Kathreen! -Shanon, Sarah, Cail, D and Ian

This Week' Topics
Editing Your Video Footage

If you are done editing the footage and you are ready to record, add, edit sound:



Audacity this is a free software



GarageBand this comes with the Macs

Ready To Upload your Video to YouTube?
Follow these instructions. Use the EDCI 336 Course YouTube Accoun t


 * Where to save your video:**

Z:\educlab\Courses\EDCI336\Students-A05-EDCI336

Check out these links for animation
Xtranormal - Text to Animation Curriculum Connections:
 * LA: change the ending of a story you read in class
 * LA: paraphrase a conversation between characters
 * WL: translate text from a foreign film or classic novel
 * Math: Explain how to solve a problem
 * SS: Replay a scene from a historical battle or conversation

Announcements and Interesting Links:

Chloe (A05) uploaded her Flash animation on Special Education to to this wiki because she thought others might be interested in trying it out. Feel free to comment on the presentation by editing the wiki.



Alex (A05) posted an interesting graphic presentation by Ken Robinson Chris (A05) hosts a radio broadcast on CFUV 101.9 1:00-2:30 Fool's Gold DimensionJulia (A05) posted her review of Waiting For Superman December 1+2nd at CinecentaChantal (A05) posted a link to graphic editingtutorials.

This Week's Topic:

Video Creating Editing and Publishing

This week's assignment: Submit a plan or storyboard of your video production.

Event today! http://www.derrickjensen.org/appear.htmlin the MacLaurin Auditorium (Room A144) at 7:30 PM. The lecture is sponsored by the Indigenous Governance Program and Social Justice Studies. It's free and open to the public.(Author of endgame)-IanThis is interesting:[]

-Jason. Blogs of Note[|Education News]- KristineUberblond- JasonMore Assessment Resources Assessment For Learning, Assessment As Learning, Assessment Of Learning 

Music Time?
For anyone who's got a few reading break hours to kill (some have expressed interest) - [|Cold Cut Combo] is playing off-the-charts-Amazing Gypsy JAzz at [|Vista 18] this Thursday Nov.11 if you're up for meta-cognition with a fabulous martini in a laid back classy+cool environment...Music usually starts around 10-ish... -JB.

Movie Time?
December 1+2nd at Cinecenta: **"[|Waiting for Superman]"**. A 'high minded comedic psychothriller' about the American education system.

Ipod Silhouette Assignment (thank you Melissa)

This weeks topics:** 1. The Fascinating Universe of Spreadsheets **
 * How to create a spreadsheet
 * How are spreadsheets help you survive report card period
 * How spreadsheets are used with students

- Colour coded example -
 * Open with excel, the formatting won't work in open office!

Formula For Letter Grades How to create Weighted Averages

** 2. Supporting Safe Uses Of The Internet: ** Your Digital Footprint

Internet Safety Internet Safety and Cyberbully
 * Tools to keep you informed
 * Social Media Sites
 * Browsers
 * Working on wireless networks
 * Resources for you and your students

3. Spreadsheet Assignment

This Week's Topics :Blogs of Note: Only Dead Fish Evaluation: Formative and Summative Formats Presentations: To finish today. E-Book for Beyond Monet: The Artful Science of Instructional IntegrationDon't want to buy Beyond Monet? Here's a 51 page adaptation.

How to include sound in a prezi [] File Converter Link http://www.zamzar.com/

//It's Not Just About Content //

"And I think we have to move to a more inquiry-based, problem-solving curriculum, because it’s not about content as much anymore. It’s not about knowing this particular fact as much as it is about what you can do with it **.** What can you do with what you understand about chemistry? What can you do with what you’ve learned about writing? What does it look like? Assessments should be all about the products they produced, the movements they’ve created, the participatory nature of their education rather than this sort of spit-back-the-right-answer model we currently have".

Will Richardson

Change Agent

At the same time, this point of view needs to be tempered a bit. It's not all about being able to do a lot with nothing in the first place. If you don't know what a connecting rod is, you can't fix an internal combustion engine. What can you do with what you learned about a connecting rod from Google? Will the time it takes you to figure out the response to this question be better spent by taking your car to a mechanic? If we are all really great at producing products will there be any mechanics any more?

Aaron Anti-Change Agent?

Regarding privacy on Facebook>>>>>>>Found this: [] By Angela Alcorn, over here: [] Interesting catch phrase, "We are smarter than Me". - Jason - Agent of progressive, responsible, respectful, (etc.) change.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010Welcome Back! This Week's Topics:

Twitter- Just kidding. No, I'm not kidding. Check out the tool in first place for 100 learning tools for 2010!
 * Class Survey Results A04
 * A05
 * Managing Your Passwords
 * Blogging Best Practices
 * Presentation Tools: The Risks and Rewards
 * This week's assignment

Other Ideas This Week:

Teaching Math Through Culture
Other notes:

[|Beyond Monet] - If you're not in XCS, here's the text.

Like BCeSIS or not! Check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqqxRPZdfvs&feature=related

October 6:This week's topics: > [|Mid Term Survey A04]
 * 1) Twitter (A04)
 * 2) Information and Communications Technologies Grades 11/12 IRP
 * 3) Information and Communication Technology Integration Grades 5-10
 * 4) Class Survey:

Mid Term Survey A05


 * Announcements, Recent Updates and Contributions **

Add these people to Google Reader


 * (A04) Karli []
 * Casey's (A04) Blog
 * Angela's Blog (A05)
 * (A05) Ian's Blog

Movie Time?
December 1+2nd at Cinecenta: **"Waiting for Superman"**. A 'high minded comedic psychothriller' about the American education system.

Web Design Ideas Interested in some advanced web design? Perhaps you'd like to take a look at A List Apart - Cameron W.

Digital Dumping Grounds Very First Prescribed Learning Outcome: //It is expected that students will demonstrate a moral, ethical, legal and courteous approach to the use of technology.// Julia's (A05) sister has just received an Emmy for her work entitled Ghana, Digital Dumping Groun d What to do about our e-waste? Here are some resources: "Good" Recyclers Laws About E-Waste

Music Check Out Music that Jason has created and published

Resources Shannon Lucy found an open content repository called Curriki

Need For Speed? Andrew (A05) posted an online reading tool

UVic Presentation
 * [|**"Indigenous perspectives on global collapse"**] - IT'S OVER!! *2 main points of the presentation: 1.What is the impact of global collapse for indiginous peoples? 2. Collapse is immanent. *Important points to consider: 1.All alternatives to oil power rely on oil to be tenable and are thereby untenable. 2.Peak oil production was hit in 2008 and production is currently in decline. Dereck Jensen will be speaking at UVIC on Nov.17th. He's a bit extreme in some ways but he makes some good points. To be taken "with a pinch of salt": [][| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf1wFC2ul7M]

The "T" Word Tw * Ideas and Links Whitney (A05) discovered these links about Twitter //Below are some links to the opinions I found on how twitter can be beneficial in schools://

Teaching with Twitter []

25 ways to teach with Twitter by Sonja Cole [|http://www.techlearning.com/article/20896]

100 Ways to Teach with Twitter, by K. Walsh []

How Twitter in the Classroom is Boosting Student Engagement []

10 Tools for Twitter in your Classroom []

There are some interesting resources that have been posted by your colleagues.
 * Chloe (A05) would like you to know that if you are using ** Wordpress ** and you can't seem to embed your video from YouTube, you're not just crazy but Wordpress and YouTube are having trouble talking. Use the [|shortcode] method ONLY, instructions for which you can find [|here]. Good luck!


 * [|kevindooley]
 * Nikita (A04) offers a link to instructions on how to add audio to your blog.


 * Lauren posted several videos about social media. Here is how Twitter is used in a highschools in Minnesota.


 * Kim posted an article about a teachers banned from social networking sites.


 * Alex posted a Ted clip of Ken Robinson who suggests that Schools Are Killing Creativity.

>
 * [|**"Indigenous perspectives on global collapse"**] - IT'S OVER!! *2 main points of the presentation: 1.What is the impact of global collapse for indiginous peoples? 2. Collapse is immanent. *Important points to consider: 1.All alternatives to oil power rely on oil to be tenable and are thereby untenable. 2.Peak oil production was hit in 2008 and production is currently in decline. Dereck Jensen will be speaking at UVIC on Nov.17th. He's a bit extreme in some ways but he makes some good points. To be taken "with a pinch of salt": [][| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf1wFC2ul7M]
 * Karli http://whatsthat-karli.blogspot.com/
 * Angela's Blog
 * Ian's Blog


 * Interested in some advanced web design? Perhaps you'd like to take a look at A List Apart - Cameron W.