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This blog is designed to reflect on my experiences with technology integration throughout the Fall Semester of 2010. It is being written in accordance with guidelines given in MEDT 7464 – Technology Integration. Hopefully by the end of the semester it will be a good resource that can be used as a reference tool for my own teaching as well as something that I can share with my department. My goal is to give a thoughtful post to each writing prompt that will be insightful and meaningful. I hope that it will continue to help in my endeavor to increase student learning and achievement throughout my department.

Featured Website

The website I am currently featuring is titled Rubistar. Rubistar is a free tool that helps teachers create rubrics for project-based learning activities. It requires teachers to register in order to use the site and create rubrics. The site also features the ability to make rubrics interactive. The rubrics can be used with Blackboard and Moodle. Users can also download their file to an Excel Spreadsheet. There are also customizable rubric templates that are available. This seems to be a useful site that can help in the assessment of technology projects in any grade level. I have enjoyed browsing through it and hope that you will too!

You can find this site at http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Voice Thread

The latest project in MEDT 7464 involved using a tool on the web titled Voice Thread.  This tool was very easy to use and develop a lesson with.  The hardest part was figuring out how to get more people involved with commenting because I only had one microphone available.  The students that were involved with commenting really enjoyed using Voice Thread.  They found it to be very user friendly and easy to work with.  After questioning the students I found that they would like to do another project using this tool.  Overall it was a successful project.  I believe that this tool could be helpful no matter what age group or subject area you teach.  It is definitely something to look at to help integrate technology into your classroom.

Here's a link to my Voice Thread project.
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