Tonights reading were very interesting from an ASU students point of view. During both my Masters and Bachelors degree I was taught to write much better objectives then were written in the examples. In fact if I were trying to "sell" technology to my administrator I would write an objective that identified student learning and how technology was being used.
The use of a scanner is not something I have much experience with. Mostly because I spend more time at school then at home. I do see the usefulness of a scanner in the classroom , and I hope to be able to integrate into my classroom.
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Yes...I know about those objectives...it sure did spark some interesting conversation in class tonight. ;O)
I was surprised by the tips for cell phone picture taking. I just love our digital photo age with the additional usage of Photoshop Elements. You can get so creative and invent all sorts of ways to use them. :O)
I use a scanner frequently for things that are not already in digital format. For example, recently, I scanned in our school map (the blueprint one that's to scale) to create our emergency maps and exit maps for evacuation. I was able to take it into Photoshop Elements and add teachers' names to all of the classrooms and add color to areas where water, electric and gas shut offs were located etc.
I would like to have a "data base" of cool ideas for using digital photographs in our classrooms. Tonight's readings offered some of them...even though their objectives weren't quite measurable. :)
I was curious to find out if you even have a scanner in your classroom or your computer room. Also, wondering whether if scanner get used much at your school or with your students? I know when I tried to scan some pages from a story at my school, the scanner was not even set up. Just wondering how often it's used at school with students????
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After hearing you discuss the 1001 Digital reading during lab time tonight and your frustrations with the objectives. I completely agree! My administrators would put me on an improvement plan just by looking at the objective! Did you notice a language objective in there?? Nope! I wonder how old these are and if these teachers deal with ELL learners. It is amazing how far we have all come...not only in the past 2.5 weeks, but just in our short time as educators. Where will we be 20 years from now?? Exciting to ponder. :)
Unfortunately, we do not have a working scanner on our school campus. Not sure why...but I do have older scanners that I bring from home and hook to older computers that I own and bring from home to use in my classroom. :O)
My students use the scanner for their drawings or photos that are not digital.
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