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If you own a computer…you must have | the list

In my last post I was talking about things that are great for neat tricks, great time saving devices, excellent linking and syncing software / applications and also good websites. If I was to get a new computer, I would recommend getting the Microsoft Software and the Adobe Creative Suite put in first, but then I would be tweaking the computer out with the remaining products. All of them are free and easily available online found at the links below. Check them out for yourself and install them today:

I hope contributions will allow me to come back here to add more. Thanks, in advance, for your help.

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Posted by Dr. Thomas Johnson | ict-design.org on February 16, 2011 in Technology

Tags: Must Haves, Programs, Technology

Using Google Docs for students with colored criterion

18 Jan

I have found a fantastic way to use Google Docs with students. Google Docs allows us to share documents like Word through the cloud. We can edit at the same time allowing the sharing of information back & forth.

What this enables me to do is create color coded criterion.

The students take this criterion and color code their answers to show they have covered all parts. It allows very quick examination from a student and a teacher to see where something may have been missed.

Feedback from the students also has demonstrated they like this way of doing things. I have encouraged them to take this idea beyond Google Docs to better examine chunky sets of instructions.

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Posted by Dr. Thomas Johnson | ict-design.org on January 18, 2011 in Education, Technology

Tags: Education, Google Docs, Objectives, Online Resources, Students, Teaching, Technology

New job title: Tech Integration Specialist

15 Jan

As many of my Concordian fellows know, I have come to a juncture in my road of education. I will be leaving Thailand in order to move on to Turkey. Doing so, I will also change job positions from a technology teacher for grades 6-10 in the MYP to a technology integration specialist for PYP.I look forward to the challenges it will bring working more closely with colleagues and getting back to the PYP.

One of my first jobs will be to gain to knowledge of many of the teachers I am working with right now. I will send out a survey to see what kinds of things technologies they are implementing in their classrooms now.

I will also talk with people from my ISTEC group here in Thailand, possibly leading me to talking with other integration specialists from NIST and other schools.

A subsequent approach to formative learning in my new school will be to do the same with my new colleagues. I am planning that it will prove positive in order to help guide my own working experience for the integration.

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Posted by Dr. Thomas Johnson | ict-design.org on January 15, 2011 in Education

Tags: Education, Integration Specialist, Jobs, Technology

Students are resources. Here are some reasons why.

07 Nov

To help develop this website and also to tap into the expertise and know-how of students, I asked them to view the site in progress in order to comment, blog, and make additions. I set up the class with a Microsoft One-Note* document available for all students to have access to. I created a few headings. In this case: good blogs, cool links, neat videos, music and games, and then let them to it.

I started with my grade 7 class and I think they had a lot of fun with the assignment. In doing this, I found out more about where they were coming from and they also found out a lot of cool things about their peers.

I feel the project worked so well I will have to try it out with other grades.

*One-Note is an excellent collaboration tool because it can be linked through a common server or LAN thus enabling multiple users to write and create on the same document simultaneously.