Week 6 - Back to being students

This week in ICT...

We made a powerpoint 6 word story about our student teaching. Each slide had just one word and a picture to go with that word. I could see this being used in a classroom where students have to summarize a book or an article that they read. Having to summarize an entire chapter in just one word would make students really think about what they read. 

On Thursday we had a guest speaker from the St. James school division in Winnipeg. He gave us many great ideas about how to use technology in quick and easy ways. One thing that he said that really stuck out to me was that students should have to think more about the task than about the technology. So basically students should not have to fight with difficult technology to get their point across. My favourite activity that we did with Darren was the video that we put up on YouTube. I wish that this could be used more in schools but many schools have privacy policies to get through to be able to post a video of students. 

Anyways, here is our video that we made in about 10 minutes!





This was a very cool idea and I think with more time we could have done a better job and this could be an excellent video.