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ED 510 students are spreading the news - about the great things they are doing and events they are involved in. Enjoy these great newsletters -

B Bradberry - Fire Prevention

B Cockrell - Legislative Updates

A Moore - Wallace State Salon and Spa Management

A Childress - Federal Student Aid]

D Echols - Healthy Cooking Class

M Echols - Business Entrepreneurial Class

J Gaither - Teacher Advisory Council

A Ray - Dixie Cycles

A Haley - Athens State Spring Registration

A Smith - BHS Cooking Class

T Walker - Lake Martin Success

C Higdon - 5th Grade Play

Teaching with Technology

What technology resources are available for teaching and learning? How do you use them? What are the advantage and disadvantages?

These are questions ED 510 students have been investigating about a variety of technology resources. They presented their findings through lecture-capture video using Prezi and Jing.

The following submissions do a great job following digital content and presentation best practices - Enjoy!

B Bradberry: Maker Spaces

•          Speaker was the STAR – sounded knowledgeable and excited about the topic
•          Good design
•      Presentation moved, slides/zooms changed frequently

B Cockrell: Educational Pinboards

•           Intro voice synced with presentation
•          Great design
•          Knowledgeable and informative; excited about topic

A Moore: Teaching with Movies

•          Engaged the viewer from the start, by pulling us into her memory
•           Great design – main ideas/key words/phrases

A Smith: ePortfolios

•           Excellent design
•          Real examples
•          Presentation flowed well
•          Seemed excited and knowledgeable about the topic

Digital Citizenship

What is Digital Citizenship? That was the question posed to ED 305 students during an inquiry-based lesson this past week.

Student responses took the form of a digitally published lesson, designed to teach their "future" students about digital citizenship. Three of the "stand out" submissions are featured below - Enjoy!

H Sims topped the class, with this amazing, lesson! J Walker and N Williams also produced great lessons! 

Flipping the Classroom

ED 307 students have recently been learning about flipping their classrooms. Their work (information gathering and conclusions) was demonstrated through self-created animated videos, which were very well created and interesting to watch. I particularly found the animated presentation featured below interesting, based on the evaluation criteria used, which includes "creativity" and "content" components.

The featured submission is very relevant to what we currently see every time we turn on the TV and/or venture into social media. Additionally, the following information was included in the content, and I found it to be very correct and relevant to the current lesson, the course, and current educational hot topics -

• Video isn’t what a flipped classroom is all about
• Constructivism connection
• Increase interaction and contact time between students and teachers
• Content permanently archived
• Personalized education

President Trump Discusses the Flipped Classroom - by K Oswalt

Digital Citizenship

This past week ED 505 students collaboratively worked to develop Websites about digital citizenship. They did a great job - Enjoy!

Group 1 - S Abbott, M Adams, A Black, Q Brown, N Laxton, F Lewis

Group 2 - B Alsup, J Brown, R Kizer, C Maceina, C Pritchett, P Quincey, M Smith

Group 3 - L Caple, J Horne, Y Lee, J Sawtelle, MStallworth, C Taylor

Group 4 - C Cooper, T Heaton, D Hunt, L Hutton, S Parker, M Rogers

Partnership for 21st Century Skills - ED 305 class review

How did the mission of P21 become clearly defined?

Let's review the findings of the Are they really ready to work report: http://www.p21.org/storage/documents/key_findings_joint.pdf

Let's visit the P21 website: http://www.p21.org/


We are going to play in some Google drive products:

1. Google document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19fFrT-l1JdFIw-jyNMzIePiBM_nfk6n1aYzIHTzmM6I/edit
2. Google presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qfaxSmmi1bll-4Dvpdldl2yDd8sOEgmMmUy8UvsrYtI/edit
3. Google form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?usp=drive_web&formkey=dC1jR2FzUTZYdXBldGFEUXZmck1PVEE6MQ#gid=0

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

                                                                                                                         ~ Maria Montessori

Digital Citizenship

University of West Alabama ED 505 students have been hard at work learning all about digital citizenship. Check out these great Websites they constructed!

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Group 1 Digital Citizenship

Group 2 Digital Citizenship

Group 3 Digital Citizenship

Group 4 Digital Citizenship

Group 5 Digital Citizenship

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Group 1 Digital Citizenship

Group 2 Digital Citizenship

Group 3 Digital Citizenship

Group 4 Digital Citizenship

Group 5 Digital Citizenship