Week+7

=**Geography**=

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 * The human migration factors is a great exercise for History and Geography
 * **The activity that accepts or rejects people trying to enter Canada is a good tool to show students how strict the immigration rules were**
 * **Gcast.com is a website for the sharing of podcasts**
 * Gcast.com would be a good tool but they are not accepting new memberships

=**History**=




 * **Googlebooks is a growing database** that catalogues books
 * A few years ago Google books was relatively small, now more and more books are available online
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 * **The sources provided are great tools for searching for documents and journals**
 * I wish I would have had these when I was still writing research papers in University
 * The quiz is a great way for students to become familiar with new software
 * Not sure what level this lesson would have been good for

=**Science**= []
 * They created a Wikispace that lists all the elements
 * The list will be turned into a database by the students
 * **I really like the idea of having student build the database that they can then share and use when studying for tests**
 * They also provide some useful web links to start the research (posted below)

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Here's what i came up with:
 * English (Comic Life)**
 * **Interpreting Shakespeare through Comic Li**fe
 * **Comic life is an underused software program that can get students to create literary documents in a more modern way**
 * Steve created a good comic as an example of what the program can do
 * I liked having the time to play around with it

=**English (poetry)**=
 * **Create your own diamond poem website** []
 * Different way to do poetry (always important)
 * **Having students do a visual representation of their poem would be a great interactive activity to get them involved in the content of it**

=**Science Nutrition**=
 * They handed out Hershey's kisses and had us do jumping jacks to demonstrate calories and energy
 * They presented an informative PowerPoint.
 * **They provided a website that allows you to evaluate your eating and activity lifestyles as well as calculating your Body Mass Index**
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 * The assessment was good but the **advice was useless**

=**Math**=
 * Game to force people to calculate different math problems
 * **__Very little technology was used__**
 * **__Math level was beyond the level of most people in our class__**

=**French Immersion**=
 * Create a Photostory for the positive and negative aspects of life in New France
 * **Photostory is easy to use**
 * **A differentiated way to present materials**

=**Online Learning**=
 * More and **more courses are being offered online** for students as alternatives to traditional in class instruction
 * The more options for students the better
 * This can be very **beneficial for student's at risk**
 * Still **requires a lot of patience and self discipline** on the part of the student
 * Online resources for Teachers are good, but very few exist right now. More and more will become available in a short time with the sharing of information
 * Some **private sites are offering good online lessons and resources**, like the Canadian War Museum []

=**Online Meetings**= media type="youtube" key="3gdOdiyZUys" height="253" width="323"
 * In general I think our schools are not ready to use this type of online meeting technology
 * Students still benefit from having a teacher they know in person, not around the world
 * Also, the **financial issue** is again important most schools don't have the funding to provide each class with the hardware
 * These programs could be **useful in an educational setting**, being able to meet, discuss and teach can certainly have some advantages
 * Skype is a great program that I have used before, the Adobe Connect program and Elluminate seem like it could have similar benefits
 * These programs could be good to have a **guest speaker talk to a class**, without having to show up in person
 * **Good for meetings with other schools, and other professionals**
 * **Here is a good YouTube clip of teachers conferencing via Skype and discussing Teacher social networks and other technologies:**