Final Draft: Lesson Plan

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc2vpjq7_35hnsctwgs
This is the link to my Persoanl Technology Project Lesson Plan.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/bburnham/videos/1/

This is the video I downloaded. For the activity.

Too much fun!

I have discovered a new technology. It has to do with speech dictation. I'm actually using it right now to write this post. It hears me perfectly. I have a microphone built into my computer so I use that to speak into the computer. The program is a free download called e-speaking. What is great about this program is that I can write my papers without having to type. I talk faster than I can type. I still don't have all the commands memorized, but it is fun to talk to my computer and see it type when I say something to my computer. I can also use this program to open and close windows and to move to different windows. I can close my computer and open it. For now it has gotten everything I've said correctly. I don't think I will use this as my project, but it will help me when I think out loud and outline papers.

I think I'm having too much fun talking to my computer. Telling it what to write and watching it happen without me unfolding my arms is really cool to watch. The more I talk the more it recognizes my voice. I'm going to end my post and maybe start on my lesson plan for this class.

Project Layout

For my project I decided I would learn how to use Viddler. This allows teachers to critique their students and let groups of students critique each other. I have never downloaded a video on YouTube or Viddler before, so I may have to start by learning how to do that. I want my lesson to incorporate my students on a more honest level with each other.

My goal is at the end to have every student improve in critiquing someone competently. I find it personally difficult to look at myself in videos, so the atmosphere I want to create with viddler is a sense of all around good fun and a no shame zone.

Weekly Thought

As of today I have new website, http://sites.google.com/site/burnhamteaching/home. This website will be used as a great communication link between my future students and myself. The homework can be posted and shown. I can be creative with assignments, and pertain to the norm students prefer. The make-believe homework assignments are fun to come up with too. My dream will be by the time I graduate, my artistic talent will not just flow from my body, but through my hands on to this new website and my blog. My posters will become more detailed, and the videos will have a clear intent for the student to learn successively.