Using Technology in F2F is possible too

Google Form in Drive:

Since the embedding did not work at all (and trust me, I tried) here is the link to the Google form I made. I have made other forms, but I liked this assignment since it forced me to do one I always wanted to do: A course evaluation for my students to complete at the end of the semester. It needs work, but at least I am closer than before!

Prezi presentation:

For this week’s assignment I made this presentation in Prezi. I do not really like Prezi and I do not think I will use it in my classes. Buy it was a very good exercise, after a couple of hours 🙁 I was getting very good at it 🙂
What I liked in Prezi was the ability of getting the Google images online in seconds. What I didn’t like was that I could not find the way to delete frames at all 🙁   These presentations in general make me dizzy. Maybe one day I will make one that I really like 🙂

Sreencast Video of the week!

Jing Pictures

Here are my reflections for this week. After spending MUCHO time with my slidecast, I was happy with Eyejot because it was easy to make… but then… I HAD NOT IDEA HOW TO EMBED IT… the code did not work at all. So I made the link with the picture above.  I hope we see more of that! Here is the link and then, the slidecast I made (that I did not like and not think I will use it at all in my classes) Enjoy!

And here is the Slidecast I will never use 🙂

http://www.slideshare.net/lauracarlsson/gustar-16539069

I loved the reading this week; not only because it was short, but because it showed me two new places that I did not know: “picfindr.com”and “seamonkeyproject.com”, and because it insist in the use of “low-threshold, low-barrier”technology in the online classes. Moreover, Rosen & Ko ask the question I wanted to ask all this time to our instructors: “Does Blackboard (the CMS I use) supply with superb multimedia and beautiful crafted modules?” How much more do we need to add if we use Voice board, grades, announcements, assignments, plus the material that our e-book provides? We can use media in Bb too, can’t we?  It is just a question, it is not an affirmation. I am planning to add in my online class a Facebook group for participation and to enhance interaction in the class. I want to create a friendly environment similar to the one I currently have in my F2F classes and I think Fb is easy to use and familiar to most people. I do not really want to add much more. Skype or Google Hangout for office ours…?

I do use Flickr in my classes all the time. I create a group page so my students could post pictures of an assigned country and tag the pictures with descriptions in Spanish. Here is the group I created last semester.

I could not embed the picture with the notes, but if you click on the picture you will be able to see the notes in Spanish I wrote for this posting.

See you next week,

Laura