Herman Wood

Lovinggood Apple Cart 1 & 2

Scheduling and management of the two Apple carts available to you is being done through Mrs. R. Crumley in the Media Center. Please meet with her at least a week before you need the cart. After you have met, she will set up a custom login for the project you have in mind and communicate it to you. Once the project has been completed, you should archive it to the hard drive she has available.

Shortly after that time, the login and all associated data will be erased so that there will be room for other projects.

The login you use for training is only for use during the training time, as it is a shared login. If you have a project for use in your class other than class assignments, please ask that a login be created just for that project.

One final difference is that any login is specific to that computer only and the data is not available on any other computer.

I am also able to assist you with any projects, whether done by you or your class. Scheduling should always be done with Mrs. R. Crumley.

iPhoto Projects for Middle Grades

I've heard concerns expressed that projects are great, but teaching must come first. What about learning? Do students learn as much or as well from doing projects? Are students more engaged with the curriculum when listening or when they're constructing? Please join the dialogue by sharing your thoughts as a comment for your first assignment.

Your second assignment is to create a digital project you can use in class with iPhoto. I'll begin by showing you a few things, then let you work.

There are plenty of resources to help you if you need to finish later:
Here's the link on our resources to the documents we created to help you with iPhoto '06: http://www.cobb.k12.ga.us/instructionaltechnology/mac/resource_files/iPhoto_6_manual.pdf
You have iPhoto '08? Well, http://www.cobb.k12.ga.us/instructionaltechnology/mac/resource_files/iPhoto_8_manual.pdf

From iPhoto, you can print photo books, greeting cards, and calendars, as well as create slide shows with music or other audio that can be burned to DVD.

Lovinggood Macs 2008-2009

There is a small cart of Macs for creating cooperatively grouped multimedia projects. The "Apple Cart" is for use in your classroom on student multimedia projects. Digital projects of all types are simpler to do and more robust using the tools built into these Macs. Projects include digital slide shows, digital audio, and digital video. If you don't have experience with these tools, it's sometimes hard to imagine what can be done.

One good way to understand how the tools on the Macs can be used in your curriculum is to see what others have done. Take a look at some examples from the Apple Learning Interchange:

6th Science Example
6th LA Example
6th Grade Math
More 6th Grade Math
& 1 more...
6th Grade Social Studies

7th Grade Language Arts
7th Grad Math
7th Grade Science
7th Grade Social Studies

8th Grade Language Arts
8th Grade Math
8th Grad Science
8th Grade Social Studies

Health & PE

I was unable to find an example of Art that I was really happy with, but why not have students create a slideshow of their own work or of the work of an artist in your curriculum? Here's one I did find.

As for music, create a slide show of images to accompany a specific piece of music with images the students find through research?

Now, who did I leave out? Let's talk!

You can also search on your own for examples done by others. Open your web browser and navigate to the Apple Learning Interchange.
Click Search

Put in a broad search term for your subject area and take a look at what others have done.

You have two assignments for homework:
1- Leave a Comment with your subject area as the title with a link to something in the Apple Learning Interchange that you found interesting.
2- Though targeted more at movie making, take a look at my resource on constructivist learning and student projects: http://www.cobb.k12.ga.us/instructionaltechnology/mac/resource_files/constructivist_planning.pdf Tell me in a second comment one way you have grouped students for collaborative projects in your classroom successfully.

Is this your Professor?

I just noted a blog entry on techLearning that really gave me pause.  It's generally accepted that our newest teachers use technology in college in their learning and already know how to integrate.

Please read:

http://www.techlearning.com/blog/2008/08/this_is_why_we_have_so_few_lap.php

How can this be the case if college professors work like this? If you are a new teacher, please share with me via comment what your professor's attitudes were in regards to your using technology in their classroom.