June 7
Teacher
Cloning
The Question:
What can we do to
help our students
learn more?
Some Answers…
• More testing
• Make the kids give a damn!
• Smaller classes
• Differentiate
More testing
• This is the states solution to
everything. Throw another test
at it
• Benchmarks, district semester
exams, and TAKS tests
Make them give a damn!
• TAKS kills the relevance for a lot
of our kids, but there is nothing we
can do about that. All good
teachers have some ideas for
making their lessons relevant (a lot
of mine have to do with career
education, but I will share some of
others with you).
Smaller classes
• I think we all feel confident
that if we can give our kids one
on one or small group attention,
we can find a way to teach them
anything.
Differentiate
• Different learning styles
• Different levels of prior
knowledge
• Different skill levels
• IEP for every student
Automating
teacher functions
with technology…
Grading
• Blackboard testing
• Layered Curriculum
• Quia
• Textbooks
Grouping Students
• Blackboard groups (teacher
defined)
• Adaptive release
• ED-Soft data
Peer Communication
• Discussion Boards
• Track Changes
• Digital Cooperative learning
Strategies
Digital Echo
• “Ask three, then me…”
• Make up work
• Commonly repeated tasks
(format work, publish
moviemaker files, logging into
specific web sites, etc)
Automated Lecture
• PowerPoint w/narration
• MS Producer
• Camtasia
• Captivate
Personal Narration
• Create your own narration
(audio or video) to go along with
a PowerPoint show.
Narrate Pre-existing video
• Producer can combine any video
clip and the PowerPoint show
that narrates it or explain how
it fits into the curriculum.
• You can also use MovieMaker to
insert subtitles or questions in a
video
Screen Capture
• You can use any of these
programs (except PowerPoint)
to capture video footage of on-
screen actions. This is a great
training tool.
Video Basics
• PowerPoint Free
• MS Producer – Free (wmv)
• MS MovieMaker – Free (wmv)
• Camtasia - $100 (avi, wmv, swf)
• Captivate - $300 (stuff)
Video Format
Size Comparison for a 3 Minute Video
Format Size
Raw .avi 603 MB
Compressed .mpg 45 MB
.wmv 5 MB
.swf 1 MB
Storage Locations
15000
15000
3.5 Floppy
10000 Disk
Compact disk
5000
Dell hard drive
650
1.4
0
Size in MB
Producer
PowerPoint File
Video File
Producer W Page
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