T and T Nov 6 Weekend Edition

Class

Why will Rennie be gone?
Nov 19 start time - 10:00 - assistive technology speaker - Lori Wiebe (oarc.ca)
Dec 6 presentation, exam?, lunch
Exam Questions
Edmodo - sign up and join my course - code 1jb40o
GPS and your camera

Apps I like (you can share too as the course goes on)

• Languages
• History
• Periodic Table of the Elements

Important Ideas #10 and 11

Technology Bias!! 
Ways of thinking

• Clip from Food, Inc - Efficiency
• Language and metaphor

Postman’s Five Ideas

• First, that we always pay a price for technology
• Second, that  there are always winners and losers.
• Third, that there is a bias embedded in every great technology
• Fourth, technological change is not additive; it is ecological,
• Fifth, technology tends to become mythic

What we value

• Speed
• Efficiency
• Resources
• Personal distance
• Basic information over thought
• Are we any happier?

Mobile Learning

Carly Shuler RWL
Upsides of Games
Gary Small and iBrain review

Break - Posterous - take pictures, make comments and email to mlcourse123 at gmail.com

Lab

Video and videoish -  
Middlespot - web mashups
animoto - video from images
Doink - simple drawing and animation
Glogster - create posters with pictures, movies, etc

Podcasting - iPadio (phone to web)

Getting YouTube videos - keepvid.com, or  savevid.com

RWL - Assistive Technologies

RWL at least two of these for Nov 19 please.

Read

Bridging the Gap
MobileLearning4SpecialNeedsKids
Mobile Devices in Special Ed

Watch

The Sound of Learning - Edutopia
Enabling Dreams - Edutopia - search for others
MobileLearning4SpecialNeedsKids

Listen

http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/podcast.html    Part 3  - about the first 5 minutes
Listen to a special education edition of the Science Podcast. ????
iTouch4SpecialNeeds links

App Lists and Recommendations
iTouchForSpecialNeeds
http://itouch4specialneeds.pbworks.com/w/page/32672136/FrontPage
MobileLearning4SpecialNeedsKids