IT Space

Survey for Students who Graduation from Computer Science and Internet Technology

G1 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:53:35 +0000

This survey is only for students who graduated from Computer Science and Internet Technology. PLEASE do not fill out this form unless you have graduated between 2003 and 2011. The information we are gathering is used in part to help determine the success of our shop. If you know any students who graduated from our shop please let them know about this survey.

Thanks for your Help! G1, G2, and Mr. Botte

VERY IMPORTANT! – Only fill out this form once and please be honest with your answers.

Click here to fill out the form!

Filed under: What did you say?

New Flickr Widget

G1 — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:14:25 +0000

I added a new widget that displays photos from my Flickr photo alblum. The student are from the class of 2013. They are all engaged in a Lab they completed last shop week. They all did a fine job!

Filed under: What did you say?

Thing 7c – Google and Portfolios

G1 — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:39:14 +0000

I found a post on Instructify that talked about online portfolios. The two programs they mention is Google and Carbonmade. We have an online system at school that the kids can use to create a portfolio. That online program is somewhat limited for my students. Our students will want to show off the technical aspects of what the have done and they will require a system that allows links to outside services, the ability to embed media like photos, videos, flash etc.. I will have to evaluate both Google and Carbonmade to determine if they will meet our needs.

On a different but related topic I may have a solution to a problem I have been facing. This class has introduced many wonderful services and tools. It is easy to spend hours experimenting with these services and tools. It has become a stressful task that I feel obligated to complete. the problem is there are just to many to try and not enough minutes in a day. I think I may create a series of lessons where my students spend time with these tools and creae apresentation for the class. We will see if this helps me with this task. My ultimate goal is to teach my students about these tools and have them use them in future projects. This may just work. Stay tuned for updates.

Posted in K12 Learning20

Thing 14 – Voice Threads

G1 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:59:36 +0000

I selected this tool because we had a discussion in class and no one seemed interested in using this tool. I believe that this tool would make the creation of slide shows or media presentations more interesting for the student. I will test this next week in my Junior class. It will allow the student to personalize the slide show they create. I will post the end result of one of their projects.

Posted in K12 Learning20

Thing 8 Wiki Overload

G1 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:06:49 +0000

I checked out Viki Davis’s blog about Wiki’s and some of the examples of her students work. I feel like I have been reborn with a completely new briefcase full of tools to teach with. It is extremely overwhelming to me. I am tempted to stop taking this class and just focus on how I am going to use these tools in my lessons. Enough of that talk. Here is my review of a few of the Wiki’s I liked.

Math 12V Outcomes Portfolio

I liked the idea of using a Wiki as a way for the students to create study guides. I also liked the clear instructions and rubric that explained what they were to do and how grading their project would work. I can see me doing the same thing for my 10th grade class. My students will be taking two exams to get certified as an A+ technican and this will help with their studying. It can also be used and expanded on by next years 10th grade class.

Westwood Schools Computer Science

This is a great Wiki and offers a lot of ideas for creating Wiki assignments. I teach Computer Science and there are many entries for a variety of lessons.I liked the twitter projects and some of the tools that were introduced like Jott. You have to check out Classtools. A great selection of free tools for the teacher or the student.You could spend hours on this Wiki. Great Job!!

FHS Wolves Den

This Wiki has some good examples of students using voice threads to present various historic events and people. I just did a project with my students regarding web 2.0 tools and they wanted to see how students use voice threads in a project. They will see these examples next week. This Wiki was created by Jenifer Barnett. She is not updating it anymore by has provided a link to her knew wiki. That site is great as well. She has a page called Web Wardrobe. Check it out!

I have to stop now. I need more time in my day to see all that Web2.0 offers.

Posted in K12 Learning20

Top 3 choices for Shops

G1 — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:42:00 +0000

Take Our Poll
Posted in What did you say?

Week 7 – Top 5

G1 — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:35:34 +0000

List the 5 things we should do to our PC to protect against potential threats.

Posted in What did you say?

Thing 10 Creative Commons

G1 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:41:37 +0000

This is a very important topic in todays social media society. Most students don’t give much thought to legality when it comes to what they post on the internet. I would imagine this is true of any type of media that they use in school projects as well. I must admit I wasn’t aware of all the copywrite laws and how it effects what I can legally re-use in my class material. I just asumed most everythng requires permission to use so I have stayed away from republishing work I had found on the internet. After covering this material it’s nice to see sites like Creative Commons that helps to simplyfy these rules for us.

Posted in Class Assignments

9th Grade Week 5 – Question of the Day – Monday

G1 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:08:03 +0000

Please answer the following questions.

1. What are 4 precautions you can implement on your PC to help protect your PC against Malware?

2. What did you learn about today that you may use when your time in this shop is over?

Posted in What did you say?

Thing 18 – Creating my first podcast

G1 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:41:26 +0000

I created my first podcast as part of my K12Learning class. I uploaded it to the Gcast web site. I went back to listen to it and it seems like like the site may have gone down for maintenance in the middle of my file transfer. I will check back later to see if it’s there or upload the file again.

I created the Podcast with Garageband and exported it to ITunes to get the file in the correct format. It was a very simple task to complete.

My Podcast was on what I will do when creating the first podcast for my classroom. Basically I want a podcast that can be posted on the schools web site or the shop web site that describes what our shop is all about. This could be helpful to 8 graders and their parents when deciding on what shops to take at Shawsheen.

When I do see the podcast on Gcast I will come back and add the Gcast player to my blog site so you can hear my first podcast.

Posted in What did you say?