Educational Technology

Okay for the assignment this week I choose to do content objects because I knew of a few resources online but I thought there has to be more and I really don't have the time to research them much because I am teaching full time.  So I took the opportunity this week to try to find some more resources that I didn't already know about.  It was a great experience and I want to share some of the resources that I found.  So first I think that I need to tell you that I teach physics which is a great subject that lends itself well to simulations.  This was the first one that I explored.  There is the website PHET.  Which stands for physics education technology.  I already kind of knew about this website but I have not taken the time to really explore all that it has to offer until this week. Let me tell you it was an eye opening experience.  It has all kinds of resources that I didn't know about.  I mean there are the simulations themselves which are great and help students visua

                    So this weeks assignment was to explore different creative tools that they have using technology.  There are so many out there.  There are tools for creating videos.  I explored a few of them.  imovie is an app from Apple that helps you create movies from clips that you can film yourself.  This is a very handy tool. That students can use very easily.  I think that most of my students have some kind of smart phone in their pocket.  Most of them use them to consume content.  Few use them to create content but they are very useful tools for that if you combine them with imovie or splice or filmmaker pro or videoshop.  all of which are very similar in what they can do and you can get each one for free on the iphone.  I think videos for assignments offer a unique way for students to express themselves and it is a wide open field as for options of what the students can do.  I think this wide open field allows students to express themselves in a way that they could really