I love my job. Most of the week I've been doing professional development with teachers who have just received new laptops. Our half day, two-on-three training sessions with teachers who wonder "why are we doing this?" as they enter, often exclaim "My head is full!", "This was great!", or "When can we do this again?" as they depart.
As much fun as it is working with my colleagues, the best part of this week was getting into the classroom and working with kids. The middle school Extended Learning Program students have been studying Australian Aboriginal Art. As they started their unit, they collaborated in sharing the resources they discovered by posting links on the class's private wikispace. I helped guide them in creating class accounts and making appropriate contributions a couple of weeks ago.
When I returned this week, I saw the beautiful artwork the students had created in the style of aboriginal Australian artists. I handed students a digital camera, and worked with their teacher to create a free account on Photoshop Express. In short order, we uploaded dozens of images of their artwork, shared the gallery, and embedded it in the wiki.
The embedded show is shown below. Explore the buttons. The lower right icons copy embed codes and link to the interactive gallery on Photoshop.com.
Cloud computing with kids creations... I love my job!
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Hi John - great meeting you at ASTE - I enjoyed your google docs presentation - could you add a follow button to your blog (I didn't see one) I'd like to keep reading what's going on up there.
Great working with you at ASTE.
(I'm a surf kayaker here in Kodiak - sounds like you have a fun summer job!)
Melissa (Kodiakedtech)
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