Prezi!

Surprise!  It's Prezi!

Copy of Mardi Gras Throws on Prezi
Here is also a link to it. 

Whew! That took some doing. I struggled with this for a while. I was all excited to upload power points (since I love those) and I think that was my downfall. I did not like how locked into things I was with all the imported slides. I also think my ppt was too big as well. I was getting overwhelmed with 70+ slides!!  Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy the look of Prezi, I just don't think I will use it for everyday teaching use unless it is a short format. I do, however, think it is great for students. It is visually appealing, relatively easy to use (despite my troubles) and encourages fluid thought and spatial recognition. You really have to get down a sequence of events to make the presentation make sense, which some students may have trouble with. My boss recently used a Prezi presentation at a meeting and was so excited about it! 

While both Power Point and Prezi are both presentation tools, Prezi is more versatile than Power Point in its delivery, format, and sequencing. Power Point is pretty staid in its format, with only fancy slide transitions to make it more showy.  Prezi also has an advantage having the ability to access it offline. However, I found the importation of slides to be difficult to manipulate after they were uploaded and confusing to maintain a large presentation. My hands are tired after so much unecessary clicking!

NETS T standards associated with Prezi are:

1) Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity

2) Design and develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments

3) Model digital-age work and learning

Creative within boundaries is good for students. I feel too much free reign can scare some off. With Prezi, students can be creative and still have guidelines. As I said before, I think this will help with sequencing of events, fluid thought and spatial conception. I think it helps students to problem solve and think logically while creating presentations that are outside of the norm and fun to look at! 

Photo Story

Here is the link to my photo story! I'll admit, I had some difficulty with this. Not making the photostory, that was fine. Although it was difficult to only have 20 seconds to speak. I cheated and went over by like a second on a few! I also did not like/was not sure of the 20 second duration for the slides! Some slides I spoke for only a few seconds! The other thing I was not satisfied about was the music! I could not get any of my music to upload! It killed me to have a presentation about Mardi Gras and not have any proper Mardi Gras music! It is one of the things that makes Mardi Gras Mardi Gras! Oh well. I had to settle for the tinny prepackaged background music. Oh, and of course I had some trouble figuring out how to change a .wp3 file into a .wmp, but other than that-piece of cake! Personally, I find this to be a useful tool. I am planning a trip to Europe this fall and this would be a good way to share images with some narration of what people are looking at! I like it! It is also a good way to give oral presentations in school or for work. Again, as with many things we have studied thus far, versatility is key! I think it would be especially good for students who have a fear of public speaking or have anxiety about it. This would be a good way to ease them into that, without the trauma of getting up in front of many and extemporaneously speaking or just reading from note cards. Also, with photostory, you get the opportunity to re-record your narration (something I did many times over!). NETS T standards associated with this are: 1) Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity 2) Design and develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments 3) Model digital-age work and learning Again, original content is creative! Having students learn by getting them to create original content is a great way to engage the reluctant student. Also, it engages many different learning types, both in viewing and creating. The inclusion of text, narration and sound will reach many different types of learners. As stated before, this tool has the potential to help shy students when giving presentations and teaches students to problem solve. It is a good way to deliver content and easy for both students and teachers to use. It is very versatile too! I would love to see the difference in presentations even when students are given the same subject!

POWERRRRR POINT!

So, as a (mostly) teacher of art, Power Point is my life's blood.There is no better way to combine images and text in a complete and easy to use package! I find it reaches both visual and text-based learners, it offers a wealth of ways to get images to students, it is easily manipulable. I love it! However, the more I teach with it, the more I worry I am losing my student's interest. I have hear whispers of the death knell of Power Point, but did not want to believe it. So, it was discouraging to read the article about that very thing. I do maintain good student reviews, and Power Point is still better than just reading text or having students read it on their own. Power Point allows me to make changes while I am lecturing-to make it better while I am teaching. One thing this class has taught me is that I can be a little too "talky" with my Power Points. So, I took a lesson I taught this spring as a part of my clinical in a 7th grade French class and changed it up a little to hopefully make it more impactful. You can find it here.

NETS T standards associated with this assignment are:
1) Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity
2) Design and develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments
3) Model digital-age work and learning
5) Engage in professional growth and leadership

As I have stated before, when I student creates any original content, I view it as being creative. Power Point offers such a wealth of options for delivery of information, there is no way creativity does not enter the picture. This software is absolutely geared towards developing digital-age learning and assessments. Students can make quizzes or flash cards with Power Point. It is also used in professional environments and the the workplace. So, not only is it a good student tool, it is a professional one as well.  The better we can train students for life in the real world, the better. And Power Point is just another way to do that.

Have I mentioned that I love maps?

Maps speak to me as a visual learner. When Google Earth first came out, my students and I were fascinated to be able to look at things on the other side of the world so closely. And to find ourselves looking at our backyards on the Internet!

Previously, we made a personal map in Google Maps. I didn't realize one had the capability to make personal maps and keep them on file whenever you need. I am going to Europe this fall and this will be a great tool to use! So, now that we had our map, we then turned into a Google Earth map.  Here is what mine looks like:

 How cool is that?? Our trip does not include Paris, but now I really really want to go!!

This was all done by using a KML file change. KML is an acronym for Keyhole Markup Language.
When I looked it up, this was the most information my neophyte brain could handle.  My husband is the one versed in coding and more advanced computer stuff than I.  I'm not sure how to "port information" other than just clicking the link to change the view. However, I can tell you that I find it important because again, it makes the world a smaller, more manageable place for smaller minds. Heck, it even makes me step back and say "wow!" Changing a view from a regular map to a satellite one is beneficial because it gives a real world view. It brings the faraway world to your doorstep and your classroom. Never been to Angkor Wat? Go there!!! For me, it just feeds my wanderlust to see images of faraway places and imagine myself there seeing the sights and smelling the smells.

Fortunately for us, the wizards over at Google have been cooking up more than maps and cool ways to  look at the world. The also have lesson plans to help you use these maps in new and inventive ways. The one I liked best can be found here.  This lesson helps students to map, analyze and critique where famous photographs were taken and their social, cultural, historical and geographical importance. The lesson indicates that this should stay within the confines of American photography, but I would expand it into world photography. A lot of students learn about time, but neglect the element of space. Why is the space around us so important? What was happening there? Why did these events take place and what led up to them? So many images are so iconic of the times, from this one here to this one, we need to learn about the where along with the why. As a teacher, I've found my student's poor grasp of geography to be staggering, now here is a fun way to incorporate that into lessons and daily life!

Also fun from Google, kinda in the same vein is this! What a dream come true!! What a feeling to view art up close and not get yelled at by guards! Students no longer need a passport to get the full effects of the art world. It is right at their fingertips!

NETS T standards:
1) Facilitate learning and creativity
2) Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments
3) Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility

Using Google Earth and all of its unique applications certainly fosters creative and innovative thinking. Students also hone their technological skills and learn trial and error from playing around with forgiving applications like this one. Students also learn about greater world they live in by bringing it into their homes and classrooms. Disaster and war may seem far away, but they can see the ramifications first hand. They can also enjoy the sublime beauty and man-made innovation the world has to offer too.

Map it!

I love maps! My sense of direction is pretty good (at times), but I do have a difficult time with orientation as compared to maps!!! Where were we without Google maps or GPS's?? HOW did I get around???  We got our GPS stolen recently and it felt like I lost an arm!  Fortunately, we both got around on our iPhone Google maps. (I love to follow the dot) But that, at times, became difficult. We recently got an iPad, and don't worry about the lost GPS anymore! However, someone needs to show me how to make the map on an iPad stationary!  When I flip the device around, the map moves too! Argh! This is what I mean when I say map orientation confuses me from time to time. Also, on vacation recently, I can do the car directions fine, but when you switch to walking directions-I'm hopeless! I'm hoping to get better at that!

So, when we were asked to design a map for this assignment, I was very excited!  What kind of map should I make? My husband and I are trying to get to Europe this fall... Anything having to do with food would be great.... But I decided to stick with what I know and that's art!  I spend the summer of 2002 living and studying in Paris and I wish I had this kind of technology with me then! So, my map is of some of my favorite museums in Paris. I could have added a lot more, but I stuck to ones that I have been to (all except two) and tried to keep a good variety!

You can find my map here and in the image here:

Here is a link to my intinerary that goes with my map!

Maps are such a good visual tool for students to use and now, with this application, be able to manipulate themselves. I can remember having to call up airlines for plane ticket information when I was in Civics class-now students can make a map of vacations, historical sites-anything!  It not only good for teaching geography, but also time management, schedules (such as trains and buses), how to get from place to place in the quickest way possible, and even a little bit of geometry! You could also bring in history and cultural lessons as well-the possibilities are endless!

NETS T standards associated with this are:

1) Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity
2) Design and develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments
3) Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility

Again, any self-created content is creative to me. This could be used in literature classes to mark the journey of Huck Finn down the Mississippi, to plan a vacation logically and economically, or to historically mark the Freedom Trail. Any idea that a student can cook up that has anything to do with geography of any kind can find a useful outlet here. The only limitation are the real world-which, is pretty endless! I am sure if it is this easy to make a map, that there is some way to make an assessment out of it! Also, this goes back to students finding their way in the larger world and this mapping application put the power of the known world into their hands. What better gift to a student then the world!

Batch-gee-o!

For some reason, I have to singsong this application, like it is some sort of product!
Here is my map!

I'm not sure how to embed, here goes!




View Ed tech map in a full screen map

Try Batchgeo yourself!

Oh noes!  I lost the rest of my content! Oh well, here it goes again!

I'm not 100% sure what to do with this application! While trying to put on my French teacher thinking-cap, I think I would use this for mapping Francophone countries and showing students how language migrated from place to place by colonists. I could also use it to map student's potential pen-pals around the world. I love maps, and can study them for hours, so I find Batchgeo fascinating, if not a little intimidating in its use of information to locate persons or places. I guess since I know that I am one of the flags on there, it is hard to think of myself popping up in the larger world like that, but that is exactly what this application is good for-letting students know that the world is not such a big scary place!

NETS T standards associated with Batchgeo are:

2) Design and develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments
4) Promote an model digital citizenship and responsibility

I like the term 'digital citizenship.' It indicates that with knowledge comes responsibility and this tool is a good way for students to learn both. I also like the term 'global village' and Batchgeo helps to shrink the huge wide world down to a manageable size for students, and show that while we may be far apart, we are still all humans living in the same big place.

Self-assessing

I'm all about self assessment. It is a great tool to evaluate your performance. Who knows better how you did than yourself? Of course, being honest with yourself is key. Since I have been teaching, I have really gotten into the habit of giving beginning surveys, exit surveys and the like. After going to a roller derby conference a couple of weekends ago, I got inspired to start giving self assessments to my team.

So, we were asked to assess ourselves for this course. Given that I was out of town for several days, and the fast-paced nature of this course, I got behind and I am still struggling to keep up. I think it is a major boon to have taught in a laptop model school AND to have take this course two summers ago, so I am familiar with many of these applications and am not afraid to jump right into using them. So understanding the assignments aren't the issue. There is some minor confusion over some small things-I'm still figuring out Diigo! My biggest challenge has been time-there is something due every day! Between work, keeping house, roller derby and my other online class it has been tough to stay on top of things!! I think I will feel more confident about this course when I get caught up! I also think I write a lot! Maybe it will make things easier if I edit my blog posts? I don't know. I like blogging, so I think I will keep being wordy! Overall, I am enjoying things immensely. New things are challenging and exciting to learn about and think about practical applications in my own online teaching and old things are getting remembered and polished. I really like this class!

Jing Image

Hey there!  Jing is really cool! It's free and a great way to share stuff!  It also provides helpful videos on how to use the product!

Here is a link to my Jing image! I chose to make a worksheet about fruits in French. I am working on my MAT in French, and while it is tempting to fall back into what I know best, which is art and art history, I have been pushing myself to be thinking, working and planning more in French! (I've even started talking to myself in French while alone in my car-just to get my brain in gear) I like Jing for activities like this one because it incorporates many different things, to include many different types of learners. It has images, text, diagrams, all sorts of stuff. And I know how to do a video one too-I can't wait for that!

Jing is a great way to screen capture, make a diagram, a tutorial, a worksheet-it's pretty versatile! And a lot of fun to use!  I liked it so much, that I use it regularly in my online course!  But, I pretty much use it for just a way for students to screen capture things, I had forgotten about its many other applications! This has so many uses!  Teachers can use it as an assessment tool, by providing a template that students have to fill in. Students can use it to make study guides! They can also teach a lesson to their peers though Jing. what I like about a lot of applications we learn about in this course are their versatility.  You are never supposed to buy a single-use kitchen appliance-why do the same with your computer applications!

NETS T standards associated with this are:
1) Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity
2) Design and develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments
3) Model digital-age work and learning

Anything that has a student making original content is creative for me. I like putting learning back into the hands of students and Jing is a good way to do this. Giving them some amount of choice and control can reach a lot of different types of students.  Teachers can use it. Students can use it. It is a good tool and resource for many different things, like sharing information, to study guides. Information sharing is a good way for students who are not particularly computer savvy to get more comfortable in this fast-paced digital age.

Let's talk about Diigo!

Guys. I'm kind of in love with Diigo. I was skeptical at first. I read comments for articles all the time, and I get really turned off by the amount of hate and vitriol spewed all over them. However, after reading this article, my views have changed. What an amazing way to foster reading and thirst for more information with kids who are obstinate than a tool like this one? My only suggestion was to have the ability to make a classroom group that was private and as I kept reading-guess what!  You can! This is a great way to take learning out of the classroom (where students can see it as dull and boring) and slide it right in nicely with their home lives and social networking!! I am out of my mind of the possibilities of this tool in the classroom!

Need help getting started? Watch this video tutorial!

The three steps to get it going are, read an article, highlight passages, make comments and bookmark them for easy retrieval?

I have populated my Diigo library with some things I have been looking at recently. Yes, I know I just did all of these, but they are sites I either use for school, so I remember them easily, have recently viewed in the past day or two, or I'll admit, stole from my IE favorites. Apologies for not getting to this sooner. This has been a crazy summer, between going full time at my job, 2 very demanding online courses, and my other almost full time job, roller derby-I just haven't had a lot of time!  Plus, I am a terrible procrastinator. And I thought this was really confusing. Turns out-it was easy! Well, the bookmarking part. I tried to do some highlighting and it kept telling me no or highlighted parts I did not want. So that needs some figuring out. Will I trade this for a favorites list? I'm not sure yet. I might since I have only recently started using Chrome, and when I bookmark, I'm not sure how to find it! So maybe I will! But, speaking of social bookmarking, I have gotten sucked into the never-ending vortex of Pintrest. I was extremely skeptical of this at first and was totally confused and did not see the point. However, my girlishness has taken over and now I pin away. Mostly food stuff and recipes. I haven't gotten so bad as to start boards for children that have not been conceived yet.. Yet.. I try to avoid looking at the DIY section because I see all this awesome stuff that I feel like a loser because I didn't think of it, or am too lazy to try. Food, however, I can make. So I pin the hell  out of some food! It is really great for recipes! So, if Pintrest is social bookmarking, then I'm in. There is an education board that I have avoided because I'm afraid my head will explode. The link for that is here. I'm logged in, but hopefully one can see what is there initially. Now that school is winding down, I will have to take a gander to get some ideas for next semester!

Web 2.0? Its a concept I never really understood because I never knew there was a difference. Of course, I've heard the term, but since I have only really been jockeying around on the Internet since 2004, there was no huge change. Remember the whole survey about technology as something you had to learn about? Well for me, I web 2.0 has always been around. Of course, I went from casual web browsing to social networking to creating my own online content, but the transition was so smooth I barely noticed. Maybe I am more adaptable than I thought. I also feel I am in field(s) where one has to be on the cutting edge lest you lose your viability. Am I constantly amazed at the content, and networking of the Internet? Yes. But web 2.0 seems like a dated concept to me already.

Social bookmarking?  I guess with Pintrest I am doing it? I have heard of several of those mentioned like Delicious, Reddit and Stumbleupon. I never really got interested in any of those. I like Diigo because it seems more geared towards educational content, and the look of Reddit was off-putting to me.. Advantages seem to be the ability to share information with others interested in similar content. However, given my Pintrest experience, when some repins something I have pinned, I feel like they are stalking me. So, I'm still getting used to being "followed" and others seeing what I like and my interests. Something I have valued about the Internet is the relative "privacy" one has when browsing. Now, hundreds of people can see I looked up how to get stains out of the carpet on Pintrest. Weird. I guess that shows my age!

NETS T standards associated with this are:
1) Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity
2) Design and develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments
3) Model digital-age work and learning

I feel that Diigo has a wealth of possibilities waiting to be explored. After learning about it, I kind of wish I was a middle/high school English teacher and we would have online discussions about reading material. Again, like with pretty much every application we have learned about in this course, its ease of use and adaptability to a myriad of situations makes them invaluable. I'll bet with Diigo you could have conversations and share stuff with kids around the world. What better way to encourage digital communities, the global village, information sharing, networking, independent thought, and open-mindedness than that? Students and teachers (of all ages) need to see the Internet and all the digital world has to offer as not something to fear, but something to embrace. It truly can enhance your learning and your lives.

***Apologies for linking to Wikipedia. I can't help it, even with all of its flaws, I love that site!

Picasso you!

Here is my Picassohead self portrait! Here is the original link.  Create your own here!

This was an activity I remember from two summers ago.  Being an Art History major myself, I find this very amusing. I actually have employed a lot of hands-on digital drawing programs in the online course I developed.  The hands on activities are a part of why I get positive feedback about that course. I did have some difficulty rotating eyebrows for some reason, so I had to do it over several times. Trial and error for an assignment like this not only teaches students to learn from their mistakes, but also affords the opportunity to see what they can do differently. I like programs like this where one can revisit over and over again with different results. It also reinforces choice and what happens when you make different choices.  Did I make a portrait that looked like? Did not look like me? Why? Students can experiment with concepts of self-perception. Picassohead also takes the risk out of art. Staring at a blank canvas can be scary. ART itself can be scary.  People can brush off concepts as being too high minded when they might be afraid of making a wrong interpretation or they do not understand it.  There is no "wrong" in art.  Which is why I like this program. Students can also get interested in a pretty complicated artist and art movement, or the history behind it. So many things going on with something so simple!

NETS T standards associated with this are:
1) Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity

How creative is this?  This is good for many age groups, it offers choice, but not a complete blank, it offers and opportunity to research historical people and movements, and the philosophies and cultural influences of, it offers students a chance to reflect on their self-perception, and could even be used as a tool for foreign languages! So many things rolled into one!
This post is still evolving!

Resume redo!

Gulp!

Looks like I have some revision ahead!
Man, I thought I had a pretty decent resume!  I guess I don't!  However, after reviewing the scores, I scored fairly high on all categories (even getting a 99/100) so I'm not sure what I will have to do to raise my score! I will tinker around with some of the language to see how I do! I knew there are a plethora of resume and CV sites available, but I assumed you had to pay for them all! How great to find a free one!

Well, I swapped some things around, and too out my first person-let's see if I improved!

Ack! Well, I improved in one category, and went down in another!  At least it got a C+ instead of a

C-? I guess there is always room for improvement! I also was at a loss to change that much-looks like I might need some professional help!

NETS T standards associated with this are:

3) Model digital age work and learning

5) Engage in professional growth and leadership

It is my belief, that many, myself included do not know or need to improve upon basic workplace skills like resume building. Having worked in the public library, many patrons would come in asking for help with this and I was surprised at the number who did not know anything about writing a resume. I don't think I wrote my first one until applying for graduate school. I since rely on them heavily and as the results show above, mine certainly need work! Students becoming comfortable about jobs, applying for them, and your digital/paper presence is a valuable thing.  Too many times I see wasted potential in a part-time or shift work job. Having an up-to-date, well written and well rounded resume is key for advancing your career. Developing computer skills early, and the resources to hone them is invaluable later in life.

It's a snip-snap!

Snipping tool is great!

I love to snip!  Snipping is something I learned about in this course two summers ago, and I must say I did not use it that much afterwards. For some reason-I am so excited to try this more and I am mad I did not take better advantage of it then!  When thinking of things to snip I rattled through many options. My lectures are largely image-based so I did not want to do that, as it is too easy.  Since I will be teaching French, I tried to think about French lesson plans.That would be just a link, so I kept thinking. I started looking at articles about Sarkozy's loss and came across a bit of graffiti-and boom! How cool would it be to introduce something like French graffiti? So much artistic, social and cultural stuff going on!  So I snipped me out a chunk of this article. I like this tool a lot, but my only complaint with it is that it only will snip what is on the screen.  That is why I had to do this one in two chunks. Is there a way to get the screen to scroll down as you are highlighting? I'd love to know!

NETS T standards associated with snipping:

1) Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity.

2) Design and develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments.

This is a fun, easy way for students to quickly capture images, bits of articles, diagrams, charts and other useful bits and pieces to put in reports, assignments, or share. You can almost create your own collage with the snipping tool.  Students will find that, just like a pair of real scissors, they can snip and grab things for their personal or educational use. Thusly reinforcing fine-tuning digital refinements on real world applications.

I'm 93% millennial!  You can take the quiz for yourself here!

It is strange to be 34 and be considered a millennial.I always associated myself with a borderline Gen X-er. Well, now that I look up what the definition of a millennial is, I fit perfectly into that category-who knew? I had the impression that they were young people who were born in or came of age in the late nineties to the two thousands. It is actually categorized as those born in the late 70's, early 80's, which I was.

 I can remember my first computer, a Commodore 64, that my dad lugged home from work one day. We used it to play totally awesome video games.  It is weird to think that I went through undergrad with no Internet or personal computer. I can remember dropping a class because the professor wanted us to look up Internet articles-no thank you.I struggled greatly with scanning and Power Point (I am now a wizard at both) I only got an email address in 2001, and while I moved abroad with a laptop from 2002-2003, I did not use it all that much. I know exactly when the change came and that was in 2004, when I started teaching at my Alma mater high school, which was a laptop model school. All 800 girls were issued a laptop. Courses were taught on them, homework completed, students repaired them, and could even graduate with certain certifications-so I've, and education have come a long way. It was a bug I caught and now I live literally with my laptop on my lap. I can type faster than most, and am an information junkie. Don't know something? I'm already looking it up. Recipe? Place to eat? When is that movie coming out? How much does that cost?  I'm not as bad as my husband, though who is a computer guy by trade. I do, however, have a built in fix-it man when I do bad things to my "third arm".


According to Frand's 10 characteristics, I might skew differently. You can also read the original article here. They offer a lot of food for thought:
1) Computers aren't technology-see above anecdote. I definitely remember them being introduced into the household!
2) Internet better than TV:  Mmmmm. I'm not sure where I fall on this. My husband watches more stuff on the Internet than I do, but there has been much discussion about getting rid of the cable and doing Hulu and Amazon to watch stuff.  We recently broke down to get HBO et al, which comes with HBO Go that we use to watch back episodes of shows by plugging in the computer to the TV.  Speaking of that, we do use the Internet to watch a lot of roller derby, the only place where it is broadcast. But, the resolution is really great and the stream gets better and better every season, so we invite the gals over to watch tournaments and stuff.
3) Reality no longer real: I'm not sure where I stand on this either... I'm not really sure what this is asking? Am I more skeptical? Sure, I guess. But it is more with news stories than images necessarily.  Sensationalistic news is so quick to spread that I sometimes jump on that bandwagon too easily. I am really gullible too...
4) Nintendo over logic: I have to say I disagree with this one. I was never a gamer, nor will I ever be. I don't have the hand-eye coordination, nor the patience for it. They have always frustrated me. I would like to consider myself a logical person over a trial and error one.
5) Multitasking as a way of life: Yes and no. Do I multitask every day pretty much all day? Yes, TV and computer are always going. Do I listen to music while I work? Yes, but I can't listen to music while I study, or read, and it is a little too overwhelming to try and do many many things at once like the example states (music, email, phone, web) one drops off and I get lost or am a poor listener and no one likes that.
6) Typing rather than handwriting: yes. yes. yes. yes. I hate handwriting stuff nowadays. My handwriting has never been particularly neat, and my brain is too fast for my hands sometimes. Typing helps. But I admit, when I learned to type I was a finger-pecker. It wasn't until instant messaging (already kind of defunct) and my need for correctness that has lead me to be a decent typist.
7) Staying connected: YES! I can remember not wanting a cell phone because I did not want people to be able to find me anytime, anywhere. Now, if I accidentally leave it at home, I feel naked! I did not get a proper cell phone until halfway through my year abroad. HOW did I function? How did I find or connect with anyone? I had a land line-but we did so much travelling.. amazing that life still goes on without phones.. Now, my phone is my life, email, Facebook, maps, food. Everything I "need to survive"!
8) Zero tolerance for delays: I'll say yes to this but not in the way that they mean. I'll admit to being a pretty instant gratification junkie, but as far as waiting for work to pay off, I can do that. My patience grows thin with delays in the Internet. No matter where I am, if something is taking too long to upload, or process, I'm freaking out! God help us when we had dial-up!
9) Consumer/creator blurring: I'll say no to this. Since I don't create a lot of information myself, and have been schooled to cite outside sources, I do not have a problem with this kind of blurring. I can, however, see where some younger people might.
10) (I forgot one!) Doing rather than knowing: I will say no to this too.  I am just old enough to still be of the old school with this. There are arbitrary things I will never forget. Edict of Milan? 313. Battle of Hastings? 1066. Granted, they are mostly historical things, but I don't take for granted proper school knowledge like some of today's youth would.

Frand's article speaks a lot about intelligent change and adaptability, very much how I feel a teacher's greatest assets are ability to try and implement new learning and teaching methods and to always be adaptable to the inevitable.

NETS T associated with this assignment would be:
2) Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments.
4) Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility.
To me, I find that it is important to know as much as you can about one's self before you can teach methods to others. By finding out I am more millennial than I thought I was, I am better prepared to pass this knowledge on to others. I learn by doing, which is why I make sure I take my own tests with a student's eye, among other things. This quiz is good for students to see where they are in regards to the millennial age and where others might be coming from. The whole idea of what is technology was staggering to me-it might shed some new insight for them too.