K-12 On-Line Conference Feedback

I listened to two different teachings that were both posted on Friday, October 18th under the title “The Electric Slide! Twenty-First Century Style."

This teaching was so great and so applicable to my classroom! I'm really excited to use this software. Check out the first session:Electric Slide On-Line Teaching: S-Present. The software was basically an updated form of power-point which allows you to use Web 2.0 tools inside of each slide. There were links that allowed you to post U-Tube videos, Flickr photos, and other web documents directly onto a power-point slide. You could add all sorts of audio and visual things through html or just up-loading them from your computer. It was easy to use and very applicable to the classroom . . . user friendly for sure! I loved it! Plus, you can create your own account and the program teaches you how to use it yourself. Use the link I created below, "S-Present," to access it yourself.

Access the next session, Electric Slide On-Line Teaching: Splashcast, to learn about new software known as Splashcast. Here, you can create and publish your own shows that include music, videos, pictures, and documents that you have retrieved from the internet, or you can even record your own. Once you've published it, the software allows you to add it to wiki's, blogs, or even something like the s-present so that you can use your own video as a part of your presentation. Again, very user friendly and super useful either as a tool for lesson plans or as something that students can participate in themselves! Create your own account using the "Splashcast" link that I have placed below.

S-Present
Splashcast

I loved this conference . . . I found it very useful and I learned a lot that I hope to use not only in my classroom, but even in personal presentations and for later projects in this class. The teaching walked me through basic steps . . . helping me to not only create accounts in each of the two programs, but also feel competent in my ability to use the basic functions of the software. Thanks for providing this for us, Prof. Sorenson!