Theater Games

Based on today's class session and the clips from Chris Pirlet's class at Aberdeen Central, does it seem to you that theater games would work well as a social science teaching technique? What do you see as positives and negatives about theater games? Do you think you will use theater games yourself when you teach? Why, or why not?

Wayback, Merlot, Jing, and the Return of the Blog

One more technology session. It was way too quiet for me. Nothing but the click, click, click of keyboards--but maybe some good learning. Or maybe not. Hey, there's somebody whistling--and a yawn! Well how about it? Was this a worthwhile session or not? Add here some more plusses and minuses about spending time with technology. How did you spend your time today? Will you be a better teacher or not as a result of today's session?

Blogs, Wikis, RSS Feeds, Jing--Delcious

For more than 10 years, SEED 415 students put together homepages. A homepage might still be useful, but there are lots of other tools that might suit your classroom purposes better, e.g., the blogs that you started creating last week. Which of these many tools do you think you are most likely to use in the classroom? Why? Of the resources Todd talked about, which are new to you? Which seem particularly promising?