Module 6 Video Post

Module 5 Post 1 - J. Sherman

Moving Toward Dynamic Technologies

On the "static-dynamic continuum" I am in the middle of the road leaning toward dynamic. My students routinely utilize static technologies such as podcasts and vodcasts as well as middle of the road technologies such as wikis, blogs, and discussion boards. To be perfectly honest I had always thought my work in the middle of the road technologies was dynamic. Take wiki building for example; students often collaborate with other students in the process of analyzing and synthesizing information in order to create a wiki page. Creation is the highest level of Bloom's taxonomy. In any event, I recently was awarded a gran to "flip" my classroom. The goal of a flipped classroom is to take normal teacher led instruction and create vodcasts that can be viewed as "homework". This will ultimately free up class time to pursue dynamic learning activities.