Challenge Based Learning Reflection

Drunk Driving on Prezi

This is my groups Prezi Presentation on Drunk Driving.  This Project was highly emotional because two girls in my group had family who had been affected by Drunk Driving.  One group member even had a sister become paralyzed due to the accident when she was 18.   This was such a deep experience that affected the entire room. This was an interesting project because we all learned something by researching these topics and by watching the presentations.  This was an important project that helped all students understand important topics like texting while driving as well as recycling plastic bottles.  This project was helpful to understand challenge based projects.  This was a challenge for each of us and it is important to remember to challenge your students.   

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In this episode of the Tech Chicks, they discuss a FREE website by the name of littlebirdtales.com.  At this website educators can set up an account for their students.  From here the educators allow the students to create their own creative stories with images and text.  This is more geared for younger students.  There are also only three steps to create a story

From here the students can choose to put their stories in the gallery of public tales or only send them to their friends and family!

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In this episode of the Tech Chicks they discussed four free easy ways to give short online presentations. Here are the four websites they discussed. 

 The First website discussed is bigmarker.com.  Here the educators can do a few different things.  First, you can
learn: browse thousands of conferences.
teach: teach a topic of your passion for free or bill your rate.
advertise: pay others to attend your conference.
interview: screen potential candidates online before interviewing them in person.

The next website discussed is ZipCast.com. This website is on the "cutting edge of technology outpacing the competition in building a multi-cultural national digital advertising network." The website says that it is
-reaching customers where they work, live and play
-lowering cost per CPM
-highly targeted audiences

This is a website that allows the educator to hold conferences online like using a white board in a building.  This website allows one to use multi-user whiteboards, live audio, image collaboration and text and chat.  This website is free for users and it allows everyone to be on the same page with out being in the same place.  This will save time and energy for all users and allow for exciting advances in the conference world. 

At this website called joinme.com an educator can again have a conference while being online in their own homes.  At this website the teachers could stay at home and work with one another's computer screens.  This website has two functions, to share your own screen and join some else screen.  This way multiple people can work on one project.  It is a wonderful way to ensure that a project gets completed if you cannot work together in the same area.   

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YOUTUBE PLUS EPISODE!

In this episode of the Tech Chicks they discussed a website entitled embed plus.  This website is a fantastic way to incorporate youtube videos into your classroom.  This way the educators can use the youtube videos in their classroom and to do this the teachers can do a plethora of things.  To begin, the teachers can choose where the video will start and stop.  So if the first 30 seconds are unimportant, the teacher can edit the video to have it begin after the unimportant information.  From there the teacher can add annotations that add information in specific spots.  This way the teacher can add information for the teacher.  From there the teachers can add the videos into their websites with an embed code.  Also, in this website they can delete the comments from the original youtube website so that the student's cannot see the comments.  Another fantastic feature is the feature to zoom in on certain images on the video.