How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving Technology
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving Technology
Integrating Technology into the Government Classroom
BT or Before Technology
Reliance on traditional methods of instruction PowerPoint Overheads Copies
Workshop Breakthroughs Many possibilities – Audacity,
PowerPoint, VoiceThreat, Moviemaker, etc.
Greatest possibility – wikis Why?
Ease of learning Accessibility Creativity
Ideas into Action
Create an AP Government wikiAllow for interactive nature of
student work on wikiConvert existing Political
Campaign Project into wiki
Students working on wiki
Input and Challenges
Training of studentsAccess to technology in schoolStudent responsesManagerial issuesTechnology issues
Student input surveyed Wiki Survey – Please circle or highlight your responses. How easy was it to learn how to use the wiki? VERY EASY EASY HARD VERY HARD How easy is it to access the wiki? VERY EASY EASY HARD VERY HARD How often do you access the wiki every week? ONCE A WEEK TWICE A WEEK 3 X PER WEEK MORE THAN 3 X PER WEEK Do you use the wiki for information, to post assignments, or for both? INFORMATION ONLY POST ASSIGNMENTS BOTH Is using the wiki for assignments easier or harder than creating information by hand? MUCH EASIER EASIER HARDER MUCH HARDER Do you believe the wiki will make your campaign project better, worse, or the same as putting the project in a traditional binder? BETTER SAME WORSE
Student input results
How easy was it to learn how to use the wiki
Very easyEasyHardVery Hard
Student input results
How easy is it to access the wiki?
Very easyEasyHardVery hard
Student input results
How often do you access the wiki every week?
Once a weekTwice a week3 X per weekMore than 3 X
Student input results
Do you use the wiki for information, to post assignments, or for both?
Info onlyPost assignmentsBoth
Student input results
Is using the wiki for assignments easier or harder than creating the information by hand?
Much easierEasierHarderMuch harder
Student input results
Do you believe the wiki will make your campaign project better, worse, or the sameas putting the
project in a traditional binder?
BetterSameWorse
Brave New World
What does the future hold?CollaborationPresentationReviews
Out with the old…
In with the new…
The Pelican PartyThe MarvistsRish PartyFABAYodacrats
Questions?
THANK YOU