July 11th: Day 6!

Today was iMovie day!  Jean showed us three short movies posted online for various purposes.  The first was a film made by a company to be accessed by students for online Spanish language instruction.  The second was a film made by middle school students for a school project (Je Suis Un Pizza!).  The third was a film made by a teacher to be used by other teachers, demonstarting aspects of a new Mathematics program.  Through our discussion we talked about how technology is allowing lectures, which used to be the domain of the classroom, to occur at home after school and practice, which used to be the domain of after-school hours, to be don in class.  Technology allows for a reversal of instrcution and practice, as it were!  We then made a short iMovie, which was lots of fun.