Globaloria Training in California--WOW!  Educators are learning the Globaloria program to integrate into their curriculum or school next year.  All trainees created Hidden Object Learning games using Adobe Flash.  They also learned the wiki and blog features that are incorporated.

Trainees include:  English, math, science, and social students--high school and middle school. 
I love it when educators are willing to learn new things that students need.  They has been blood, sweat and tears.  Well, no blood, it just seemed like it.

I am so looking forward to watching these educators progress throughout the year and seeing what their students produce.

This is my most recent idea using Adobe Acrobat Pro.  I am going to build a portfolio for Digital Imaging and Web Page Publishing.  I am going to create a folder for each major set of skill sets for those course.  In each folder will be a list of the skill sets and free online curriculum from the web to teach each of the skill sets.  Adobe TV and Adobe Education has loads of free tutorials.  Hope the idea turns into reality.

There two boys are not part of the Globaloria program but they could be.  What a project to do just for the fun of it. 

http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white 

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/page/scale-universe-cary-michael-huang-california-high-school-15573968 

It is so amazing what students can do.  We need to prepare our students, so that more of them have the opportunity to do projects like this just for the fun of it.

Wow!  Blogger has changed.  One educator has an issue logging into their accounts.  Did any of your students have issues?

Wow!  Blogger has changed.  I am not sure when but Christina says 2-3 weeks ago.  I think I need to be here more often.  One educator said that her students had problems logging in.  Did anyone else have issues?

Spring Break

If schools haven't, they soon will take a spring break. Do you every wonder why schools need a spring break? Who needs it, the students or the teachers? Or both? Does a brain need a break from learning?

In all my years of teaching I never thought to ask students to record anything educational they did over spring break like read a book or traveled. I just never thought of it till now. Our brains really don't want to stop learning. The brain just wants to learn something that interests us. These options are endless.

So if you haven't had spring break yet, record what you do and see if you learn anything new.

Time flies

I haven't posted to this blog forever because I have been posting to a page for Facebook.  It is amazing how time passes.  We wake up and think, "How did I get to this place in my life?  I have been part of the Globaloria program for 5 years and it is amazing how much the program has developed in that time period.  The educators I have meet have inspired me so much.

One thing that I do wonder is how I how and when I actually learned what I know about Flash and the wiki.  There were lessons and tutorials but they don't cover even a tenth of what Flash and the wiki can do.  I knew NOTHING the first year I started and I recently passed the Adobe Certified Associate Rich Media Communication using Adobe Flash CS5.  Where did I learn this stuff?  

I learned some through Globaloria's training.  I learned some from teaching it.  I learned some from self-learning.  I learned some from my students.  There was no one class that taught me everything I can do now. 

We need to continue to make education that way.  Students wake up one day and realize that they know something!  That they learned it from training, teaching, self-learning and from each other.  Please let the time continue to fly for Globaloria and other classes in the school system.