Waning, Pouring....No One is Snoring?

Well, catchy title for today I guess.  But really, as the Ed Tech course winds down, the work wanes a bit as the final projects begin to take form.  A few more weeks, one more "live" class, and then.....the next course.  So what have I got to say for Ed Tech at this stage of the game?  One cool class.....lots of thinking points.......fun on the web.......a refueling of sorts or a reconfiguring of my teaching strategies....(we do that a lot in education..."change" they call it) much exploring online.......found many great ideas, sites, signed up for a few new things as well.  Haiku, the online LMS (ok, for those not jiving with the lingo...Learning Management System), Xtranormal...actually had known about it a while back, but fun to use, Voice Thread....Really, I was the only one who did the video?  How cool is that?  Teaching on the Fly........got to take that farther......further?   

2012 "senses" and rambling

So a week or two ago there was a knock on our door.  It was one of the many "did you vote yet?" campaigners.  I informed them that we were in the know, had voted, and maybe it was time for them to come to their "senses".  Hm, how many senses was I really talking about?  Well, initially I had always referred to the main "5 senses"........................you know the ones we learned way back in elementary school.......and then we had that conversation in Ed Tech class.  Sense of class?  Common sense?  Really, there seemed to be many senses...even some which are still being thought up of.  Okay, so more than 5 senses...maybe 9, maybe more?   So how to work with these in a classroom?  Think about all the senses at work in the process of learning.  Movement activities verses seeing vs hearing vs....etc.  The list goes on.  Students need to receive information using as many senses as they can.....why they even use their sense of time..."Is it lunch yet?"  So forward we go...bottom line...we have many more senses than the five we learned about a long time ago.  Imagine.....changing the paradigm.   Who would have thought?