What's with the title? The title is a Robert Heinlein novel in which a child (Mike) raised on Mars is returned to earth as an adult. Mike slowly teaches his body to adapt to the Earth's atmosphere and he begins learning Earth culture and language, which differ enormously from Martian ways of thought. I though that was a good analogy as many students seem much more at ease with technology than do their teachers.
What kinds of technology are we talking about?
- Blogs (Weblogs): a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer
- Wiki's: This is a website that includes the collaboration of work from many different authors. A wiki site allows anyone to edit, delete, or modify the content on the web. (The first wiki creator named the site after a chain of buses in Hawaii; Wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian.) tig.lsc.gov/techglossary.php
- Digital Storytelling:
- Photostory3
- MovieMaker
- IMovie
- Podcast: (iPOD broadCAST) An audio broadcast that has been converted to an MP3 file or other audio file format for playback in a digital music player or computer. The "pod" in podcast was coined from "iPod," the predominant portable, digital music player, and although podcasts are mostly verbal, they may contain music.
- RSS Feeds: In Oprah speak, RSS stands for: I’m “Ready for Some Stories”. It is a way online for you to get a quick list of the latest story headlines from all your favorite websites and blogs all in one place.
- Audio/Video casting: One word - YouTube (or Teacher's Tube)
- GoogleTools
- Google Notebook
- Google Docs
- Google Reader
- Google Books
- Picassa
- Videos to Watch
- Articles to Read
- Proposal to Ban the Pencil by Doug Johnson
- Is it o.k. to be a Technologically Illiterate Teacher
- 20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have