{"id":45,"date":"2007-07-02T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=45"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:08:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:08:28","slug":"what-would-you-like-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/what-would-you-like-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What would you like to do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My big plan (yeah, I have one) is to get folks to recognize that the pedagogy must come before the technology<\/strong>. While technology can inspire us, at its base it is just a set of tools (or toolset, in the current lingo — like Sears Craftsman).<\/p>\n

Good classroom teachers moving into an online environment tend to let the available\/popular\/supported technology dictate what they do. That’s like letting my wrench, screwdriver and tape measure tell me what to build (though that would make a good Disney movie). Isn’t it more natural to look at a piece of wood, determine it needs to be cut in half, then<\/em> look for the right saw?<\/p>\n

I have seen classroom teachers who excel at discussion and interaction give it up when they get online, and instead start loading Word documents into the preset Blackboard categories. What a waste! So many free tools are now available to do these things, and if a Course Management System must be used, these sites can be linked out from inside what one presenter at Ed-Media<\/a> called “BlackCT”.<\/p>\n

So whatcha want to do? Have students work in groups to create posters and present to the whole class? Try Bubbleshare<\/a>, which lets students upload and edit slide programs, using the Groups feature of the CMS for discussion, or use Skype<\/a> so the students can talk to each other as a group. Have students annotate visuals? You can use Flickr<\/a> for that, either uploading the images yourself or having them do it. Have them study urban growth over time? Try Trulia Hindsight<\/a>. Collaborate on a paper or wiki, or use free applications for planning, meeting or writing? Zoho<\/a> is good.<\/p>\n

More tools are available all the time. It’s about what you want to have happen. Dream first. Then find the socket wrench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My big plan (yeah, I have one) is to get folks to recognize that the pedagogy must come before the technology. While technology can inspire us, at its base it is just a set of tools (or toolset, in the current lingo — like Sears Craftsman). Good classroom teachers moving into an online environment tend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-teaching","category-pedagogy","category-web-20"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9855,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/9855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}