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EVO 2012: Classdigitools

Hi all, hopefully you are reading this. I have tried to make sure that the blog is open to all in the hope that it can be shared beyond  the EVO 2012 Classdigitools forums. Please read and make  comment   should you feel the need. Pass of to colleagues  and have them comment too?!! ** Week 1: taks ** I created a film of myself though its short. I opted to use moviemaker, for reasons I will explain later.I will attach this in while or provide a link as its quite large.

** Application in my class:  ** As yet I must confess that I have not managed to use Edmodo in class. We have some issues here in Uganda, with the speed and availability of internet connections. This coupled  with our constant power cuts makes the use of the internet just not viable for some. For this reason we tend to stick to classroom based technology. I have managed to use a blog which I created sometime ago for my grade. This idea of this blog was to showcase some of the students work, so that parents could see it. You can see the blog here. We have found that on-line tools are sometimes too difficult to work with. For this reason we try and identify resources and download or save them in advance. I will look at Edmodo in more detail over the coming  weeks in the hope that I can use it  successfully  and hopefully "sell it" to other members of staff. Students in my class like the fact that they have work published on the net. My problem is not using more in my class, but rather selling these ideas throughout  the faculty. I love this. Its great to look at real aims for students to aspire too and for educators to work towards. In terms as where we are as a school, then depending on the grade depends on the level on integration. The higher the grade the more that we seem to be integrated. This partly due to the availability of resources within the school and the immersion  of students into the technology we have. It can also be down to the fact that some of our faculty are not as computer literate as others. This is a major draw back when trying to encourage  and inspire students. The other issues that we have is that Africa as a whole is still developing its ICT and Internet infrastructure. This has the knock on effect that we cant compete with the like of Europe or North America. We have to work with the boundaries we have, which in some ways makes us a little more creative in the use of technology.
 * Technology Integration Matrix ** - access here.

Eventually we need to aim high and hope that African technology can keep up with our demands.