M.A. Hochberg’s Technology for Teaching

After missing last year, I taught Super Summer for the UO again this year. The classes were the same as the previous years (Stop Motion Animation and Programming in Scratch). You can see some of what we did on their Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/uoyetag

The changes in Scratch were interesting. Not only were we using Scratch 2.0 instead of 1.4, over half of the students were already using the web based version and had accounts

One interesting thing happened. The Scratch server at https://scratch.mit.edu/ was down during some class times. Students who were using the site were very frustrated. Since there was a local version of Scratch 2.0 on their computers, I suggested that they use that, save their work locally, and then upload it when the server became available again.

After setting up bookmark sites for the students & the staff, I finally set up one for myself. These are the links that I use most often when setting up a golden drive.  I’ll start moving in more links as I use them.

My new bookmark site is:

http://guest.portaportal.com/mlbvtech

After last week’s Oaks/Tesa training, I realized that I couldn’t put off making a bookmark site for our staff, similar to our Student bookmark page.  Here is the result:

http://www.guest.portaportal.com/mlbvstaff 

Like all sites, it started with just one or two categories but it is already growing by leaps & bounds.

Having bookmarks available all in one place, no matter which computer you are on, is a pleasure. It makes things so much easier and faster. Best of all, it is easy to share with others.

The Internet has been an amazing place. I’ve been using it for over 20 years and messages and ideas that I sent out when I started still come back to visit me.  I had a message from some one in South Africa who wanted to know about a project that I did in 1988!