How technology has changed in the last 10 years

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When I arrived at CHS in 1999, teachers were thrilled to have a desktop computer in each classroom (for the first time) and a set of iMacs in the computer lab in the library.

A lot has changed in 10 years:  projectors and Smartboards in every classroom (K-12), dozens of laptop carts available for classes (with more on the way), iPod touches, clickers, eReaders (Nooks and Kindles), iPads, etc…

This Is How Much Apple Has Changed In a Decade

This picture and article on Gizmodo is a nice reminder of these changes.  Amazing how much more power students have in their pockets today than we had as our desktop machine 10 years ago–now it’s up to us to find better ways to harness these technological advances for student learning.

(pic from this Gizmodo article: http://gizmodo.com/5647399/this-is-how-much-apple-has-changed-in-a-decade)

YouTube Tips, Tricks, and Guidelines

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Tips, Tricks, and Guidelines

YouTube Guidelines.pdf

With YouTube now unblocked at Charlottesville High School, here’s a quick guide to get you started with using YouTube. If you have any questions about using YouTube (including the ability to embed YouTube videos in Moodle, Prezis, or other websites; create your own YouTube “channel”; subscribe to playlists, etc…) please contact your ITRT.

Guidelines:

(1) Please remember that you signed an AUP and the specifications in that document.

(2) Every click made on the CCS network is stored on the server’s memory.

(3) Please remind students about ethical and appropriate use.

(4) Please remember to preview YouTube material before using the site in a teaching-learning moment. You are our most important and effective firewall for appropriate material on the internet.

(5) Please monitor student use of technology while students are under your supervision. Going to inappropriate places on the internet is not a technology issue, but a student discipline/teacher supervision issue.

- Please be aware of the content of your video, as well as the “related-videos” on the side, and the comments from other users below. There are ways to turn off those features to focus attention on your clip, and avoid questionable content in those other areas. Please see the links below for more on this.

YouTube: Fast Facts

  • In November 2006, YouTube, was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of Google.
  • In May 2010, it was reported that YouTube was serving more than two billion videos a day, which it described as “nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major US television networks combined.”
  • YouTube says that 24 hours of new videos are uploaded to the site every minute, and that around three quarters of the material comes from outside the United States.
  • It is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000.
  • YouTube is the third most visited website on the Internet, behind Google and Facebook.

*statistics from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube and http://youtube.com

“Safety Mode”

YouTube has a Safety-Mode which helps protect viewers from questionable content. It also helps block related videos and comments that could be inappropriate for the classroom. “An example of this type of content might be a newsworthy video that contains graphic violence such as a political protest or war coverage.”

It’s easy to opt in to Safety Mode: Just click on the link at the bottom of any video page. You can even lock your choice on that browser with your YouTube password.

For more info: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?&answer=174084

Using YouTube in the Classroom

Video Collections:

If you would like all of this in a 2-page pdf to download and pass on to your teachers and students, please click here.