{"id":781,"date":"2010-10-03T18:49:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T01:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tech4mathed.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2010-10-03T19:05:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T02:05:50","slug":"mobile-whiteboards-smartpens-and-blooms-taxonomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tech4mathed.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/03\/mobile-whiteboards-smartpens-and-blooms-taxonomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Whiteboards, Smartpens and Bloom’s Taxonomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What do mobile whiteboards, smartpens and Bloom’s Taxonomy have in common? \u00a0 A great all-day workshop teaching high school teachers, and their students who are in a teacher education program, how to use mobile whiteboards and smartpens through the use of a hands-on project that focused on Bloom’s Taxonomy!<\/p>\n

We started the day learning about Hybrid versus Blended teaching models, and then I introduced the Mobi<\/a>, a mobile interactive whiteboard made my eInstruction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Next up was a discussion about Bloom’s taxonomy.<\/p>\n

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Then, to get them ready to do their first project, we played “Blooms Taxonomy According to \u00a0Pirates of the Caribbean”:<\/p>\n

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I introduced them to the Livescribe Pulse smartpen<\/a> and another colleague showed them how to draw stick figures so they could create a cartoon based on the pop culture area of their choice for the Bloom’s Taxonomy level their group was in charge of.<\/p>\n

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They had a great time creating their first cartoon strip and adding sound with the Livescribe Pulse smartpen! \u00a0 After lunch I gave them a lesson on using the Mobi, eInsruction’s mobile interactive whiteboard. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Each group got a Mobi to use to recreate their cartoon on the Workspace software installed on their computer. \u00a0 This time they could add color and crop images for their characters and turn it into a movie.<\/p>\n

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At the end of the workshop, we shared everyone’s finished products on the different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy<\/p>\n

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We had a great time watching each other’s final projects! I had a lot of fun teaching with several of my colleagues for the ATLAST program, which stands for:\u00a0Achieving Technological Literacy in Arizona Students and Teachers.<\/p>\n

ATLAST is a project supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The performing unit is the National Center for Teacher Education (NCTE) in the Maricopa County Community College District.\u00a0To learn more about the ATLAST project\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n