How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving Technology

Integrating Technology into the Government Classroom

BT or Before Technology

Reliance on traditional methods of instruction PowerPoint Overheads Copies

Workshop Breakthroughs Many possibilities – Audacity,

PowerPoint, VoiceThreat, Moviemaker, etc.

Greatest possibility – wikis Why?

Ease of learning Accessibility Creativity

Ideas into Action

Create an AP Government wikiAllow for interactive nature of

student work on wikiConvert existing Political

Campaign Project into wiki

Students working on wiki

Input and Challenges

Training of studentsAccess to technology in schoolStudent responsesManagerial issuesTechnology issues

Student input surveyed Wiki Survey – Please circle or highlight your responses. How easy was it to learn how to use the wiki? VERY EASY EASY HARD VERY HARD   How easy is it to access the wiki? VERY EASY EASY HARD VERY HARD   How often do you access the wiki every week? ONCE A WEEK TWICE A WEEK 3 X PER WEEK MORE THAN 3 X PER WEEK   Do you use the wiki for information, to post assignments, or for both? INFORMATION ONLY POST ASSIGNMENTS BOTH   Is using the wiki for assignments easier or harder than creating information by hand? MUCH EASIER EASIER HARDER MUCH HARDER   Do you believe the wiki will make your campaign project better, worse, or the same as putting the project in a traditional binder? BETTER SAME WORSE  

Student input results

How easy was it to learn how to use the wiki

Very easyEasyHardVery Hard

Student input results

How easy is it to access the wiki?

Very easyEasyHardVery hard

Student input results

How often do you access the wiki every week?

Once a weekTwice a week3 X per weekMore than 3 X

Student input results

Do you use the wiki for information, to post assignments, or for both?

Info onlyPost assignmentsBoth

Student input results

Is using the wiki for assignments easier or harder than creating the information by hand?

Much easierEasierHarderMuch harder

Student input results

Do you believe the wiki will make your campaign project better, worse, or the sameas putting the

project in a traditional binder?

BetterSameWorse

Brave New World

What does the future hold?CollaborationPresentationReviews

Out with the old…

In with the new…

The Pelican PartyThe MarvistsRish PartyFABAYodacrats

Questions?

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