Mantz's Mission....‪.‬ Dean Mantz

Sterling College EDU 356 Technology in the Classroom Week-02 focus was on the integration of technology and promotion of higher-order thinking, student engagement, authentic learning.

This is the first session of EDU 356 Technology in the Classroom at Sterling College. We cover the class wiki at teachinginnovations.wikispaces.com as well as other sites to be used for projects and collaboration in class.

In this podcast I work with Tina Schneider and Barbara Tallent from LiveBinders.com to conduct a interview using drop.io with Steve Katz (Costa Rica) and Elaine Plybon (Dallas, TX) about going paperless in education to honor Earth Day April 22, 2010.

In this episode of Mantz's Mission I have the honor of interviewing the founders Tina and Barbara of LiveBinders.com. Both ladies provide insight to their vision in creating such a Web 2.0 tool as well as methods to successfully use this excellent education resource.

In this episode I have the honor of using Skype to interview one of Paul Bogush's students in Connecticut. This student used Microsoft Moviemaker to produce a digital story about Rosa Parks. We briefly discuss her process of using Moviemaker to create the story for the African-American month project. Questions also consisted of how Rosa Parks actions influenced our current culture as well as how technology influences education today.

Here is athe link to the student's digital story about Rosa Parks.
http://www.schooltube.com/video/24984/The-Story-of-Rosa-Parks

This is the first of hopefully many podcasts that promotes student achievement in design and implementation of a variety of technology products. This is my first episode. In this episode, I interview a senior student from Lyons High School about his Audacity project. In his project, Rudy created an informative speech that he raps. Rudy explains the entire process he used to complete the Audacity project.