There are two items I am very excited to get using this year. The first is the wiki. I am serious about a Caesar-pedia! I think that will infuse a new level of engagement for the students about who the characters of Shakespeare's play are and how they interact in the drama. Students will have to put an image with each entry and provide important quotations from the play. It is hard for me to wait until it happens. After finishing the class module on wikis, I went straight to my school's Moodle to check if there was a built in wiki tool. Jackpot! I'm already building the structure for it.
The other technology I am developing for instruction is augmented reality. The Aurasma app is a game-changer in the classroom. I showed one of my classes an example today, and the students were very impressed. It seems like a great way to construct stations for round-robin content review and for students to construct presentations to accompany projects. I have already spoken to the head of my school about using Aurasma in our art shows so that visitors can have videos of the student-artists describing their works. Each visitor's mobile device could act as a docent.
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