what i can do now.

 I was thinking about the tech I already knew going into the three day incentive class. Was it going to be enough? I was thinking about the things that I know, not a great deal. During the classes I have been made more aware not what I do or don't know but more how to use what I know? Much like the competences in literacy and numeracy, multimedia or ICT could be easy moved in the food technology studies. Yr 7 at the school I work at are involved in a Master Chef competition. The students were given a product "chocolate" they need to find a recipe and produce the physical product. Some photo, a video could turn what is sure to be 24 sheets of paper with recipes written on it, into a presentation that could be a useful guide to cooking. The focus of the project is the tasting of the food when it could be, create user guide to teach someone to cook. Be like Jamie Oliver.

 My job as the food tech assistant is to demonstrate to a class teens how to cook a dish. This week while I'm at Uni the class will be taken by the teacher, with a full class load she will have to allocate extra time this week to prepare for the class, eg. Cutting vegetables, setting up other ingredients.  Using the interactive projector she could play presentation including video of the demonstration to students while she prep food for the class. Saving valuable time.

I really enjoyed this class and feel that my head may explode with information overload, but this experience will be of huge benefit to my future students.

For me and for my friends

While taking note of web sites that I plan to use now and when I become a teacher, there were some that i didn't think could assist me but would certainly be interesting to my co-workers.

http://storybird.com/

Story bird allows you to use beautiful pictures to write your own story too.

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

Again fun and easy to use , make your own comix by add text to a variety of pics. Great for writing exercises.

I had the Art teacher at school in mind as we looked at this site, however as discussed you don't know what you will get back, but I will leave that dissension to someone in a higher pay grade than me.

With Science week coming up sustainability is a key focus in this this years learning goal. 

http://www.catchmentdetox.net.au/
Has already been emailed to the leading science teacher.

Innovation

Innovative teaching is the responsibility of ever teacher from Prep-Uni. Real life situations are a concept that I have been brought up numerous time in the last week. Fellow student talk about there VET class engaging there student because they are hands on activities. In "Active learning through multimedia" it discussed flight simulation. Even in my own work I can see how multimedia can improve my work as the educator and the students as the learner. The frog jump exercise was a great example.

Making the frog jump was a fun, educational, and great team building exercise. The design breif that we used was a great planning template for technology studies. Adding it to my "Must show the guys at work file"

Some of the websites that we have been introduced to have given me some fantastic new ideas, i'm really excited to try them out.

http://www.planetcreation.co.uk/createpic/

I love my Avatar! http://doppelme.com/ have student make Avatars wold be valuable to me. As a specialist teacher I will have multiple classes, Having a visual image of student will help someone like me to remember names and faces. it would also be interesting to see how student view themselves and how that changes over the years of there education.
http://www.wordle.net/ is going to be a fun exercise to do while brain storming. I plan to share this one with the colleges.

https://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/p/home

I found Scootle to be a fantastic resource for schools in general, I would love to get feed back from colleague. From a food technology stand point I have not been able to find large amounts of information.
After having a look on the AusVels http://ausvels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/ scootle would not be my first choice for information.

MS Publisher is a tool I use regularly. It has endless possibility with student. A great feature of publisher is that students can create from scratch or use one of the samples provided. Having a finish product for students to view and change is a great learning tool, when students can see a high quality versions of work, it inspires them to lift the standard of their own word.

Understanding multimedia

To understand using multimedia in education, it occurred to me that I needed to understand what multimedia was?  Reading's and lectures were all in agreement, Text, Graphic, Audio, video, animation used injunction are the frame work of multimedia. We use so much of this in our every day life, for leisure and entertainment. Thinking a little bit harder, how do I use it to educate? My employment as a Food technology assistant/ integration aide, gives me first hand incite to how student at my work place already use multimedia technology in their education. We seem to be on the verge of a new generation of teaching were we are exited to get the latest tech and not run away. The teachers that I work with are like kids on Christmas morning when iPad's and digital projector arrive at the class room. Greg made many comments about going into schools to roll out new programs and equipment being meet with"We don't need that" "The kids are to young for that". Lets hope that we as emerging educators always in brace new teaching tool in what ever form they arrive in and not be scared of change.