Troubleshooting
Also, a word of advice for anyone recording a Skype interview...don't do what I did... I really mean it, don't even think about it.
I recorded the interview in QuickTime Player, then exported it to iTunes, I imported it to Garage Band to edit. I then exported to iTunes again....THEN I had to go into movie maker to make a video for YouTube because you can't embed your own videos into Weebly unless you have the Pro upgrade. When I went to publish the movie I couldn't publish it to YouTube because the recording was longer then 15 minutes so I had to go back into Garage Band, chop the interview in half, remake the videos and then upload it to YouTube. Needless to say it was quite the process and took many hours of wanting to pull my hair out, but at the time it was the only thing I could think of because my Mac wouldn't let me download Skype recording tools.
Anyways, if you have to record a Skype call I really hope you can get a free tool to download cause the whole process was quite exhausting, well at least it was for me because I'm not a very techie person, so please bear with me on the quality of the recording, I did my best.
My Questions for Angie
1. Why did you decide to become a teacher?
2. What is your favourite part about being a teacher?
3. How do you decide how often to update your blog or make a new post?
4. How do your students’ parents react to the active use of technology in the classroom?
5. Have any of the parents made suggestions or asked for certain kinds of technology to be included or left out of the classroom?
6. How did you develop your PLN (Professional Learning Network) on Twitter?
7. How did you go about finding other classrooms to Skype with?
8. Have you ever Skyped in professionals from different areas when teaching a lesson? What was the response from students?
9. Do you have any advice for new teachers on how to begin incorporating technology into day-day activities in the classroom?
10. What would your advice be to teachers who have limited access to technology in their schools?
11. Do the students have access to the iPads and iTouches all the time?
12. What is the students’ favourite most loved technology tool?
13. Do you structure the time the students have with the iPads? How do you do this?
14. Have you found a better way of keeping all the apps and O.S. up to date than when you first started with the iPads?
15. Is there anything you miss about the classroom when it wasn’t so ‘connected’? If not: What about the devices make class time more enjoyable with the students/for the students?
16. Do you have a goal for your class blogs? Is it geared to parents, students, or maybe both?
17. How do you keep parents up to date on classroom activities? Email, blog, Remind101?
18. Do your students have their own blogs or blog on the classroom blog? Would you like to see this in the future?
19. Have you ever had a blog that your students posted on? What were the benefits and disadvantages?
20. Do the students use other online resources? Math/literacy games on the web?
21. Are there ever difficulties with students sharing devices? I know this is one thing you told them they would have to do.
22. How do you assess learning with these tools? What forms of assessment do you use? Do the students contribute to assessment? Parents?
23. I know you don’t pick favourite apps but what is your favourite website or app for students to use today?
The Interview
Part 1