Meet Your Macintosh

Objectives

The Out-of-Box Experience

Turn Me On

Get Me Started

Put Me to Work

Customize Me

Connect Me

Fix Me

Additional Online Tutorials

iLife Tutorials

Other Tutorials

From Concept to Podcast

50 Ways to Make a Podcast

Workshop Evaluation

Workshop Evaluation for Kathi

Recess Recommendations

This learning simulation is designed to get you working quickly with the essential functionalities of your Macintosh. Your workshop leader will help you learn what you need to complete the activities. Here's the challenge:

    At tonight's board meeting, you are slated to recommend a change of policy on recess:
    Should we schedule more time for recess, less time, or leave it as is?
    Your task is to use your Macintosh to prepare for this meeting.

  1. Use iCal to schedule the meeting (7:00 - 9:30 PM), and set an alarm to remind you 15 minutes before.
  2. Use Safari to review the research on the effects of recess on learning, and also the research on time-on-task.
  3. Copy at least three paragraphs of relevant text from your findings in Safari, and paste them into TextEdit.
  4. Save at least three illustrative diagrams or images from your findings in Safari, and save them to iPhoto.
  5. Use Safari and Google Maps to locate your school; zoom in as far as you can; switch to satellite view; take a screen shot (command+shift+4) to show where recess happens.
  6. Use PhotoBooth to shoot a photo or video of a colleague at recess.
  7. Use iPhoto to prepare a slide show that you can present to the board.
  8. Use GarageBand to prepare a podcast that you can present to the board.
  9. Use TextEdit to prepare a text article that you can present to the board.
  10. Present your conclusions to your colleagues.

 

Information Literacy Learning Sequence

Now that you are fmiliar with the Macintosh and its built-in tools, you may design an assignment for your students that takes them through the information literacy cycle of

...in a way that takes full advantage of online information sources and the software on the Macintosh. Like the ten-step Recess Recommendations project you went through earlier, it should send your students off to the places you want them to go, lead them to use the appropriate tools, and encourage them to think and communicate in new ways. Develop your learning seuence in five stages:

  1. Write a series of instructions similar in form to the list in Recess Recommendations.
  2. Follow the instructions yourself on your Macintosh, searching and saving and thinking and creating just as your students would.
  3. Revise your instructions based on your experience.
  4. Give your learning sequence to another participant, who will attempt to follow them.
  5. Revise your learning sequence based on the other participant's experience with it.