When doing "Reverse Teaching" were you have a student connect their laptop to the projector and you are in the back of the room.... a laser pointer is a must. It will allow you to point to the area you want the kid to click on. Also you will be able to remain in the back of the room to keep an eye on other students.
While being "Transparent" there are new eye-fi cards that will allow the students to take pictures and the wifi sd card will automatically upload pictures to a web album. I use a Picasa Web Album that is NOT published to the public. It allows you to check to make sure now one who can't be on is there or anything inappropriate gets by. I find if you involve students they will self regulate and you only have to catch the kids in the background. Picasa will also upload videos as well (I don't do them longer then 60 sec) and it now will tag pictures. I will tag kids pictures with their Avatar names in a web album to start the year then it automates from this point on. If you tag the kids who CAN'T be on web it will notify you when the album uploads. Then just move pictures you want to another web album you then embed to your blog.
A good way to get parents to connect to your site is to have students do progress reports by having their parents comment on a blog post. They need to use students Avatar names and you will have to approve the post, but it allows students to show their parents what they are doing. *I make sure kids know NOT to make parents do this late at night or early in morning I give them weeks to finish. Any student without internet access at home I print a picture of them from the site for their parents to sign.
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