Jouranl #4
"From Toy to Tool" by Liz Kolb.
This is an interesting article about the use of cell phones. That is the last thing I thought I would here a teacher say. All my teachers hated cell phones in class. He is saying that they can be helpful for students to learn. I liked the idea of conducting interviews outside of the classroom so that the students could later listen to them. I like the idea of creating a file that talks about a certain author, for a book report, and the students can add audio to the work. That is a great idea. This can help the audio learner. I believe that is the best thing for these different programs, they are other resources to enhance the learning experience they are not the only thing. The concern is the protection policy. The students have to pay 12 dollars to have a protected password. Without this their information can be stolen or hampered with; however, this is being worked on. The question I have is how do we work to make sure that they are learning something with these types of projects? I think that the best way to see if the student is progressing with an audio bloger is to make a quiz on the fundamentals of the audio bog. Also, the students can take quizzes on the different audio presentations. The other question is how do administrators make sure that the audio that the kids obtain or make is safe for the classroom environment? The teacher will have a password that allows them to get into the site and monitor what is attached. This is a great idea.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Journal #3
Journal #3
Video in the age of participation
Glen Bull
I liked the international wildlife web cams at the waterholes of nature. That is neat. Discovery is a great resource to let you pull from a file of 40,000 clips to use for a specific instruction. I agree that this is a generation that is set on the use of technology. It is no longer the age of the orator rather the artist. WE need to have more access to video for the use of teaching. My question is how do we not go over board? How can we incorporate video, and also make it be effective. Well, the author seems to make it clear that this is an additional help aide for a specific subject. Videos online are not the basis rather they are the supplement. They create a picture for the kids to see, that can better help the student understand what is going on. The main segment of this article talks about Discovery Educators network, this allows teachers and students to use work for instruction. 70% of schools in the United States subscribe to this. It is neat to see how accessible these different forms of media are these days. What is the advantage of a multimedia library such as DEN.? The author shows us that the teachers like these videos because they are directly what you are looking for. It is the fast-forward version of a video.
Video in the age of participation
Glen Bull
I liked the international wildlife web cams at the waterholes of nature. That is neat. Discovery is a great resource to let you pull from a file of 40,000 clips to use for a specific instruction. I agree that this is a generation that is set on the use of technology. It is no longer the age of the orator rather the artist. WE need to have more access to video for the use of teaching. My question is how do we not go over board? How can we incorporate video, and also make it be effective. Well, the author seems to make it clear that this is an additional help aide for a specific subject. Videos online are not the basis rather they are the supplement. They create a picture for the kids to see, that can better help the student understand what is going on. The main segment of this article talks about Discovery Educators network, this allows teachers and students to use work for instruction. 70% of schools in the United States subscribe to this. It is neat to see how accessible these different forms of media are these days. What is the advantage of a multimedia library such as DEN.? The author shows us that the teachers like these videos because they are directly what you are looking for. It is the fast-forward version of a video.
Journal #2
Journal #2
Justin Hardman and David Carpenter, "Breathing Fire into 2.0"
This is an interesting article found on ISTE.org about the use of collaboration for teachers. This seems to go beyond the usual mass emails that take up all of your space on your account, making it hard to recognize a message other than the mass email. This discusses a system that can connect thousands of teachers to a site that can help them communicate better. There would seem to be an online electronic portfolio, also the use of classroom management aide. I think it is neat to see this program of inter connection for teacher. It is so necessary. I like that you can have a link to your own personal portfolio where other teachers can look at some assignments and or lesson plans that you have done. That is cool, something that I see myself doing in the years to come. Carpenter says, “it is as if each teachers file cabinet was open and the other teachers have access to all of their files”. I am sure that it is hard to be so open with other colleagues about your work. However, I think that collaboration like this is so necessary. The other neat link is the ability to have access to communication with parents with something like Dragon net. It seems like training in Dragon net will be a great tool to help students grow. Is there ability for growth and expansion within a system like dragon net? The authors assure the reader that there is at the end of the article. They say what seems to be a single file sharing and calendar for an international school system has become world famous. After reading the article what seems to be the main use of a system like dragonet? The aide of Classrooms management, curriculum development, and the sharing of electronic portfolios. How can you use this system to teach students. Well after school you can look at it and find some notes from another teacher about a subject that you are going over. You might find a better way to present the information this way.
Justin Hardman and David Carpenter, "Breathing Fire into 2.0"
This is an interesting article found on ISTE.org about the use of collaboration for teachers. This seems to go beyond the usual mass emails that take up all of your space on your account, making it hard to recognize a message other than the mass email. This discusses a system that can connect thousands of teachers to a site that can help them communicate better. There would seem to be an online electronic portfolio, also the use of classroom management aide. I think it is neat to see this program of inter connection for teacher. It is so necessary. I like that you can have a link to your own personal portfolio where other teachers can look at some assignments and or lesson plans that you have done. That is cool, something that I see myself doing in the years to come. Carpenter says, “it is as if each teachers file cabinet was open and the other teachers have access to all of their files”. I am sure that it is hard to be so open with other colleagues about your work. However, I think that collaboration like this is so necessary. The other neat link is the ability to have access to communication with parents with something like Dragon net. It seems like training in Dragon net will be a great tool to help students grow. Is there ability for growth and expansion within a system like dragon net? The authors assure the reader that there is at the end of the article. They say what seems to be a single file sharing and calendar for an international school system has become world famous. After reading the article what seems to be the main use of a system like dragonet? The aide of Classrooms management, curriculum development, and the sharing of electronic portfolios. How can you use this system to teach students. Well after school you can look at it and find some notes from another teacher about a subject that you are going over. You might find a better way to present the information this way.
Journal #1
Finding new ways to connect:
Professors adjust their methods to reach technology-savvy generation.
By: Eleanor Yang Su of The San Diego Union Tribune
This was an interesting article about the use of technology for the Y generation. Technology is a common issue among College students these days, for everyone seems to be dependent on it to function in life. This article was neat because it got you into the life of teachers and students from UCSD who are using technology such as Instant messenger, email, myspace, ipods, all while trying to get good grades on their course work. The answer: Multitasking. The debate about multitasking got me to think if Multi tasking is a positive thing. To Neuro-Scientist, it is not beneficial. I really like the use of the “Clicker” in the classroom. That would be so neat to have in the classroom. Gordon Clanton, sociology teacher at SDSU, had an interesting thought about the use of technology, saying that it’s, “dumbing down the instruction”. This got me to think, is technology good for only some classes? I think the answer can be found in the next paragraph. Here, Diana Oblinger who works for, Educause a non profit organization that promotes the use of technology in classrooms, believes that effective technology use is when it engages the student. This makes since, there needs to be some type of engaging reflective work for any assignment to be effective. The other question is how we can use the clicker in a history classroom. I think this device can be so useful in the years to come, especially for quick interactive lecture discussions. You ask the students a question and they can confidentially answer it using the clicker. That is so neat. I hope the school I work for will have $ in the budget to afford those. :)
Professors adjust their methods to reach technology-savvy generation.
By: Eleanor Yang Su of The San Diego Union Tribune
This was an interesting article about the use of technology for the Y generation. Technology is a common issue among College students these days, for everyone seems to be dependent on it to function in life. This article was neat because it got you into the life of teachers and students from UCSD who are using technology such as Instant messenger, email, myspace, ipods, all while trying to get good grades on their course work. The answer: Multitasking. The debate about multitasking got me to think if Multi tasking is a positive thing. To Neuro-Scientist, it is not beneficial. I really like the use of the “Clicker” in the classroom. That would be so neat to have in the classroom. Gordon Clanton, sociology teacher at SDSU, had an interesting thought about the use of technology, saying that it’s, “dumbing down the instruction”. This got me to think, is technology good for only some classes? I think the answer can be found in the next paragraph. Here, Diana Oblinger who works for, Educause a non profit organization that promotes the use of technology in classrooms, believes that effective technology use is when it engages the student. This makes since, there needs to be some type of engaging reflective work for any assignment to be effective. The other question is how we can use the clicker in a history classroom. I think this device can be so useful in the years to come, especially for quick interactive lecture discussions. You ask the students a question and they can confidentially answer it using the clicker. That is so neat. I hope the school I work for will have $ in the budget to afford those. :)
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