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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Collaborative Wiki Page NETS (3,5)
Reviewed a wiki page and explained and learned how Podcasting would be used in a classroom.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Fair Use Harbor CopyRight Assignment Nets (5)
Fair Harbor Copyright Assignment
This assignment goes into detail regarding all legal and ethical practices with regards to copyright. This assignment was a collaboration with 2 other peers.
This assignment goes into detail regarding all legal and ethical practices with regards to copyright. This assignment was a collaboration with 2 other peers.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Journal #10 MS
Epler, James (March/April 2009). New Visions for Transforming Teaching. Learning & Leading with Technology, Retrieved 04/21/2009, from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/200904/
This article was fascinating in that as educators we are put as students in a classroom with other educators trying to adapt and push beyond our know limits. This program that they started is unique in that they are experiencing what we as teachers experience everyday that unless there is something to be gained or the view I better get something from this class or its not worth it my time. So they had to entice teachers to come, with using technology when they need it which is a very brilliant idea since we as teachers need to maintain our knowledge in this field. I liked that they used the same strategies as I have used with my students, first a large group then splitting the teachers to separate groups so a more relaxed and intense brainstorm session may transpire. Most people do not enjoy seminars and meetings but the way this program is set up there is a give and take and a degree of respect to the individual. The teachers get LCDs and the ability if they stay with the program to get more technological advice and resources and the program gets educators that have learned, and brought back valuable ideas to their districts which may in turn have more teachers want to enroll in this program. I am eager to see if there is a program that is like this in the San Diego area, for a up and coming teacher these programs would be invaluable.
Question #1
Why is it important for teachers to stay up on technologies and go to programs and or seminars?
Answer: It is truly important because it allows each of us who have been in a potential district bubble to share and explain ones ideas and beliefs. To explain to other educators why or why not something has worked in your classroom. Plus the seminars are a very social interactive way to get to know ones peers.
Question # 2
Why is it important to practice what you have learned from these seminars regarding technology?
Answer: It is important because the programs and seminars are geared for the teachers to make them more efficient and better able to teach students about technologies in the modern world. It also allows student the ability to know that their teacher may know a lot about a particular technology that students are interested in which would allow the teacher the ability to teach students more effectively.
This article was fascinating in that as educators we are put as students in a classroom with other educators trying to adapt and push beyond our know limits. This program that they started is unique in that they are experiencing what we as teachers experience everyday that unless there is something to be gained or the view I better get something from this class or its not worth it my time. So they had to entice teachers to come, with using technology when they need it which is a very brilliant idea since we as teachers need to maintain our knowledge in this field. I liked that they used the same strategies as I have used with my students, first a large group then splitting the teachers to separate groups so a more relaxed and intense brainstorm session may transpire. Most people do not enjoy seminars and meetings but the way this program is set up there is a give and take and a degree of respect to the individual. The teachers get LCDs and the ability if they stay with the program to get more technological advice and resources and the program gets educators that have learned, and brought back valuable ideas to their districts which may in turn have more teachers want to enroll in this program. I am eager to see if there is a program that is like this in the San Diego area, for a up and coming teacher these programs would be invaluable.
Question #1
Why is it important for teachers to stay up on technologies and go to programs and or seminars?
Answer: It is truly important because it allows each of us who have been in a potential district bubble to share and explain ones ideas and beliefs. To explain to other educators why or why not something has worked in your classroom. Plus the seminars are a very social interactive way to get to know ones peers.
Question # 2
Why is it important to practice what you have learned from these seminars regarding technology?
Answer: It is important because the programs and seminars are geared for the teachers to make them more efficient and better able to teach students about technologies in the modern world. It also allows student the ability to know that their teacher may know a lot about a particular technology that students are interested in which would allow the teacher the ability to teach students more effectively.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Journal # 9 MS
Waters, John (2009,March). The Kids Are All Right. The Journal, Retrieved 04/06/2009, from http://www.thejournal.com/articles/24104
Research was done on an estimated 800 students to find out how they use digital media. Each student was asked to keep a digital diary so that the findings could be easily evaluated. The study should that there was three Genres or ecologies or participation that was found. These ecologies are a collection of interconnected technologies and activities involving new Medias. The three types are:
1. Hanging Out- which is a lightweight social interaction largely of personal friendships and are driven by friendship interactions.
2. Messing Around- This is a hybrid of both Hanging Out and Geeking out in which the student starts to explore an interest and become more self directing. This as well is an interest driven activity and is not graded.
3. Geeking Out- The student here shows intense interest and a high level of commitment with certain technologies. Students learn to evaluate the media and technology and start to share resources and information. Based on thinking outside the box and discovering the desire to learn this is the Genre that educator appreciates most.
Educators of old were hard pressed not to embrace technologies and what they can do for today’s youth. There were times where if you seen a student on the internet the conclusion was made that the student was just messing around and nothing productive was being accomplished. This study has shown however, that students use the internet for self directing learning and not just for playtime any longer. Educators need to be more open to the things students are doing on their own when online.
Today it is estimated that 80-90% of students are using media tools for peer group socialization. Even the students that are quiet or have different interests have found communities online that shares ones interests. If the educator wants to engage the students the educator must not avoid these technologies if we do there is a high probability that we may be looked at by our students as irrelevant. Perhaps a good way to have students more engaged is to have them teach the educator a thing or two about what technologies interests them in our class. Of course make them understand that to teach us the technology has to pertain to the class in some manner.
Question #1 Why are these technologies good for the socially challenged students?
Answer: Based on the self driven approach the student can learn on their own without worrying about being graded or criticized by their peers. They can find their own interest and communities to learn from and gain confidence to show what they know.
Question #2 Why would it be important for students to teach educators about technologies?
Answer: There are so many different types of technologies and resources that educators can not know them all. Perhaps a student will find one that is better than what the teacher is using or the student will be able to explain and teach others on why a particular technology is so valuable in their own learning strategies. Allowing the student to have a voice and be apart of the educational process could only benefit the educators and the educational system.
Research was done on an estimated 800 students to find out how they use digital media. Each student was asked to keep a digital diary so that the findings could be easily evaluated. The study should that there was three Genres or ecologies or participation that was found. These ecologies are a collection of interconnected technologies and activities involving new Medias. The three types are:
1. Hanging Out- which is a lightweight social interaction largely of personal friendships and are driven by friendship interactions.
2. Messing Around- This is a hybrid of both Hanging Out and Geeking out in which the student starts to explore an interest and become more self directing. This as well is an interest driven activity and is not graded.
3. Geeking Out- The student here shows intense interest and a high level of commitment with certain technologies. Students learn to evaluate the media and technology and start to share resources and information. Based on thinking outside the box and discovering the desire to learn this is the Genre that educator appreciates most.
Educators of old were hard pressed not to embrace technologies and what they can do for today’s youth. There were times where if you seen a student on the internet the conclusion was made that the student was just messing around and nothing productive was being accomplished. This study has shown however, that students use the internet for self directing learning and not just for playtime any longer. Educators need to be more open to the things students are doing on their own when online.
Today it is estimated that 80-90% of students are using media tools for peer group socialization. Even the students that are quiet or have different interests have found communities online that shares ones interests. If the educator wants to engage the students the educator must not avoid these technologies if we do there is a high probability that we may be looked at by our students as irrelevant. Perhaps a good way to have students more engaged is to have them teach the educator a thing or two about what technologies interests them in our class. Of course make them understand that to teach us the technology has to pertain to the class in some manner.
Question #1 Why are these technologies good for the socially challenged students?
Answer: Based on the self driven approach the student can learn on their own without worrying about being graded or criticized by their peers. They can find their own interest and communities to learn from and gain confidence to show what they know.
Question #2 Why would it be important for students to teach educators about technologies?
Answer: There are so many different types of technologies and resources that educators can not know them all. Perhaps a student will find one that is better than what the teacher is using or the student will be able to explain and teach others on why a particular technology is so valuable in their own learning strategies. Allowing the student to have a voice and be apart of the educational process could only benefit the educators and the educational system.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Journal #7 MS
Bigenho, Chris (March/April 2009). Mining for Gold. Learning and Leading with technology, Retrieved April,05,2009, from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/200904/
This article contained a lot of informative information regarding the usage of RSS. What is RSS? The basic definition is a Real Simple Syndication, an RSS controls information we see based on a subscription to a particular site as well it allows people to pull together rapidly changing information.
There are two parts to RSS which are the FEED and the AGGREGATOR. The RSS Feed uses XML, each feed have defined channel tags which defines and individual items. Aggregators will read these tags, track subscribed pages and notifies when any new items are added. RSS feeds are manly on websites that we use.
RSS Readers or Aggregators are divided into two class’s: Client side and the Internet Hosted. The internet hosted allows you to reach your feed from any computer not just your home computer where you have your network all set up. Some popular internet hosts are Readers, Bloglines, Netvibes, IGoogle, Google Reader. For the client side that are Safari for the Apple computers, and for the PC we have Windows live and Vista.
There are many ways that we can use RSS in the classroom to help educate our students. One way is to have each student create a blog that they know will be used for class work. Once I subscribe instead of looking at all my students blogs I can make it so that when a student posts something on their blog I will be notified. This makes life easier since I would not have to go through hundreds of blogs daily to see whom is keeping up. Another way that RSS would be advantageous is to have student learn about and subscribe to social bookmarking. Once everyone is on the same page with the bookmarking we could make a class tag that students would then have to subscribe too, once done the students would begin to gain the benefits from all resources that I use and other students use with a simple tag. There are many ways to make life easier and more efficient when teaching this is just one small step into a technological world.
Question #1 What would be the downfalls of implementing RSS into ones classrooms?
Answer: I think the only real downfall with this is that if students are not proficient with computers or there is a lack of computers that the initial process could take a few weeks that a teach may not have. So I think patients will pay off in the end.
Question #2 How would RSS benefit students and their goals?
Answer: I think that if students came aboard with the RSS and got into it that they would be able to help each other with things like tagging, Google Docs and so forth. With each step the students would become more competent with computers would be able to find more and relevant information and would be able to share the information with their peers.
This article contained a lot of informative information regarding the usage of RSS. What is RSS? The basic definition is a Real Simple Syndication, an RSS controls information we see based on a subscription to a particular site as well it allows people to pull together rapidly changing information.
There are two parts to RSS which are the FEED and the AGGREGATOR. The RSS Feed uses XML, each feed have defined channel tags which defines and individual items. Aggregators will read these tags, track subscribed pages and notifies when any new items are added. RSS feeds are manly on websites that we use.
RSS Readers or Aggregators are divided into two class’s: Client side and the Internet Hosted. The internet hosted allows you to reach your feed from any computer not just your home computer where you have your network all set up. Some popular internet hosts are Readers, Bloglines, Netvibes, IGoogle, Google Reader. For the client side that are Safari for the Apple computers, and for the PC we have Windows live and Vista.
There are many ways that we can use RSS in the classroom to help educate our students. One way is to have each student create a blog that they know will be used for class work. Once I subscribe instead of looking at all my students blogs I can make it so that when a student posts something on their blog I will be notified. This makes life easier since I would not have to go through hundreds of blogs daily to see whom is keeping up. Another way that RSS would be advantageous is to have student learn about and subscribe to social bookmarking. Once everyone is on the same page with the bookmarking we could make a class tag that students would then have to subscribe too, once done the students would begin to gain the benefits from all resources that I use and other students use with a simple tag. There are many ways to make life easier and more efficient when teaching this is just one small step into a technological world.
Question #1 What would be the downfalls of implementing RSS into ones classrooms?
Answer: I think the only real downfall with this is that if students are not proficient with computers or there is a lack of computers that the initial process could take a few weeks that a teach may not have. So I think patients will pay off in the end.
Question #2 How would RSS benefit students and their goals?
Answer: I think that if students came aboard with the RSS and got into it that they would be able to help each other with things like tagging, Google Docs and so forth. With each step the students would become more competent with computers would be able to find more and relevant information and would be able to share the information with their peers.
Journal #6 MS
Warlick, David (March/April 2009). Growing Your Personal Learning Network. Learning and Leading with technology, Retrieved 04/09/2009, from http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/LL/LLIssues/Volume3620082009/MarchAprilNo6/36612w.pdf
David Warlick article was interesting in that it talked about different types of Personal Learning Networks or PLNs for short. Most people if asked about PLNs most likely would not know what you were talking about but once you explained what it is they would site example after example on how they use PLNs. There are different types of PLNs from family, friends, colleagues, books, journals, textbooks, TV and radio that are used by the everyday person.
Educators as well use PLNs in their ever day life as well, using the list above and using things suck as mailing lists, Skype, Google, Delicious, Google Talk, Wiki’s and Blogs. These PLNs for educators can help find sources for lesson plans, potential collaboration on work, locate current events as well as answers and solutions.
Warlick has described a few specific types of PLNs. First we have Personal maintained synchronous connections; these are used in the “real time”. Examples would include, Ichat, Skype, Ustream, Instant Messaging, Text messaging and Twittering. The next type is Semisynchronous which is used in a “ non- real time “ such as using Google Docs, Twitter, Group discussions and Blogs. This is a very good tool since the people working on the same project can contribute to the paper or discussion in different geographic areas, as well as the person can do it on their own time. And lastly Asynchronous which is an RSS aggregator that streams the information directly to you for an individual to do their job. An example of such is Social Bookmarking, pod casting, and journals.
Questions #1
What would be some pitfalls for a new teacher that is trying to put together PLNs?
Answer: I believe the one major pitfall would be having a new teacher trying to hard to make everything fit in the box. The internet was not made in a day so I would imagine that creating ones own PLN will take time and putting to much together at once may eventually be more harmful than helpful.
Question #2
How can PLNs be used within your classroom?
Answer: I think the way this could work is to have the students come up collectively with what they use the most on the internet and then with that information as a whole we could use the most well known PLN. This way the class could have discussions online, could post information to help other students, and could build their own network with one they initially started in class.
David Warlick article was interesting in that it talked about different types of Personal Learning Networks or PLNs for short. Most people if asked about PLNs most likely would not know what you were talking about but once you explained what it is they would site example after example on how they use PLNs. There are different types of PLNs from family, friends, colleagues, books, journals, textbooks, TV and radio that are used by the everyday person.
Educators as well use PLNs in their ever day life as well, using the list above and using things suck as mailing lists, Skype, Google, Delicious, Google Talk, Wiki’s and Blogs. These PLNs for educators can help find sources for lesson plans, potential collaboration on work, locate current events as well as answers and solutions.
Warlick has described a few specific types of PLNs. First we have Personal maintained synchronous connections; these are used in the “real time”. Examples would include, Ichat, Skype, Ustream, Instant Messaging, Text messaging and Twittering. The next type is Semisynchronous which is used in a “ non- real time “ such as using Google Docs, Twitter, Group discussions and Blogs. This is a very good tool since the people working on the same project can contribute to the paper or discussion in different geographic areas, as well as the person can do it on their own time. And lastly Asynchronous which is an RSS aggregator that streams the information directly to you for an individual to do their job. An example of such is Social Bookmarking, pod casting, and journals.
Questions #1
What would be some pitfalls for a new teacher that is trying to put together PLNs?
Answer: I believe the one major pitfall would be having a new teacher trying to hard to make everything fit in the box. The internet was not made in a day so I would imagine that creating ones own PLN will take time and putting to much together at once may eventually be more harmful than helpful.
Question #2
How can PLNs be used within your classroom?
Answer: I think the way this could work is to have the students come up collectively with what they use the most on the internet and then with that information as a whole we could use the most well known PLN. This way the class could have discussions online, could post information to help other students, and could build their own network with one they initially started in class.
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