Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Welcome to Intro to Educational Technology course
This course examines the shifting digital learning literacy demands of 21st century and how these demands are changing the ways that teachers/trainers educate their students/clients. It investigates digital tools with an eye toward their use in creating authentic, powerful learning opportunities for students/clients. Participants learn how to use selected tools to enhance the learning of their students/clients, and use their own classroom/training sites as a clinical laboratory for experiential learning and application of new skills. Participants are required to report back to the group weekly to share ways in which they have used these tools to improve teaching and learning.
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I was reading up on the law regarding collecting personal information from a child such as email address information or establishing an email account. Any child under the age of 13 needs parent approval before an email address is established.
ReplyDeleteJust finished up the reading and I figured I would check to see if there was a new poll or some sort of a pop quiz to see if we were paying attention. The blogging seems manageable, but I'm still unclear on wikis....hopefully we will review that in more depth tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI have been trying to chalk out a strategy as to how to present the entire Technology course to teachers in my school so as to encourage them to adopt this technology as day to day activity guide. I am sure many might be interested especially when they realize that their students are more adept at the use of many of these gadgets and software. To be a teacher means to keep abreast of anything new in your field. Everybody needs to be familiar with this Whatever...Whenever ….Wherever syndrome. Long live WWW!!!!
ReplyDeleteTeaching calls for long term commitment to remain a student. The day a teacher ceases to be a student he ceases to be a good teacher,
I have created a wiki unit plan for researching types of goldfish and ultimately having my special needs students buy one on a field trip for our classroom fish tank. I'm using PB Works and am wondering if my students will need a password to view/participate in it. This is all new to me, so I'm confusing blog requirements with wikis, I think. Also, I created a blog on the Gulf Oil Spill and my students seem to be able to view it on their accounts at school (except for YouTube video, which I'm trying to get our IT dept to unblock). I'm wondering if they'll be able to comment without a password or permission. They were able to take a poll. The last thing I'm wondering about is a classroom blog that features pictures of my students throughout their day/field trips, etc. I'm requiring the students to write a caption as part of a comprehension exercise. It's for parents to keep abreast of what we're doing in the classroom. I'm using blogger. Do I need to add all the parent's email addresses to the permissions section and the student's school email addresses as well? Will this be a closed site that is private only to those given permission? Thanks!!!Chris
ReplyDeleteWow, Chris,you are awe-inspiring! I keep getting booted off the blogger site (my high speed internet at home is not great)and I haven't yet set it up, no less co-ordinate it with a teaching unit.. kudos to you. Hey, where's the rubric for the paper?
ReplyDeletesee you all Monday, I guess...
Sandy (Chariho)