Hypermedia is really cool. I already understood what it was, I just didn’t know what to call it. Hypermedia as understand it is the mixture of information and links to other sites or pages where more information is accessible. One of the best parts of hypermedia in my opinion is the increased motivation students have to use it. Perhaps they won’t want to read a novel; but, give them access to the same material in hypermedia format and they will eat it up.
Ebooks are another great resource. As an english teacher it will be awesome to have access to free copies of novels online; Google books will have Romeo and Juliet and a whole bunch of other things that I will be teaching. I bet in a poorly funded school district that will be a handy thing to have access to. The narration feature of ebook software increases the comprehension and enjoyment of students on top of the accessibility and cost effectiveness.
Podcasts are one of my favorite new technologies. It is so effective to be able to listen and take in information on a variety of subject in almost any setting. I subscribe to over 25 different podcasts on a variety of subject. Using this technology in education is a no brainer. It has the same increased comprehension as the narration feature of the ebook; but, teachers and students can tailor it to almost any subject or use.
Podcasts and Ebooks are both things that I plan to use in my classroom. I am psyched to learn how to make my own podcasts. I will use them perhaps as a weekly update for my students to remind them what we are doing in class, what is due, and things of that nature. I could also make a test review podcast for my class. Ebooks are going to be great. I already have hard copies and audio books of most novel that I foresee teaching. The Ebook fills the gap between the two, its free, and I can get it on my loptop just like you would a kindle.
What is the best podcast software? What are all the options? Can we hurry up and do the podcast lesson yet?
Best-
Blake
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Blog Chapter 5
I learnrd about Computer Aided testing. One of the best parts of computer aided testing in my opinion is the same second feed back. I know as a teacher it will be important to me to be able to give my students feed back as soon as possible. As a student it helps me learn much better. I don't internalize the wrong answers.
Time Management tools like palm pilots, PDAs and iPhones are a great resource for teachers. It will be great to have a resource that makes it possible for me to make all my appointments and commitments with students. It will also help me use my time better in all aspects of my life and the good effects from that will ripple into my teaching.
Test generators are another awesome tool I discovered. I thought about making some practice tests for my students so they can undergo the some times boring but necessary drilling that accompanies tests. This tool will make it much easier for me to provide students with practice material. That savings in time can be transfered over into more challenging and interesting class time. If we can meet the NCLB standards with time to spare, then we can cover all kinds of student generated, awesome content.
I am totally going to use an electronic grade book. I am already on my computer all the time, it makes absolute sense for me to utilize it as a tool to handle grades. The apple "iWork" suite of programs comes with an application that has a built in grade book in a spreadsheet that gives you all kinds of other information like what percentage of students scored in what range, auto averaging and weighting, and warnings when students score below a certain criteria.
iClickers have already peaked my interest just using them as a student. I am very excited to turn the tables and use them as an educator. I think it will give students who normally wouldn't contribute due to shyness, or those who know the answer but couldn't necessarily put it into words well an opportunity to answer questions.
Can some technologies purchased by the teacher for professional use be used as tax write offs?
Time Management tools like palm pilots, PDAs and iPhones are a great resource for teachers. It will be great to have a resource that makes it possible for me to make all my appointments and commitments with students. It will also help me use my time better in all aspects of my life and the good effects from that will ripple into my teaching.
Test generators are another awesome tool I discovered. I thought about making some practice tests for my students so they can undergo the some times boring but necessary drilling that accompanies tests. This tool will make it much easier for me to provide students with practice material. That savings in time can be transfered over into more challenging and interesting class time. If we can meet the NCLB standards with time to spare, then we can cover all kinds of student generated, awesome content.
I am totally going to use an electronic grade book. I am already on my computer all the time, it makes absolute sense for me to utilize it as a tool to handle grades. The apple "iWork" suite of programs comes with an application that has a built in grade book in a spreadsheet that gives you all kinds of other information like what percentage of students scored in what range, auto averaging and weighting, and warnings when students score below a certain criteria.
iClickers have already peaked my interest just using them as a student. I am very excited to turn the tables and use them as an educator. I think it will give students who normally wouldn't contribute due to shyness, or those who know the answer but couldn't necessarily put it into words well an opportunity to answer questions.
Can some technologies purchased by the teacher for professional use be used as tax write offs?
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Where's The Beef Blog Blake Stanger
Where’s the Beef Blog 9-14-10
Using technology in the classroom can help teachers to have a varied portfolio to demonstrate student growth. All though tests are still an important part of assessment and funding with the use of a portfolio a more accurate picture of student growth is possible.
Content is king in using technology. It is important to make sure that your students are creating products that display their understanding and contain content that shows their mastery of the subject, not the mastery of technology skills.
Making sure that students understand that the modes of creation and fluency in the subject will benefit them much more than understanding the technology. They will still have the information and ability to learn once the technology is obsolete. They will be through and accurate and understand the way the subject is to be experienced.
I plan to use technology in my classroom, but I will make sure that the content is shining through. I will make goals of the project and the content available to the students so they can choose their own assessment. This will make them more involved in their own learning process.
Collaboration will be much easier using technology and I plan to make that available to my students so they can create a focused product free of clutter and full of content. The ability to create a focused product together will give my students skill to succeed in todays technological age.
I had questions about some of the programs, what are VoiceThread, Comic Life, and Animoto?
Best-
Blake
Using technology in the classroom can help teachers to have a varied portfolio to demonstrate student growth. All though tests are still an important part of assessment and funding with the use of a portfolio a more accurate picture of student growth is possible.
Content is king in using technology. It is important to make sure that your students are creating products that display their understanding and contain content that shows their mastery of the subject, not the mastery of technology skills.
Making sure that students understand that the modes of creation and fluency in the subject will benefit them much more than understanding the technology. They will still have the information and ability to learn once the technology is obsolete. They will be through and accurate and understand the way the subject is to be experienced.
I plan to use technology in my classroom, but I will make sure that the content is shining through. I will make goals of the project and the content available to the students so they can choose their own assessment. This will make them more involved in their own learning process.
Collaboration will be much easier using technology and I plan to make that available to my students so they can create a focused product free of clutter and full of content. The ability to create a focused product together will give my students skill to succeed in todays technological age.
I had questions about some of the programs, what are VoiceThread, Comic Life, and Animoto?
Best-
Blake
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Chapter 3 Reading Reflection
EDCI 320 9-9-10 Blog Chapter 3
Simulations can make the impossible possible. They can make it so I could give each of my students their own island with a population of boys (as in Lord of the Flies) to run social experiments on. This is something that I would never be able to do in reality. Simulations make things possible and save resources that would be expended by really accomplishing them.
Benefits and detractions of drill and practice, tutorial simulation, instructional games and problem solving software were covered in this chapter.
One of the big problems facing technology integration or the acquisition of technology for use in the classroom is justifying its use with scientific research and showing student progress and standards achievement. Technology can be used to help reach these goals and also to monitor student progress. In these ways we can justify technology use in classrooms! WOOT!
So I am going to use simulations in my classroom to provide students with tools to illustrate, explore, and develop scenarios that would not be typically possible.
As much as possible in my classroom I will use technology to provide students with instant feedback so they can correct the concepts they don’t understand and lock in the concepts they do. Also this makes it so I am more free to help students and improve lessons rather than grading all the time.
What software is available to secondary level english teachers?
Best-
Blake
Simulations can make the impossible possible. They can make it so I could give each of my students their own island with a population of boys (as in Lord of the Flies) to run social experiments on. This is something that I would never be able to do in reality. Simulations make things possible and save resources that would be expended by really accomplishing them.
Benefits and detractions of drill and practice, tutorial simulation, instructional games and problem solving software were covered in this chapter.
One of the big problems facing technology integration or the acquisition of technology for use in the classroom is justifying its use with scientific research and showing student progress and standards achievement. Technology can be used to help reach these goals and also to monitor student progress. In these ways we can justify technology use in classrooms! WOOT!
So I am going to use simulations in my classroom to provide students with tools to illustrate, explore, and develop scenarios that would not be typically possible.
As much as possible in my classroom I will use technology to provide students with instant feedback so they can correct the concepts they don’t understand and lock in the concepts they do. Also this makes it so I am more free to help students and improve lessons rather than grading all the time.
What software is available to secondary level english teachers?
Best-
Blake
Chapter 2 Reading Reflections
EDCI 320 9-9-10
Chapter 2 reading Reflections
Constructivism and Objectivism are two different ways of looking at education. One has a strict and directed view to instruction and want standardized assessment. The other believe students need to build their own knowledge and show that knowledge through varied assessment.
I also learned how the two come together in the future of integration and what the strength and weaknesses of both are in the comparison table 2.2 I found this information to be very helpful because I want to have an eclectic approach, using the best from both worlds when they are most appropriate.
The Technology integration planning model is a great tool for assessing what teachers need to know about technology to use it, if it will be a good solution to the problem at hand, how to make objectives and assess those objectives, activities that integrate technology to enhance learning, how to support these activities, and importantly how to evaluate student achievement and change the program to improve. I think it will be so useful to have this tool at my disposal to assess, learn, and help students.
I will use the combined methods of constructivism and objectivism to teach with the best methods from both
The TIP model will be a great tool I use in my class room for effective uses of technology.
I need a more detailed, or differentiated definition of TPACK. I read the paragraphs, and looked at the graphs and didn’t understand it very well.
Best-
Blake
Chapter 2 reading Reflections
Constructivism and Objectivism are two different ways of looking at education. One has a strict and directed view to instruction and want standardized assessment. The other believe students need to build their own knowledge and show that knowledge through varied assessment.
I also learned how the two come together in the future of integration and what the strength and weaknesses of both are in the comparison table 2.2 I found this information to be very helpful because I want to have an eclectic approach, using the best from both worlds when they are most appropriate.
The Technology integration planning model is a great tool for assessing what teachers need to know about technology to use it, if it will be a good solution to the problem at hand, how to make objectives and assess those objectives, activities that integrate technology to enhance learning, how to support these activities, and importantly how to evaluate student achievement and change the program to improve. I think it will be so useful to have this tool at my disposal to assess, learn, and help students.
I will use the combined methods of constructivism and objectivism to teach with the best methods from both
The TIP model will be a great tool I use in my class room for effective uses of technology.
I need a more detailed, or differentiated definition of TPACK. I read the paragraphs, and looked at the graphs and didn’t understand it very well.
Best-
Blake
Chapter 1 Reading Reflections
EDCI 320 9-9-10
Blog for Chapter 1
I gathered some cool stuff from chapter one. 1. The debate between inquiry based and constructivist instructional methods intrigued me. I like the results of constructivist teaching but I don’t think that the methods are that great. I don’t want to strictly cram students with info, I want to help guide them to the information they need. It will be an interesting theme to follow during my career. 2. Another thing that I learned was about the digital divide. While I already knew that there was a inequality in technology use it was good to have it quantified and defined so I can take an active role in helping students use technology. 3. I was very interested in learning the effects of the NCLB act on technology in education. I learned that technology programs in schools are at risk because school have to manage scarce funds and show “scientific research” that the programs benefit students. Technology is such a new development that research is catching up with it making it difficult to justify in the current societies atmosphere.
Applying the reading to my own teaching will give me the ability to reach students in a medium or mediums they are most comfortable in. If students today use technology more than ever it will be what they are comfortable and proficient in. That will help me differentiate my teaching and engage students.
As an ecologically conscious teacher I want to make sure my class room has the least negative impact on the environment that it can. By using online tools with green power sources my students can have a quality education and have a positive impact on our planet.
One question I have is how are standards and funding (NCLB) are being reformed so that students and educators have access to technology?
Best-
Blake
Blog for Chapter 1
I gathered some cool stuff from chapter one. 1. The debate between inquiry based and constructivist instructional methods intrigued me. I like the results of constructivist teaching but I don’t think that the methods are that great. I don’t want to strictly cram students with info, I want to help guide them to the information they need. It will be an interesting theme to follow during my career. 2. Another thing that I learned was about the digital divide. While I already knew that there was a inequality in technology use it was good to have it quantified and defined so I can take an active role in helping students use technology. 3. I was very interested in learning the effects of the NCLB act on technology in education. I learned that technology programs in schools are at risk because school have to manage scarce funds and show “scientific research” that the programs benefit students. Technology is such a new development that research is catching up with it making it difficult to justify in the current societies atmosphere.
Applying the reading to my own teaching will give me the ability to reach students in a medium or mediums they are most comfortable in. If students today use technology more than ever it will be what they are comfortable and proficient in. That will help me differentiate my teaching and engage students.
As an ecologically conscious teacher I want to make sure my class room has the least negative impact on the environment that it can. By using online tools with green power sources my students can have a quality education and have a positive impact on our planet.
One question I have is how are standards and funding (NCLB) are being reformed so that students and educators have access to technology?
Best-
Blake
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