Sunday, February 26, 2012
Reflection Week 6
This week was very important and i am very happy that podcast have made it into the online educational classroom. I just started to use podcast this semester for my personal classes that i teach and it is great. With podcast, we have that student teacher relationship that is so hard to get unless everyone is in a classroom setting. However, allowing the students to see what is happening it drowns his or her attention rather than text on a page that loses me as a student with a few hours into assignments. But having that interaction is great and i recommend this to any educator.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Reflections Week 5
My reaction to the technology I have just been introduced to
is stunning I did not there was a place to save the bookmarks of your findings
and share them with others. However, I have to look at there is so many social
media sites out there and everyone is doing the same thing on all of the sites
something that involves calibration. I believe Google has facilitated this best
by adding there tool in an all in one place for the users to get to instead of
logging into multiple sites. If the tool were built into Google it would be an excellent
tool in my arsenal but my usernames and password slits is growing. This will be
a great tool for students as well even though some links may be blocked from
school it is very true that he or she can go home and get to the site but
without adding control and seamlessness to the students access makes the
process cloudy and the student has less time registering for this tool than learning.
In this class since we are leaning about technology It is a great fit but for
someone that is not tech savvy we want to focus their attention on one tool and
leverage that tool. Organizing bookmarks on any site that facilitates that
storage and social media aspect is great and puts a college student and or
professor at a great advantage to always have that knowledge stored in a safe location.
As well as have the ability to share that knowledge.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Reflections Week 4
Reflections 4
After reading the article I think that e-portfolios are a
great resource for k-12 students as well as higher education. I think that if information
is presented to the student in an interactive way and can continue to draw the
student in by connecting the portfolio to some social media sites. After I build
up my ideals and develop my portfolio it will help me become a better communicate
through my knowledge that is relied from my portfolio. As well as build up my
knowledge of Web 2.0 technologies embedded into the e-portfolio site.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Reflections Week 3
My wiki is in the first stages of development wiki’s can be
very good or very bad the information that you provide in a wiki must be accurate
and up to date. My ideals are more on virtualization of the classroom and interaction
of the student and teacher relation. There are many advantages of a wiki it
helps get the information out to your users in an organized and well format.
Keeping wikis up to date ensures that the correct information is given to the
user as well as accurate and trustworthy data. The disadvantages of wiki’s is almost
the same as the advantages if your data is old and unorganized it makes it very
hard to find and navigate. If the information is stale of to much inaccurate data
the wiki becomes inactive and not a trustworthy source of information.
As for
more web 2.0 technology there is so much out there but to do videos on a wiki can
help explain more from the wiki page by allowing the end user to interact with
the author more.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Reflections Week 2
Reflections Week 2
This may make me little bias but one organization that I think
we should all look at some time is the National Association of Special
Education Teachers (NASET) is the
only national membership organization dedicated solely to meeting the needs of
special education teachers and those preparing for the field of special
education teaching. But not only special education it’s a place where we can go
and find out types of technology that can help students as I stated earlier in
my blog everyone has some type of disability and if the teachers home in on
that disability we can make a better impact on the students education. In
addition, this brings us to the main topic of students with disabilities we
look at assistive technology. Its an umbrella term that includes assistive,
adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and also
includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them
NASET Link
Another organization is very important to help align us with
other countries and ensure that if there is technology in another part of the work
we are interacting with that technology as well for example Facebook and Google
are a notional technology that is used all around the world. The organization International
Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®) is put in place just to do that it
is a nonprofit professional organization with a worldwide membership of leaders
and potential leaders in educational technology. We are dedicated to providing
leadership and service to improve teaching and learning by advancing the
effective use of technology in K–12 education and teacher education.
The link is
And of course we cannot forget EDUCAUSE this is an all in
one type organization that brings any new technology in higher education and
brings it to lite as well as hold conferences and post jobs in those fields of
technology.
The link is
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