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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
BPBPBPEvernotePhotPeachSlideShow!!!!Essay on Overload!!
I am BP'd out! My mind has nothing to offer good or bad regarding Evernote, PhotoPeach - Eat a Peach! Now there is one of rock n' rolls great albums by The Alman Brothers! SlideShare? I need to work on slide show presentations as effective means of communication. Currently, slide show (read powerPoint) have become the lazy minded professor's way to include visuals in their worn out lectures. I need more time to research these 2.0 tool. In the meantime, I need to spend most of my 2.0 research with the leapfrog org website and with Open Carbon (read those essays if you have the time). They are both great "FSO -AHA!" discoveries for my current projects.
BP12 2009123 WatchKnowEssay
I think WatchKnow fits nicely with out Leapfrogs to Laptops Project. The ability to match visuals with words should help to increase the English learning skills of both the child and the parent. I imagine the parent and child sounding out the word with the guidance of the teacher. As this point, I need to simply log in and play with the program. Perhaps I'll do so with my grandson Gavin.
BP#7 Essay
The application of WIKI for our nonprofit organization and our Leapfrogs to Laptops Project should help our team pull together and become more organized and focused on the challenges presented by this project. I need to further research the benefits of a grass roots nonprofit WIKI. Social Networking is the key skill in doing grass roots nonprofit work. One aspect on networking is establishing strong private (for profit) partners. One WIKI objective might be to include a private partner in the development of our WIKI. At this point, I am at the point of mindful overload. The brain needs time to incubate new idea, new concepts, new technology - Well, perhaps only my old brain needs this incubation period in order to hatch a new idea! I need to envision what connects and what does not. What needs to left on the cutting room floor. There needs to be fluency as to how the technology works in delivering the information to the learner. Will the WIKI help to turn that information into knowledge? Will it play a critical role in taking the knowledge and transforming it into to know-How (Innovation)?
Monday, December 21, 2009
BP#14 2009123 Peer Review Becky Ward
Running head: WARD BECKY - PEER REVIEW
Ward Becky - Peer Review
TJ Pendergast
Full Sail University
Ward Becky - Peer Review
In BP 6, Anti – Teaching essay, Becky makes some salient points concerning her doubt about new technology being the savior of education.
“As Michael Wesch put it in his article, significance is the problem. Students absolutely need to see the significance and purpose in each one of their classes.” (http://beckyward77.blogspot.com/)
Becky via Michael Wesch’s video is referring to the content of the learning experience. Michael Wesch’s admonishment to pay attention to the significance of what we are teaching our students to learn is critical. Becky appears to understand this argument.
Becky’s BP #4 supports her proposition that learning math needs to connect to the real world whenever possible. This particular web toll does that. It is also a very timely tool for these particular recessionary times. (http://www.walletproof.com/) Teaching her students how to balance a check book offers a critical skill that will transfer over to other applications in the real world, “paying the rent/mortgage, car payment, car insurance, school loans, groceries, utilities, gasoline, just every day expenses in general.” (http://beckyward77.blogspot.com/2009/11/bp42009121web-20-tools.html)
In BP3, Google Reader, Becky presents the book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, by Sean Covey. She discusses the concern that teachers have about students not having the know -how when it comes to organizing the work. Unfortunately Becky is experiencing an “Administration glitch, “Unfortunately, our district could only afford the book, but not the workbook that goes along with it. Therefore, I am trying to find ideas of projects that I can do that will help my students see how they could personally use the 7 habits.”
Ward Becky - Peer Review
TJ Pendergast
Full Sail University
Ward Becky - Peer Review
In BP 6, Anti – Teaching essay, Becky makes some salient points concerning her doubt about new technology being the savior of education.
“As Michael Wesch put it in his article, significance is the problem. Students absolutely need to see the significance and purpose in each one of their classes.” (http://beckyward77.blogspot.com/)
Becky via Michael Wesch’s video is referring to the content of the learning experience. Michael Wesch’s admonishment to pay attention to the significance of what we are teaching our students to learn is critical. Becky appears to understand this argument.
Becky’s BP #4 supports her proposition that learning math needs to connect to the real world whenever possible. This particular web toll does that. It is also a very timely tool for these particular recessionary times. (http://www.walletproof.com/) Teaching her students how to balance a check book offers a critical skill that will transfer over to other applications in the real world, “paying the rent/mortgage, car payment, car insurance, school loans, groceries, utilities, gasoline, just every day expenses in general.” (http://beckyward77.blogspot.com/2009/11/bp42009121web-20-tools.html)
In BP3, Google Reader, Becky presents the book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, by Sean Covey. She discusses the concern that teachers have about students not having the know -how when it comes to organizing the work. Unfortunately Becky is experiencing an “Administration glitch, “Unfortunately, our district could only afford the book, but not the workbook that goes along with it. Therefore, I am trying to find ideas of projects that I can do that will help my students see how they could personally use the 7 habits.”
BP13 2009123 Peer Review - Kenny McLaughin
Running head: MCLAUGHLIN PEER REVIEW
McLaughlin Peer Review
TJ Pendergast
Full Sail University
McLaughlin Peer Review
In BP #5. Kenny delves into the relevant applications of visual media as a learning tool for his students. He posts the following objectives:
Objectives:
- Increased Media Literacy Skills
- Practice of Professional Skills
o Cyber Etiquette
o Interpersonal skill development
o Job readiness skill development
o 21st Century Technologies skill development
(http://kingkenny3skingdom.blogspot.com/)
These objectives help the reader to frame the following information by relating Kehy’s comments and points of view to the stated objectives. The following example demonstrates this point.
“Classroom learning environments can create a news show on a unit of study, weekly, and even a daily practice of live broadcasting each morning, afternoon, or evening.
Materials needed:
- Digital Camera
- imovies
- Internet access”
(http://kingkenny3skingdom.blogspot.com/2009/12/bp52009122discovering-web-20-tools.html)
This particular example clearly relates to all six objectives. The inclusion of the required materials is a good thought allowing prospective educators to do research into the ease and availability of these particular tools in their school districts.
BP#3 Anti-Teaching is still in development. Based on Kenny’s blog, this is most likely a case of reflection as opposed to procrastination. This particular assignment calls for some deep, critical thinking. I look forward to reading his reflection on this scenario.
McLaughlin Peer Review
TJ Pendergast
Full Sail University
McLaughlin Peer Review
In BP #5. Kenny delves into the relevant applications of visual media as a learning tool for his students. He posts the following objectives:
Objectives:
- Increased Media Literacy Skills
- Practice of Professional Skills
o Cyber Etiquette
o Interpersonal skill development
o Job readiness skill development
o 21st Century Technologies skill development
(http://kingkenny3skingdom.blogspot.com/)
These objectives help the reader to frame the following information by relating Kehy’s comments and points of view to the stated objectives. The following example demonstrates this point.
“Classroom learning environments can create a news show on a unit of study, weekly, and even a daily practice of live broadcasting each morning, afternoon, or evening.
Materials needed:
- Digital Camera
- imovies
- Internet access”
(http://kingkenny3skingdom.blogspot.com/2009/12/bp52009122discovering-web-20-tools.html)
This particular example clearly relates to all six objectives. The inclusion of the required materials is a good thought allowing prospective educators to do research into the ease and availability of these particular tools in their school districts.
BP#3 Anti-Teaching is still in development. Based on Kenny’s blog, this is most likely a case of reflection as opposed to procrastination. This particular assignment calls for some deep, critical thinking. I look forward to reading his reflection on this scenario.
BP 17 2009123 Tool#6 Slidesharedemo
Check out this SlideShare Presentation:
Slidesharedemo
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Sunday, December 20, 2009
BP12 2009123 WatchKnow
http://www.watchknow.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=14691
This a great site for my pre-school Somali Refugee children. This url will lead to their Figurative Language video. Excellent content!
Friday, December 18, 2009
Posted responses to other blogs
Posted responses to other blogs:
1. Tersee, Nice one minute message. Music is great. Performs like a trailer should! I am ready for the movie to begin bout the six presidents
2. E. I like Timerime. I will look into it further for my adult students too. Thanks
3. Louria: Nice video. I need to explore your method of writing a story, Not familiar with this technique
4 Karen, nice one minute demo. Love the music. I will do some research on this web tool.
5. Interesting movie idea. I am not sold on second life or other "avatar" tools. I'll check this one out to see if it is more applicable to the online course I am developing. Thank for the idea.
6. I'm convinced. I will research Toxbox. Face to Face collaboration in real time via the internet. I am looking at a few of these web 2.o tools. Thanks for another alternative
7. Becky: Will do! Any age sounds promising. I teach dislocated workers in search of new career paths. I'll have them try CIS Thanks
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
BPExtra Curricular Elluminate Essay 12/13/09
Elluminate (http://www.elluminate.com/) offers a similar service as Wimba. Viterbo only has the chat room in Blackboard. The Elluminate platform offers a more robust set of options including a white board for visual presentation such as Keynote and PowerPoint. The student can either participate via microphone and headset or by typing in the dialogue box. Presentations can be recorded for review or for the student who cannot attend due to a schedule conflict. Part of the curriculum is a team visual presentation their final Global Sustainability Project. A team of evaluators will observe the presentations. After each presentation there will be a question and answer session. The evaluators will offer suggestions regarding necessary revisions to the presentations. The students will be given a second time to present the revisions. An option for the utilization of Elluminate is to offer a blended presentation with a live Viterbo student body audience. The audience would view the recorded or live Industry Expert chat before the beginning of breakout sessions. The breakout sessions would be blend of on ground participants and online participants dialoging via Elluminate. A PDF is attached for your convenience.
(http://www.elluminate.com/whitepapers/Best_Practices_for_Hosting_Blended_Events.pdf)
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