Archive for September, 2007
Innovative courses
I searched for innovative courses and came across this new requirement for Michigan students. It caught my interested me because I grew up in Detroit. It seems that Michigan Dept. of Education has decided to make a move toward integrating technology into every high school. According to the link below, Michigan has become the first state in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )New Century School House
I visitied this site last Tuesday but could not find anything in there to write about. I tried again today and I saw very little in the classrooms that I visited. I tried the chacha room for obvious reasons both today and last week. There was not even a discussion or an introduction as to what [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Photosynth- Value added from video?
The video was unbelieveable. It was so realistic and went from one extreme to another that I almost felt motion sickness beginning to hit.
One good point was that the speaker was not the main focus, in fact he was barely noticeable. His voice was necessary and heard but the main focus was on the photos in [...]
More tools? – Less tools?
Since becoming more aware the large number af tools available to an online class, I can see that we may begin with a minimal number of tools and add to the tool box on an as needed basis.
When I chose my tools for my two tool boxes I was thinking of including every tool that I would [...]
Design and Development
In designing an - course we must think of several major components. In reading chapter 6, Kearsley says that one of the main points of a successful on-line class is ” a high level of student interaction and participation.”. Then Phaedrus says that one must surpass the “functions and features that contribute” to learning in the traditional classroom.
To address [...]
Games and engagement
“I’ve suggested that a lot of what games do to engage people should be built into classwork. I’ve asked all of you to think about that those things might be. When you strip away the interface, the flashy graphics, and the gore splatter, what’s left in a popular game? Can you evaluate that without getting [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Course Objectives: Fact? or Wishful thinking?
At Prestonsburg High School, we must post our objectives on the board in the following manner:
To our left, as we face the board, we must post our daily objective under the title,”Today Students will Learn:” (we don’t have to include the standards or numbers). However, we must include specifically what stuents will learn on that day. Mine usually stays on for [...]
Filing the gap….Standards…… Lesson Plan
In Kentucky, we must use the Kentucky World Language Association’s set Standards, “Kentucky Framework for World Language Learning”. These are based on the National Standards and what they refer to as the C s, which are Communincation-1, Cultures/communities-2, Connections- 3, and Comparisons- 4.
We must incorporate as many of these standards as possible into each lesson. The [...]
Video camera off; Teaching on (comment)
http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/09/25/video-camera-off-teaching-on/
>>Video Camera Off; Teaching On
I’ve yet to see even a single example of a live distance learning event– teaching session, presentation, panel– where the video of the speaker(s) that was piped through alongside the web page activity, visuals, or even bulleted-list PowerPoint slides made an iota of positive contribution to the experience. I don’t care [...]
Learning a Second Language Over Internet by dancingnancy533
Life Would Be More Interesting If Everyone Was Animated! > I have always wanted to learn a second language and become bilingual. As the future continues to roll on, the U.S. is moving towards becoming a bilingual nation with Spanish as its lingua franca. This is way in the not so distant future, teacher education programs [...]
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