Week 11 response

Before Class: Spend time reading an educational blog.  Add a comment to one of the entries.  Add an entry on your blog with a link to the blog entry where you added a comment.  What did you learn from the blog and how did your comment contribute to the community of learners?

http://guerrillaseason2008.blogspot.com/2008/04/final-projects.html 

I commented on this blog. Mr. Langhorst has to approve it before it can be seen though. 

His blog is very helpful to me because I got to see student's using technology in their project. Very cool.

reflection 10

In my classes here at Northwest there are many teachers who use technology well. But there are some who frequently misuse it. In one of my classes my teacher uses power points but the slides are always too wordy, too busy, and unattractive. Not only are the power points difficult to follow but the professor doesn't post them on discovery for further examination. This makes learning difficult.
In my future classes I want to make class content accessible to my students as well as make my power points both readable and attractive.

Week 10 response

After Class:  Read an article related to Bloom’s Taxonomy.  Link it to your blog.  Write a post addressing the links you see between levels of Bloom’s and technology integration.

http://www.ntlf.com/html/pi/9905/blue_1.htm 

Lee's article not only explains Bloom's Taxonomy but also talks about its use in the classroom. Student's learning can be showcased through technology. Lee's main concern is to create a student centered classroom where students can go through Blooms Domains: Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor. 
I think that technology is easy to use for Affective because if a student has a blog where they can talk about how they are feeling about the class and where they are struggling then they have an outlet. Cognitive growth with technology is about challenging students. Psychomotor could be watching a video with the class that involves movement to teach the students.  

Tech. Project

week 9 reflection

This week in my Instructional design class we have been working on lesson plans and I am going to use School House Rock grammar videos to help my students understand grammar better. What I am concerned about is if students will check out and disengage because there's a video.

week 9 response

I loved what Spankle said, "“picture is worth a thousand words” and therefore, video —or a thousand pictures— is worth so much more." It makes so much sense. I definitely will incorperate video into my teaching but I would like to point out the idealism in his blog. He says we can video every thing and email the video of class to parents and to grandma and tells a story of the whole family watching a video of a child solving a math problem. In my experience even the most devoted and loving parents don't have time to watch the child's entire day of classes when they get home from school. We shouldn't gorge ourselves on tech. because its available. We should use it in moderation and tastefully. Our culture is to record everything and post all information. This can be harmful so the tech. we use should be thoughtfully considered. 

Reflection #6

These can be observations from a visit to a classroom, from NU classes, or reflections on something related to technology & education. Each entry should answer these questions: What? So What? Now What?
In talking with my fellow students I got to thinking about being a technology native or immigrant in terms of turning in assignments. I like to turn in assignments in by paper and not online. My fellow classmate Joe Spychalski agrees with me. I think that my generation prefer not to do things digitally and I find it interesting. I will work on becoming more comfortable with turning things in digitally.