All About E Learning and Choices
Hi to all who want to become plugged into
education!!! I am currently a student at
Walden University online working on a degree in Instructional Design and
Technology. As part of my voyage to IDT
I will be sharing three web sites on education and technology.
This site had a lot of useful information on how to
use technology in the classroom through gaming and other methodologies. The site shared with teachers useful ipad
apps that teachers could get in order to enhance teaching. There are videos and
YouTube suggestions. Bloom’s Taxonomy is
on here but not just the pyramid but the author includes different learning
domains; cognitive domain, affective domain, and psycho-motor domain. This site is a treasure trove of information,
ideas and useful technology ideas that can be incorporated into teaching or
taken into a school district as an in-service of ideas for other teachers who
are not using technology.
I thought this web site was useful because I have a
sixteen year old son who has informed me that when the teacher is teaching some
of his classmates are sending text messages to one another and using Facebook. I then began to think I would be really mad
if I were up teaching and my students were enthralled in their technology
devices, so my next thought became why not as a teacher tell the students to
take out their smart phones and goggle a topic currently being taught and share
that information. First share it in
groups of two or three and then do a class presentation on what they have
learned.
The second blog I selected was one that was totally
out of my range of experience but as I work on this degree I want to know what
else is out there in the field if IDT, as in what skills will I need to take my
teaching out of the traditional K-12 setting into other areas? So I found this think outside of the box
management blog. I did some reading
within the blog and found useful tips about how to do a presentation and what
things will kill a presentation. There
were YouTube videos as well as ones that the reader could click on and then
read the slides for themselves. http://www.elsua.net/
The third blog that I found was most definitely a
find. It contained a lot of information
on story boards in eLearning learning.
This site featured information about what an informational designer
does, it suggested books to be read by beginning designers and basically
contained more information than I could really explain. http://www.elearninglearning.com/instructional-design/storyboards/
Well happy Blogging to all and to all a blogging
good night!
Very interesting. I look forward to checking these out!
ReplyDeleteThank you Dr. Johnson for visiting my blog!!
DeleteYou gave some great resources here. I especially enjoyed the Educational Technology and Mobile Learning site. Your comments regarding using mobile devices in the classroom are spot-on! In 2010, a local private school here in Savannah, GA replaced all their textbooks with iPads. Here’s a brief news video about it: http://www2.wsav.com/news/2010/aug/20/savannah-school-one-1st-nation-get-ipads-ar-730209/ Apparently, the use of iPads in the classroom wasn’t just a high-tech draw to get parents to enroll their children at the school; the iPads are really making a difference! Here’s a recent (September 2012) article about how the use of the iPads have evolved over the past two years: http://www.thecreativecoast.org/savannahnews/view/9071-st-andrew-s-middle-school-teacher-recognized-on-national-level?cls=savnews&src=web
ReplyDeleteThank you Lynn for your comments on the topic of technology usage in the classroom, Mrs. Lazzuri is ahead of the curve when it comes to using technology in the classroom with her students. I believe it gives the students a head start on becoming proactive in their learning and it also provides a way for parents to see just what content is being taught in their child’s science classroom.
ReplyDeleteIt is nice to see that all of these sites that provide all of these ideas to incorporate technology into the classroom setting has landed at a school such as yours and is being utilized.