This past week in both TCH 632 and 630 we were to create a lesson plan. In both cases we were asked to engage the students first. The idea of doing something to capture our students attention first makes perfect sense, but doesn't always come so easily. Having this idea be a focus of our lesson plans for both classes seems to be helping.
The lesson plan that I'm working on for this class comes with a fun aspect for creating it as well. We plan to use animoto to create a tourism commercial for Door County as a example of what we want our students to create. As I love Door County, I think that will make this project quite enjoyable.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Week 4
The first lesson plan complete with a screencast went a little differently than I expected. I forgot how frustrating technology can be when something is made for a mac, and then some for a PC, this driver isn't up to date, the wireless won't connect, that file format doesn't work, there aren't photo editing programs on these computers, etc. So, the first screencast creation was a bit shaky. I thought I would be clever and bring my own laptop and do everything on it for the screencast, that way when it came time to record Dona and I could easily go into the hall or somewhere quiet. But, that cleverness was quickly defeated by technological hick-ups. However the lesson plan seemed quite easy to write, it seems that I'm finely becoming more comfortable with those. It might take a while to become more comfortable with the technology needed for this class including figuring out how to get my mac to work with some of these obstacles.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Week 3
Last class period we explored screen casts more closely. Sandy shared one that she had done herself and it made me realize how beneficially it could be to have tutorials such as hers for tasks that the students could use on their own whenever they need them. If Sandy had assigned a paper and asked for proper citation she could have just given the students the link on where to find the lesson for creating these citations. It seems that if a teacher planned well they could create lessons like this that students may need to access several times in an academic year (if they need a refresher) and that could be used for years and years (as long as what the tutorial is on doesn't change too much). I look forward to experimenting with the process in our current assignment.
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Week 2
This is something I found very interesting in the reading:
In 1998, author John Brockman proposed an interesting question to an organization of more than 100
scholars. His question was simply, “What is the most important invention in the past two thousand years?” Responses to this question varied from the somewhat obscure public key inscription system (a security system for computers) to more expected candidates such as the steam engine or the computer. Eleven of the inventions nominated by the scholars are listed here.
1. The printing press
2. The scientific method
3. The computer
4. Numbers
5. Reading glasses
6. The atomic bomb
7. Democracy
8. The steam engine
9. Clocks
10. Plumbing
11. Hay
Lee, John (2011-12-01). Visualizing Elementary Social Studies Methods, 1st Edition (VISUALIZING SERIES) (Page 377). Wiley. Kindle Edition.
It made me think quite a bit, also made me give more thought to low vs. high tech. Numbers to me is the most important invention in the past two thousand years from this list as most of the other impressive inventions that came after the invention of numbers used numbers in some way.
I have seen voice thread before, but not glogster. I tried playing with it a bit, and was going to attempt a quick trial glog. My Internet stopped working and then glogster didn't want to cooperate so I'll try another day. Project Gutenberg was pretty neat. I knew that after copy rights run out you can get a lot of books for free in kindle format on amazon and assumed elsewhere, but I did not know about this site. I just discovered that when I copy from my kindle version of our text book, a citation is automatically generated and added to the contents when I paste as seen above. After having a class where we had to site everything, I find this to be a very cool feature of high-tech reading.
In 1998, author John Brockman proposed an interesting question to an organization of more than 100
scholars. His question was simply, “What is the most important invention in the past two thousand years?” Responses to this question varied from the somewhat obscure public key inscription system (a security system for computers) to more expected candidates such as the steam engine or the computer. Eleven of the inventions nominated by the scholars are listed here.
1. The printing press
2. The scientific method
3. The computer
4. Numbers
5. Reading glasses
6. The atomic bomb
7. Democracy
8. The steam engine
9. Clocks
10. Plumbing
11. Hay
Lee, John (2011-12-01). Visualizing Elementary Social Studies Methods, 1st Edition (VISUALIZING SERIES) (Page 377). Wiley. Kindle Edition.
It made me think quite a bit, also made me give more thought to low vs. high tech. Numbers to me is the most important invention in the past two thousand years from this list as most of the other impressive inventions that came after the invention of numbers used numbers in some way.
I have seen voice thread before, but not glogster. I tried playing with it a bit, and was going to attempt a quick trial glog. My Internet stopped working and then glogster didn't want to cooperate so I'll try another day. Project Gutenberg was pretty neat. I knew that after copy rights run out you can get a lot of books for free in kindle format on amazon and assumed elsewhere, but I did not know about this site. I just discovered that when I copy from my kindle version of our text book, a citation is automatically generated and added to the contents when I paste as seen above. After having a class where we had to site everything, I find this to be a very cool feature of high-tech reading.
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