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thought someone might be interested in assessment

Thanks for posting this, Jennifer! I found some good questions within the text--questions I will continue to think about as I work my way through the elearning assessment course we just began. Hope all is well in your world!

Wow!

Hey Jen ! I've missed you and your thoughtful connections! Thank you for finding this fascinating artist who shares a wealth of wisdom regarding creative capacities!! Austin has made an amazing discovery about this state of being. And, what a refreshing collection of thoughts from a writer/ visual artist (musician, too) who struggles with all those personality complex demons - "Not creative enough, not original enough! I struggle with writer's block! Is it art if no one appreciates it!" He goes right to the heart of the matter and encourages us to be playful, have hobbies and allow ideas to perculate. Most important, be mindful of this entire process and connect with other likeminded "processors." "When you open up your process and invite people in, you learn. . . Figure out how to make a website. Figure out blogging. Figure out Twitter and all that other stuff. Find people on the internet who love the same things as you and connect with them. Share things with them." The amount of thought and energy that goes into being creative should be a communial activity which the internet has made possible. Thanks for sharing these thoughts.

This is an important article about our education system.  I think the paragraph about "drive-by" professional development gets at what I was speaking of last night.  Budgets for teacher professional development are rapidly decreasing, and we are being forced to learn on our own time with our own dollars.  This is why I'm so insistent upon "learning to learn."  My hope is that you all get the opportunity to work in an environment where your professional development is valued and encouraged.

I agree with you, Jennifer, this is an important article! I posted it to my facebook page because many of my friends are teachers and I thought they should read it. Lifelong learning for ALL people is the key to change--I just hope this will translate into additional meaningful dialog about our education system and then into some action! Maybe in some small way, I will be able to effect change--who knows.

So what is new here? Wisconsin is where the wheels hit the pavement. So much for decent pay and etc. Our government doesn't seem to get the educational part of developing and development. Now when it comes to on line teaching they do...go figure!

This is just brilliant!

I don't think people get up in the morning and say I am going to do a bad job today. I think teachers have so many other things they deal with that have nothing to do with direct education that their job becomes very demanding. I think this 'grade-in' was a kind way to make the point.

What a cool idea!

Well, I have sorta figured out Word Press and moved all my information from my google blog to Wordpress. Any comments?

On my blog is my reflection of this course and fellow learners. I truly appreciated everything I learned and experienced this quarter with everyone!

This VoiceThread I put together as a presentation regarding some shifts in thinking and accomodations I have made regarding online & tech applications. I thought we might be sharing these, this evening, but nevertheless, it stands alone. Enjoy!

It was nice to see the preliminary decision process you went through to determine the 'collage' project. Using voicethread to explain was interesting.

Helen, your Voice Thread was a perfect finish to your final project, even if it did stand alone! I agree with one of your statements to your pre-service teachers about them needing to be on board with all the tech tools they teach to their students in the 21st century. Your "metaphor" was also engaging!

This is the link I shared in the session last night with tools divided by type.

Thank you for posting this, Jennifer! I pasted it into my blog as a resource for reference (but I gave you credit for the list).

I started this over the summer while taking the first course for this certificate. Please feel free to follow my postings on blogger as we continue in this course.

My end of class reflection is located on my blog.

Thought I had posted this...to keep my blog in order, I post dated this to 2/28/11.

Hi guys. This is not and I repeat not a video you want to watch in total. I was trying to fix my sound and needed a video to put on the site, so I could ask you if it was better than the sound on my final presentation. So if you can find the time to give a listen...I would truly appreciate it1

I agree. The sound sounds fine. Good meeting you in person tonight.

I say ditto to that one Ann...Luckily Mary Ann, Bruce and You and I will be in the next class! WooHoo!

Module 9 and Portfolio #9 assignment - Spent about 7 hrs. on Saturday creating a slide collage with VUVOX - "This dynamic media creation suite enables everyone to easily turn their photos, videos, text and audio clips into interactive stories." I wanted to have experience with several tech applications before I do my presentation. As usual, I got very engrossed in the creative aspects and spent too much time. However, this project involved many steps - making "snapshots" of some video I took of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Then, converting these to a JPG file. Discovered PICASA for storing my pixs, but since it didn't have audio capacity, searched and found VUVOX. I had great fun (and hrs.) creating my collage, writing a short narrative, then uploading my recorded voice. I'm still not happy with the speed of the slides in relation to the voiceover, but it's close to completion. Not sure what I'm going to do for a presentation but I wanted to have first-hand experience with tools other than VOICETHREAD.

It was audio and visual poem. I will definitely think about using this tool.

This is a great presentation. Using these different tools to put this together. I can see the potential this might have in the classroom.

Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help. He says students from around the world can tutor each other. This presentation was just given a few days ago.

Bruce, I have to say that this TED video posting you put up is the most interesting post I've looked at all quarter! Salman Khan talks about a very unique "backwards design" for education now and in the future with his suggestion that the "lectures--videos" be watched at home and the "homework" be done interactively with the teacher at school. In reality, this concept is the very one I was trained to do way back when I was getting my teaching credential for elementary school. In that model, teachers interact consistently all day long with small and large groups of students and individual students as well, helping them with what they need to understand until some sort of mastery comes. The only appreciable difference that I can see is the use of today's technology tools. A good teacher, no matter if face to face in a classroom or remotely in cyber space, will take the time with each individual student until he or she learns what is being taught. Self-paced learning such as what the TED video centered on was practiced years ago with SRA reading modules and similar modules for math. They fell out of fashion in many schools when districts began standardizing learning and "no child left behind" came along with its requirement that all students meet a particular standard in a particular way. Perhaps I'm over-simplifying things a bit, but I feel compelled to share this. Someone once said, "There are no new ideas under the sun, just new ways of implementing them." Anyway, thanks for this posting--I will eagerly look forward to how the Khan University develops!

Wow...thanks for sharing this link. I've watched the documentary "Waiting for Superman" and was blown away about how our education system is failing so badly. Here's an example of what person can do and change the way we learn.

Hyerin, Is this Badminton course designed for students to take along with live practice sessions during the week? I'm curious to know how you will integrate this online theory side with the hands-on practice... Interesting topic!

I love playing badminton. I am wondering whether you will have anyway of knowing how much they have learned from their practices and if they have really done what they said they did. I have always felt badminton is more fun than tennis or handball!

I learned alot about badminton - something I hadn't really focused on before as a sport.

This is the tool I use to record screencasts.

For the final presentation, I chose 'Jing' because it is the easiest tool to use that the teacher recommended to us. When I actually tried to make a sample video, I could easily apply this tool. There was five minute limit for free users, but my final presentation has also five minute limit. After I applied this tool for my final presentation, I learned about the new technology, and how to apply this technology in my future online class.