February 21, 2010 Blog Assignment

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I chose podcast only because it was the subject most foreign to me. I understand it now. Its only another name for a video just compatible to an I Pod. I was not aware of the pitfalls nor was I aware of the materials used for a podcast. I especially enjoy photo's and know that I am able to display photo's during a podcast is awesome. Podcast is a creative way of displaying the contents of a curriculum and in this day in educational age, I feel as if this is a tactile way of engaging your students.
I was unaware of copyright situations alongside potential influence against educational curriculum towards personal gain from the benefits of podcast. Podcast make structured curriculum available outside of class time. The videos engage the students to get involve and assists with the content misunderstood. It's an awesome way for educators to get involved and to further engage the students to become equally involved.

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i Pod's in Instruction

IPod is instruction is a curriculum I took great pleasure in learning about. I especially enjoyed how it was a helpful tool for special need kids. It restored self-esteem and a way to learn a difficult content and gain understanding. The IPod enables the ability to replay materials when not understood and lacking an essential element to the curriculum. Students are able to listen to educational audio files while walking the mall or watching an educational video while sitting at the doctor's office. The audio version available with an IPod helps those students with hearing and cognitive disability.

Duke University began a first year IPod generation for entering freshmen. I challenge the concept only by stating although the IPod's are preloaded student are tech savy and will find a way to erase Duke's content and reload the IPod with what is of more of interest.Click Hereto read the article about Duke University first generation of IPod's. I feel that the IPod's were useful to Jr. and Sr. honor students. Those students deserve the perks and at the time in their collegiate career one can appreciate the advantages of an IPod both academically and personally.

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V.Day[February 14, 2010] Blog Assignment

Wikipedia
Wikipedia will never be a trusted source site. I was always told by college professor's not to use this as an reference and never quite understood why. I thought until this homework assignment that it was a great source of reference. From the two articles and podcast I understand that someone can always edit information. The only thing that will change as time progress is the history to whom make the wiki information changes. I would pose a question if I was ever present during this conversation. Who established Wikipedia and why was the source open to individual edits?

"What I've Learned this Year"
Awesome summary of a first year teacher. It made me recall my first year of teaching and he actually thought more in depth than me. Curriculum should be student based. It makes it more enjoyable for the class and a joy for you the teacher. Interaction and absorption is what we as educator's crave. I love that my students trusted me. They told me more things that at times I did not want to hear.
Communication is a great tactic to absorb yet in a realistic world not all adults know how to communicate. Some people take directness as a superior attack instead of a mature attempt to solve a situation. There are no perfect teachers is what this blogger summarized. I agree. Teaching is a craft and each student, each year, each school is a different project to conquer. Overall, I loved this blog. No matter the task this teacher realizes his career was not at all about him. It was all about what would he contribute to the future of this world.

February 7, 2010 Blog Assignment

100 Ways to use your Ipod to Learn and Study better was intriguing. I knew Iphones were capable of a lot but I had no idea I could study from my phone or even better my five year old could learn to read from my phone, which he loves. I still have difficulty learning from the pod casts or their purpose. I hope to learn more as my group and I develop our very own pod casts.
A Worldwide Audience for six year old's was interesting. I could see how children would like to interact with other kids via internet simply because my son adores while enjoys a computer. I could see the kids learning to speak different languanges and the diversity of ethnicity. Yet, my question is how do the educators equally engage the parents to become involved?

January 31, 2010 Blog Assigment-Podcasts

Thus far I am in the beginning Podcast and honestly it sounds much like a guy talking his every move and discussing different sites such as dim dim.com which is an eating site. It almost sounds much like an audio twitter. At this point I am a tad bit lost and hearing him say more about his coffee and soup.
Now I am listening to teacher's podcast and I am still at a lost. It sounds like educator's discussing technology and traditional classrooms. I gone step out and proclaim pod cast's are audio documentation or audio notes. Individuals are moving away from writing and making audio documentation. Do I assume correct?
Oh snap, I have an I phone and according to the teacher's podcast there is an app. Wooohooooo! Now I only have to have Dr. Strange or Mr. Sullivan to enlighten me of the purpose for Pod-cast's. Is it for recording.
The teaching with smart board I thought would do some explaining for me however it did not. I am very tactile and visual. I still assume that pod-cast's are audio tutorial, audio notes or whatever one may need it to be.This will definitely require a lot of questions on my part and I plan to submit my question to my instructors via twitter.

Danielle McQuieter's EDM 310 Blog Assignment

2. "Its Not About the Technology"
I seriously became elated while reading this post by Mrs. Hines. I completey agreed with innovating teaching. I concur with being a learner while being a teacher. The students of the 21st century are born in a technological age. There are so many tools that come natural to our youth. However, I became fustrated because I feel like Mrs. Hines is not speaking for a realistic educational view. I have been in the school system for five years. In the five years I have done everything from video conferencing with a school 60 miles away to wiring a webcam. In the mist of those two projects my students were very helpful.
When school systems become excited with new technology you always have the veteran teachers whom do not agree. Mrs. Hines did not touch on this matter and it is what makes the inivative tools difficult to incorporate into a school. Most veteran teachers are afraid to except the new avenues to teaching. The older teachers find no need and see nothing wrong with the old avenues of education. All in all you have a large amount of tenured teachers who find no need to learn while they teach. This Mrs. Hines is what saddens me. I feel in order to make your thoughts a reality you need a educational system of young educators.

3. Karl Fisch: Is It Okay to be a Technologically Illiterate Teacher?
"I followed my blog assignment sheet and left my comment on Fisch's post."

Danielle McQuieter's EDM 310 Blog Assignment

1. Michael Wesch: A Vision of Students A Today

The setting for this film was very accurate of a college core class. Usually the English, Political Science, or Humanities class are held in very large classes such as shown in the film. During my college experience I had very little contact with instructors and disliked the class lectures. This is my second degree so during my undergrad days there were no smart phones or facebook. Instead I texted during class and listened very little to the instructor. I felt I was only a face that contributed to my instructor's paycheck.

I love the relationship with my instructor's at this point. I am most comfortable after having an intial college experience. It seems more so that after you reach your major courses the classes decrease and the instructor/student relationship enhances greatly. For the student, a college experience can either be greatly rewarding or a long unpleasing experience. That reflection of the film, I disagree with. If there was anything I could contribute to this film I would showcase more pro's and not all con's. This film is comical to the extent of the details being very true however there is so much more to an college experience for what I have experienced being a second degree seeking student.

2. "Its Not About the Technology"

Jan. 17 Blog Assignment

1. Did You Know? 3.0 and Mr. Winkle Wakes
The Did You Know film actually was creepy. First and foremost the United States is so far behind. Yet we ponder on the notion of Indonesians' making a better living for their lives in our country than we can. Its only because their better equipped in every way. I feel the United States create less babies only because we can not afford a house full of kids. Other countries re running circles around us in population because its safe to say these other countries can provide a lot more than the U.S.
Technology has taken over existence! It will progress as the years grow and that is not a good thing for us humans. Technology to a certain extinct makes us a lazy. This within itself supports why more companies are ran electronically and demand very little labor. The lack there of need for labor limits employment which again is a flaw for the United States. The film forced me to read but more so forced me to become enlighten. May I add the spooky end of the world did not help! I reconsider my second degree because the information I am learning during Spring Semester 2010 will be outdated information in the next three years. Seriously, education has got to find the progessive way.

Mr. Winkle wakes is a preminiton of the future I take it. Meaning, if we don't stay current on technologic trends then at some point we will feel extremely left behind. The basis of education is the same. Teachers format their classroom very much like it was formatted since the beginning of the 19th century. However, while the basis may remain familiar the concepts differ.
Mr. Winkle represent the older generation joining the new. My father, whom is 58 years old finds little need in a Iphone but enjoys learning different software on the computer. I constantly inform my father that the Iphone and the computer are very much, hand in hand. My grandmother, whom is 73 years of age will not attempt to use the computer or a smart phone. The technological age frightens my grandmother and she opts out of using and quickly passes down to the grandkids. Mr. Winkle represents my granny. The world for Mr. Winkle 100 years later was too much for an old man to adapt.

2. Sir Ken Robinson: The Importance of Creativity
This is absolutely the most hilarious film. I had to watch it twice only because I laughed endlessly during the first show. Educating kids out of their creativity is an astounding thought. I asked myself why don't we as educators welcome alternate ideas once we receive what we percieve a wrong idea. We educate our students in one way, from the waist up. Educators become so focused on intelligence that we subtract out the other important factors. Ken Robinson supports this notion throughout his presentation.
Suddenly degrees don't amount to much. Its only because we have to radically revaluate our interpretaion of intelligence. As an educator I need to celebrate what each individual student is good at doing. Robinson influenced me to promote confidence and to assure my student whom may not be great in Math but to notify that student of what he/she is good at establishing and completing. The best thing about this film is it was a confirmation to my spirit. My son was suggested by his teachers and doctor to be medicated. This medication is to calm my son of course. Ken Robinson said something beautiful during this film that calmed me tremendously. Some people have to move to think! This was in reference to Gillian Lynn. I know understand that we as educators have to educate the student's whole being so that their able to face a future we might not see but they will. Awesome Film.

3. Harness Your Student's Digital Smarts
Edutopia is a great way to title this film. You think of Utopia as a better world with more peace and less violence. I think just the same in regards to edutopia; a world complete with better education. I acknowledge the teachers' ability to expose her class to new technologic ideas even if she was not sure of how or when to operate the software.
Georgia's education system allowed the students to work in teams and educate one another. As a mother of a five year old I have come to support that other kids are a better educational avenue than an actual teacher. Students relate to their peers as instant, intrinsic motivators. I think Georgia has a good thing evolving by exposing the rural area to the world and the advance way of obtaining technological data.

First Day Of Class

"I am in love with this class!" The instructor is so involved with technology and that intrigues me because I am equally interested with technology. I am reunited with two people that were previous classmates. Shout out to Jasmine and Jim!!!!! The College of Education rocks. Thus far, I have completed all assignments timely. I am looking forward to the challenge of future activities.

Signed,

Lauriel Danielle McQuieter