The two writing activities that I liked most were the Concept Maps and the Collaborative technique. concept maps can help students identify the inportant concepts, arranging the concepts spatially, and identifying relationships between the concepts. The concept maps can be drawn by both hand and computer. Collaborative writing would help the students improve their group working skills, in this activity role can be asgined to each student to give thema spacific job. The main skills that could be focused on in this activity are brainstorming, structuring writing flow generating text that can be used in the written probuct, editing, and noticing the meaning of the task at hand.
The text book tells us a few was to keep our power points undistracting. Font-itus: this is when you use to many different fonts, Overzealous slide transitions: when you use transitions that are to distracting like checkerboard transition. To many slide: use your slides in good efect,use just enough to get the point across and not to many that the presintaion is overdrawn and to lengthy. I do believe that I would be able to follow the pitfalls guidlines, the book explains them a great detail.
In my conclusion i look forward to using these technologies and technequis in my classroom. I think that all the tools are very helpful to the learning experience.
Jonassen, D. Howland, J. Marra, R.M. Crismond, D. (2008). Meaningful learning with technology. Upper Sadale River. NJ. Pearson Merrill Prentice Hill.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Week 6 (Chp 2)
PDA's
Cell phones, digital cameras, audio recording, USB ports, and GPS are a few Handhelds or Personal digital assistants (PDA's) as we call them that can be used in the classroom. These tools are are sometimes used in a classroom for organizing functions, calanders, task managers and memo tools. In the classroom most of thePDA's run off the Palm operating system. We use these tools in the classroom to send and recive documents information, and many other things.
Online surveys
We use surveys for many reasons, to see where someone stands on a subject or topic, or in classroom we use it to see where a student is at on that spasific subject and how much they know. Using surveys in the classroom can help a teacher know where they need to begin teaching a subject and know how in depth they need to go. The two rules that I thought were goos were the "Avoid bias" and "Avoid leading questions". You want your students to tell what they know or think not what they think you are going to want to here because that doesn't help them.
In my conculsion I think useing the PSA's and surveys in a classroom are good ideas. Its not that is just makes teaching easier it makes it to where the teacher can recieve better feedback from his or her students and in that be able to set the carriculum to teach better.
References:
Jonassen, D. Howland, J. Marra, R.M. Crismond, D. (2008). Meaningful learning with teachnology. Upper saddle river. NJ. Pearson Merrill prentice hall.
Cell phones, digital cameras, audio recording, USB ports, and GPS are a few Handhelds or Personal digital assistants (PDA's) as we call them that can be used in the classroom. These tools are are sometimes used in a classroom for organizing functions, calanders, task managers and memo tools. In the classroom most of thePDA's run off the Palm operating system. We use these tools in the classroom to send and recive documents information, and many other things.
Online surveys
We use surveys for many reasons, to see where someone stands on a subject or topic, or in classroom we use it to see where a student is at on that spasific subject and how much they know. Using surveys in the classroom can help a teacher know where they need to begin teaching a subject and know how in depth they need to go. The two rules that I thought were goos were the "Avoid bias" and "Avoid leading questions". You want your students to tell what they know or think not what they think you are going to want to here because that doesn't help them.
In my conculsion I think useing the PSA's and surveys in a classroom are good ideas. Its not that is just makes teaching easier it makes it to where the teacher can recieve better feedback from his or her students and in that be able to set the carriculum to teach better.
References:
Jonassen, D. Howland, J. Marra, R.M. Crismond, D. (2008). Meaningful learning with teachnology. Upper saddle river. NJ. Pearson Merrill prentice hall.
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