Mr. Harding is a physics teacher at West High School in Iowa City.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RIjCy9mzLM&list=PLiC-MMfzBerQAzBc4F2U_6P65XAYUV3bc
Monday, April 8, 2013
Sunday, March 10, 2013
TPACK
All
three concepts are old known for educators, but the new thing about them is to
deliver the learning subject using them together. It is very important to
understand and explore the relationship between three areas.
Mirshra
and Koehler have developed a framework and a series of guidelines that
address the idea of TPACK. Also Mark Fijor a technology coordinator in
Chicago provided us with good practical views of integrating TPACK in the
classroom. Fijor describes the use of TPACK with systematic integration in
schools.
The use of TPACK depends on understanding how technology relates and affects
pedagogy, and vice versa.
Lee Shulman described pedagogal content knowledge as it represents the blending of content and
pedagogy into an understanding of how particular topics, problems, or issues
are organized, represented, and adapted to the diverse interests and abilities
of learners, and presented for instruction
Activity types that developed
by Judi Harris, Mark Hofer, Denise Schmidt, and Ann Thomson, is providing tools
that helps educators to combine content, pedagogy, and technology to develop
curriculum that fits their educational needs. The good combined curriculum
encourages students to interact and engage in learning related activities with
each other and with the teacher online.
Judi
Mark Denise Activity Types Friday, June 15, 2012
Educational Social Networking for Professional Development
Educational Social Networking for
Professional Development June 13, 2012
The
main topic covered during class room 2.0 Live, guest speaking Steve Hargadon
was Educational social networking, and the benefits of social networking for
educators. Social networking is the aggregation of web tools for building
community and content. It is unique ability to use a variety of tools to make
social networking easier. Another topic covered was the difference between Web
1.0 and Web 2.0. Web 1.0 means someone
else make content and we receive, read, and research it, but Web 2.0 is a
framework of user participation and we contribute to it, collaborate, and
create much more instead. . Behind all social networking are building materials
or tools, instead of looking at the actual tools that make up the social
networking we look at the end results, and that is what scares us often.
Educational Networking: The benefits
of social networking for educators.
·
Invention
of the Printing Press, a huge difference since in society.
·
Blogs-
content could be up on the web for everyone to see.
·
Wikis-
People writing over other peoples writing makes it intimidating and
complicated, but also very useful.
·
Social
Networking- Ability to be creative, but do not have full control over the page.
It is easy and it has immediate feedback which makes it very popular. There are
more members on Social networking than bloggers in a day. If Facebook is a
country then its members would be the fourth largest country in the world.
What is social
networking? The aggregation
of web tools for building community and content. The Building materials make the social networking
(Facebook and MySpace). Educators are not looking at the tools that were used
to build social networking, but they look at the end result of what the
materials have created. If the social
networking materials are used in the right way, it would become an educational
network.
Social
networking, Web 1.0 and 2.0 impact teaching and learning if they are used in an
educational setting with materials that benefit students. Learners can enjoy using educational networks
more than face to face teaching that can make them more active in speaking and
participating during the session.
All
five domains totally fit into social networking and web learning’s. Educators
and professionals use design domain to design social networking or web
learning. They use the development domain to translate the design
specifications into physical form. Then they use utilization domain to address
the interface between the learner and the instructional materials or system by
using right resources, policies, and regulations. The management domain also
fits into social networking and web learning’s by administrations that planning,
monitoring, and controlling. Also, the evaluation domain that analysis problems
and quality improvement is a part of their work.
The
future teaching will concentrate on using technology as educational tools;
social networking will be a very important part of people’s lives. I will use
all these technology tools in my teaching career.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Podcasting
When I heard podcasting for the first time, I thought it is just music. After I started this class and Dr.Z told us to research about it, I found out that podcasting is used for many things, especially in education. The first podcast I followed and listened to is Ted Talk for education, TedTalk and the episode that I watched was Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids? It is 8 minutes long. Adora is very interesting young girl. Her presentation was very inspiring! She was talking about the responsibilities of parents toward their kids. This kind of podcasting would encourage kids to talk, on the other hand, will make parents more open to their kids. I would use this links of podcasting in my classroom.
The second podcast is podcast.com/ education. The Spirit of Education It has many episodes about the book called The Spirit of Education by Jeff White. This podcast is very nice and helpful, talking about the education and the process of learning. The writer of this book Jeff is talking by himself and reading his book in a very clear voice. In my opinion listening to this podcast is better than reading the same book.
The third podcast is appysmarts. This podcast is very interesting educational tool for kids to learn and play games on iPhone or iPod. appysmarts. In this web site they use easy tools to learn for kids, with a work and picture dictionary. It is very interesting to me to use it inside classrooms.
At the end of this blog I have to mention that my favorite tool is voice thread. It is very interesting and very useful for distance education.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Blog Technology As a Learning Tool
In the past week I was reading
many blogs about technology. For example Bits, the business of technology was
talking about the relationship between Facebook and Twitter, they said “In the world of social networks, Facebook and
Twitter can be compared to the old children’s story “The Tortoise and the
Hare.” But this race is not judged by speed but by the long-term relationship
with users and their privacy
The best blog I read was Technorati, they talk about everything
with technology, technology in art, technology in church, technology in
telecom. This one is very interesting; you can find anything you want.
The third blog is IFS world, about technology, innovation, and
creativity. I read a nice article named Together is Smarter, it said: Speaking
of creativity and innovations, the most important word is together. To do
things faster and smarter we have to help each other. Any communication
disruptions will interfere and slow down the innovation process.
I found a common theme between them is technology, since our
world now is depending on technology; there is no way to stay away from it.
The thread or the topic of the blog is making your blog is
more interesting and useful for your readers.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Egypt-funeral-turns-happy-after-dead-man-awakes
(LUXOR, Egypt) — The funeral of a 28 year-old waiter in southern Egypt turned into a celebration when he woke up after being declared dead.
Hospital officials had pronounced dead Hamdi Hafez al-Nubi, who came from the village of Naga al-Simman in the southern province of Luxor, after he suffered a heart attack while working.
His family says grieving relatives took him home and, according to Islamic tradition, washed his body and prepared him for burial Friday evening.
A doctor sent to sign the death certificate found it strange that his body was warm. At closer observation she discovered he was still alive.
His mother fainted upon hearing the good news.
With the doctor’s assistance, both al-Nubi and his mother were awakened and soon were celebrating with guests.
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