Connecting to the Future
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What fun! This technology is great ... thank you for the great links! I think that this is a good technology for the classroom as it allows the educator to be able to preplan out areas that they would like the students to visit. To slow the pace of…
Wow ... what an awesome technology! In respect to geography in the classroom of today ... I think that geography is most definitely a subject that has been lost in todays society. I find that geography is touched on in the middle grades (middle scho…
This week we read about e-portfolios. I do not have a lot of experience with e-portfolio's but I had a great time reading about them and viewing some examples online. I think that e-portfolio's could be a great support tool for assessment within the…
I enjoyed the streaming video examples from this week's assignment. The funny thing is that I never really thought about streaming videos in the classroom even though I watch streaming videos every single day over the internet. Why not bring them in…
Experiences in Traditional Courses/Online Courses:
Hmm ... what a great topic! I actually find this topic quite intriguing as more and more schools add online courses to their selections ... and even the arrival of completely online schools (I beli…
Virtual Conferencing:
I used virtual conferencing for the first time when I was working for an engineering corporation after college. We used virtual conferencing often and in a variety of ways. We used virtual conferencing in meetings and as forum…
The search engines that I used were Google, Bing and Dogpile. Below is my response to the search engine activity. At the very end I added in some more comments based on Tawnee's comments which I found really interesting!
A Tiananmen Square for Goog…
I enjoyed the article on 21st Century Skills. I had not realized there was such a push to improve technology in the classrooms as well as integration of these skills into core subjects. I was most moved by the statement from Alvin Toffler, "The illi…
Wow ... what a fun activity! Ok, so for my first bridge (without the use of technology etc) ... I took the approach of two sides, and a 2 dot (in lego terms) width for the connecting bridge part. I started with building the two sides and tried to al…
We will be discussing issues relating to 21st Century Skills and technologies as they relate to teaching and learning.
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