We are half way through the course and we sure learned alot. I couldn't believe all the things in the review class. We did websites, wikis, blogs, conferencing, podcasting, and reviewed old technology.
I think everyone appreciated Colby, Danny, and Kelly's video presentation. I thought they used a multiple of different technologies such as: video, overhead, chalkboard, white board, role playing and music. It was refreshing, honest, and entertaining. It is so accurate to life as well. When Colby is saying that Kelly is so excited, but boy was he bad: it shows how different people can read things differently. Also when Colby was trying to explain to the guys what was going on in his head the guys didn't get it. This shows how communication can get lost through translating processes. It also showed that Colby didn't do any followup question to make sure the guys were on the same page as he was. Often people feel they did a good job explaining things, but the audience may be assimilating the information differently and going off on to a totally different tangent. Unless the speaker clarifies with the audience that their own meaning has gotten across, the speaker cannot assume people understand the point he is making.
In psychology we took that different experiences and lessons make up how a person thinks. Colby looked up all the information on Bach but Kelly and Danny obviously had no clue where he was in the learning continuum. So what seemed perfectly clear in Colby's head didn't translate clearly to the other guys. This is where using different technical styles to get your point across would help the audience. Using powerpoint, slides, schemas, and diagrams to explain how each step relates to each other helps different learners to pick up on different schemas. The guys did a great job in introducing different teaching methods for different learners. They used different technology to captivate their audience as well.
Great Job guys.
They did relate things well through the video.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
pencil as a technology
I think technology can overwhelm the past but it cannot erase the past. When you view futuristic films many portray people back in the stone age with no running cars or water and no electricity. If this should happen computers, modern buildings, and most amenities will be useless. But not the pencil.
You can pick up almost anything to write in the dirt. You could use a finger, stick, rock, or a pencil. But you cannot fix a computer (or at least I can't if I am that only person left on the Earth.
You can pick up almost anything to write in the dirt. You could use a finger, stick, rock, or a pencil. But you cannot fix a computer (or at least I can't if I am that only person left on the Earth.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Mankato, Minnesota
Recently in class we were evaluating websites and were asked to visit http://descy.50megs.com/Emankato/mankato.html. I have provided the link so that you may also visit this incredible sight.
Mankato Minnesota
I really liked the website. It reminded me a lot of the movie Forrest Gump (which I also really liked). The website took many world wide renown places or events and added to their own town. During the flooding season they compared it to Venice, Italy. They even had a US president (Bush) fishing in the middle of a street. Mankato has it's own pyramids, Atlantis, Mountains, Aquarium,and of course the End of the Internet. I forwarded this site to my husband for our next vacation spot and I hope to meet some of you there.
The site must have taken an incredible amount of time and energy to build; (I wonder if it has copyrights?) The thought that people have and do take the time to build sites for the curiosity of others is incredible. Even looking up the pictures takes time, but almost every picture has a write up. I can't even open my email everyday never mind make a website. It had over 17 different links of which some were meticulously detailed. The site even had legitimate links. We were told that a professor wrote the site to teach people to evaluate what they read as true.
I think students of all ages need to evaluate everything they see and hear. I reminded everyone I spoke to about the commercial about the House Hippo living in your house. I really liked that commercial. My children and I looked for our House Hippo the first time we seen the commercial. I told them that my house must be very clean because we didn't find any: they were disappointed. They also pointed out that we do have Hippo (not Dust) bunnies. It was a great learning tool for my children to learn not to believe everything they hear no matter how real it looks.
See hippo link to view the advertisement.
House Hippo
Some of favourite movies at home are fake documentaries. One is about Dragons and the other is about the Death of Paul McCartney.
The fact is there are people out there willing to go to great lengths to fabricate stories either for pleasure or as a menace. Do you remember some of the great hoaxes? If not visit this next link.
Hoax or Real?
When siting references students must remember to acknowledge who the audience is. Who is the author trying to address.
Who wrote the reference? Was it someone knowledgeable and do they sight their sources. Can you find a couple of more collaborating sources?
Does the website seem legitimate, free from errors with current links. Is there a date of production and a date last edited?
It is a peer-reviewed article. Did someone critique the website? Do other people link to the sight?
These are a few of the things you can do to make sure that the source is reliable. Remember not everything produced is fact. It could be fact-based but that does not make it reliable. Be do-diligence when siting source just to be safe.
Mankato Minnesota
I really liked the website. It reminded me a lot of the movie Forrest Gump (which I also really liked). The website took many world wide renown places or events and added to their own town. During the flooding season they compared it to Venice, Italy. They even had a US president (Bush) fishing in the middle of a street. Mankato has it's own pyramids, Atlantis, Mountains, Aquarium,and of course the End of the Internet. I forwarded this site to my husband for our next vacation spot and I hope to meet some of you there.
The site must have taken an incredible amount of time and energy to build; (I wonder if it has copyrights?) The thought that people have and do take the time to build sites for the curiosity of others is incredible. Even looking up the pictures takes time, but almost every picture has a write up. I can't even open my email everyday never mind make a website. It had over 17 different links of which some were meticulously detailed. The site even had legitimate links. We were told that a professor wrote the site to teach people to evaluate what they read as true.
I think students of all ages need to evaluate everything they see and hear. I reminded everyone I spoke to about the commercial about the House Hippo living in your house. I really liked that commercial. My children and I looked for our House Hippo the first time we seen the commercial. I told them that my house must be very clean because we didn't find any: they were disappointed. They also pointed out that we do have Hippo (not Dust) bunnies. It was a great learning tool for my children to learn not to believe everything they hear no matter how real it looks.
See hippo link to view the advertisement.
House Hippo
Some of favourite movies at home are fake documentaries. One is about Dragons and the other is about the Death of Paul McCartney.
The fact is there are people out there willing to go to great lengths to fabricate stories either for pleasure or as a menace. Do you remember some of the great hoaxes? If not visit this next link.
Hoax or Real?
When siting references students must remember to acknowledge who the audience is. Who is the author trying to address.
Who wrote the reference? Was it someone knowledgeable and do they sight their sources. Can you find a couple of more collaborating sources?
Does the website seem legitimate, free from errors with current links. Is there a date of production and a date last edited?
It is a peer-reviewed article. Did someone critique the website? Do other people link to the sight?
These are a few of the things you can do to make sure that the source is reliable. Remember not everything produced is fact. It could be fact-based but that does not make it reliable. Be do-diligence when siting source just to be safe.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
LITERACY WITH ICT
This week we were visited by a promoter of Literacy with ICT. ICT stands for Information and Communication Technologies which include all sorts of electronics: digital devices, gps's, and the internet. Literacy with ICT is choosing and using ICT, responsibly and ethically, to support critical and creative thinking about information and about communication. Broken into three categories of
1) critical and creative thinking
2) ethics and responsibility
3) ICT literacy
It questions how students develop their literacy with ICT. Through parent or school supports. Who offers that support? If schools ban the equipment and students are doing it anyway who is teaching the ethics? If students are more capable as users than their parents can their parents teach them ethics or will they anyway?
How are students developing ICT literacy? The presenter suggests that only schools teach it most effectively.
The process of a learning continuum is when a student learns from the early stages to a progressively more advance stage. This means that ICT literacy has to begin at home with toy computers, televisions, phones, and electronic games. As the bike example beginning with the push toy for balance and step increases of independence, so to does ICT begin at home at an early age. Many of our habits are created out of observation, more directly children observing home procedures. How often do parents watch television, play with blackberries, talk on the phone, sit on the computer. Children start off watching parents and mimicking parents through toys. V-tech has a computer toy for 18 month old children. How loud do they play the toy? How long does it hold the childs attention? What happens when you take the toy away? How children interact with relations to toys and parents begins long before they attend school. How many children know how to work a personal game system? Many children play video games long before they learn how to read. Are they limiting their time? Are they play age appropriate games? Are parents interacting with the children and instructing them on ediquette? This learning continuum is strongly in place long before students reach school.
To suggest that students will then take the strong, ethical advise from a educator simply because it is right is a little euphoric. If students are used to spending 4 - 6 hours a night on electronics then they certainly are going to do it anyway no matter what the teachers say. If they are already knowledgable about Youtube, Facebook and Twitter, are they going to quit because it is not used appropriately? I don't think so.
Take the example of cell phones. Everyone bans cell phones yet at least one in three students is texting in class. Teachers are not willing to go on the limb and remove the phone or the student who are using them in class. Our own classes ban cells yet we still receive calls, text, and entertain ourselves in class with phones. If teachers know the students have cell phones, but are not taking steps to ensure the removal of them in classrooms; are they going to tell them to use technology ethically and respectfully and have them listen?
The learning continuum started at home and Teachers can only be a stepping stone that students choose to utilize or ignore.
1) critical and creative thinking
2) ethics and responsibility
3) ICT literacy
It questions how students develop their literacy with ICT. Through parent or school supports. Who offers that support? If schools ban the equipment and students are doing it anyway who is teaching the ethics? If students are more capable as users than their parents can their parents teach them ethics or will they anyway?
How are students developing ICT literacy? The presenter suggests that only schools teach it most effectively.
The process of a learning continuum is when a student learns from the early stages to a progressively more advance stage. This means that ICT literacy has to begin at home with toy computers, televisions, phones, and electronic games. As the bike example beginning with the push toy for balance and step increases of independence, so to does ICT begin at home at an early age. Many of our habits are created out of observation, more directly children observing home procedures. How often do parents watch television, play with blackberries, talk on the phone, sit on the computer. Children start off watching parents and mimicking parents through toys. V-tech has a computer toy for 18 month old children. How loud do they play the toy? How long does it hold the childs attention? What happens when you take the toy away? How children interact with relations to toys and parents begins long before they attend school. How many children know how to work a personal game system? Many children play video games long before they learn how to read. Are they limiting their time? Are they play age appropriate games? Are parents interacting with the children and instructing them on ediquette? This learning continuum is strongly in place long before students reach school.
To suggest that students will then take the strong, ethical advise from a educator simply because it is right is a little euphoric. If students are used to spending 4 - 6 hours a night on electronics then they certainly are going to do it anyway no matter what the teachers say. If they are already knowledgable about Youtube, Facebook and Twitter, are they going to quit because it is not used appropriately? I don't think so.
Take the example of cell phones. Everyone bans cell phones yet at least one in three students is texting in class. Teachers are not willing to go on the limb and remove the phone or the student who are using them in class. Our own classes ban cells yet we still receive calls, text, and entertain ourselves in class with phones. If teachers know the students have cell phones, but are not taking steps to ensure the removal of them in classrooms; are they going to tell them to use technology ethically and respectfully and have them listen?
The learning continuum started at home and Teachers can only be a stepping stone that students choose to utilize or ignore.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Definitions
Artful reading
http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/eLearning/TTC_Video_Art_of_Reading.html
Close reading
http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/09/14/what-is-close-reading-guidance-notes/
Content
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_%28media%29
Context
http://grammar.about.com/od/c/g/contextterm.htm
Metatext
http://pirate.shu.edu/~jonesedm/0150Summer2000/metatext.htm
Subtext
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtext
technological Determinism
By Kevin Huster
http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/eLearning/TTC_Video_Art_of_Reading.html
Close reading
http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/09/14/what-is-close-reading-guidance-notes/
Content
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_%28media%29
Context
http://grammar.about.com/od/c/g/contextterm.htm
Metatext
http://pirate.shu.edu/~jonesedm/0150Summer2000/metatext.htm
Subtext
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtext
technological Determinism
By Kevin Huster
Thursday, January 13, 2011
joke of the day
Spell Checker
I halve a spelling checker,
It came with my pea see.
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I dew knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait aweigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the era rite
Its rarely ever wrong.
I've scent this massage threw it,
And I'm shore your pleased too no
Its letter prefect in every weigh;
My checker tolled me sew.
LINK
Joke of the Day
I halve a spelling checker,
It came with my pea see.
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I dew knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait aweigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the era rite
Its rarely ever wrong.
I've scent this massage threw it,
And I'm shore your pleased too no
Its letter prefect in every weigh;
My checker tolled me sew.
LINK
Joke of the Day
Thursday, January 6, 2011
comments on "Opening Speech"
Follow the link to find our more about Norman McLaren. It is a short write up summarizing his work. You may delve deeper into this inspiration if you wish.
the Canadian Encyclopedia
This second link is an actual film clip of McLaren drawing directly onto the film without the use of a camera. He has drawn each movement. This must have taken an incredible amount of time. I love the way the screen dances around; the movement is not a fluent flow. There are other films if you don't like this one, but this was my favourite.
Hen Hop
Lets look at the same film from different views. The content of the film was to welcome everyone to the 1960 Montreal Film Festival, which I feel he did. Norman McLaren was an innovative film maker, so why not make it spectacular. Was his context the same as the content? I think not. You have to look at who he made the film for and why did he make that film in that way. His audience was personal from the film industries, directors, producers, actors, and audiences. He wanted to welcome everyone in a unique way that personalized it from all different countries. His choice of technological steps, each step improving from the previous one. He showed his media as being flawless, flowing, imaginative. He exaggerated the flaws in the previous two outlets. Which happens to also be the subtext, the hidden meanings. McLaren's uses technological determinism through creative processes to add to the original content. The meta-text of the short film was to show himself as the creator of this new technology of jumping into the film and using film as a innovative and captivating beginning.
the Canadian Encyclopedia
This second link is an actual film clip of McLaren drawing directly onto the film without the use of a camera. He has drawn each movement. This must have taken an incredible amount of time. I love the way the screen dances around; the movement is not a fluent flow. There are other films if you don't like this one, but this was my favourite.
Hen Hop
I thought the film “Opening Speech” was funny. More intellectually I thought the movie was about how new technology is better performing than older technology. The paper notes were very annoying to listen to and he was not very organized with them. They were not in order and he had too many pieces of paper. However, the mike was an improvement over the paper. We also know how annoying mikes can be with their whining noises and never in the right place. Some people can't hear them and you have to speak directly into them. If you don't speak into them then the speaker will fade in and out. However, when he portrayed the animation it flowed smoothly. He was able to be creative with different languages with a visually pleasing demonstration. Nothing went wrong with the new technology giving people the feeling that it was more easy to organize and an improvement over the other two older technologies.
Lets look at the same film from different views. The content of the film was to welcome everyone to the 1960 Montreal Film Festival, which I feel he did. Norman McLaren was an innovative film maker, so why not make it spectacular. Was his context the same as the content? I think not. You have to look at who he made the film for and why did he make that film in that way. His audience was personal from the film industries, directors, producers, actors, and audiences. He wanted to welcome everyone in a unique way that personalized it from all different countries. His choice of technological steps, each step improving from the previous one. He showed his media as being flawless, flowing, imaginative. He exaggerated the flaws in the previous two outlets. Which happens to also be the subtext, the hidden meanings. McLaren's uses technological determinism through creative processes to add to the original content. The meta-text of the short film was to show himself as the creator of this new technology of jumping into the film and using film as a innovative and captivating beginning.
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