2/21/10 HW Week 6

Dr. Alice Christie's Site

Dr. Christie has a very interesting website there is so many things there to just look at and get new information on stuff. Like she has examples of geocaching and she put it in her class. She had her students go find the stuff she hid around campus and once they had found the hidden things, they had to come back in and sample them and make graphs. She also teaches us how to make web designs like with tips and designs. She has so much with educational technology and photography.

This website is perfect for teachers now a days, just to help them with making a move into being a technology literate teacher. It is also great for students who are working to become teachers. This gives me great ideas and great insight on how to get myself ready for what I can do to help them get more involved which does help students learn more when they are more interactive with what they are learning.

Itunes University

I have to say I will probably use this thing provided by Itunes, because this has so many different looks on different topics and even in-depth looks at things. I like how it has recordings of some of the brightest teachers around the world. It helps students to go back and listen to the lecture if they missed it or they just weren't paying attention in one part. This actually helps one learn something by going back and taking notes on the subject again. As a student I am going to use this more than once, on a subject that I might need more help on.

As a future teacher I will use this to help me prepare my lectures if I get stuck on a certain part and I want more insight or a different view from another outside source. But, as a teacher this is an amazing gift to their students to find things and maybe do some research for their projects I would give them in class. This is such a great thing and there is so much one can learn more at this site.

Ipods in Instruction

As seen in the website,here, there it talks about and shows how the ipods can be used in classrooms. It gives us different looks on how podcasting or vodcasting or using ipods in the class are good. It teaches children or the teenagers how to interact with one another in things such as the things listed before. I think that this is a great idea with getting our kids to use this technology as a way of learning and interacting with their fellow students. The students can use the ipod, because they got some notes from iTunes U and that will help learn things a bunch. They will also use the podcasting and vodcasting to have interaction with the students, so they are learning together and having fun.

Looking at what The University of Duke has done during a study using iPods has proved to be rather helpful in most cases, where the students have learned better or their knowledge increased a little more in the subject. What Duke did was give iPods to incoming freshman and they had recorders on and most of the students used that for lectures and would play the lectures back later on to help them remember stuff for test. Some students just used the iPod for what most people use it for music and their grades showed why. There was some problems that were involved with this whole process, such as teachers who weren't technologically advanced and who used PC and not Mac's. Other problems is some students didn't know how to find the teachers lectures online, but in the end the iPods in class proved to be a great thing when used properly. To find some more information here is the Duke site here.

Comments For Kids Week 6

I went to here and searched around the website and looked at Asena's blog page and watched a video on what she likes to do.