Any takers on Skype?

Task 2: Consult with your learning community in order to find time during Week 11 to present your videos synchronously.You will need to have downloaded Skype and created an account in order to be in voice contact with your group simultaneously while everyone watches the presentations.
During each presentation, members of your learning community can open individual blogs and move through the video as the video developer discusses his or her work. You can provide feedback and ask questions of the developer at this time. After the synchronous conversation, visit each member’s blog, watch his or her video a second time, critique the presentation, and provide feedback.
Marcia

Final ? Project

Looking for comments on this. I changed effects and transtitions. Plus the text is not as fancy but you can read it!


Here is the references.

here is the published site also

Module 5 Post

I am not teaching in a face-to-face classroom anymore so I am not extremely static but still envision myself as middle of the road between static and dynamic. The layers of technology I use are still predominantly static. In the classrooms, we have a math lab which is more dynamic with presentations and videos. but I do not design them. In another class, I have been fortunate since it is about learning Information Technology. I created a blog and a wikispace for the students. I can upload presentations, videos and weekly guidance. The weekly guidance is static in that it is a Word document or printed text; but the presentations and videos lean further towards the dynamic arena. I have not created any videos yet for this class but hope to do so in the future. I like it but wish I had more tools to accomplish a good video! The features of blogging and wiki spaces have not gone unnoticed either. It is a first for a lot of the students. They wanted to post on my blog!

This though is still a relative static experience. As Moller stated, “If you buy partially prepared food or a meal, you can make some choices about additional ingredients you might want to add to the dish. You come out with your own version of the meal, but it is based on your starter package.” I am still at the middle of the road in static-dynamic technologies.

I am trying to build a Second Life area for the class but it is slow going. Too much is going on right now! Wish me luck!

Marcia

Moller, L. (2008). Static and dynamic technological tools. [Unpublished Paper].

Module 5 Concept Map

Concept Map

None of my transitions or animations ported!

Week 4 Discussion

Learners are using wireless computers such as PDA’s, wireless laptops, mobile phones, Smart Phones, Tablet PC’s and hybrid devices which include a mixture of mobile phones and tablet PC’s for the ability to connect anytime, anywhere, as long as an Internet portal is available. The PDA was first invented and used in 1980; in education, adaptation occurred starting in the late 1990’s. We are not the early majority since PDA usage is now being used in high schools and elementary Grades. Costs can be minimized since a lot of students already have their own PDA’s. There is no need to furnish one. Grants are available for usage of PDA’s in classrooms. The average cost is about 400 dollars (Dominick, 2002). They have a high mobility which could cause an increase in grade scores. They also have an operating system that most students are familiar with, the “Start” menu.

Wikispaces and blogs can be deployed for collaboration (Mason, 2008,p. 49)
as well as PBL or problem-based learning (Dabbagh and Bannan-Ritland 2005). Actually, in development in the corporate world, we constantly had problem based learning. We just called it an average day. Even, Electronic Mail has a great resource for tracking projects through tasks. Twitter and Skype can keep all members of a community updated and informed.

Siemens sees the instructor as “guide on the side” and leans to the connectivism theory of education (2008). I also see this as a project manager that guides the workers; but ultimately it is the group that does the collaboration and communication. In real life, you learn how to be autonomous and self-directed (Annand, 2007, 2). Why not in academics?


Annand, D. (2007). Re‐organizing universities for the information age. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning 8(3).

Dabbagh, N., and B. Bannan-Ritland. 2005. Online learning: Concepts, strategies, and
applications. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.

Dominick, J. (2002). Ready or not—PDAs in the Classrooms. Retrieved 01 20, 2010 from http://www.campustechnology.com/Articles/2002/09/Ready-or-NotPDAs-in-the-Classroom.aspx?Page=1

Mason, M. (2008). What is complexity theory and what are its implications for educational change.
Educational Philosophy and Theory, 40(1), 35–49.

Siemens, G. (2008, January). Retrieved on 01 05, 2010 from Learning and knowing in networks: Changing roles for educators and designers. ITForum.

Graphic Organizer- Week 4

Work in Progress - Storybook

Getting Closer.