So it's week #3 of the blogging and here is what I have gotten out of last weeks presentation. Alec Corous was our guest presenter from Regina I believe and we used the website called elluminate. This allowed everyone in class to hear what he was saying and see whatever it was that he wanted us to see on our computers. It also allowed everyone to share their opinions via the discussion panel. This I thought was pretty cool because it let everyone in the class have their chance to share their thoughts and ask questions right away. This would be something pretty cool to use in the classroom, if you had to use computers, because then you could ensure that the students are at least getting all of the information. They may not read it but at least they were given it. Plus it allows the students to try things out on their own rather than having to watch you perform the actions on a large screen and them have to write the steps down.
Alec also showed us some websites and slideshows that I thought were interesting. The one website on slideshows was very useful as this will allow new teachers to find information that they can use in the classroom from this site.
But I think that is about it for now, until next week.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Post #2
Hello again,
Alright, so last week we had the presenter John Evans and his take on PLN's and all sorts of stuff. I thought that his presentation was good and stimulated a lot of interest in various areas. The two things that stuck in my mind were twitter and the google reader. For some reason twitter has been stuck in my head and I started wondering why it is such a hit with people. From my perspective, it is just a glorified status update similar to that of facebook. I don't know about everyone else, but I really don't care what some celebrity or one of my friends had for supper. And google reader is an incredible resource. I was somewhat skeptical about it but once Mr. Evans showed us some of the capabilities it has I realized that this is something that I can use everyday. It makes everything just that little bit easier which can releive some of the stress of refinding everything on the internet. Well thats about it for now, until next week.
Chad
Alright, so last week we had the presenter John Evans and his take on PLN's and all sorts of stuff. I thought that his presentation was good and stimulated a lot of interest in various areas. The two things that stuck in my mind were twitter and the google reader. For some reason twitter has been stuck in my head and I started wondering why it is such a hit with people. From my perspective, it is just a glorified status update similar to that of facebook. I don't know about everyone else, but I really don't care what some celebrity or one of my friends had for supper. And google reader is an incredible resource. I was somewhat skeptical about it but once Mr. Evans showed us some of the capabilities it has I realized that this is something that I can use everyday. It makes everything just that little bit easier which can releive some of the stress of refinding everything on the internet. Well thats about it for now, until next week.
Chad
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Week #1
So it has been a week since the first class in internet for educators. So far everything has been going well, except for one small detail. I went to submit some of the assignments and noticed the due dates have already passed. One week in and already handing in things late. I guess that is better than not at all. The workload for this course seems pretty reasonable and interesting. I'm curious to see how I am going to accomplish some of the assignments on here. I think things should go well. Thats about if for now. Until next week.
Friday, January 8, 2010
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