My EDM 310 Blog Assignments are Now Complete

I enjoyed the class, I have learned a lot. I didn't know anything about Microsoft Access until I came to this class and you showed us step by step on how to enter and save the information and do the tables, and also Microsoft excel I know we complained about it, but it was well worth learning but those formulas was the worst thing to deal with but all in all our teacher got us through it. But I have learned a lot and thank you Mr. Wakeman, for being patient with the many questions that we asked each night about the assignments that were given.

Week 12

iTunes University will be very helpful in the classroom it helps engage students in learning on the computer at their level or speed. iTunes offers one on one tutorial for the students and teachers to get a better understanding of information that is needed. There is recommenced curriculum for the teachers to help the students to learn better.

iTunes can helpful to my students because they can go beyond and see actual picture or videos instead of going to the boring library, and iTunes keep the children more interested than just reading another old library book. iTunes make everything come to life instead of it being so bland, it also keeps their imagination going.

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Week 11

I found that incorporating an Ipod in the classroom can be helpful and hurtful to some students. As for the research that was done by Duke University the Ipod can be used as a digital multimedia that is carried with each student on a daily basis, this can help the students by recording the lectures during class, and study groups etc. The Ipod can hold massive amounts of information. I found that it is most useful in music class for students, whom can study the different types of music instead of just one particular kind of music. Some students found the Ipod to be of great use in the classroom.

The Ipod study show there were lack of awareness or knowledge of how to use the Ipod correctly, and for academic use only. During Duke's study there were problems locating the commerical sources for the information. The Ipod is just the beginning of the technology that teachers and students are able to incorporate in their classroom and the technology will only grow from here.

Week 10

Dr. Christie's information can be Incorporated into the classroom's in many different ways, for example I chose Educational Technologies and Constructive Learning, her key points was to include critical thinking with each student, I can incorporate critical thinking into my classroom by letting the children post different blogs to the Internet or on their blog sites. I would like for my students to take their critical thinking to a new level and to let them know that their is no wrong way for them to express how they feel.

Dr. Christie also express that we as teachers should learn from our mistakes that we make with students. This way students will know that teachers are allowed to make mistakes and learn from them. This is a learning process that teachers and students do together. I will definitely incorporate this into my classroom.

Week 9

Wikipedia is a website that no one can stay away from, I have a whole new outlook on the site. I didn't know that people was hacking into the sites and making modification, at one point. From my perspective I thought the site was safe and secure, and the information that was given could be trusted an accurate. But now from the articles that I have read the site is more secure and you can now trust the information that is being given. If the site is hacked into or any changes that are not supposed to be made,without consent can be traced back to who made the changes. So yes the site can be trusted, and it is resourceful.

Week 8

The blog that i choose to read was from November 2007, about letting the students participate in more activities and be involved in staff meeting, and also the NECC meetings, to help get a better outlook from a students point of view.  The only problem that is presented is that the schools do not have the funds to let the students travel with the teachers, this is were fundraiser should kick in and help the students travel with the teachers and get more involved.

Also Mr. Fisch made a great point even if the students travel there's that liability, the permission from parents to let the child go.  Every parent will not give permission for their child to go, so even if the student is able to travel you have to be concerned about the liability of the child. This blog gave some very valid points.

Week 7

I disagree with Mr. Fisch about teacher's and technology, teachers have enough to do with the academic load that they are given each day.  To now impose technology in the class room is more of a case load, schools today don't have the time or the funding to support technology in each classroom.  

If teacher's had the time to incorporate technology in the classroom then students will lack on something else this will lead to more problems and more criticisms form parents and educators.

Mr. Fisch had some valid points about technology but nothing concrete.