Johnson, D. (09, December). Computing In The Clouds. Learning and Leading. Retrieved October 16, 2010, from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/digital-edition- december-janruary-2009-2010.aspx
Summary:
Cloud computing can be used to get away from expensive programs that can only be accessed from a specific computer. By using Internet based programs, one’s information can be accessed from any computer. The information can be accessed without having any specific programs and the information can be stored freely leaving needed hard drive room on your personal computer. A person does not need to be concerned with downloading software or their information getting erased because all information is stored elsewhere and there is no downloading. Others can also share information without having specific programs. Making documents into PDF can be opened without using programs, just the Internet.
Question #1 How can Cloud Computing help in the classroom?
By using Cloud Computing, students are able to use free web based programs in the school in order to accomplish their work. This saves the schools money from purchasing expensive programs. Also students can work on a computer at school, and then continue the work at home without worrying if they have the right computer programs.
Question #2 How can Cloud Computing help students in low-income areas?
Students in low-income areas can access information and continue their work from any computer. Students that are not able to afford a computer can use public computers in a library to continue their work, and they do not have to download programs onto a public computer or someone else’s computer.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Journal #3 Bring The World Into Your Classroom
McDermon, L. (2010, September). Bring The World Into Your Classroom. Learning and Leading. Retrieved October 16, 2010, from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and- leading/digital-edition-september-october.aspx
Summary:
Video conferencing is an effective tool that can be used in the classroom to bring the outside world into the class. Students are able to tour a museum, talk to experts and fellow students from around the world without leaving the classroom. Classes are able to share projects and information with each other. This technology can help teachers with lesson plans as they discuss ideas with other teachers from around the world and can accomplish them together without being in the same room. Students are experienced with other nationalities from around the world by video conferencing with other students who might live in England, or Africa.
Question #1 How can video conferencing help students learn tolerance?
By exposing students to different students from around the world that are from different ethnicities and religions, students will learn that people from different areas of life are just like them, making this big world a little smaller and closer to a child’s perspective.
Question #2 How can video conferencing help students to learn?
By using interactive information, the students will be more focused to the information given. Also the students will retain the information better by acting out information to other students. Younger students can conference with older students to help transfer the information in a way they can understand.
Summary:
Video conferencing is an effective tool that can be used in the classroom to bring the outside world into the class. Students are able to tour a museum, talk to experts and fellow students from around the world without leaving the classroom. Classes are able to share projects and information with each other. This technology can help teachers with lesson plans as they discuss ideas with other teachers from around the world and can accomplish them together without being in the same room. Students are experienced with other nationalities from around the world by video conferencing with other students who might live in England, or Africa.
Question #1 How can video conferencing help students learn tolerance?
By exposing students to different students from around the world that are from different ethnicities and religions, students will learn that people from different areas of life are just like them, making this big world a little smaller and closer to a child’s perspective.
Question #2 How can video conferencing help students to learn?
By using interactive information, the students will be more focused to the information given. Also the students will retain the information better by acting out information to other students. Younger students can conference with older students to help transfer the information in a way they can understand.
Journal #2 Join the Flock by Hadely Ferguson and Enhance Your Twitter Experience by Shannon McClintock Miller
APA Citation:
Ferguson, H. (2010). Join the Flock! Learning and Leading, 37, 8. Retrieved October, 2010
McClintock Miller, S. (2010). Enhance Your Twitter Experience. Learning and Leading, 37, 8.
Summary:
Join the Flock article is from a junior high history teacher that uses twitter to enhance her teaching and learning. The article discussed the easy steps of how to sign up to twitter, as well as some helpful dvice to make the experience more enjoyable. It does not matter what typ of person you are, Twitter compliments everyone in that you can sit back and watch, or you can be active in a conversation and retweet.
Enhance Your Twitter Experience is an article from a teacher who uses Twitter to help her classroom learn from around the world. The article also helps to explain different tools that are not readily known that can be used with Twitter in order to help organize and find what you are looking for.
Question #1 How can Twitter help students?
Students can use Twitter themselves by finding information and help from other educators around the world as well as professionals in a field. Using Twitter can help students discover primary documents and information.
Question #2 How can a teacher with little computer skills learn from Twitter?
Twitter is a very easy program to start with helpful tutorials to guide one along the way. Once in, a teacher can learn from others by asking question, and following others who are experienced computer users. Teachers can find video step by step tutorials that will show them programs that can enhance their students and their experience in the classroom.
Ferguson, H. (2010). Join the Flock! Learning and Leading, 37, 8. Retrieved October, 2010
McClintock Miller, S. (2010). Enhance Your Twitter Experience. Learning and Leading, 37, 8.
Summary:
Join the Flock article is from a junior high history teacher that uses twitter to enhance her teaching and learning. The article discussed the easy steps of how to sign up to twitter, as well as some helpful dvice to make the experience more enjoyable. It does not matter what typ of person you are, Twitter compliments everyone in that you can sit back and watch, or you can be active in a conversation and retweet.
Enhance Your Twitter Experience is an article from a teacher who uses Twitter to help her classroom learn from around the world. The article also helps to explain different tools that are not readily known that can be used with Twitter in order to help organize and find what you are looking for.
Question #1 How can Twitter help students?
Students can use Twitter themselves by finding information and help from other educators around the world as well as professionals in a field. Using Twitter can help students discover primary documents and information.
Question #2 How can a teacher with little computer skills learn from Twitter?
Twitter is a very easy program to start with helpful tutorials to guide one along the way. Once in, a teacher can learn from others by asking question, and following others who are experienced computer users. Teachers can find video step by step tutorials that will show them programs that can enhance their students and their experience in the classroom.
Journal #1 Taking Laptops School wide
Taking Laptops Schoolwide: A Professional Learning Community Approach
By: Tim Green, Loretta Donovan, and Kim Bass
APA Citation: Green, Tim, Donovan, Loretta, & Bass, Kim. (2010). Taking laptops schoolwide: a professional learning community approach. International Society for Technology in Education, Retrieved from https://acrobat.com/#d=7rIs4heRCXPhOZp7l-otEg
Summary:
Laptops are being used in schools to help student’s progression of subject matter as they move up the grade level. Students in lower grades are learning essential skills of basic word processing that will help later as they progress to higher grades where these programs are necessary. The use of laptops helped teachers to collaborate with each other through Richard DuFour’s Professional Learning Community (PLC) approach to planning, where the focus is on learning instead of teaching, and each teacher being held accountable. Currently the Fullerton School District provides six of their schools in the district with laptops and focuses on the PLC approach. They use the laptops to find where students are struggling and focus on that area. The PLC program is designed to bring student, teacher, and parent together into the classroom, where parents are able to view their child’s work and progress through such programs as class webpage.
Question #1 How can the use of laptops in the classroom help students with disabilities?
The use of laptops would help students with a wide range of disabilities. Students with certain learning disabilities could use specific programs to help them understand and remember the material, as well as keep the students with attention problems focused on the task. Other students with physical disabilities could use programs in which they talk to the computer and the computer writes what the student says. There are other programs where a student’s eye movement moves the cursor around.
Question #2 How are schools able to afford laptops?
Instead of schools buying expensive books that go out of date quickly, and buying materials for the classroom, the school can take the money to buy laptops. Teacher are able to download books on the computers for very cheap, and students can use the computer to write notes in and do their work, saving the school money over time from buying new materials as well as saving on pollution of paper being used.
By: Tim Green, Loretta Donovan, and Kim Bass
APA Citation: Green, Tim, Donovan, Loretta, & Bass, Kim. (2010). Taking laptops schoolwide: a professional learning community approach. International Society for Technology in Education, Retrieved from https://acrobat.com/#d=7rIs4heRCXPhOZp7l-otEg
Summary:
Laptops are being used in schools to help student’s progression of subject matter as they move up the grade level. Students in lower grades are learning essential skills of basic word processing that will help later as they progress to higher grades where these programs are necessary. The use of laptops helped teachers to collaborate with each other through Richard DuFour’s Professional Learning Community (PLC) approach to planning, where the focus is on learning instead of teaching, and each teacher being held accountable. Currently the Fullerton School District provides six of their schools in the district with laptops and focuses on the PLC approach. They use the laptops to find where students are struggling and focus on that area. The PLC program is designed to bring student, teacher, and parent together into the classroom, where parents are able to view their child’s work and progress through such programs as class webpage.
Question #1 How can the use of laptops in the classroom help students with disabilities?
The use of laptops would help students with a wide range of disabilities. Students with certain learning disabilities could use specific programs to help them understand and remember the material, as well as keep the students with attention problems focused on the task. Other students with physical disabilities could use programs in which they talk to the computer and the computer writes what the student says. There are other programs where a student’s eye movement moves the cursor around.
Question #2 How are schools able to afford laptops?
Instead of schools buying expensive books that go out of date quickly, and buying materials for the classroom, the school can take the money to buy laptops. Teacher are able to download books on the computers for very cheap, and students can use the computer to write notes in and do their work, saving the school money over time from buying new materials as well as saving on pollution of paper being used.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
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