http://www.asee.org/conferences/annual/pdf/upload/2001-PIC-V-Best-Paper.pdf
This website showed a lot of how education has been evolving over the years. First education started with only lectures and paper but has now turned into using virtual classrooms and using technology to teach many different things. The virtual environment has been well equiped with multimedia, animation, interaction, and manipulated image visualization techniques. The learning of the students is more enhanced by the new upcoming technology that is offered. Models that need to be visualized are now easier when using the web multimedia. This allows for 3-D graphics to be used to be able to visualize real life structures more easily.
Technology relates to teaching and learning by allowing teachers to direct their students to the web based animation to better understand what it is that they are trying to lecture about. Something might be better to understand the concept when looking at a 3-D image rather than just listening to someone speak about the structure or object. Also, technology has been growing in the business world and needs to be more popular in education to allow the upcoming generation to know what they are doing in their jobs.
I think that the web based multimedia/animation is good to allow students to see more about the concepts they are learning. I think that more research needs to be done on how effective they really are related to how much is being spent on these designs.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Digital Imagery
"Increasing Visual Literacy Skills with Digital Imagery: Successful Models for Using a Set of Digital Cameras in a College of Education" (http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ710671&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ710671) by Lance Wilhelm, states that images are becoming more popular in modern culture. Schools are adapting their curriculum and practices to how the society is changing. Visual communication is the new way to go. Everyone's cell phones have cameras, a camera in their purse, and even cameras on their lap top computers. To be able to acquire in the modern society that we live in, we must be able to have visual literacy skills. Children are more interested in learning material with pictures of places and things that they can directly relate to. This concept helps them learn the material as well as connect the material to a picture. Teachers and student could use digital cameras in the classroom and for projects. This will help everyone concentrate more on the topic by focusing on the pictures. Digital cameras are becoming more practical in everyone's lives because of the decrease in price and the easier it has been made to use.
When teaching, the teacher could use the digital camera to take pictures of projects the students present and put them on the board to have their work displayed. This could save space by presenting the picture to the classroom instead of having the whole project set up. By teachers using cameras more, the students will begin to learn how to use them as well and could be a good way to connect more with their community.
I think that digital camera use in the classroom is wonderful. Digital cameras have been around since I was in middle school from what I can remember. My parents would never let me or my younger brother touch the thing because of how expensive they were. Now the pricing and SIZE of them have reduced tremendously. It is now reasonable to be in highschool and have a digital camera to take pictures with all of your friends and family. since digital cameras are in most American households, the use of them in school at early ages can help them learn how to properly use them. When presenting a project in school, teachers should take pictures to show all of the students what a wonderful job they all did.
Further research could be done in that making sure that all teachers use digital cameras in a proper way. We do not need more teacher/student relation dilemmas. I think that research could also be done on making digital cameras mandatory in the rooms (not making the teachers pay the expense) and having it so maybe the schools could get discounts on them by buying in bulk.
When teaching, the teacher could use the digital camera to take pictures of projects the students present and put them on the board to have their work displayed. This could save space by presenting the picture to the classroom instead of having the whole project set up. By teachers using cameras more, the students will begin to learn how to use them as well and could be a good way to connect more with their community.
I think that digital camera use in the classroom is wonderful. Digital cameras have been around since I was in middle school from what I can remember. My parents would never let me or my younger brother touch the thing because of how expensive they were. Now the pricing and SIZE of them have reduced tremendously. It is now reasonable to be in highschool and have a digital camera to take pictures with all of your friends and family. since digital cameras are in most American households, the use of them in school at early ages can help them learn how to properly use them. When presenting a project in school, teachers should take pictures to show all of the students what a wonderful job they all did.
Further research could be done in that making sure that all teachers use digital cameras in a proper way. We do not need more teacher/student relation dilemmas. I think that research could also be done on making digital cameras mandatory in the rooms (not making the teachers pay the expense) and having it so maybe the schools could get discounts on them by buying in bulk.
Friday, February 8, 2008
Storyboarding
Using http://www.e-articles.info/e/a/title/How-to-Storyboard-Your-Web-Site/ shows how to storyboard your web site. In order to plan a website, one must visualize what they are looking for it to entail. The information that you are looking to advertise should be well thought about and well organized in a storyboard. Like in building houses, the blue prints are like the storyboard of a website. This allows for the builder of the website to see what they are envisioning their website to look like and make changes before making the website. The main page is the start with the topic of what the website will be. There will be a central navigation bar that needs to be well planned for. A software program can be used to create the storyboard, sheets of paper, or any other type of mechanism. After the first draft, go back and make more corrections to the storyboard just like in writing a paper for classes. Competition in websites has a big effect if the website will be productive or not, this must be taken into consideration when preparing the website with the storyboard.
This would be helpful in education by allowing students to use storyboarding for their blogs, websites, or even their papers. They could use the storyboard as an outline and do rough drafts to final papers. Also, when students are blogging they could use the storyboard to make their blog page presentable to their classmates. This will allow them to feel as though it is a personal page and want other students to look at their information they are posting. Students can use storyboarding with the help of their teachers.
I think that storyboarding is a good idea. It allows for the person to stay on task with what they are looking for on their website. When they go to make it they are well prepared and know exactly what they are looking for. This will help their teachers know the direction they want their website to go in and also to help them with making the production happen. This will be helpful in the education world by having students have personalized websites, be able to know how to do them when they are in the business world, and move forward with the ever so growing technology world that we live in today.
This would be helpful in education by allowing students to use storyboarding for their blogs, websites, or even their papers. They could use the storyboard as an outline and do rough drafts to final papers. Also, when students are blogging they could use the storyboard to make their blog page presentable to their classmates. This will allow them to feel as though it is a personal page and want other students to look at their information they are posting. Students can use storyboarding with the help of their teachers.
I think that storyboarding is a good idea. It allows for the person to stay on task with what they are looking for on their website. When they go to make it they are well prepared and know exactly what they are looking for. This will help their teachers know the direction they want their website to go in and also to help them with making the production happen. This will be helpful in the education world by having students have personalized websites, be able to know how to do them when they are in the business world, and move forward with the ever so growing technology world that we live in today.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Wikis
When seeing the word "wiki" as the topic for this weeks blog, I was unaware of its meaning. I googled "wiki" and came to find that it is a software for servers to allow "users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser". I typed in "wikis" on cnn.com and came to find that wikis are fairly well known. "Wikis" are almost like a myspace. A website popped up off of cnn.com stating "wikispaces". This website allows for families, friends, groups, anyone to join this website and make web pages to share with their fellow mates. There is a tour that you can check out which shows people the different steps in making your "wikispace" personalized to yourself. Questions that are asked show that wiki is used greatly for classrooms, work groups, families, sports teams, etc. This is a process to show everyone in your extended network things that are going on in your life. Every month one must pay 5-20 dollars to be allowed to use wikispaces. To encourage more teachers to use this program, they are giving away "100,000 free wikis for primary/secondary education". (www.wikispaces.com)
This type of technology would relate to teaching in that teachers would be able to discuss things with their students, post assignments, or even post announcements for their students to be able to access very easily. These wikispaces are similar to blogging but they cost money and they ensure more of a security to your page.
I am not sure where I stand with wikis. I do not want to pay to be a member, but from what I have seens through taking the tour of the page it seems like a pretty good idea to me. Although, a teacher could just use blogging instead and have it for FREE. I am not so sure how much of it is a scam because the teacher could easily just email the students for free if they needed an announcement to be out or a discussion to be started. Im not sure yet how I feel about wikis...
I think that blogging and wikis should be compared and contrasted into pros and cons. The wikis seem to cost money where as blogging is free and open to the public. I guess the privacy factor plays a key role, this should be further investigated to insure this process. I think that research should be done in the classrooms to see if teachers would really use this in a positive way and would help the teachers and students.
This type of technology would relate to teaching in that teachers would be able to discuss things with their students, post assignments, or even post announcements for their students to be able to access very easily. These wikispaces are similar to blogging but they cost money and they ensure more of a security to your page.
I am not sure where I stand with wikis. I do not want to pay to be a member, but from what I have seens through taking the tour of the page it seems like a pretty good idea to me. Although, a teacher could just use blogging instead and have it for FREE. I am not so sure how much of it is a scam because the teacher could easily just email the students for free if they needed an announcement to be out or a discussion to be started. Im not sure yet how I feel about wikis...
I think that blogging and wikis should be compared and contrasted into pros and cons. The wikis seem to cost money where as blogging is free and open to the public. I guess the privacy factor plays a key role, this should be further investigated to insure this process. I think that research should be done in the classrooms to see if teachers would really use this in a positive way and would help the teachers and students.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
