Thursday, April 25, 2013
Reflecting back on..
As for the final project of this course, I've reviewed all of the projects I did and created a web portfolio. I've done Symbaloo EDU, made an interactive poster using Glogster EDU, blogged and twitted, made an interactive powerpoint game, made a movie, wiki pages, and graphic organization.
Reflecting back on all the technologies I've learned throughout the course, I've realized how much educational technology advanced from when I was younger. I'm not even that old, since I just graduated college, yet all of the technologies I've learned over this course was never-before-seen new technologies. This made me realize I need to constantly look out for new technologies as the world of the technology evolves so that I can prepare my students for the new age that will arrive soon. It won't be so hard since resources for teachers are limitless in the world of technology.
For those of you who want to see my final e-portfolio, please click here.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Technology wiki and movie
Emergent Technology review wiki
I had to research two emergent technologies and review them by creating a wiki page for a class project. This was really informative lesson because I learned about three things at once. For one thing, I learned about creating wiki pages-which I struggled a little on its navigation- and then I got to know about a lot of emerging technologies and think about what I can do with them in class as well as its pros and cons.
The technologies I reviewed were Cacoo-which allows users to create mind maps and diagrams, and Voki-which allows users to create talking avatars.
Cacoo seemed really useful for organization tools, students AND teachers can definitely use this for projects and activities for classes. What's really good about this web is that it allows real-time collaboration, so when you share this with someone and people edit it, it's edited on the page.
Voki seems like just a fun childish playing tools at first glance, but its potential is very wide. Think about it, the avatar that records your voices and talk. This could be a great attention grabber if it's incorporated into classroom and students can use this to practice their speeches by hearing what they recorded, not to mention it's fun. Too bad you can only record about 1 minute though
Long story short, check out my wiki reviews- Emergent technology wiki
Movie making project
I also had to make educational video for this class. I actually knew about video making pretty well since I love creating music videos for fun! So I really had fun making this project. I think we were supposed to use windows movie maker, but I was just really comfortable with Sony Vegas, so I made a movie with that instead. I've been skeptical about internet educational videos, but when I looked around, I learned there are actually a lot of really good educational videos out there that can definitely be used in classroom settings. I should take a note for that in the future. My video was about creating 5 paragraph essay, simple but there are people out there who struggles with this!
Hamburger pun intended. I tried to make it fun and simple as much as possible!
I had to research two emergent technologies and review them by creating a wiki page for a class project. This was really informative lesson because I learned about three things at once. For one thing, I learned about creating wiki pages-which I struggled a little on its navigation- and then I got to know about a lot of emerging technologies and think about what I can do with them in class as well as its pros and cons.
The technologies I reviewed were Cacoo-which allows users to create mind maps and diagrams, and Voki-which allows users to create talking avatars.
Cacoo seemed really useful for organization tools, students AND teachers can definitely use this for projects and activities for classes. What's really good about this web is that it allows real-time collaboration, so when you share this with someone and people edit it, it's edited on the page.
Voki seems like just a fun childish playing tools at first glance, but its potential is very wide. Think about it, the avatar that records your voices and talk. This could be a great attention grabber if it's incorporated into classroom and students can use this to practice their speeches by hearing what they recorded, not to mention it's fun. Too bad you can only record about 1 minute though
Long story short, check out my wiki reviews- Emergent technology wiki
Movie making project
I also had to make educational video for this class. I actually knew about video making pretty well since I love creating music videos for fun! So I really had fun making this project. I think we were supposed to use windows movie maker, but I was just really comfortable with Sony Vegas, so I made a movie with that instead. I've been skeptical about internet educational videos, but when I looked around, I learned there are actually a lot of really good educational videos out there that can definitely be used in classroom settings. I should take a note for that in the future. My video was about creating 5 paragraph essay, simple but there are people out there who struggles with this!
Hamburger pun intended. I tried to make it fun and simple as much as possible!
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Few features of technology that I've learned from EDCI 505
What I've learned so far regarding technology and education:
GlogsterEDU
This was definitely something new I've learned, that was surprisingly useful for visual projects. This application lets users create interactive posters with text, links, videos, pictures, and etc. I strongly believe in the power of visual media to education, and this would definitely grab students' attentions. I could think of many ways to incorporate this into future classrooms, like projects and assignments. It's a great way for both teachers and students can have fun while learning.
SymbalooEDU
This is a site that allows people to organize useful websites, blog RSS feeds and medias. I think teachers can use this to share great resources with students, not just teachers to students but from students to students as well!
GoogleDocs
I've seen my sister used this a lot when she's working with her school projects, but I've never worked with googledocs before, so this was definitely something new I've learned from this class. Google Docs were incredibly useful to my surprise. For example, we can use a spreadsheet to create a grade book and it lets us calculate all the grades for us as well as creating quiz and etc. I especially like to use this as gradebook in the future because it also lets us organize all the grades into graphs.
GlogsterEDU
This was definitely something new I've learned, that was surprisingly useful for visual projects. This application lets users create interactive posters with text, links, videos, pictures, and etc. I strongly believe in the power of visual media to education, and this would definitely grab students' attentions. I could think of many ways to incorporate this into future classrooms, like projects and assignments. It's a great way for both teachers and students can have fun while learning.
SymbalooEDU
This is a site that allows people to organize useful websites, blog RSS feeds and medias. I think teachers can use this to share great resources with students, not just teachers to students but from students to students as well!
GoogleDocs
I've seen my sister used this a lot when she's working with her school projects, but I've never worked with googledocs before, so this was definitely something new I've learned from this class. Google Docs were incredibly useful to my surprise. For example, we can use a spreadsheet to create a grade book and it lets us calculate all the grades for us as well as creating quiz and etc. I especially like to use this as gradebook in the future because it also lets us organize all the grades into graphs.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Why do we need technology in education?
American children today spend 10 hours a week online on average.
Today, we can carry internet in our hands in the form of the smartphone.
We are living in extremely technological world today.
And this question is, shouldn't education incorporate technology as well?
I'm not saying we weren't incorporating technology in education so far,
when I was in high school, I was supposed to type all my essays and papers, as well as doing research paper finding resources online.
Well, first of all, why is it so important to incorporate technology to our classroom?
It can definitely enhance learning environment, but do we really need it?
In my opinion, yes we do need it.
It is essential to have some information on today's technology as students will need it throughout their life. In fact, we've been using technology that were essential at the time throughout the entire era.
That's shown in this video:
We've been using text books in education so far, and that's technology. We just have to switch text books into computers, that doesn't neccessarily mean replacing the text book, but we can use both of them for learning diversity.
Here are my personal reasons for using technology in classroom:
1.) Students are used to technology in home environment whether it's TV, computer game, PSP, ipad, smartphone. If we incorporate familiar technology in projects, it would be easy for students to engage in those projects.
2. It gives professional developments for students. Wherever we go and whatever job we'll have in today's world, it'll require some knowledgement of technology. By incorporating technology in classroom, we are teaching students informations they need to learn and how to navigate around technology as well.
(On personal note, I really wished that my high school teachers gave me more research papers so I would've learned how to find good online resources for research)
Technology is really just a tool, if we think we can educate our students better without technology, great. However, in my opinion, I think technology can be a great tool in education.
I'm just going to put this video about technology in education because I loved it so much:
Today, we can carry internet in our hands in the form of the smartphone.
We are living in extremely technological world today.
And this question is, shouldn't education incorporate technology as well?
I'm not saying we weren't incorporating technology in education so far,
when I was in high school, I was supposed to type all my essays and papers, as well as doing research paper finding resources online.
Well, first of all, why is it so important to incorporate technology to our classroom?
It can definitely enhance learning environment, but do we really need it?
In my opinion, yes we do need it.
It is essential to have some information on today's technology as students will need it throughout their life. In fact, we've been using technology that were essential at the time throughout the entire era.
That's shown in this video:
We've been using text books in education so far, and that's technology. We just have to switch text books into computers, that doesn't neccessarily mean replacing the text book, but we can use both of them for learning diversity.
Here are my personal reasons for using technology in classroom:
1.) Students are used to technology in home environment whether it's TV, computer game, PSP, ipad, smartphone. If we incorporate familiar technology in projects, it would be easy for students to engage in those projects.
2. It gives professional developments for students. Wherever we go and whatever job we'll have in today's world, it'll require some knowledgement of technology. By incorporating technology in classroom, we are teaching students informations they need to learn and how to navigate around technology as well.
(On personal note, I really wished that my high school teachers gave me more research papers so I would've learned how to find good online resources for research)
Technology is really just a tool, if we think we can educate our students better without technology, great. However, in my opinion, I think technology can be a great tool in education.
I'm just going to put this video about technology in education because I loved it so much:
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