I thought it might be good to link to the presentation and other documents we viewed in the first class. As we progress through the course I may not post all links here but will expect you to go directly to Google Docs or Google Groups to interact with documents.
Since you are already in my blog look right and click on the follow icon and become a follower of my blog, I'll do the same for you (once you give me access). While you are at it enter your email address in the place provided so you will be notified each time I add to my blog. This may be annoying but you won't miss any tweaks to assignments or projects.
OK, here are the links to things you viewed in class tonight:
The presentation
Projects and Assignments
The Class Collective Reading List
Naming Conventions
Before the next meeting (Wednesday April 13) complete the following:
1. Start your blog... remember at least one entry per week. One of the entries this time will be a reaction to an ISTE article found here: ISTE | Digital Edition March/April 2011
Choose an article from the table of contents related to your field of study or interest and write a review of the article aimed at your peers in the same field of study. Post a review on your blog. Add a bibiographic entry for the selected article on our Class Collective Reading List in Google Docs.
2. Read and react to my blog entries. Explore my gadgets and links, become a follower, enter your email address to receive updates when I post a new blog entry.
Happy surfing, browsing, viewing and reading... try to make some sense of this stuff related to what you do in real life.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
New to me...
Just a quick post to introduce a new site that I discovered today. I found it while navigating through the ISTE site... it's the Xtranormal (http://www.xtranormal.com/) site where you can make movies just by typing text (and adding a few other bits). Really cool, now we need to make a list of educational uses. Who wants to be first? See my first attempt posted here: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/11541161
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
New Blog Today
I've been using the same old blog for the past several years (http://drheigle.blogspot.com/). It's been a catch-all for EDUC 675 and my travels. This seemed like a good time to split off in a new direction with a blog that is education only... although education covers a big piece of the map. If you are reading this (what a dumb statement, of course you are reading this) you are most probably enrolled in EDUC 675 OL Spring term at Otterbein UNIVERSITY. Each of you will soon be going through the same process I just completed to begin your own blog. For me and for the course the blog is a Journal, what we used to call a Thought Rambling. This is a place for me to "lecture" (in a good way), to muse about new stuff I've discovered, to suggest places for you to explore on the web, and a place to ask questions that seem important for us to consider.
As you come to know more about me you'll discover that I am a "Thought Rambler" my self. I have wide ranging educational interests and like to think about using found resources in unusual ways to teach and to learn. For example, when I taught sixth grade during the last Ice Age I found a roll of black plastic trash bags. To make a long story shorter, my class and I discovered how to use a hot iron to weld the bags together to make a giant balloon which we inflated with a window fan. We made one big enough so the whole class could sit inside... we could even project movies on the outside and watch them on the inside. We learned about air pressure, measuring, welding, geometry, volume, etc. Most of all we learned that by working together and solving problems we could do some pretty cool stuff. The bag welding was a little dangerous I guess but few worthwhile objectives in life are without some risk. The internet is my current roll of black plastic bags... the internet is kind of uncharted educationally and it can be risky but the payoff in student engagement and creativity is, to me, well worth dodging the potholes.
Join me in this journey of journaling and risking... respond to my posts, even if only a few words and I'll do the same for your posts.
As you come to know more about me you'll discover that I am a "Thought Rambler" my self. I have wide ranging educational interests and like to think about using found resources in unusual ways to teach and to learn. For example, when I taught sixth grade during the last Ice Age I found a roll of black plastic trash bags. To make a long story shorter, my class and I discovered how to use a hot iron to weld the bags together to make a giant balloon which we inflated with a window fan. We made one big enough so the whole class could sit inside... we could even project movies on the outside and watch them on the inside. We learned about air pressure, measuring, welding, geometry, volume, etc. Most of all we learned that by working together and solving problems we could do some pretty cool stuff. The bag welding was a little dangerous I guess but few worthwhile objectives in life are without some risk. The internet is my current roll of black plastic bags... the internet is kind of uncharted educationally and it can be risky but the payoff in student engagement and creativity is, to me, well worth dodging the potholes.
Join me in this journey of journaling and risking... respond to my posts, even if only a few words and I'll do the same for your posts.
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