Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Learn how to learn - Overcome the Fear of Technology Multimedia and Digital Story Telling (I)

1) In the article, Digital Storytelling: My Top 10 Lessons Learned, if you had to choose 3 of the most important lessons learned which 3 would you choose as the most useful lessons learned and why?

2) In reading 10.1, click on the link that says Center for Digital Storytelling in the second paragraph. If you go there and click stories, watch a few of the "stories". Did you find any that you really liked? What did this make you think about as for using digital storytelling in the classroom?

3) Why is it important to incorporate digital storytelling? What are some advantages/disadvantages?

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Free & Open Educational Resources (2)

1. What are Free and Open Educational Resources and what are the 10 openers (see reading 9.1)?

2. What open educational resources would you use in your future classroom and why? Give a scenario.

3. What do open educational resources include? List 3 main aspects along with examples of each. This will require you to search the web.

Check out this additional web site:
http://www.iloveschools.com/teachers-lounge

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Free & Open Educational Resources

1.What do you believe are some benefits of being able to share resources online and how can this be used by you in your future classroom?

2 Based on the Open Course Ware, what are some of the reasons for sharing resources?

3. Try out the web 2.0 tools, and give your feedback.

4. Which web 2.0 toold do you find the most useful and why?How can u use these tools in the classroom?

5. More specifically, How can you use kerpoof.com to enhance your student's understanding of characters and stories as well as their familiarity with technology?

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Digital Citizenship

What is Digital Citizenship?

There are 9 themes of digital citizenship, what theme do you believe is the most important and why?

How can Digital Citizenship help teachers?

Why are some sites blocked at schools? What does that show the students?

How can you as a future educator begin the process of teaching your students how to use technology more appropriately?