Week 8. Reflections

Thursday, 29^th August, 2013

Before the Seminar Series in Technology in Education course began students were emailed and asked to have for the first class:

1. Laptop
2.  Course outline (hardcopy)
3. A saving device
4. Headphones with microphone
5. Speakers
6. Registered onto ABIIT Moodle website

Tuesday, 10^th September, 2013

Students were asked to create their blog.

Thursday, 12^th September, 2013

Students were sent an invitation to join the class group email created in SkyDrive. This was to enable communication and sharing of information to and from members in the class collectively.

Group: Primary Year 1 Day 2013

Email: seriesinedutechnology@groups.live.com

Muriel, Jacqueline, Sylvana, K-Anne, Rochelle and Iwa were unable to join the group at the time due to technical difficulties, then when they were able to the time span for the group invitation was expired.

Monday, 16^th September, 2013

Students were asked to go to the lecturer’s blog: seminarseriestechnologyineducation.blogspot.com

There they were to answer a learning styles questionnaire, copy and paste the results in a word document and save it on their PC to use at a later date.

They then:

• Researched information on Digital Native and Digital Immigrant
• Identified which one they were Digital Native or Digital Immigrant based on their learning style

Tuesday, 17^th September, 2013

The documents that students sent via email are their PowerPoint presentation on learning, their email discussion on Digital Native vs. Immigrant was completed, also their group discussion on hardware and software and finally the group information on software.

Thursday, 19^th September, 2013

Students:

1. Were emailed the Google Drive link to the class address spreadsheet and their activities and assignments spreadsheet progress sheethttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsO7Q0RWRv_7dE5sdVpXVkd4TjdqY1FpNU83UW9teFE#gid=0 
2. Encouraged to add persons to their Google+
3. Asked to Create a New Page on their blogs: Write a short summary of how you intend to utilize your blog in your classroom and why. Say how you think it will improve the quality of your instruction. 

Friday, 20^th September, 2013

Students shared their information on software via the group email.

Monday, 23^rd September, 2013

Students were introduced to answering survey questionnaires online using Google Drive Form

Technology in Education Storage Devices

http://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GKi59fToM5V0dX7UmtLG9MMhwgPUkSkj71ZAP3TRaN4/viewform

Technology in Education Computer Basics

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gBNk3ErgR-wkJBo7yloOJ-6ve5rSN6KTrOq5dNpW05U/viewform

However due to time only two persons answered one on

Technology in Education Role of Technology in Education

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oGMM9tSz0NTn4ZBUkt4a2xN1IKzVfVFL61NclEBzUEA/viewform

At the end of the lesson on that day the students covered the following:

Topic: Computer Basics

Activities/Tasks: Answer questions on online Google Docs form

Abilities/Skills: Research Skills, Critical thinking and Problem Solving Skills

Conclusion: Instruction was given via Technology, the Computer and each other were the resources used.

Wednesday, 25^th September, 2013

Students were introduced to Web Apps and the Cloud. They finished creating their blogs.

Monday, 30^th September, 2013

Students were sent the following to assist them in their class via the group email:

Video on choose who can read and edit your blog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=42Ow2nDRYOM

Therefore On Monday, 30^th September Students completed the following:

1. Add persons as contributors to their blog (including the lecturer)
2. Posted on each group member’s blog
3. Commented on the posts made by their group members
4. Copy and paste their initial blog post and the post made by their group member along with the comment they made
5. Made a print screen of their blog and pasted it in a word document
6. Pasted the URL for their blog under the print screen for the reader to identify their blog

Wednesday, 2^nd October, 2013

Students were encouraged to visit

Teacher Education Blog: http://teachereducationtechnologyeducation.blogspot.com/

•   To view the video in ‘How to create a podcast’
•   To visit the other teacher trainees blog

   There was no presencial class due to power outage island wide.

Monday, 7^th October, 2013

Students received instruction via a resource person. This lesson they created a podcast as a class and explored how to record their own voices to form a podcast in groups.

Monday, 14^th October, 2013

Introduction to The Assure Model Lesson Plan and the use of a Movie Maker non-example video

Wednesday, 16^th October, 2013

The Assure Model Lesson Plan and Movie Maker video creation presentation

Monday, 21^st October, 2013

Continuation on Assure Model Lesson Plan and Movie Maker video creation presentation

As a group students started to create an Evaluative Tool for the lesson.

Week 7. Windows Live Movie Maker

The students were shown a non-example of how a video should be made as an introduction to a lesson.

Non-example (sample)

Students were then introduced to the ASSURE Model in order to write a lesson plan stating how they will use a windows movie maker video in a lesson of their own choice: grade, subject, topic, etc.

They were able to complete the following during the lesson:
1. Assure Model Brainstorm Document (click here to view)
2. Write a Lesson Plan using the ASSURE Model

ASSURE Model Instructional Plan Template

(Note: Delete purple text before submitting your instructional plan!)

Lesson Title:

Teacher’s Name:

Grade:
Content Area:

Lesson Length  (Total Time):

*Note: Table cells will expand when text is added.

Analyze Learners

For Example:                          Number of Students No. of Males/Females Age Range Mental, Social, Physical, Social Notes such as: Disabilities Learning Differences Cultural/Ethnic Notes Etc. Current Knowledge, Prerequisites, and Notes about Learner Attitudes Learning Styles (Estimate % of Students) Visual Auditory (Aural) Kinesthetic (Hands On) Other

State Objectives

ABCDs of strong objectives are included: A – Action B – Behavior C – Condition D – Degree

Select Methods, Media, , and Materials

All methods, media, and materials needed for the lesson are listed. Give rationales why these selected methods, media and materials are appropriate for your lesson. 1. What are the methods (more than 2)? 2. What are the media (EX: flip chart, PowerPoint Slide, computer-based tools, etc.) 3. What are the materials (ex: textbook - the book title, Educational Game, WebQuest, etc.)

Utilize Media, Materials, and Methods

For each listed above, details of how they will be implemented into the lesson to enhance learning with using 5Ps. 1.    Preview the materials: What you need to preview? 2.    Prepare the materials: What things need to prepare before the lesson? 3.    Prepare the environment: Where the learning takes place? How about the seating, lightening, temperature of that place? 4.    Prepare the learners: How you engage students in learning during the warm-up section? 5.    Provide the learning experiences: Outline the “Require Learner Participation” section.

Require Learner Participation

Includes detailed methods for actively engaging all students for the lesson’s duration. Starting from how long you will need for this whole lesson, It might be one class session, but it might be 5 class sessions.  In this period of time, how do you engage your students with the methods that you provide in the previous sections?

Evaluate & Revise

Evaluation methods for each of the following are included: Student Performance Create a rubric based on the objectives that you listed in the second part of this lesson plan as detailed as possible. Media Effectiveness How you evaluate the effective use of the media that you select for this lesson? Instructor Performance How your performance is assessed in this lesson? You can have students, co-workers, your supervisors and others to evaluate your performance. Provide detailed information.

3. Create their video using Windows Live Movie Maker

4. Assess each other 

Please indicate using a tick in the appropriate box the effectiveness of the video and the overall group collaboration.

How do you rate the video?

	5 - Excellent	4 - Very Good	3 - Good	2 - Fair	1 - Weak
Attractiveness
Content
Originality
Audio and Images

How to you rate the group collaboration?

	5 - Excellent	4 - Very Good	3 - Good	2 - Fair	1 - Weak
Lesson Plan
Task distribution
Cooperation
Overall productivity

Week 6. Podcast

Students were introduced to the audio creation audacity software and therefore how to create a podcast.


For this lesson a resource person was used to guide the students creating a podcast using audacity by downloading it from the http://ninite.com/ site. You may click on the link here if you need to download audacity on your computer.

This will allow at a later date creation of a lesson using a podcast.

Week 5. Blog Setup

The students had to continue setting up their EDET Blog.

As a result a document was shared with them given a step-by-step way in how to complete the various tasks they were asked to do on their blog.

Click here to view the Google drive document
Blog Setup Step-by-Step

This gave students a challenge since some had not even finished creating their blogs as yet or posting their first post.


However they pursued the tasks given.

Week 4. MOODLE - Web Apps and The Cloud

This lesson was quite a mind blowing one for the students since many were being introduced to 'THE CLOUD', for the first time.

An online tutorial that was uploaded on the MOODLE ABIIT website was used to introduce this lesson.

Click here to experience THE CLOUD. Watch the video on What is the cloud?
Computer Basics: Wep Apps and The Cloud

Week 3. Blog Creation

Students were given the opportunity to create their blogs using a general guideline:

Blog Creation Guideline (click here to view)

Students were even sent a screen print sample of the different aspects they will see when setting up their blog. 

Example

Students were also given the task to also complete a Print Screen after posting and commenting.

Prnt Scrn

Week 2. Reflection

This week was quite interesting or I must say exciting as we embraced technology. Again we were faced with a challenge, this time it was the inability to project on the whiteboard. We were then saved by Miss Taylor.

Information wise we continued to collaborate as we communicated our understanding of the different learning theories and learning on a whole.

The 21st Century skills that were displayed this week were amazing!

• Information, media, and technology skills
• Learning and innovation skills
• Life and career skills

The trainees and trainer were able to accomplish via power point presentations and blog creation.

As a result, my thought for this week: Linking Technology with learning and learning theories is of paramount importance in the 21st Century Classroom. Whoopie!

Week 1. Reflection

In Monday's and Wednesday's class the students appeared to have been interested in what were to be offered to them in the EDET course, based on their questions, responses and overall participation. However, there seemed to be an unclear understanding of the course outline.

1. Is the Course Outline difficult to read?

2. Did the lecturer not explain the course outline elements? Yes / No, Why?

3. Were the trainees and lecturer open minded to the format of the course outline and other course information documents?

4. Was the course outline and/or any of the documents explained? Yes / No, Why?

The above questions baffled my brain as I reflected on the presentation of the Course Information especially the Course Outline.

As a result, I may have to reflect on the answers to these questions and revisit my strategy in presenting the Course Information.

On the other hand we had FUN!  The trainees participated among themselves, collaborated well in their pair groups or working groups after individually thinking on their own on constructing different responses to the activities given.

We used the Following teaching-learning techniques/strategies:

1. Think - pair - share

2. Brainstorming

3. Concept Mapping

4. Making Connections

5. Whole Class Discussion

6. Small Group Discussion

7. Question and Answer

8. Individual Work

9. Group Work

10. Cooperative Learning - pair groups, working in groups

11. Act - it - out: Role Playing, Miming

12. Demonstration

13. Thinking - out - loud

14. Summarizing - Oral Expression

16. Reflection - Written Expression

Despite our ​​problem of connecting to the Internet, the challenge of being unable to access ABIIT Moodle website, all in all I think our first week went fairly well. However, I do believe there is so much to cover in such short space of time this EDET course that we will have to survive on In class and Out of class interest and determination to cover as much of the information as we can.

My thought for this week: Catering for the different learners in the classroom with their varying learning styles with the proper use of Technology and Media in Education today, this is the way to go. Yea!

Welcome!

Throughout the next few weeks we will embark upon an educational journey which looks at using technology in the classroom.

What do we need to have?

1. A positive attitude
2. Course outline
3. Course information
4. Technology in Education Workbook (by Jacqueline Richardson or Jonah Greene, 2011/12/13)
5. Instructional Technology and Media for Learning Resource Book (by Smaldino, Lowther and Russell, 2011)
6. All necessary hardware and software
7. A hotmail address, a Google account and/or gmail
8. A twitter account
9. A blog
10. A wiki

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