The Video In Teaching And Learning (VITAL) is a project that is being initiated by McGraw Hill and Thirteen/WNET Television in New York to equip every teacher with videos and other tools that will enhance the curriculum of certain subject areas. This is a video based project designed to allow teachers a great tool to improve student achievement. These videos are focused on targeting certain learning styles and there are different video lessons for the different styles. The great thing about these videos is that it can not only be used as a class lesson or group lesson, but it also can be implemented into personal tutoring or small group lessons.
I have chosen this article because it is partially relating to my posed question about technology: "What would be an appropriate and effective way to gather images (for a screen cast) about a certain country if the students can not physically go there themselves." This article is partially an answer to my question because it talks about integrating videos of places or aspects that the students cannot physically can go or see. These videos are aspects that will enhance a curriculum for many subjects and will allow the students experiences to grow and expand while viewing these videos of different aspects and details. There is not many extras that can be added to a social studies classroom, but i am going to try to implement new technologies into my daily curriculum. I would like to use blogs, videos, virtual tours, and many more. I would love to have my students view a video or virtual tour and then discuss and right about the experience on their blog. I plan on using a wide variety of technology in my teaching as well as encourage my students to use many different forms themselves for their learning.
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Source Citation: "New York educators get access to video clips for instruction." Education Technology News 23.4 (April 2006): 30. Academic OneFile. Thomson Gale. Florida Gulf Coast University. 1 Apr. 2007
Monday, April 02, 2007
Post 23 -D- Comment 2
This is the comment left by K-bull and how i responded to the comment on the post: Blog 6 -B- The Blogging Experience So Far... I wanted to also bring up the point is that on this comment was left an article that discussed social studies and technology. I have used her collaborating attempts and viewed and posted an paragraph about the article i was given. I would like to also say thank you again.
Post 22 -D- Comment 1
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Wow this article sounds so interesting. I love that the college students were so determined to help out. Also, it is great what microsoft is doing in those schools. Are all of the computers donated or does the school board pay for all or part of them? I am just curious about how all the costs are covered. Also, I am glad that they are making the students appy to college. My guess is that many of those students would never think to apply to college because they think they could never get in. I really like this plan. Also, I had heard very breifly about Dell doing something similar, do you know anything about that?
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I was really impressed as well on how students are getting engaged in the local k-12 schools in the area. I am not sure how much is donated or paid for, the article does not go in that far in detail. It basically said that they are providing financially for the school. I have not heard anything about dell doing similar actions, but it would not surprise that they would take the same actions as their competitors have already taken. But they can fight it out for customers, but all we care about as future teachers is that they are providing financially for the local schools. It is great to see, i will look out for updates with dell and will hope that you will do the same.
Post 21 -A- E-Field Trips
I found this article while i was searching on the Florida Gulf Coast University library system and i retrieved this particular article from the Academic OneFile database. The article is about a series of field trips to caves and the title of the series is:Exploring Nature's Plumbing System: Caves of the National Park System. This is very influential to a classroom, because students do not have to leave the classroom in order to be in a off-campus site. They may not get the same touch or same smell as being in the cave, but they can virtually go anywhere that the cave allows you too and students can research different aspects of the caves. The series explores several different caves and conduct research stalactites, stalagmites, and other areas of Caves. Students in the high school level can definitely benefit from using and viewing virtual tours and i plan on implementing them into my future classroom.
I have chosen this article, because it directly relates to one of my questions posed about the use of technology. My question is "What would be an appropriate and effective way to gather images about a certain country if the students can not physically go there themselves?" I know that this article talks about field trips to caves and my question was to a different country, but i consider that the article links directly to my question because it is discussing virtual trips to a place the students cannot physically go to. I think it is a great tool to use especially for a world geography class, because many students will never have the opportunity to go to these places, but if they now have virtual trips to these places then they can learn more from that experience.
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Source Citation: "Electronic fieldtrip on caves." Education Technology News 23.4 (April 2006): 30. Academic OneFile. Thomson Gale. Florida Gulf Coast University. 1 Apr. 2007
I have chosen this article, because it directly relates to one of my questions posed about the use of technology. My question is "What would be an appropriate and effective way to gather images about a certain country if the students can not physically go there themselves?" I know that this article talks about field trips to caves and my question was to a different country, but i consider that the article links directly to my question because it is discussing virtual trips to a place the students cannot physically go to. I think it is a great tool to use especially for a world geography class, because many students will never have the opportunity to go to these places, but if they now have virtual trips to these places then they can learn more from that experience.
To view this article please click here
Source Citation: "Electronic fieldtrip on caves." Education Technology News 23.4 (April 2006): 30. Academic OneFile. Thomson Gale. Florida Gulf Coast University. 1 Apr. 2007
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Post 20 -C- Teacher gets rewarded for Technology
This article is the recognition of Diana Laufenberg instructional method and the technology award given to her by The Arizona Technology in Education Alliance (AZTEA). The AZTEA granted her this award because of Diana ability to integrate technology into her curriculum and how it alters the heart of her classroom as well as affects the whole school community. Diana states "Ever since i have been teaching, i have been incorporating technology consistently." She has a really great philosophy to using technology in the classroom, she uses a variety of types of technology and uses them with a bunch of different projects. Also she takes all the different types of technology and ties them into her lesson and show her students how technology can change their life and their future. The different technologies Diana uses are: Blogs, streaming videos, Movie maker, Digital Mapping, GIS (geographic information system) and many more. Diana has been teaching for the last 10 years and she has been influencing the schools she teaches at and has been affecting the community's she teaches in. Every student who enters her classroom is placed in a technology intensive program and never hesitates for a minute, because Diana explains the technology in such a way that the students now it is worth it.
This article stands out to me because it is similar to the technology i want to implement in my class and she is close to the grade level and content i want to teach. I plan on using blogs in my classroom throughout the whole year and i am glad that it is proven it works and that she gets acknowledged for doing so. She is a great figure that i can look up to as a future social studies teacher and if it is possible in the future to use similar task and similar projects as she implements in her classroom. I would definitely like to research more about Diana and the wonderful technologies programs and activities she uses in her classroom. I am glad that teachers are being recognized for using technology in their classroom (and more should be in the future) instead of getting recognized for test scores. The schools need to realize that these test do not prepare the students for the future, but the work and curriculum the teachers use to teach the students in the everyday classroom.
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This article stands out to me because it is similar to the technology i want to implement in my class and she is close to the grade level and content i want to teach. I plan on using blogs in my classroom throughout the whole year and i am glad that it is proven it works and that she gets acknowledged for doing so. She is a great figure that i can look up to as a future social studies teacher and if it is possible in the future to use similar task and similar projects as she implements in her classroom. I would definitely like to research more about Diana and the wonderful technologies programs and activities she uses in her classroom. I am glad that teachers are being recognized for using technology in their classroom (and more should be in the future) instead of getting recognized for test scores. The schools need to realize that these test do not prepare the students for the future, but the work and curriculum the teachers use to teach the students in the everyday classroom.
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Thank you for commenting on my blog. The gesture was very nice and it's also nice to know that the work we are doing on these blogs is not overlooked. I like the posting you have made here as well. I also enjoyed reading about The Mac computers at J.Colin English. I found an interesting website having to do with history and technology and thought that you might be interested.
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Thank you for reading my postings and sharing the experiences with me, also thank you for your comment as well, while i was updating my blog, i noticed that not many people were getting comments, and i think it is important and essential to our blogging experience to have comments and collabarate with each other. That is why your comment and posting the article is awesome and inspiring me to comment on other students pages and help them out. The article is great and i think i might use it for my blog. Thank you again.
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