This week in class we signed up for a wiki and website. We also touched base on the Teaching Frameworks that we can use.
Teaching Frameworks
TPack is a framework that acknowledges that subject area experts know their content and know the digital tools that combine with pedagogies for learning specific content.
Engagement Learning Theory - Engaged learning, we mean that all student activities involve active cognitive processes such as creating, problem-solving, reasoning, decision-making, and evaluation. In addition, students are intrinsically motivated to learn due to the meaningful nature of the learning environment and activities.(Kearsley & Schniederman, 2009)viewed at:http://home.sprynet.com/~gkearsley/engage.htm
Big Six framework is a framework that is highly effective for use in problem based learning in any area from kindergarten to higher education learning and is used globally.
After reading throught the overview I have decided that I will use the Big 6 Framework for my assessment.
These frameworks are all similar in that they achieve promote higher order thinking and utilise the ICT digital tools best suited to the subject area while incorporating the pedagogy.
Wiki's are online tools where users/guests can edit, modify, add and remove information. As teachers we can set up a wiki and by giving our students the name of the space have them access and communicate online within a learning experience.
However like everything there can be an occassional hiccup when you have too many users/guests accessing and writing to the wiki at the same time.
But don't be disheartened luckily you can get back the history for a previous date which is mighty handy if material is lost.
This is my wikispace:
http://traceye-learning.wikispaces.com/
Websites
We then created an account for our own free website from weebly.com.
Websites are different to blogs and wikis because you can decide on what is displayed and can be accessed on your website and noone is able to edit, modify, comment or remove information.
This is my website:
http://www.weebly.com/weebly/main.php
Monday, July 26, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Welcome to my Blog!
Welcome to my Blog!
My name is Tracey and I am currently completing my first year studies in the Bachelor of Learning Management (Early Childhood).
Prior to commencing this course I had thought that I was relatively technologically competent, I now realise that I was mistaken and have been missing out. The mention of wikis and blogs went straight over my head at first but now that I have started they make sense and I am starting to understand what they are actually best used for.
I am very excited about interacting with the tools that I will be learning this Term and look forward to incorporating them into my teaching style. I am a little unsure of how I will incorporate them into Early Childhood but none the less eager to find out what is out there!
Tracey!
Week 1
This week we used online bookmarks, wikis, bubble.us and blogs.
We created an account to sign up to delicious.com which is an online bookmark web tool that you can access from anywhere. This I believe is a great tool as you can access them from anywhere on any computer rather than having certain bookmarks for home use and then others for work use.
Our weekly tutorials will be accessed using a wiki and before today I have never used this particular web tool, it is great to see thoughts and ideas uploaded instantly by any of the people in our class. I can see how this would be useful in a school classroom as well for teaching and learning.
The below image is a concept map using the online bubble flow charts at bubble.us and was uploaded as an image.
It represents what I think about E-Learning and hopefully I will be able to add to this once I have completed this course.
Blogs
Lastly accounts were setup to use Blogger to be able to share what we are learning by use of blogging, this is also a new web tool for me and I am a little excited to see how it all comes together.
Blogs are an online journal where entries can be made and built upon by the editor, but also allow others to add comments and expand on the context of the blog. Blogs can be an effective way to have students interact and comment on each others ideas, thoughts and to add to build on their knowledge for a specific topic. Although I am aiming my ICT to Early phase I am sure that a blog could be added into my planning. However the example given was a blog that was setup with weekly entries of a fictional travel experience and have early phase students generate questions and I can post them. As I am the fictional character I could post pictures of the trip and post their whereabouts using Google maps. Using blogs in this way enables student to generate questions and/or comment on the blog about the entries and it also allows students to relate this information to real life situations in a virtual world.
I have also added the below youtube link as I really feel that this is the expectation of Gen Y & Z, Enjoy!
So far a thoroughly enjoyable first week and I can't wait for the next!
Tracey
My name is Tracey and I am currently completing my first year studies in the Bachelor of Learning Management (Early Childhood).
Prior to commencing this course I had thought that I was relatively technologically competent, I now realise that I was mistaken and have been missing out. The mention of wikis and blogs went straight over my head at first but now that I have started they make sense and I am starting to understand what they are actually best used for.
I am very excited about interacting with the tools that I will be learning this Term and look forward to incorporating them into my teaching style. I am a little unsure of how I will incorporate them into Early Childhood but none the less eager to find out what is out there!
Tracey!
Week 1
This week we used online bookmarks, wikis, bubble.us and blogs.
We created an account to sign up to delicious.com which is an online bookmark web tool that you can access from anywhere. This I believe is a great tool as you can access them from anywhere on any computer rather than having certain bookmarks for home use and then others for work use.
Our weekly tutorials will be accessed using a wiki and before today I have never used this particular web tool, it is great to see thoughts and ideas uploaded instantly by any of the people in our class. I can see how this would be useful in a school classroom as well for teaching and learning.
The below image is a concept map using the online bubble flow charts at bubble.us and was uploaded as an image.
It represents what I think about E-Learning and hopefully I will be able to add to this once I have completed this course.
Blogs
Lastly accounts were setup to use Blogger to be able to share what we are learning by use of blogging, this is also a new web tool for me and I am a little excited to see how it all comes together.
Blogs are an online journal where entries can be made and built upon by the editor, but also allow others to add comments and expand on the context of the blog. Blogs can be an effective way to have students interact and comment on each others ideas, thoughts and to add to build on their knowledge for a specific topic. Although I am aiming my ICT to Early phase I am sure that a blog could be added into my planning. However the example given was a blog that was setup with weekly entries of a fictional travel experience and have early phase students generate questions and I can post them. As I am the fictional character I could post pictures of the trip and post their whereabouts using Google maps. Using blogs in this way enables student to generate questions and/or comment on the blog about the entries and it also allows students to relate this information to real life situations in a virtual world.
I have also added the below youtube link as I really feel that this is the expectation of Gen Y & Z, Enjoy!
So far a thoroughly enjoyable first week and I can't wait for the next!
Tracey
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