Monday, January 25, 2010
more on RSS feed
I'm following 11 RSS feeds on education, technology, current news, etc. Instead of going to each site, they are all listed right on my blog.
RSS Feed on opencourseware
My attention went to MIT OpenCourseWare, "kitchen chemistry". It reminds me of my Tennessee days when I taught the gifted program. I was fascinated by my friend, Julia Craze, who did "kitchen chemistry" as part of her 5th grade science. I picked up the program and had a lot of fun with it.
Shortly after, Oak Ridge National Lab invited me to their "elementary science teacher's academy" to become a certified elementary science teacher. We did many "kitchen chemistry" and more classes. We worked 3 summers and I was able to finish the coursework to get my master of science degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
MIT OpenCourseWare, "kitchen chemistry"
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Special-Programs/SP-287Spring-2009/CourseHome/index.htm
Shortly after, Oak Ridge National Lab invited me to their "elementary science teacher's academy" to become a certified elementary science teacher. We did many "kitchen chemistry" and more classes. We worked 3 summers and I was able to finish the coursework to get my master of science degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
MIT OpenCourseWare, "kitchen chemistry"
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Special-Programs/SP-287Spring-2009/CourseHome/index.htm
wimba online - 2nd week
All were able to get into the wimba room this week! Hooray! Thanks for following the guidelines. It flowed a lot better.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
getting to know you...
I spent a lot of time this long weekend reading the posts from my students on "getting to know you...". It makes a great difference to me when I know my students more than just their names, elementary or secondary eduction.
I have students who teach piano lessons, are baseball coaches, homemakers, retired policeman, military and more. Wow, the experiences they are bringing into education is phenomenal. I feel so fortunate to be working with them.
I have students who teach piano lessons, are baseball coaches, homemakers, retired policeman, military and more. Wow, the experiences they are bringing into education is phenomenal. I feel so fortunate to be working with them.
Friday, January 15, 2010
First Wimba Class
Jan. 14, 2010
Our first wimba class took place on Jan. 14 at 2:30. I opened up the room at 2:15 and 2 people showed up right after. I put up an agenda on the e-board on what we should accomplish that day.
Shortly after the class started, I counted 15 people in there. I inquired about the rest and was told some were in the chatroom. I did tell the students to go into the chatroom if for any reason they couldn't get into the wimba room. So, I was toggling between chatroom and wimba room. Chatroom seemed to do ok because we just chatted there and I posted the assignments/work for them to do. But the Wimba room got a little chaotic. Some couldn't get their mic up, others didn't have any video set up. I finally got the message across that each was supposed to do the assignments on the e-board, then post the answers on the discussion board. A couple of students couldn't find the discussion board. It was a little crazy.
By the time the class was over, I was exhausted. Luckily, this is a hybrid and we'll see each other face2face next Tuesday to iron things out. My goal is to decrease the number students not able to get into Wimba. I will also divide up the students and let them do team work and gather them back into the chatroom unless we fixed the glitches in the wimba room.
Our first wimba class took place on Jan. 14 at 2:30. I opened up the room at 2:15 and 2 people showed up right after. I put up an agenda on the e-board on what we should accomplish that day.
Shortly after the class started, I counted 15 people in there. I inquired about the rest and was told some were in the chatroom. I did tell the students to go into the chatroom if for any reason they couldn't get into the wimba room. So, I was toggling between chatroom and wimba room. Chatroom seemed to do ok because we just chatted there and I posted the assignments/work for them to do. But the Wimba room got a little chaotic. Some couldn't get their mic up, others didn't have any video set up. I finally got the message across that each was supposed to do the assignments on the e-board, then post the answers on the discussion board. A couple of students couldn't find the discussion board. It was a little crazy.
By the time the class was over, I was exhausted. Luckily, this is a hybrid and we'll see each other face2face next Tuesday to iron things out. My goal is to decrease the number students not able to get into Wimba. I will also divide up the students and let them do team work and gather them back into the chatroom unless we fixed the glitches in the wimba room.
Wimba Classroom
Jan. 12, 2010
Today I presented Wimba classroom to my classes. It was fun and exciting. We are all anticipating attending classes in the Wimba room.
What is Wimba?
Wimba is a suite of online communication tools. It includes a live virtual classroom with 2-way audio, video, interactive whiteboard, computer desktop sharing and chat. Other tools allow teachers to easily post audio podcasts, audio email, and voice announcements on the web. Higher education users also have course authoring and instant messaging tools.
The Utah Education Network licenses the tool for educational use within Utah?s public schools, colleges and universities.
Today I presented Wimba classroom to my classes. It was fun and exciting. We are all anticipating attending classes in the Wimba room.
What is Wimba?
Wimba is a suite of online communication tools. It includes a live virtual classroom with 2-way audio, video, interactive whiteboard, computer desktop sharing and chat. Other tools allow teachers to easily post audio podcasts, audio email, and voice announcements on the web. Higher education users also have course authoring and instant messaging tools.
The Utah Education Network licenses the tool for educational use within Utah?s public schools, colleges and universities.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
blogs
Everyone in class today created a blog site. It's fun to see most of them doing it for the first time came out with some thing that looked very good.
I gave everyone the link to USU's opencourse ware site and they flew with it.
http://ocw.usu.edu/Instructional_Technology/new-media/blogs.htm
I gave everyone the link to USU's opencourse ware site and they flew with it.
http://ocw.usu.edu/Instructional_Technology/new-media/blogs.htm
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