Digital Badge #L

For our last blog post, we were to read Chapter 12 and choose three concepts that we want to further explore and learn about. This week, for my three concepts I decided to choose Bring Your Own Technology Programs, Technology and the Culture of Schools, and Different Types of Technology-Equipped Classrooms. I chose Bring Your Own Technology Programs because while I currently work in a school where they began introducing more classrooms to BYOT. Schools are making sure to involve every student, even the ones who are less fortunate by offering equipment to rent. One of the issues that stands by allowing students to bring their own devices is teachers not fully understanding the equipment the students are bringing, that could cause issues in the classroom/school. For my second concept I chose Technology and the Culture of Schools. I chose that topic because I am interested to learn how different culturals could affect technology in the classroom. This section mentions that when an idea is set in motion, it is passed down from administration to the teachers then to the students. When those administrators create the new policy, they don't see how it affects the students' learning and the teacher's teaching. Last but not least, I chose Different Types of Technology-Equipped Classrooms because since I have been working in school for a few years, private and public, I have noticed the differences and similarities of technology in both schools. Many classrooms now a days have smart boards, ipads, and laptops but there are still classrooms that don't have a single computer for access. http://www.bitstripsforschools.com/comics/0WZP11/

Digital Badge #K

This week, we were to read chapter 6:Fostering Online Learning with Educational Websites and Apps. As with other weeks, we were to choose three distinct concepts that we wanted to further explore and reflect upon. The three concepts I chose were Bookmarking and Cloud Computing for Teachers,Designing Successful Webquests, and Virtual Field Trips. I decided to choose Bookmarking and Cloud Computing for Teachers because being one that has a smart device that has access to the cloud, I unfortunately do not know all that it is able to do or how it works. Reading that paragraph informed me that is also able to do more than I thought. Being able to use "the cloud" to bookmark to store and/or retrieve files from any device. For my second concept, I chose Designing Successful Webquests because I wanted to get a better idea of what a webquest is and how it is used knowing that our next assignment is creating our own Webquest. Webquest allows students to express the meaning of the the lesson in their own way, whether it be creating a piece of art if you are not the most phenomenal reader or writer. Last but not least, I chose Virtual Field Trips for my last concept. I chose Virtual Field Trips/Online Field Trips because while reading the chapter that was certainly something that caught my eye. I have never heard of someone taking a virutual field trip. Listed in the chapter is a variety of online field trips and tours that you are able to take online. http://linoit.com/users/emoconnor/canvases/Virtual%20Field%20Trips

Digital badge I

For this blog, we were instructed to read chapter 4; "Designing Lessons and Developing Curriculum with Technology" and choose three distinct concepts we would like to further explore. After reading chapter four, I discovered that three concepts I wanted to further explore were 1)Enhancing Lesson Development with Technology 2)Using Technology in Lesson Planning and 3) Assessing and Evaluating Students. Enhancing Lesson Development with Technology was my first concept because I would love to know the purpose of a lesson plan and how it is constructed. Goals, methods, and procedures are a huge part of creating a lesson plan. Technology is a main supporter of lesson plans in a variety of ways. Learning assessments is something that occurs before, during, and after teaching lesson(s). It is a technique that helps summarize what students have learned from the lesson. For my second concept, I decided to chose "Using Technology in Lesson Planning". Technology has become such a huge part in our education system that it was only a matter of time before it was brought in to our planning and teaching of the lessons. By further exploring this lesson, I was hoping to gather what ways you could use technology, which software was available, and how effective it is. I read that many organizations provide downloadable lesson planning templates using Student Learning Objectives. For my last concept, I decided to choose Assessing and Evaluating Students. I chose this concept because I wanted to further learn about different types of assessments and how to efficiently evaluate students. While reading the segment, I learned that there are two types of test assessments and a standard based assessment. There is also a performance assessment which measures what someone actually does in a certain activity. http://www.bitstripsforschools.com/comics/HX9111/