Thursday, June 4, 2009

copyright

all original work is protected. it's all about the money.

plays, music, dance, movies, the form of an idea.

it lasts forever!

Fair use: Teaching, news Parody, critical comment

how do you know it's fair to use?
there are some rules: the ammount, commercial use

why use disney cartoons because they have legal protection.

A way around it is if you have fair use.

the only way to get in trouble is if we profit from it.

The TEACH act
Under the TEACH Act:
• Instructors may use a wider range of works in distance learning environments.
• Students may participate in distance learning sessions from virtually any location.
• Participants enjoy greater latitude when it comes to storing, copying and digitizing materials.

TEACH Act Requirements
In exchange for unprecedented access to copyright-protected material for distance education, the TEACH Act
requires that the academic institution meet specific requirements for copyright compliance and education. For the
full list of requirements, refer to the TEACH Act at www.copyright.gov/legislation/archive/.
In order for the use of copyrighted materials in distance education to qualify for the TEACH Act exemptions, the
following criteria must be met:
• The institution must be an accredited, non-profit educational institution.
• The use must be part of mediated instructional activities.
• The use must be limited to a specific number of students enrolled in a specific class.
• The use must either be for ‘live’ or asynchronous class sessions.
• The use must not include the transmission of textbook materials, materials “typically purchased or acquired
by students,” or works developed specifically for online uses.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

11th grade.

making videos to persuade their audience. Talking to the students to help plan. She told them they ahve a good idea and then asked questions to help them come up with their own ideas on how to make it interesting.

How do we get information:
Internet more than likely
newspapers
news on TV

what's the roll of media and newspaper?
They want to make money.
They make the news more interesting so they can make money.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Visions

A Vision of Students Today:
Very interesting and an eye opening video. I thought it was interesting when they listed all the things they do in a day and it added up to 26.5 hours. There are just not enough hours in the day.

Is technology here to save us? We spend so much time everyday doing things we don't need to do with technology.

But it does help speed things up with typing and other tools.

very interesting video.

Vision for The Future
teach me to think, to evaluate, to create.
let me tell a story digitally
engage me
digital learners.

I think we try to teach so much how we learned in school. using pencil and paper and stuff like that... but that isn't what the generation now does. Every generation is different. But do we want to have children rely on technology? where is the line? how much technology do we use as teachers, how much "old day" methods should you do. hard choice...

Monday, June 1, 2009

INTERNET

internet for communication:
  • skype- call anywhere. video calls
  • yahoo
  • msn
  • oovoo
all of these can be used to communicate through the internet. Skype uses 2 cents a minute. who is going to win the race?

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Preservice Teacher Technology Competencies

Children are learning about spiders and what the teacher does to use technology

audio/visual resources this is competency number 10.

Taking picture with digital camera is number 4.

Using a map they learn more about the different types of spiders. Compare spiders between virginia and Missouri. use the internet to communicate back and forth. this uses another number using internet sources. set up a spider website where both schools put up pictures and facts about the spiders. learn the name of baby spiders from the other teacher in Missouri. Cool project.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Technology in the Classroom video.

First question
what are words that remind you of spring?
  • She plays instrumental music "Spring" from the four seasons
  • wind blowing through trees, picnic, picking flowers,
Keep doing this for all the seasons

she then moved to KWL chart (know, wonder, and learned)
Then watch a movie.

She gives them a cut out map of Missouri. explain the different regions in Missouri.
www. woldclimate.com and find the average temp for the 5 cities they put on the map.

Work with a partner to find the average temp for all the seasons for each of the 5 cities.

After they find all the information they try to answer the questions from the wonder part of their chart.

objectives
  • learn about the seasons
  • why they happen
  • temperature of Missouri.
  • scientific method.
  • learn about the KWL chart.
She ends with a reflection to evaluate the students and see what they learned.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

(missing information. started notes late)

Basic Assessment Concepts

Assessment contains errors
  • is it valid?
Good assessments enhances instruction
  • aren't just measures of the students but measures the teacher also.
  • if everyone misses a question, something you did wrong as a teacher.
Good assessments are valid
  • they measure what they are supposed to measure.
Good assessment is fair and ethical
  • Problem with tests is fair and ethical
  • ex. if the student is coming from a poor background (not a lot of money), what color is a banana, but if you are poor you have brown bananas. so they have to try to make them unbiased.
Good assessment is efficient and feasible
  • is it efficient and feasible? tests take up valuable time.
Good assessments use multiple methods
  • Labs use whatever they are being tested on... rocks and minerals they will get rocks and minerals in their exam.
  • use them all through out the unit, not just at the end
  • formative- anytime during the unit.
  • summative- at the end
Good assessment appropriately incorporates technology
  • everything is technology.
  • woah the thermos! It's amazing
What is most essential about assessment understands how general, fundamental assessment principles and ideas can be used to enhance student learning and teacher effectiveness.

assessment guides instruction.

what is an interview

What is an interview. an inverview is a conversation with someone from whom information is being sought.

Showing children what an interview is. Ask the children to watch a video and ask what they noticed she did in the interview:
Ask if it was ok to interview him
Tell him what it's about
Teaching the children how to use a digital camera.
  1. have safe-guard around neck
  2. find good center
  3. putting disk in and out
photo shop program
  1. how do you crop
  2. how to use it in general
Listen to interview and write about it. Use notes to write an informative paragraph
  1. Find ways to make it more interesting.
  2. answer questions on a paper. She must have questions to make sure they are writing their paper well. they answer yes or no.
Type up their paper using microsoft word.
  1. teaching how to use the general parts of microsoft word. how to go back and change something for example.
  2. teaching good ways to write. Good grammer.
This is to teach professionalism
how to use devices like cameras, word processing, picture editing.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

6th grade news broadcast

Connections, informal learning, direct experience, reflection, compelling situation, frequent feedback, and enjoyable setting. More information on this can be found in the technology as facilitator of quality education model.

Active Involvement

6th grade creates daily news broadcast. One student teaches another. They gain direct experience by learning different things like how to use a digital camera. They shoot and edit video using editing software. Students teach other students about video-editing software. They let the other student do it. Learning how to teach one another, their peers.

The Poor Scholar's Soliloquy

Very good article. The boy can't necessarily remember facts about presidents or states, he might not get why it's important to do math problems that have no relevance to his life, but he has a lot of common sense and is obviously smart besides those things. Look at the math problem that they talked about, he has to be pretty smart and think more abstract if he realized in the math problem they didn't say how the telephone pole landed. Most students would think, "ok, I add then subtract, not a problem." They wouldn't think twice about it. He can do the problems, he just doesn't see why he should. Why measure a road with a telephone pole. He can relate and see the relevance when adding miles or telling a farmer how much their animal stock cost, other than that, why worry about it. It seems that if it doesn't affect him or someone else, he doesn't want to do it. He spent hours after school trying to learn the constitution because he wanted to be a good citizen, but what he really wanted to do was help clean up a playground for other children. He thinks he's not smart because he does badly in school, he has bad grades, and the teachers don't support him. For example the diesel experiment in class, the teacher didn't even give him a chance. They judged him before he even spoke. Just because a students does badly on tests, doesn't mean he isn't intelligent! The problems in this article are still the same as now; the idea is still useful even though this is an older article. The article is from the 1940s. It is timeless.

This is a very important article to keep in mind because this is something that happens all the time. A student might be able to do the work but doesn't want to, doesn't see relevance in doing it. Maybe it's just not their subject! I think in this article, he would excel in other shop classes like automotive or something along those lines. Now a days i don't think he should quit school because there isn't as many opportunities to do well without a diploma. In the 1940s there were a lot more jobs available to do with out a high school diploma.