Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Synchoronous vs. Asynchronous

Synchronous communication
Direct communication, where all parties involved in the communication are present at the same time.
Examples- Telephone conversation, a company board meeting, a chat room, and Instant messaging.

Asynchronous Communication
Does not require that all people involved in the communication need to be present and available at the same time
Examples- E-mail, Discussion boards, text messaging.

Podcast Responses

1. What is a Podcast?

A podcast is a series of digital media files, usually digital audio or video, which is made available for download via web syndication.

2. Who creates the content?

Anyone from NOVA, NPR, CNN, NASA, and Discovery Channel are publishers. Universities use them for distant learning, or as a study aid. Many professors are putting their lectures as a study, museums and other organizations use them for educational purposes. Individual context of experts can be produced and Audio books are on podcasts.
3. Where do you find podcasts?

Online, on Ipods have them or any other personal media player, also you can download them just to your personal computer
From the Itunes store, Rhapsody, Odeo, Podcast Pickle, Yahoo- all these have online sites have podcasts!

5 Multimedia Elements

Question: What five multimedia elements are discussed?

The five Mulitmedia elements that are discussed are
  • graphics
  • animation
  • sound
  • video
  • text

Reflection 5#

What specific technologies did you learn about this semester that you think would be valuable to teach in your future classroom? why will this technology be valuable?

I learned how to a smartboard more efficently. It caused me to think different on how to use a smartboard for better lesson plans if I work in a school system. I also finally know how to use excel, I never knew how to use it before, and now that I know how. I'm sure I will use it in the later future. Also a new thing coming into ETPT was learning how to use a blog, before this class I never knew how to use one, let alone, I didnt even know what a blog is. And know that I what one is, I hope to keep using it in the near future. Also with powerpoint, I always knew how to use it, however, after this class, I am more efficent with the program and have a better use of it, in a more timely fashion. I hope to relay this information to other people soon!

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Reflection #4

  • What benefits do spreadsheets offer teachers?
  • What are the greatest benefits for students when they use spreadsheets in the classroom?
  • Can you envision yourself using spreadsheets in your classroom? Why or why not.
Spreadsheets offer teachers a great way to see different types of facts that could be compared to other facts. It really could show a compare and contrast for students to learn. The greatest benefits for students to use spreadsheets is maybe they need to figure out how to use pie graphs, or learning accounting things. I know when I was a student in high school I would use excel a lot, however never really learned how to use it at all! If I were a teacher I would defently use spreadsheets in the classroom. It would be a great tool for students to learn and use. I wish I had learn to use it a lot longer ago!

Blog Reflection #3

After using visual thinking software, describe the 21st century skills you think were most valuable to you in the learning process?

After using visual thinking software, I thought it was a great tool to use for people to be creative. After doing the kidspiration, I thought that it would be a helpful tool for students in the future. It can help organize there thoughts in a very creative way! Very useful when teaching children to learn new concepts in a orgainzed manner. By having a visually understanding of all of it, would be such a helpfully way for studnets to learn, because I think most people are visual learners.

How does using multimedia allow you as a teacher to appeal to a wide diversity of learners?

It helps out for teachers appeal o a wide diversity of learners because allows all types of students to be creative. Multimedia can all teachers to be diverse with there lesson plans, and be interactive and creative for there benefit for their students.