Saturday, October 29, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Technology-integration lesson design
Subject: Computer Human Interaction/ Artificial Intelligence.
Grade Level: Computer Science Graduate students
Lesson Topic: Building an iPhone, iPad or android application. Student can choose any area.
Learning goals:
Apply several teaching styles to match a wider range of student learning styles. Student participation, students will be able to provide feedback when group assignments are given, they will be motivated to perform a more professional and ethical work, because I’ll be able to see their feedback using the online peer review. Student collaboration will be targeted with the aid of Web 2.0 technologies.
Technology to use:
We will make use of Web 2.0 technologies. To begin with everything would be integrated into a Course website, all data and any information related to the course will be centralized into a website. I will have students write blogs when research assignments are assigned, that way their classmate can read other student research documents and provide feedback, this will enhance collaboration among students.
The website would contain videos about some topics related to the course for better understanding, some students learn more effectively using audio and visual material. I think if we teach using different learning styles to have a broader impact of student learning effectiveness, since students have different learning styles. Online surveys and polls would be distributed among students to see their learning results. Whit this asset I am going to be able to see who is learning and who is not understating the course material. When we meet I’ll record the class and a podcast would be automatically generated and uploaded to our course website. This is going to be a tremendous help for students to review each class given, they are going to be able to go back to any class session and go over material that was not fully understood by the student, they will be able to review the slides (if any) or/and that class audio.
I will also provide the students with an online peer review system when group assignments are given, that way they will be able to provide feedback on their teammates and them selves. This will enhance student participation on group assignments. RSS technology will be available for students to keep up with the course activities, homework and announcements.
Scenario:
I would have a team of students on UTEP in a online meeting using a video conference software such as Elluminate or ooVoo or any other web conference software, we will use several features on this web conference, obviously students would be able to use a microphone and speakers to talk with some other group of students on another university around the globe. They will use screen-sharing to go over their research results with the other team, both team will have the capabilities to interact with both screens, they will be able to share applications and the entire desktop as well.
How student learning will be assessed.
The conference would be recorded for future reference and for report purposes. Everything will be password protected, and it won’t be available to the public, only team members would be able to access data and web conference recording for future reviews. This is the latest technology available regarding online collaboration. You can give control to the other team to your desktop, or restrict it to only some applications, such as MS word or maybe MS PowerPoint, you can share documents, make edits and more.
Grade Level: Computer Science Graduate students
Lesson Topic: Building an iPhone, iPad or android application. Student can choose any area.
Learning goals:
Apply several teaching styles to match a wider range of student learning styles. Student participation, students will be able to provide feedback when group assignments are given, they will be motivated to perform a more professional and ethical work, because I’ll be able to see their feedback using the online peer review. Student collaboration will be targeted with the aid of Web 2.0 technologies.
Technology to use:
We will make use of Web 2.0 technologies. To begin with everything would be integrated into a Course website, all data and any information related to the course will be centralized into a website. I will have students write blogs when research assignments are assigned, that way their classmate can read other student research documents and provide feedback, this will enhance collaboration among students.
The website would contain videos about some topics related to the course for better understanding, some students learn more effectively using audio and visual material. I think if we teach using different learning styles to have a broader impact of student learning effectiveness, since students have different learning styles. Online surveys and polls would be distributed among students to see their learning results. Whit this asset I am going to be able to see who is learning and who is not understating the course material. When we meet I’ll record the class and a podcast would be automatically generated and uploaded to our course website. This is going to be a tremendous help for students to review each class given, they are going to be able to go back to any class session and go over material that was not fully understood by the student, they will be able to review the slides (if any) or/and that class audio.
I will also provide the students with an online peer review system when group assignments are given, that way they will be able to provide feedback on their teammates and them selves. This will enhance student participation on group assignments. RSS technology will be available for students to keep up with the course activities, homework and announcements.
Scenario:
I would have a team of students on UTEP in a online meeting using a video conference software such as Elluminate or ooVoo or any other web conference software, we will use several features on this web conference, obviously students would be able to use a microphone and speakers to talk with some other group of students on another university around the globe. They will use screen-sharing to go over their research results with the other team, both team will have the capabilities to interact with both screens, they will be able to share applications and the entire desktop as well.
How student learning will be assessed.
The conference would be recorded for future reference and for report purposes. Everything will be password protected, and it won’t be available to the public, only team members would be able to access data and web conference recording for future reviews. This is the latest technology available regarding online collaboration. You can give control to the other team to your desktop, or restrict it to only some applications, such as MS word or maybe MS PowerPoint, you can share documents, make edits and more.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
TPACK
1) I have always seen many teachers teaching strategies and different teaching methods. I can tell you that I learned a lot from the professors that used a variety of strategies, in the other hand professor that always sticks to on single teaching method, it might work for some students but not for all of them, since students they all learn in different ways depending on what their learning style might be. Some of them understand better when teachers use visual aids, or they could understand better if they used audio materials. I say that a good professor is the one that uses a little bit of everything.
What ever our teaching style is, there is technology available to support it. I think I need to improve my CK and my PK, I think I am good with technology since that is my passion since I was 15 years old I have always been on top of technology and fortunate I know what’s out there and how to use it, the best thing I could do is use it to teach!!! There is a lot of potential especially for students when they are taught using technology, for a variety of reasons, first because nowadays all students no matter what grade level they are, they all like technology, so if we as teachers make use of technology to teach our students, we are going to engage them to learn with more enthusiasm.
2) My ideas on my technology-integration lesson design are endless; I see so many ways to teach with technology. Since I am not currently a teacher I would not know what grade level would I like to teach, but no matter what grade level I choose, I know I can use a lot of technology to use. Besides Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networks, RSS and web services such as Google docs. I would implement video conferences, web meetings, online seminars also known as webinars, a really nice feature on some video conferences that I have experienced is that you can even record the conference, and than it can be posted for future reference or to make it available for other students or users. Fortunately I have the knowledge to build any kind of software, so whenever I see a need I can build a solution for it. I can build custom-software, I recently built an online application that helps college students to track their hours, so they can find out how much time they have “free” for going to the movies, go to parties, etc etc etc… this tool has helped a lot students to manage their time and helps them to succeed in college. We are trying to UTEP brand it, because other universities are interested on this powerful tool.
Feel free to use this tool.
http://science.utep.edu/timemanagement/
What ever our teaching style is, there is technology available to support it. I think I need to improve my CK and my PK, I think I am good with technology since that is my passion since I was 15 years old I have always been on top of technology and fortunate I know what’s out there and how to use it, the best thing I could do is use it to teach!!! There is a lot of potential especially for students when they are taught using technology, for a variety of reasons, first because nowadays all students no matter what grade level they are, they all like technology, so if we as teachers make use of technology to teach our students, we are going to engage them to learn with more enthusiasm.
2) My ideas on my technology-integration lesson design are endless; I see so many ways to teach with technology. Since I am not currently a teacher I would not know what grade level would I like to teach, but no matter what grade level I choose, I know I can use a lot of technology to use. Besides Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networks, RSS and web services such as Google docs. I would implement video conferences, web meetings, online seminars also known as webinars, a really nice feature on some video conferences that I have experienced is that you can even record the conference, and than it can be posted for future reference or to make it available for other students or users. Fortunately I have the knowledge to build any kind of software, so whenever I see a need I can build a solution for it. I can build custom-software, I recently built an online application that helps college students to track their hours, so they can find out how much time they have “free” for going to the movies, go to parties, etc etc etc… this tool has helped a lot students to manage their time and helps them to succeed in college. We are trying to UTEP brand it, because other universities are interested on this powerful tool.
Feel free to use this tool.
http://science.utep.edu/timemanagement/
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