Class meeting

Technology can be very frustrating yet very interesting at the same time. This week in class we learned about voicethreads and had to follow at voicethread developed by our instructor about collaboration and the image of PIGS. at first it was different! I wasn't sure what i was doing and my professor made it part group part individual.....very different then what I have ever been used to. This was a great way to get children involved with following directions and creating a technological lesson that they will be engaged in and will want to do. When students get really involved and learn mmore about voicethreads they can then begin to develop them for themselves and present to class on a given topic with research. It beats writing a research paper with nothing to go with it.

Check out this video for voicethread

More Highlights

SO reflecting on some very serious content in the class can be insightful and difficult...
ISD allows for teachers to develop and design lessons and in conjunction also allows them to reflrect on what the outcomes are, if it worked and so on. The teacher then can either make the ncessary adjustments or keep it the same for the next year and is also able to collect data to prove the effectiveness of the lesson.
There is also set levels that should be followed in oerder to maximize the full potential of the design.

4 models: with the four models they can be classified into two groups...... direct and indirect instruction. Direct meaning teacher driven and indirect meaning teacher guided but more inquiry based learning, where the student drives the learning.

I think that the direct instructional or Behavioral Model is more widely used, moreso than the others because learning can be more controlled with large classrooms, more content can becovered, and the teacher has most of the control. In a special education setting it is the easier form of instruction, as the teacher models, the students do with the teacher and then the student tries on there own and the teacher guides. The other models allow for a more inquiry or search based instruction where the student is given a directive and has to guide themselves, come up with an outcome and practice the outcome. Kind of in the realm of scienctific inquiry.

Dr. S Blogg

By the definition of blogg I have to say that this one tops the cake. Dr. S has outdone herself once again. The use of videos, pictures and the ability to see everyone elses blogg is great. I am still trying to figure out how to load a picture that I want ot use...I am guessing that I cannot coy and past anything on this blogg, I have to save then load...UGH...oh well. I'll give it a try.

Her blogg was also very easy to follow and very interactive....yes Dr. S I get the hint.....I will do the same :)