EDM 310 assignments for Wednesday July 1st

Class,

For Wednesday,

1. Read this article Txting away ur education and post a paragraph about your reaction to the article.

2. We will talk about this blog and the one that was due Monday.

3. We will do our professional blogs.

4. We will pick our podcasting topics.

5. We need to start picking our podcasting topics. Look at the following list and choose three that you like in order of preference. If you need more information on anyone of them let me know. I want all of you to email me gtashbin@usouthal.edu
with your top three choices. I will assign groups for the podcasting project. We will begin working on them next week.

Podcast Topics
EDM 310
Each student will participate in the production of a 15 minute (approximate) Podcast with two or three other students. These Podcasts will be conversations among the participants covering one of the following topics:

1. My experiences with Blogging and how it could be useful to me as a teacher
2. Interesting Blogs I have located and reviewed from International Schools
3. Interesting Blogs I have located and reviewed from schools in the United States
4. A review of some of the educational support materials for Elementary Teachers found on iTunes
5. A review of some of the educational support materials for High School teachers found on iTunes
6. Pick of the Day: Source Materials for Elementary Teachers on the web
7. Pick of the Day: Source Materials for High School Teachers on the world wide web
8. Can Facebook be used as an educational tool? A discussion.
9. Can YouTube be used as an educational tube? A discussion.
10. Examining the Strange thesis that students now are listener/watchers and not reader/writers. How accurate is that claim? Can include an interview with Dr. Strange if desired.
11. Strange also argues that teachers must teach students to contribute to the development of materials that are listened to and watched. How realistic is that in the schools in which I will teach? Can include an interview with Dr. Strange if desired.
12. Alabama has begun a program to provide distant learning to high school students called ACCESS. How does it work? How useful is it likely to be?
13. Dr. Strange says he is against “burp back education.” How can it be eliminated in my classes when I begin to teach?
14. Pick of the Day: Useful internet sites for Elementary Teachers.
15. Pick of the Day: Useful internet sites for High School Teachers.
16. My classes at South: How is technology used in them?
17. My classes in the College of Education. How is technology used in them?
18. What I learned from “Shift Happens” and how it affects me as a teacher.
19. What I learned from “The Last Lecture of Randy Pausch.”
20. Can podcasts be useful in the classes that I will teach?
21. Can or is teachertube (http://www.teachertube.com) useful to teachers. Give examples.
22. Interview Dean Richard Hayes on a mutually agreed upon topic relating to education and/or educational technology (TT11 only).
23. Interview Dr. Philip Feldman (early technology adopter) about educational technology. Can include snippets of a 1988 interview of him about educational technology. Can focus on past, present or future. (TT 9 only).
24. Interview Dr. Charles Guest (Chair of Professional Studies Department) on mutually agreed upon topic. TT 2 only.
25. Our crystal ball: Speculations on the “future classroom.” Interview Dr. Strange before (or during) presentation. Emphasis should be on your ideas, however.
26. Interview of Mr. C of Nolo, MO –NOTE: planning and testing of chat audio and video capabilities (with assistance of Dr. Strange) will be required.
27. Interview Dr. Eddie Shaw about how he sees technology being introduced into the USA Department of Leadership and Teacher Education.
28. Interview with Gary Dauphin (Apple Representative) TT 9 only NOTE: planning and testing of chat audio and video capabilities (with assistance of Dr. Strange).
29. Interview with other Apple Representative - TT 9 only NOTE: planning and testing of chat audio and video capabilities (with assistance of Dr. Strange).
30. Interview with a faculty member not on this list that agrees to be interviewed during class time in the first week of March.
31. Other topics that I approve.
32. Other suggestions for your podcast that I approve.
33. Wikipedia. What are the positives and negatives of Wikipedia? Can Wikipedia be useful to students and educators? How and under what circumstances?

EDM 310 assignments for Monday June 29th

Class,

I appreciate your understanding on Wednesday. The problem has been fixed.

On Monday, we will do the following:

1. We will have a guest lecturer teach us how to use AUDACITY (Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.) We will use AUDACITY to develop our podcasts.

2. For the blog assignment, we will discuss the blog that we were going to do on Wednesday June 24th. If you have not done it yet go to this blog

http://attheteachersdesk.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-am-optimist.html

and read the "I am an optimist" by Mr. McClung, a sixth grade teacher and right a paragraph about your thoughts and reactions to his blog post.

2. We also have four students who need to present and we will try and do them on Monday as well.

MOVED TO WEDNESDAY JULY 1

We will work on our professional blogs. Here is an example of a professional blog. http://strangejpb.blogspot.com/

CLASS CANCELLATION - WEDNESDAY 6/24/09

Class,

Due to an AC water leak this morning above my bedroom that has to be attended to ASAP, I am going to have to cancel class today Wednesday 6/24/09. I apologize for this unexpected situation and will see you Monday.

Thanks,
Mr. Tashbin

EDM 310 assignments for Wednesday June 24th

Class,

On Wednesday, we will talk about the blog assignment, finish our presentations and work on our Professional Blogs.

1. For the blog assignment, go to this blog

http://attheteachersdesk.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-am-optimist.html

and read the "I am an optimist" by Mr. McClung, a sixth grade teacher and right a paragraph about your thoughts and reactions to his blog post.

2. We have four students who need to present on Wednesday.

3. We will work on our professional blogs. Here is an example of a professional blog. http://strangejpb.blogspot.com/

Also, if you are behind on your blogs, please get them in as soon as you can. See you tomorrow.

EDM 310 assignments for Monday June 22nd

Class,

Thank you for such a great week of presentations. We still have 4 students to present and we will have them present on Monday.

Here is the blog assignment for Monday. Read these three blog postings and write how you feel and what you think about them. Also, (1) come up with an addition to the brave things blog, (2) a reason you would love teaching and (3) something that you would like to make your school unique if you were teaching.

http://keepingkidsfirst.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/5-brave-things/
http://keepingkidsfirst.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/10-reasons-i-love-teaching/
http://keepingkidsfirst.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/5-things-that-make-my-school-unique/

Have a great weekend and I will see you Monday.

EDM 310 assignments for Wednesday June 17th

Class,

There is no blog due today. I was unexpectedly sick yesterday and did not make it into work. I was going to post a blog assignment due today but was down most of the day.

Today, we will have the rest of the class do their presentations. I was really impressed by the presentations we had on Monday and look forward to seeing the rest today.

EDM 310 class and assignments for Monday June 15th

Class,

For Monday, I would like you all to read the reflection of Dr. Strange pertaining to the educational transition from the 3 R's to the 6 C's. Write a paragraph about what you think and if you agree. Also, try and come up with something that you think might be shifting in education also and let us know. Here is the link:

http://strangejpb.blogspot.com/2009/04/changing-classroom-to-classspace.html

Also, I have decided to use both Monday and Wednesday next week to do our presentations. Half the class will go on Monday and the other half will go on Wednesday. I wanted to give us some time to talk about the blog and to talk about each individuals presentation. Let me know if you have any questions. Have a great weekend.

EDM 310 assignments for Wednesday June 10th

Class,

Today (Monday), was another great class. Everyone did a great job on the iGoogle pages and the Google Reader RSS feeds. Keep up the good work!

For Wednesday June 10th, we will do the following:

1. We will discuss the blog assignment No "BurpBack" Education!. http://strangejpb.blogspot.com/2008/10/no-back-education_22.html .I want you to read this very interesting and powerful reflection by Dr. Strange. Post a blog about how you feel after reading this reflection. This is one of the many reflections that Dr. Strange has been using in revamping EDM 310. As future teachers, let us know what you think.

2. We will spend most of Wednesday preparing for our Google Presentations in class.

See you then.

EDM 310 assignments for Monday June 8th

Class,

I wanted to say thank you for such a good class on Wednesday. We had a great discussion and I look forward to seeing all of your links to interesting articles pertaining to technology or issues that are interesting for this course. I have graded all of the material from this week and it is posted in eCollege. Take a look at it and let me know if you have any questions.

For Monday June 8th:

1. We will discuss the blog posts due (see below) Monday.
2. We will talk about RSS feeds and Google Reader.
3. We will work on our Google presentations.
4. We will take a short survey on Plagiarism.

If you have any questions before then please let me know. I look forward to talking to you about the blog assignments on Monday. Have a great weekend!

BLOG ASSIGNMENTS

1. Search the web for at least two examples in the United States of schools or teachers using blogs in K-12 classrooms. Review at least two sites that you find and write a paragraph on each that gives the other students a sense of how blogs are being used in the examples that you find. For example, if you find a school in Minnesota that is using blogs, summarize their use in five or six sentences. Do the same for another example. Include in your post links that work to the sites that you find. ATQS (3)(c) 1.(iii); (3)(c) 4.(i); (3)(c) 4.(ii)

2. Search the web for at least two INTERNATIONAL schools or teachers using blogs in K-12 classrooms. Write a summary for each site in the same manner that you used for U.S. blogs. Include in your post links that work to the sites that you find.

Assignments due this week (6/1 - 6/5)

This week we should have all of the following completed:

1. Personal Blog with Picture set up
2. iGoogle page setup
3. Blog on ACCESS
4. Blog on ALEX
5. Blog on Google article 1
6. Blog on Google article 2
7. Link to an article that discusses Google or some other interesting technology
related topic.

Looking ahead -

Start thinking about how you want to put together your presentation about yourself. Criteria for the Google presentation about yourself will be given out Wednesday 6/3.