Online Teacher Experiences

A webQuest would be one of the technologies I would be interested in implementing into my classroom. These webQuests can be used to research and learn about a topic. If the student was asked to find a webQuest and then evaluate it (like we did for our class) this would help them learn and compare to others to see how they could improve it. Then the student could make their own webQuest. I also feel an electronic portfolio would be a great way for the students to track their progress.

In my curriculum it is very difficult to find information on the skills we learn. It would be a great help to gather more information in my subject area. Although they do not feel that a RSS reader is not an experience it would be a good tool for my students to stay up to date with the engineering industry. By designing a RSS reader and researching what is new in engineering would be a great tool for my classes.

The test preparation would be the most difficult to implement into my classroom. My tests are designing parts. I am not sure how we would be able to do this in an engineering class. I could see how it could work in a classroom where there is multiple and true and false answers. It would be a great benefit for me as a teacher to be able to get these results.

My Wiki

https://cep811kroneck.wikispaces.com/

Wikipedia

I added information about the Robotics Club to the De La Salle Wikipedia.

Universal Design for Learning

This was a great lesson. The examples were clear and to the point and short. When filling out the checklist it would have been confusing to me without being able to veiw the examples. I feel my type of class does match with a lot of the UDL lab by presenting, demonstrating, hands on activity, and choice.The barriers are the voice activation, animation and interaction. I am excited to implement this into my classroom.
Here is a copy of my checklist
<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1N7vCghBSupKLNuNiVPSDaCidbt_LPzb3yOL5AwA546Q&amp;embedded=true"></iframe>

MERLOT (share activity)

Engineering

“How everyday things are made”

Quality of Content

I love it! This site had different types of manufacturing, how things are made and what they are made out of. At the beginning it has a mini quiz just to get your mind working. The questions were fun, one was about how long it takes to make a jelly bean or how many pieces are in a Boeing 777. There are so many products to choose from it was amazing.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching- Learning Tools

The video even showed the history on manufacturing and a vey quick video of the manufacturing of the plane. The video was quick moving with music this will keep my students attention. I would show some of these videos along with the pre and post tests for the explanation stage of engineering. I like to go around the room and talk about how parts are manufactured and this will be a perfect fit. The interaction between the questions and the student will keep the interest of the student. The student will be able to identify different manufacturing processes, blow molding, die casting, punching, and bending.

Ease of use

There are tabs to make it easy to navigate around the site and many options to choose from. The user does not get trapped easily (even I didn’t). I found it so interesting I wanted to keep researching to see what I could find. The responses were usually correct or incorrect for the pre questions. I would have liked it to give me a correct answer but it did mention you will get the answer during the examples. The information was laid out very well for the students to follow. If a student wants to know what steel was mad out of and what it looks like before a process you could find a way to go back at see a picture or a video. I felt the material was attractive because of the many types of products, materials, and processes there are to learn about. There are options for if you are interested in books, need to look at the frequently asked questions, online tours and technical problems.

rss merlot

http://screencast.com/t/EJU5FuBgWk
Here is a picture of my rss with Merlot added.

Personal Reflection

Personal Reflection

Sharlene Kroneck

CEP-810

What are some things that you have learned about effective teaching strategies when integrating technology?

I have learned that cloud computing is a less expensive and easy to share documents

or projects. Learning about google docs, google presenter, prezi and other technologies have helped me to see what options are available to us. Blogger and twitter are great ways to communicate with the students. I plan to start a blog next week in one of my classes. One of the problems with teachers being able to integrate these technologies is

the cost of training, time, support and administration not allowing our students to use cell phones in class.

How did integrating the internet help you think about and evaluate uses of technology?

Using the internet to utilize the tools was the most important tool. Without the internet we could not be taking this class or be in this program. The communication would not be available and we would not be able to communicate with our classmates or teachers. The cloud computing is a newer technology which is in the infant stage. I believe this will be the new direction in technology. I was excited to see the micro-soft commercials on television advertising cloud computing.  Was happy that I understood what they were talking about. I asked my daughter if she knew what cloud computing was…. She did not. I explained it to her and felt good that I knew what it was.

Which of the assignments that you turned in do you feel really exemplifies good teaching and technology?

The SIG project was my favorite project it displayed good teaching and use of new technologies. Our group worked on the “video lessons” we demonstrated the use of chat, google presenter, google docs, animation and screenflow. During our time spent on this project we collaborated in chats in our google docs. As a group we set up times that best fit our schedules, one of our group members was from California and two of us were from Michigan. Being able to communicate through chats made it easier and much quicker than through email or discussion boards. This was a great learning experience for me. Being able to design a video for my students will be very helpful for a substitute and my students. It will also help keep the students up to date on their work if I am absent.

How have you met your goals established in your Personal Growth Plan?

 At the beginning of this class I was freaked out at the amount I needed to learn in such a short amount of time. When I learn something I need to take my time and learn it inside and out or I do not feel good about it. As the class continued and I was able to use these tools more often I became more comfortable with the tools. Using some of these tools in my SIG project and posting assignments to my blog, visiting my RSS to check my sites gave me a better understanding. After getting through the initial shock I am happy I have learned and had the opportunity was available to me.

 Do you have any new goals? What are your plans for reaching your new goals and your long-term goals after this course is over?

 My goals are to implement video lessons to my classes. I plan to use animation and screenflow to demonstrate my lessons. I would like to have my students make a blog to post and questions and answers about assignments. Another assignment I plan on implementing is having my student’s research tools to make a presentation. I will have them research google docs, google presenter, prezi, animation and videos. I will have them present what they have learned from the research to the class. I will video the presentations and send to other teachers so they are aware of these technologies. Then I will give the students options on which tools they would like to use for their presentations.