Wednesday, July 2, 2008

JK Ed Tech IDP

The focus for Jason's technology plan for the next two weeks is to hone his video editing skills using Adobe Premier elements. Already being familiar with video editing Jason is going to focus more on the layering aspects of the program and building a deeper product. Also focusing on adding in titles and making them flow smoothly with the video.

Jason also plans to focus on his PDA by adding to his blog. He will post assignments there and discuss the work he put into them. His TIP plan and product will be an integral part of this.

For the next year Jason will be redesigning websites both for his school and his seminary. Using the seminary as a practice platform he will then carry over what is learned to his school.

Another goal for next year is streamline the professional development process for teachers at his school. He also wants to work on the database access for their network and security settings.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Thoughts about PDA

After taking some time to look through my old MSU website realized that I have not put much content on there. At the same time I realized that I have learned a lot over the last 3 years.

In thinking about whether I want to do a showcase of my best work or display work to show my growth, I have decided on the former. By using my .mac account I can use IWeb to created a website displaying some of the things I am most proud of. At the same time these are all projects that I feel took a lot of learning on my part. I am proud of the work I did because in the end, I met the goals but also showed a side of myself.

Since IWeb is dynamic I can show podcasts, vodcasts, link to documents and videos. By being able to show a variety of work I think I can portray what I have learned over the years. I am also thinking about adding tags and descriptions to each part of the website so people can understand why I have chosen to include the things I did. Also, it will give them some insight into the process.

After Ed Planning

Top Ten idea for using technology in the science classroom:
- using explore learning to do virtual experiments
- individualized learning at the student's level
- podcasts to teach students basic skills
- student made podcasts to teach about a subject
- vodcast/video to teach an idea to other students
- explore learning to do directed experiments where each kid can do their own
- blogging as a a discussion tool
- blogs as a way to give feedback to peers
- blogs to share resources
- wikis to collaborate for lab reports