Transcript TEP 231: New Technologies for Learning

Educational uses of technologies
• Beyond the web: the broad range of
educational uses of new technologies
– The Bruce & Levin taxonomy
Bruce & Levin taxonomy
• Based on Dewey’s four impulses of children
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Inquiry
Communication
Construction
Expression
Your questions
• questions
Exemplary educational uses of
the web
• For teachers
• For students
Categorization Task
• Pick two of your exemplary educational
web sites (one for teachers; one for
students)
• Send me an email message:
– Where do they fit in the taxonomy?
– What resources are needed to do them?
– What instructional goals might they
accomplish?
Categorization Teams: 15 minutes
Jean • Dave
Andrea • Dinah
Kim • Ann
Shawna • Kristi
Jennifer • Donna
Su • Stephanie
Liz • Lisa
Colleen • April
Joanne • Joyce
Annie • Jodi
Carla • Mary
Sharon • Dan
What makes for a good personal
web page?
• Let’s look at some of the ones you selected.
• General features to have:
• General features not to have:
Design guidelines
• One screen in size if at all possible (with
links)
• Careful and planful use of animation
• Care with colors and backgrounds
Personal web pages
• Who is your audience?
• What are your goals? (what do you want the
people that look at your personal web page
to have learned from viewing your page?)
Your personal web page
• Who is the audience? (are there multiple
audiences? If so, multiple personal web
page!)
• What do you want them to learn from
viewing your web page?
• What do you want to accomplish with your
web page? (inquiry, self-communication,
construction, expression uses)
Other personal web page uses
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Portable bookmark file
Web weaving
Job seeking
Community building
eportfolios
• Exemplars of own best work
• Create your own web page with eportfolio
elements (or if you have one already, add
eportfolio elements)
eportfolios with students
• Michelle Jacobs’ project
Next class meeting
• Not tomorrow, but Thursday, same time,
same place
• Office hour: after class on Thursday
Lab time
• log into TAPPED IN, establish an account,
and explore it with guest access
• find an exemplary “room” in TAPPED IN
and send me its name, a short description,
and why you find it exemplary
Lab time (cont.)
• Claris HomePage for modifying/creating
web pages (for those who aren’t already
using some other web editor)
• Create or modify a personal web page for
yourself. You can use a “template” if you’d
like.
• Retake pictures :-( with new camera :-)
Reading for next class
• read “Technology in Action” by John
McSweeney on integrating technology into
the classroom
http://glef.org/learnlive/book/technology/mcswen1.html
• email me one or more questions about this reading
to address in class
• In the same message, email me one or more
questions about integrating technology into your
curriculum that Kim Harris might address
Break time!
• Meet back here in 15 minutes: