Summative Prezi!

http://prezi.com/5i-edkv0l6-x/internet-for-educators/

Casa de couros

Network literacy, plns, one of the big thing is that teachers need to learn just as much as students! This is a very important note! I think as an educator you really do need always keep learning, sometimes you learn alongside the students, sometimes you need to go out of your way to make yourself more knowledgable, and qualified to teach your classes. As an educator you want your students do their best, therefore you need to be your best as well.

Curriculum, colleagues, popular media, resources. Family community, teachers network! That is the most common! However we need to relize that there is so much more to "our" networks! There is so many applications/websites out there that are soooo useful for education! We need to make ourselves aware of these, and use them to share, and reflect with our students!

I thought it was pretty neat how all the photos got collected with flickr! Its quite amazing how ppl can come together, and share photographs so easily just by sending it to a specified email address!

Personally, since I have been using blogger, I really like the thought of using it for students to share and reflect their learnings! It would be a great way for students to learn from each other! ALSO, I think I will use my BLOG to keep a track record of what we have been doing throughout the year in class! If I were a parent I think it would be very neat to be able to track your childs classes activities, assignments from just following their teachers blog! You could also use it is a journal, and bring it up for parent/teacher conferences

Tech Task 12

I recently just tried out the new Mac application "facetime", its like skype, but is only able to be used on a macbook/apple computer. Its pretty neat. Originally I thought it was used just for iPhone, but you can facetime from mac to mac. You can also use facetime on the newly released iPod touch because it has the camera. All you have to do is simply download the application, and enter your email address. If you want to facetime your friends you simply enter their email, and it will call their computer.

Nate

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

I really enjoyed watching this video presentation in class this afternoon. It had really good humor, along with good music and editing. The best thing about it, was that it really covered alot of areas in with using internet in education. I think the part on "Copy and Paste" was really bang on. Thats exactly what students do now a days, and the worst part about that is that students really think the information is accurate.

its our job as educators to teach them the importance of how its not allowed to use people's ideas or get information from resources and not source them. Teaching them proper research ettiquette is very important, and something alot of university students  struggle with, yet along middle years/high school kids. The more we can teach them about developing original ideas, and if they use someone else's information to simply "source" it from where they got it. this way they taken the time to at least show the teacher they are not taking credit for some information, rather just sourcing the original creator.

WBC- Web Based Courses- Tech Task

I looked at a grade 11 Physical Education/Health Education course. It was really neat how "health" or P.E content was taught through the web. Physical activity is imporatant, but it is very important to have knowledge about active healthy lifestyles. The first part of the course was talking about active healthy lifestyles.

Some of the first lessons were 

• Lesson 1: Personal Physical Activity Inventory
• Lesson 2: Managing Risks Related to Physical Activity
• Lesson 3: Implementing the Safety and Physical Activity Plan

Alot of students growing up do not understand the term "healthy" and if they do, they dont know how to live a health lifestyle. Alot of children do not have "healthy" role models in their life, so as a P.E teacher we need give them as much information about what it takes to be healthy, and the importance of balance & maintenance. 

Physical activity will create an increase in energy and an overall "good" feeling. Therefore having web case courses full of content and very useful strategies is a very good idea! I could definitely use a web based course like this.

Tech Task-Internet making us DUMBER?

The whole internet making you dumber article, was really quiet interesting. And i totally can see their point of view. Today Blair, and I were talking about all the blogging and neat things we have been learning in the Internet for Educators class, and he replied, yah i agree its a good thing, however everytime i go on their to blog I keep getting distracted and side tracked as to what I was there in the first place.

The internet is a very useful tool, and I can really see how it makes us "dumber", but maybe dumber isn't the best word for it, maybe it should be called how internet makes us "lazy". We as a society expect everything quicker, faster and better. The internet has a HUGE role in that "motto". I know personally when im trying to download, or upload, if it takes longer than 2 minutes im cursing and totally frustrated. Just think back to dial up haha, we managed, but with high speed internet everything is a "blink" away, and i think its fair to say that society has become dependent on that speed of accessibility.

Thats how I can i relate to how we stopped thinking indepth, rather just kinda go with the flow. For example, some of the projects we need to in classes now a day take probably an 1/8th of the time, projects 10 years ago did. I know personally, i have become a little to much of a procastotantor mainly because I know once i get started on a task, its really not going to take me long, and to top it off, I will not think twice about it. Did I really use indepth adequate thinking, not at all.

Nate

Internet for Educators Presentation

Link-For google DOC

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zPrHlS78kVbJ9xA54i6yqIBOcyKMMwgMX5XIpJirSHE/edit?hl=en#