Say it aint so...

Well we actually all made it, almost. I suppose we won't really know until the grades are posted. I honestly didn't think I'd be able to get through when we first started. It has been a baptism by fire, out of the frying pan into the fire, the whole magilla, water up to the eyeballs experience. If everyone had seen the last pag eof my ICP it summed it all up-Hallelujah!

Most of what I learned was through practical application and osmosis, as this type of subject should be. I learned very little through the readings, not that it wasn't important, but I personally learn better through doing. Some of the blogs, articles, and videos were very informative and helpful-especially the one about how society, especially schools, kills creativity. This then leads to less real learning and more drones being spit out into the world.

More than anything, I learned so much from my fellow classmates. I was blown away by the caliber of work put out and beyond impressed with the assimilation rate. Some of the projects were of such high quality they could be marketed. And if I remember correctly not many of us had previous experience using many of these technological tools.

As I mentioned last night, I'm glad the class is a requirement, it is one that has direct and definite utility in education, but I AM SO GLAD it is done with. No offense, Dr. Smirnova.
(I hope after all of this that I pass and don't have to take it over,lol)

Lost in Translation?

http://pedagogy21.pbwiki.com/TWT+Group+2?SearchFor=Lost+in+translation&sp=1

Daisy's scrapblog

For this scrapblog I created a theoretical assignment for the high schooler reading The Great Gatsby. The idea was that the student would create a scrapblog as if they were one of the characters using devices, stickers, text, etc to express characteristics and story elements-I also included add-ons that would create an end-of-term cumulative project.

http://www.scrapblog.com/viewer/viewer.aspx?sbid=1054764

Who's that Twitter(er)?

I wish I had saved this little piece about Twitter in the New York Times-I tried searching their site but to no avail. Anyway it was a little piece on social networking and especially Twitter. They had six different notable users from Benjamin Netanyahu to Dave MAtthews and they printed what they had last posted, etc.
It was interesting to see the range of people, topics, and posts and how all aspects of fame are affected by the world of technology especially communication.

Scrapblog...it's not just for housewives!

This PowerPoint explains the elements of the web 2.0 tool, Scrapblog-along with links to the site itself, other creative sites, as well as the two scrapblogs I created.

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The Great Gatsby

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