Chapter 6 Spreadsheets
Spreadsheets are a quintessential tool for teachers. Not only does it make calculating grades simple and easy it also makes it easier to see trends in student’s work and errors. Spreadsheets have become a central part of our society and students would at a disadvantage not know how to properly utilize them. Spreadsheets software such as excel will also allow students to transform mathematical data into visual graphs and charts. This will allow for the visual learners to gain an understanding of the information with great ease.
I would find the use for spreadsheets in calculating grades, tracking attendance, calculating trends, consumption of art supplies, and many other common teacher tasks.
It just leaves the question of when to use a spreadsheet and when is it just an extra step.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Ch 9 Hypermedia and Web Authoring
Hyper text
Non-sequential reading and designing power points and online games like sporkle.
Hypertext was a coined phrase by T.H. Nelson in 1965. His idea was to have everything written on an accessible database and have everything written about a subject and related to the subject a click away. This has almost been achieved with the World Wide Web. This idea of Hypertext has lead to non-sequential reading. In many aspects this idea is good. It lets people expand their minds, continue to read if a subject interests them or switch over to supporting information until they find a point where they have come to fully understand a topic or moved on to something else entirely.
I feel that having moved over to the ability of learning from the World Wide Web we would do our children a disservice if we removed the sequential learning developed by books. A well written, planed and constructed book brings about an idea and the understanding of that idea through scaffolding information leading up to the main point. When you take all knowledge out of context and let only portions of the story be told it become a self contained reality that has little to no connection to the rest of the world. Letting kids explore knowledge through encyclopedias and learning from reading online is a great tool to expand the mind. But we cannot lose the constructed sequential development of a well-written book.
The chapter also goes on and describes how to plan out a hypermedia and web authoring. This section is very similar to the basic ideas of constructing a power point presentation. Maintain consistency
Don’t put in to many ideas
Don’t use too much text
Make the text readable
Be gender neutral
Make your web links look consistent
Make sure it works when you finish it
Non-sequential reading and designing power points and online games like sporkle.
Hypertext was a coined phrase by T.H. Nelson in 1965. His idea was to have everything written on an accessible database and have everything written about a subject and related to the subject a click away. This has almost been achieved with the World Wide Web. This idea of Hypertext has lead to non-sequential reading. In many aspects this idea is good. It lets people expand their minds, continue to read if a subject interests them or switch over to supporting information until they find a point where they have come to fully understand a topic or moved on to something else entirely.
I feel that having moved over to the ability of learning from the World Wide Web we would do our children a disservice if we removed the sequential learning developed by books. A well written, planed and constructed book brings about an idea and the understanding of that idea through scaffolding information leading up to the main point. When you take all knowledge out of context and let only portions of the story be told it become a self contained reality that has little to no connection to the rest of the world. Letting kids explore knowledge through encyclopedias and learning from reading online is a great tool to expand the mind. But we cannot lose the constructed sequential development of a well-written book.
The chapter also goes on and describes how to plan out a hypermedia and web authoring. This section is very similar to the basic ideas of constructing a power point presentation. Maintain consistency
Don’t put in to many ideas
Don’t use too much text
Make the text readable
Be gender neutral
Make your web links look consistent
Make sure it works when you finish it
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Chapter 8
Wow, never before have I thought about the fact that being literate included being able to construct power point presentations as well as shot videos, but, it makes sense. In chapter eight our book describes being literate as not only being able to read and write but to understand images sounds and symbolism. Throughout history we have read paintings and other imagery with the use of symbols and conveying body language. Illusions, art, rhythms and tones in music all convey a mood, feeling or sensation. Now it has become necessary for the literate citizen to be able to read and understand all of these components to communication. Wow.
Video or in terms of the book Multimedia into the classroom, reports as well as presentations can convey the true intent of the author. Historically and personally information is lost when reading when you don’t know the way someone intended. Having a multimedia presentation of sounds, body language, symbols and other imagery will not only convey the words but also the intent. It will take much longer to produce a multimedia report. Due to the process of having a concept map, drawing out a story board, gathering the music, constructing the environment to display, scripting, shooting, and then editing. But the delivery of this information will be faster than a report and can reach a much broader audience within moments.
Teachers will need to be aware of many issues that also may arise with this new form of literacy. Students will have to be aware of copyright laws. Students will have to know how to use film-editing programs, filming equipment, sound splicing, sound recording, and also the equipment necessary to present these presentations. Teachers will have to be aware that many if not most students will not have access to the majority of the equipment that they will need to produce such a multimedia presentation. The concept and having presentations presented this way is amazing. It will allow students to become literate for tomorrow and convey the true intent of their presentation.
Knowing how time intensive film editing is, teachers must be aware that this type of project will take much more time than a normal report and there for students will need the time and resources to make it possible.
Video or in terms of the book Multimedia into the classroom, reports as well as presentations can convey the true intent of the author. Historically and personally information is lost when reading when you don’t know the way someone intended. Having a multimedia presentation of sounds, body language, symbols and other imagery will not only convey the words but also the intent. It will take much longer to produce a multimedia report. Due to the process of having a concept map, drawing out a story board, gathering the music, constructing the environment to display, scripting, shooting, and then editing. But the delivery of this information will be faster than a report and can reach a much broader audience within moments.
Teachers will need to be aware of many issues that also may arise with this new form of literacy. Students will have to be aware of copyright laws. Students will have to know how to use film-editing programs, filming equipment, sound splicing, sound recording, and also the equipment necessary to present these presentations. Teachers will have to be aware that many if not most students will not have access to the majority of the equipment that they will need to produce such a multimedia presentation. The concept and having presentations presented this way is amazing. It will allow students to become literate for tomorrow and convey the true intent of their presentation.
Knowing how time intensive film editing is, teachers must be aware that this type of project will take much more time than a normal report and there for students will need the time and resources to make it possible.
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