Well, this week was definitely a learning week as I was reintroduced to concept mapping and finally figured out how to add a picture to my blog! If anyone ever tells you that Help doesn't work with technology, I would beg to differ. I hope to add more pictures later this week.
I'm really looking forward to working with a group on this project, but we seem to be struggling to find common times to "talk" about what we want to do. I think we all want to be as involved as possible, but work and family schedules aren't jiving for us right now.
I rediscovered some reading I did about online learning. I created a link to the titles and hope to add more information about those titles as time goes on. The resources were wonderful and very useful to me during my class. I believe they will be one of my driving forces as I begin my own online teaching.
I can see concept mapping being a key element in online learning; however, it would be nice to have a free version of the program. Inspiration has some aspects about it that I don't like which is why I haven't purchased the program. It used to have a pretty static layout in that it only went one direction. As I was working with it, that may have changed. The other issue I had was that it only printed in landscape format. Once I have access to a printer, I want to see if that's changed as well.
I really enjoyed reading "The Perfect E-Storm" and can relate to a lot of the changes and issues discussed in the article. For example, I am 31 years old this month and learned to type on a typewriter when I was fifteen. If you would have asked me then or even five years ago if I would be posting these thoughts online, I would have laughed in your face. I love that the article provided the list of 30 Emerging Technologies for us. I'm very interested in MMOG's because I can see how the huge amount of interest in online gaming would make such an impact in education. If only someone was working on this...
I already do some work with online quizzes and assignments, and my students love that they can use the computer to access this information. I hope to do more of this as my students start reading because I believe the survey questions would work wonderfully with anticipation guides.
Overall, this week has left me extremely excited for the remainder of this course, and makes me wish I had more time to explore all the options that are available out there!
More thoughts next week...
Laura Meyer
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Laura,
You certainly are learning alot and your last statement that has you 'yearning for more' with such enthusiasm is invigorating! Makes me glad (again) that I am able to teach this course.
Congratuations on learning to add images here in your blog...looking better and better and now contains your concept map. Well done! ~ Datta Kaur
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