My daughter came across Prezi in her DECA class in high school. I have to say that I am impressed. There is the online application, but for a cost, you can also download a free standing version. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Monday, January 17, 2011
A new presentation tool
Everyone has used PowerPoint & I have challenged many of my students to come up with something new. SlideShare and SlideRocket were online presentation applications that basically just mirrored PowerPoint with a couple bells and whistles.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Concept Mapping
A couple of my favorite tools right now for brainstorming and mind mapping are bubbl.us and mindmeister.com bubbl.us is very easy to use & pretty self explanatory. You can easily export your mind map as a jpeg image. mindmeister takes a little more getting used to, but is visually stunning. When inserting hyperlinks into your concept map, it places an icon on the line & when hovering over it, you get a pop-up mini web page. You can also add notes, icons and images to your concept map.
bubbl.us
mindmeister.com
one of my maps
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Web 2.0 Wordle/Wordcloud
Wordle created by http://www.wordle.net/
Wordclouds can be a fun and creative way to get students involved and share information about themselves or complex topics.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Homework and Practice-EDLS671
I have mentioned before that adult learning theory encompasses the learners’ past experiences with a problem oriented approach. These concepts quantify the effectiveness of practice in adult education. David Kolb expanded on the role of the learners’ experience in his Experiential Learning Theory. ELT defines learning as “the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. Knowledge results from the combination of grasping and transforming experience” (Kolb 1984:41). Kolb developed the four-stage model that represents the experiential learning cycle.
ELT contends that learning comes from the learners past experiences and builds on their future experiences. You are building on future experiences when you practice. Active Experimentation can be construed as practicing the newly learned skill.
Even the top athlete in their field continues to practice. Tiger Woods, arguably one of the best golfers of all time, hits over a 500 golf balls in a single practice session. According to Golf Magazine (Sept. 2009), the average professional golfer has 23.6 years experience before winning their first major. How many times have we seen professional athletes hold out for more money and lose their edge by the time they finally show up to practice?
Not too long ago, I was tasked with rolling out a negotiation workshop to all injury claims adjusters company wide regardless of experience. The first thing that I emphasized is that I was not there to tell them all how to negotiate. Rather, I was there to facilitate the workshop so they could learn from each other and practice a structured approach to negotiation. Role plays were used to practice negotiation strategies and tactics. This information was directly applicable to a primary feature of their job and there was no substitution for doing.
Now it’s your turn. Share your own experiences with both adult and child education. What worked, and what didn't do so hot.
ELT contends that learning comes from the learners past experiences and builds on their future experiences. You are building on future experiences when you practice. Active Experimentation can be construed as practicing the newly learned skill.
Even the top athlete in their field continues to practice. Tiger Woods, arguably one of the best golfers of all time, hits over a 500 golf balls in a single practice session. According to Golf Magazine (Sept. 2009), the average professional golfer has 23.6 years experience before winning their first major. How many times have we seen professional athletes hold out for more money and lose their edge by the time they finally show up to practice?
Not too long ago, I was tasked with rolling out a negotiation workshop to all injury claims adjusters company wide regardless of experience. The first thing that I emphasized is that I was not there to tell them all how to negotiate. Rather, I was there to facilitate the workshop so they could learn from each other and practice a structured approach to negotiation. Role plays were used to practice negotiation strategies and tactics. This information was directly applicable to a primary feature of their job and there was no substitution for doing.
Now it’s your turn. Share your own experiences with both adult and child education. What worked, and what didn't do so hot.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
What's a wiki???
Before class I had heard of Wikipedia & thought it was pretty cool, then heard not to trust it because anyone could create or change a definition or explanation. So I searched wiki on Wikipedia & it said:
Wiki is a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified mark up language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and Knowledge Management systems.
"Wiki" (/wiːkiː/) is a Hawaiian word for "fast". "Wiki Wiki" is a reduplication. "Wiki" can be expanded as "What I Know Is," but this is a backronym.
I learned by watching the Michael Wesch videos and our week 7 discussion posts to look under the discussion tabl to assist in validating the content. There is an old chinese proverb that says that not One person is as smart as Everyone.
Wikispaces are a great resource for instructors to get the contribution of all of their students to collaborate on a given topic. Check out Michael Wesch's class website on netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com/wesch#Digital_Ethnography
thoughts??
Wiki is a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified mark up language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and Knowledge Management systems.
"Wiki" (/wiːkiː/) is a Hawaiian word for "fast". "Wiki Wiki" is a reduplication. "Wiki" can be expanded as "What I Know Is," but this is a backronym.
I learned by watching the Michael Wesch videos and our week 7 discussion posts to look under the discussion tabl to assist in validating the content. There is an old chinese proverb that says that not One person is as smart as Everyone.
Wikispaces are a great resource for instructors to get the contribution of all of their students to collaborate on a given topic. Check out Michael Wesch's class website on netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com/wesch#Digital_Ethnography
thoughts??
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
EDTC614 - What did I learn?
I approach every class I teach by posing the WIIFM question on behalf of my students. To be completely honest, the class on Integrating Technology into the Curriculum (EDTC614) was not my first choice to take in Week 2 of Fall 2008 semester. I actually signed up for Performance Improvement, but the class was cancelled and I knew little about the GIS process. Both of these classes are in my electives section of my major of Instructional Technology. Before this class I had never taken an online course & really didn't know what to expect. So, I was pretty open to the WIIFM question. I felt it would be kind of cool to learn some new software that I could impress my friends and boss with. I expected to possibly write some papers & learn how to use some web based training.
Early into the class I realized that this course would far exceed my expectations and it would open my eyes to Web 2.0. To be honest, I had never even heard the term before our instructor, Alison Saylor introduced it to us. Before I knew it, I was learning about online applications including voicethread (check out Doug's awesome voicethread final project: http://voicethread.com/#q.b298759.i1573758), Zoho, sliderocket, google docs..... I started watching YouTube & realized it was a great resource for learning, not just videos of kids screwing around.
I on the board of directors for the Pikes Peak Chapter for the American Society for Training and Development & we have already integrated sliderocket to our monthly meeting notices (http://app.sliderocket.com/app/FullPlayer.aspx?id=20D2D12E-0C90-D3EF-FE88-7313C275FA9A) and are now posting the board meeting minutes on google docs. I have even posted my resume on google docs. I have also created two websites since I started this class: http://home.comcast.net/~chuch/site/; http://sites.google.com/site/claimsadjusting101/
Now, I created my own blog & will soon be posting a facebook &/or linkedin account along with posting some videos on YouTube. I recently got some video editing software and signed up for Alison's class in the Spring with Design and Development of Web Based Learning.
So, what were your expectations? How do you approach learning?
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