Final Reflection on FTLA:
How has your involvement in the FTLA changed your teaching?
What aspects of the class have had the most impact on how you view students?
How has the FTLA changed your understanding of technology?
What does connectivity mean to you?
On what scale would you like to see the FTLA operate?
Group Presentations
City College: Laura, Betsy, Alexandra, [...]
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Highlights from TechEd:
Download youtube videos directly to your computer or a disk, and don’t fret about a bad Internet connection in the classroom. Of course, these would be used for limited academic purposes only.
Go to www.zamzar.com and click on “Download video”
Copy and paste the url of the youtube video into the “step 1″ box
Choose the [...]
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Reporting out on classroom experiences
Implementing reading strategies during the first ten minutes of class is improving participation and comprehension. Students are reporting out on and talking about the process of reading.
Students are using facebook to post additional links and asking each other questions through facebook about exams and assignments
Some students are resistant to facebook whereas [...]
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Sharing out and demonstrations of technology that faculty are using:
Group work and collaboration proved useful for students learning concepts. All of them passed the exam. Techniques that teach students how to learn are working
“Apps” assignment led to students finding 100 music related websites. These were put together in a handout [...]
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Reflections on 1st Day
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Peer Review
Overview of Peer Review Protocols and Assignment
Observation Checklist
Mobile Learning
Mobile Apps & Sites
Connectivism
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA[/youtube]
Read the theory behind Connectivism
iPod Touch Overview (Apple Site)
Creative Uses for iPod Touch in Education
Education Apps on iTunes (will automatically open iTunes)
iPod touch. Touching student lives in the classroom.
The iPod touch classroom
Setting up site visits
Please use Doodle to setup [...]
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Now that we’re in the second week of the semester, the time is right to consider how we are conducting our classes. What kind of “critical learning environment” are you building? Are your students engaged (and will they stay that way)? Are you starting with the students rather than with the discipline? You’ve made commitments to [...]
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Bain poses a number of interrogatory questions in this chapter in his book, How Do They Prepare to Teach. But the first four (listed on p. 49) seem particularly essential right now, as you finish preparing you first day plan.
What should your students be able to do (intellectually, physically and emotionally) as a result of [...]
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Lori Returns to the FTLA!
Freewrite:
Students began by writing a reflective freewrite on ch. 4 of Bain and how it also speaks to Myron’s work, activities we’ve all been engaging with for this first two weeks of the FTLA, and to the ir own experiences in the classroom.
Class Discussion
Lori led the class in a rich [...]
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Lynn Wright’s Presentation/Facilitation on Classroom Research:
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Resources:
1. Windows on Learning–Carnegie Foundation Homepage
Here are some specific action research/inquiry pages on the site listed by topic:
When Capable Students Fail: The Academic Sustainability Gap
In this site, Katie Hern, an English instructor at Chabot College, presents the interrelated and overlapping themes that have emerged to explain the gap between [...]
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Myron’s Presentation
Day 4 got underway with Myron completing his two-part presentation (see the complete PowerPoint for Parts 1 & 2 below). Myron challenged FTLA’ers to make sure to take one of his strategies and work most intently on it throughout the upcoming semester. He will be back with us to follow-up on what the FTLA’ers [...]
