Week 24

Week 1-12 will be Done in the fall and then will add it to My Blog.

Week 13 Introduction
This is my introduction

week 14 Creating Class Elements Part 1: Images and screenshots (Feb 9-15)
Here I posted about my use of images with students who have reading comprehension or difficulty with memory. I could have said more on use of images in online work.

week 15 Using video and Audio
Here I learned how to use screen o matic and designed a video with claudia about 3D shapes. Quality seemed good and thorough.

week 16 building a video
I really liked the Prezi software but was unhappy with the fact that it recorded out of focus. As of yet, I did not retry and am planning on do it before I start my course in May.
week 17 Article and survey
Yes I liked building the survey and believe it is useful to learn about my students before I start my classes.
week 18 online programs for teaching
I was very passionate about this one because I can see from when I work with my students that they also have difficulty with the UCSC format of their online classes.
week 19 teaching stile
This week was more about my teaching stile
week 20 technology
Technology is my passion and use it all the time with my students so as I could see I reflect my love for technology in the classroom.
week 21 moocs
Moocs were something I had read about and tried to look into but never really looked very far. From the research this week I got a lot of new information I had not done before.
week 22 PLN
Here again we did a combined video with Claudia. We had talked or discussed for a couple of hours about the subject. Then we realized that we should have recorded the discussion. So we went ahead and recorded a statement about the weeks work. The important thing to remember is how to teach PLN to students relative to their educational level and age group.
week 23 building a class week week 20
I worked very hard on this one because I had to first learn how to use the Thing think page. Once I got that down I moved quickly through the project. My original goal was to make it shorter but with similar information as the previous student. I think I succeeded at showing good links to read, I did not succeed well in communicating well and I did not take less time it turned out to be a broad subject.

Week23: Instructional design and technology

Week 22

PLN

Today Claudia and I decided to videotape our answer.

The web page for the article in the video is :http://onceateacher.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/pln-your-personal-learning-network-made-easy/

The facebook for teachers and their students: https://www.edmodo.com/

This weeks videos and articles are something I do and have done to learn anything new. How I would pass this on in a high school class would depend on my population. Personally I would stay within a framed set up, where my communication with my student and amongst themselves would be supervised. 

On the other hand in the college setting the course would be more open to social media yet with some pre established scaffolding so they can build their own PLN.

Week 21

 concepts of open learning

 Open learning is completely supportive of the concept that the internet is a world of knowledge at your finger tips. It is important and helpful for people connected to the internet to be able to learn from courses available online. The system is dynamic and each course has a personality of it's own.

Pedagogy clearly drives the structure of the variety amongst the courses. Students who need structure can take a course that is developed for a classic classroom setting, with assignments, quizzes and tests. Other systems are more open to projects and social support amongst the students and educators. The most open system (in my opinion) is the teach yourself from the broad source of the internet and a light frame to follow and learn from. 

These classes are excellent for people who do not have access to the courses they are interested in. They are excellent for a person who is limited on time, but wants to learn something new or continue their education. Finally it is good in general for anyone who needs it. 

The draw backs include keeping up with a class. Being able to engage in an unstructured program or just simply remembering to turn on your computer to get your work done. Many times people do not feel connected to other individuals in the classes because of lack of F2F time. Also if people post at different times or do their work at different times, conversations can feel disconnected and missing the flow of a good discussion.

Solutions to this puzzle are available in video, blogging, forums, social networks and skype like software. As time moves on the internet becomes closer to the dynamics of real life with the always unsolvable aspect of the person being separated by space and time. This should not be of any great issue if the purpose is to learn new intellectual ideas or skills that do not require major hands on practice with a teacher/ mentor standing beside the student. 

This is the reason that core courses should be and can be taught through the internet. They are courses that one can read about,view a video and practice independently. A language course say would be started at the most basic vocabulary then if direct practice is needed to learn an accent or how to say a word, video chat would allow direct instruction. On the other hand a course such as horse back riding, one could learn about the horse, how to care for the horse maybe even how to get on the horse, but then how to feel the horse, how to guide the horse, that is definitely a real world event. 

MOOCs creating an open course: includes language classes,
 http://hikmatnoma.wix.com/globalclassroom#!moocs/c1l5q

This article is anti MOOCs and counters my argument that it is a great idea and a way for anyone and every one who has a computer with internet to be exposed to hire education. 
Note: Notre Dame is a private Jesuit university (they are suppose to help the poor).
http://chronicle.com/article/Were-All-to-Blame-for-MOOCs/139519/



For fun you tube lessons:
Italian lessons video series:

Horse back riding lesson video series from you tube: This is an example of something that may not carry over to the real world.