Thursday, May 7, 2015
Monday, May 4, 2015
Etec 562- Journal Article Review 3
Bean, C. (2012, January 9). The Accidental Instructional Designer by Cammy Bean : Learning Solutions Magazine. Retrieved May 5, 2015, from http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/816/the-accidental-instructional-designer
"The Accidental Instructional Designer" article was written by Cammy Bean to express her "accidental" landing in her profession. The introduction of this article reflects the authors childhood memories of what she dreamt she'd become; a writer or a teacher. She presents much credit to, "how she got here" from a natural aptitude. She worked as part of an internal team, designing call center applications (dated back when GUI interfaces were commonly used). That experience, granted her exceptional knowledge about the program and she then became a classroom trainer in which she later took it a step further to type up "How-to articles" to over a hundred company mailboxes. This experience led her to "multimedia production" where she landed a position as an Instructional Designer.
As a graduate student majoring in Educational Technology- Leadership, her journey was quite interesting to me. It's amazing at how times have changed and the impact technology has on developing new career opportunities. Likewise, this position wasn't very popular when I was a child either, so I can only imagine what further positions technology will lead to. The second half of her article was very informative in which she presented ways to maximize your instructional designing techniques and provided outside sources that would be beneficial for one's growth in this field.
Making Connections
She suggests connecting with other eLearning professionals via blogs and twitter.
Examples include: Tony Karrer'r eLearning Learning Blog feed aggregator (http://www.elearninglearning.com/) and Jane Hart's compilation of edu-tweeters ( http://c4pt.co.uk/social-learning-handbook/workplace-learning-professionals-who-blog-andor-tweet/). The Learning guild has an active group on LinkedIn, too (http://linkedin.com/groups?gid=102144).
Read Books
The books that she suggests reading are, eLearning and the Science of Instruction by Ruth Clark and and Richard Mayer as well ass Julie Dirksen's book, Design for How People Learn.
Webinars
Monthly e-webinars and online forums are offered on eLearning Guild. ASTD and Training network has regular offerings as well.
Conferences
She speaks importance on gaining face to face training. eLearning Guild Learning Solutions and DevLearn are both great conferences to attend.
Degree
This section brought me a sense of excitement, considering this is the career/educational path that I am presently taking. She spoke positively about pursuing a degree in instuctional design or educational technology. She views it as a kick start or way to gain deeper expertise in this field.
This article was very informative & I look forward to exploring all informational avenues so that I may gain as much knowledge as possible about my field. I haven't used twitter since an undergrad in college and I solely used it for social networking then. She's inspired me to venture out and create a twitter because it is a great marketing tool for business and I have definitely deprived myself from this technological tool.
"The Accidental Instructional Designer" article was written by Cammy Bean to express her "accidental" landing in her profession. The introduction of this article reflects the authors childhood memories of what she dreamt she'd become; a writer or a teacher. She presents much credit to, "how she got here" from a natural aptitude. She worked as part of an internal team, designing call center applications (dated back when GUI interfaces were commonly used). That experience, granted her exceptional knowledge about the program and she then became a classroom trainer in which she later took it a step further to type up "How-to articles" to over a hundred company mailboxes. This experience led her to "multimedia production" where she landed a position as an Instructional Designer.
As a graduate student majoring in Educational Technology- Leadership, her journey was quite interesting to me. It's amazing at how times have changed and the impact technology has on developing new career opportunities. Likewise, this position wasn't very popular when I was a child either, so I can only imagine what further positions technology will lead to. The second half of her article was very informative in which she presented ways to maximize your instructional designing techniques and provided outside sources that would be beneficial for one's growth in this field.
Making Connections
She suggests connecting with other eLearning professionals via blogs and twitter.
Examples include: Tony Karrer'r eLearning Learning Blog feed aggregator (http://www.elearninglearning.com/) and Jane Hart's compilation of edu-tweeters ( http://c4pt.co.uk/social-learning-handbook/workplace-learning-professionals-who-blog-andor-tweet/). The Learning guild has an active group on LinkedIn, too (http://linkedin.com/groups?gid=102144).
Read Books
The books that she suggests reading are, eLearning and the Science of Instruction by Ruth Clark and and Richard Mayer as well ass Julie Dirksen's book, Design for How People Learn.
Webinars
Monthly e-webinars and online forums are offered on eLearning Guild. ASTD and Training network has regular offerings as well.
Conferences
She speaks importance on gaining face to face training. eLearning Guild Learning Solutions and DevLearn are both great conferences to attend.
Degree
This section brought me a sense of excitement, considering this is the career/educational path that I am presently taking. She spoke positively about pursuing a degree in instuctional design or educational technology. She views it as a kick start or way to gain deeper expertise in this field.
This article was very informative & I look forward to exploring all informational avenues so that I may gain as much knowledge as possible about my field. I haven't used twitter since an undergrad in college and I solely used it for social networking then. She's inspired me to venture out and create a twitter because it is a great marketing tool for business and I have definitely deprived myself from this technological tool.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Tech Play 4: Content Objects
Tech Play 4: Content Objects
I enjoy discovering new technologies that engage my students while learning. Choosing the topic of "Content Objects" over "Information Literacy," presented me with the opportunity to do what I love. I am very excited about using the technological tools listed below and feel that they will each benefit my students learning experience tremendously.
Think Port
Teacher Tipster App (Running Record Toolbox). (2013, July 11). Retrieved May 4, 2015, from https://youtu.be/LNOBAXA5Jik
I enjoy discovering new technologies that engage my students while learning. Choosing the topic of "Content Objects" over "Information Literacy," presented me with the opportunity to do what I love. I am very excited about using the technological tools listed below and feel that they will each benefit my students learning experience tremendously.
Book Retriever
Book Retriever is an application that allows you to
scan, level and inventory your entire classroom library. Leveling choices
include Guided Reading Levels, Lexile,
Accelerated Reader, Reading Counts, DRA and Reading Recovery. This is a great tool for organizing your class library!
Think Port
ThinkPort is a great hosting site for teacher websites. Its for educational services, providing a website featuring digital educational resources in the nature of online fieldtrips, lesson plans, and training in the field of technology integration in curriculum. They offer a collection of pre-formatted graphic organizers that you can integrate into activities and lesson plans or use by themselves. In addition to that, they offer blogs for educators, educational videos, how to-s, interactive tools, learning with games, podcasting, social media tools, spotlight on educators, and video/image editing tools.
Running Record Toolbox App
The Running Record Toolbox has all the tools you need to take reading instruction to the next level. It is available on android, iphone, and ipad devices!
Description
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Educational
Uses
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Content
Standards & Assessment
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This assessment tool allows you to measure students reading
capability and comprehension without doing the math yourself. It provides you
with a words per minute counter, symbol cheat sheet, accuracy table, and a
running record calculator all to ensure the appropriate reading text for your
students.
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Teacher Tipster App (Running Record Toolbox). (2013, July 11). Retrieved May 4, 2015, from https://youtu.be/LNOBAXA5Jik
Etec 562- Journal Article Review 2
Courts, B., & Tucker, J. (2012, April 1). Journal of College Teaching & Learning (TLC). Retrieved May 2, 2015, from http://www.cluteinstitute.com/ojs/index.php/TLC/article/view/6907/6982
In this article, Courts & Tucker speak of the existence of various technologies available in the college classroom, and the difficulties instructors face implementing these initiatives in their lesson. They review different technological tools such as animation, slideshows, blogging, instant messaging, podcasting, and video on demand. The entire article is written to promote the usage of multimedia in the classroom. The primary audience for this article would be instructors who lack technological literacy. Post reading this article, it is assumed that one should be able to apply basic multimedia tools to enhance their college classroom experience.
Academic Work Online
They provided insightful information regarding the ample amount of high quality academic work available online.
THE SUPER HIGHWAY
Courts and Tucker refer to the world's increasing internet usage as, "The Super Highway." The article provided stats from the Internet world stats (www.internet worlstats.com) in which is stated the following information reflecting the year 2010:
Overall, this article encourages its audience to stay abrupt with the changing world around as both; students and educators. Learning to assimilate these technologies into the classroom experience is often interesting for both parties (educators and students).
In this article, Courts & Tucker speak of the existence of various technologies available in the college classroom, and the difficulties instructors face implementing these initiatives in their lesson. They review different technological tools such as animation, slideshows, blogging, instant messaging, podcasting, and video on demand. The entire article is written to promote the usage of multimedia in the classroom. The primary audience for this article would be instructors who lack technological literacy. Post reading this article, it is assumed that one should be able to apply basic multimedia tools to enhance their college classroom experience.
Academic Work Online
They provided insightful information regarding the ample amount of high quality academic work available online.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offers free lecture notes, exams, assignments and solutions, and even online textbooks via open courseware, for anyone to view without registration and at no cost.
- Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (Merlot) is a free online community of resources with over 28,000 learning materials for review, including art, science and humanities (http:www.merlot.org).
- Other sites include: videlolectures.net, Ted.com, and Stanford Universities Entrepreneurship corner, which offer videos, podcast and lectures pertaining to all kinds of different topics with a click of a mouse. Flatworld Knowledge (www.flatworldknowledge.com) offers free open source college textbooks online which contain interactive media elements for instructors or students.
THE SUPER HIGHWAY
Courts and Tucker refer to the world's increasing internet usage as, "The Super Highway." The article provided stats from the Internet world stats (www.internet worlstats.com) in which is stated the following information reflecting the year 2010:
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Percentage
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U.S. population used the Internet
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77.4%
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College students consider themselves frequent
Internet users
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86%
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College students report they are using multimedia
while on the Internet
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76%
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Cloud Computing
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Multimedia
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The delivery of
information technology over the Internet that allows just in time (jit)
access to technology
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Allows students and instructors to become engaged in their learning, increase comprehension of abstract concepts, and increase interest and motivation
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Webmail services: Gmail
Social Network Services: Facebook
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Animation, text, audio, video, slideshows, podcasts
instant messaging, and simulations
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Overall, this article encourages its audience to stay abrupt with the changing world around as both; students and educators. Learning to assimilate these technologies into the classroom experience is often interesting for both parties (educators and students).
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