Showing posts with label 501. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 501. Show all posts

Friday, June 21, 2013

RSS in Education

After this assignment, I feel very satisfied.  One, I really needed an easier way to compile all of my notifications with all my little 2nd grade bloggers.  Two, I have wanted to try out Camtasia since December, when I learned the great benefits from others.  I just could never find the time. Three, I have known Google Reader was phasing out and knew I had to transfer everything to Feedly and now I got all that stuff done.  The only thing left is for me to categorize all that I transferred and I am going to do that tonight!

I knew what needed to be done, but didn't have the time to learn or just didn't have the time to complete it.  This assignment helped me bring my To Do list a little bit closer to completion.  Hopefully next week's assignment can help me tackle more!

Please note that I could have recorded my voice 5 or 10 times over, but I didn't.  I wanted to have a good first authentic model to show people how far I've grown as we go through this program. :)  Please excuse my dog as she thought I wasn't at all busy.

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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Elements of Educational Technology

Rebecca L. Muller
June 14, 2013
EDU 501



After reading all of the elements, of which I found all to be very important, it was very hard to pick just one to write about.  Then I narrowed it down by the one that I am most passionate about and that was learning.  I think that if learning wasn't present for all the elements, they wouldn't be effective for anyone.  

My feelings about learning comes from layers and layers of experience, testing of theories and my own beliefs built over time.  Some things don't change, and some things do.  This definition for me hasn't changed from surface to deeper, I have always known it was the deeper that I had to bring my students to.  Working with technology hasn't changed my definition, but sometimes we are caught up in the surface of how great things work and look and forget to be focused on the how.  How can they show me what they learned?