Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Twitter and me...

When considering twitter, I have very little positive to say about it. I can see the idealistic value, in that it can connect learners/ educators, but it is so cumbersome. To much information all at once. Out of the educators I have followed, when I sit and look at all the tweets coming in, all the information just blends together. The majority of the tweets are irrelevant or completely random. Maybe I just haven't grasped the value of twitter as of yet, but as of right now, I don't see it as a tool that I myself would use, within a PLN or a PLC. There is one teacher on twitter that consistently has interesting things to say. Here's one on internet learning.
Concerning today's experience, twitter wasn't all that helpful to me. Again, there were to many people saying to many different things all at once to be able to use it as a focus point. It was more distracting than helpful. Twitter get's a thumbs down from me.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

The Final Frontier

So our Tech for Teach class was given the task of creating a presentation dealing with an article we read talking about technology use in classroom and teachers beliefs about this tech/teach fusion. The article was written with the intent create an investigation into the pedagogical beliefs of teachers and the extent to which they use technology in their classrooms.

In the creation of this presentation, we were asked to collaborate with a group of three fellow students. I found this process to be better than expected. I had never been involved with a classroom collaboration before, and had only heard horror stories. But the two students that I worked with came through and did their parts and our presentation turned out great!

Now the presentation itself deals with pieces from the article and brings in a persuasive twist to encourage teachers to change their thinking and beliefs as they relate to using technology in their teaching process. And without further delay, here it is.