Forum: E-Journals Date: Fri Sep 29 2006 13:16 Author: Carney, Susan <carneys1@student.wpunj.edu> Subject: Journal Entry #1 I had a really productive week. I used Tuesday’s class time to work on my WebQuest. So far it seems to be going pretty well. I completed by Tegrity project and my PowerPoint of my reading material. I’ve joined two listservs and am very disappointed in them. In one I’m not getting any emails. The second one I get daily digests with about 25 messages in each. It is really for Kindergarten teachers; I only joined it because they said that you could get hundreds of messages a day. Being that I had such bad luck with the first listserv, I just wanted to join something that would be active. I am in the process of finding another listserv that would be practical in my classroom. Since our class on video production, I have been noticing so much more of the technical work that goes into television. A great show for seeing different video effects it The Office. Each episode is full of different camera shots (zooming, jump shots, panning, etc.) and camera angles. This week I did a great project with my 7th graders. I showed them a video that I found on the Internet. Here is a link: http://home.uchicago.edu/~yli5/Flash/Fire.html It is Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” After watching the video, topics were assigned to the students. I love this video and have been using it for years. All of these events happened before my class was born. By linking images to the song, they were excited to start this project. Forum: E-Journals Date: Sun Oct 15 2006 13:50 Author: Carney, Susan <carneys1@student.wpunj.edu> Subject: Journal Entry #2 Susan Carney—Journal Entry #2 October 15, 2006 While reading posts on my listserv, I came across a website for The Center for Public Integrity--http://www.openairwaves.org/telecom/iys.aspx. You can find out a lot of information about the telecom companies in the area and how much money they spend on lobbying and campaign contributions. I also came across a fabulous website for the Virtual Instrument Museum http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/vim/. I can’t wait to share this site with the music teacher in my school. At this site, you can explore instruments from around the world. In addition to written explanations on the instruments, you can listen to audio files and view videos of native people playing the instruments. While researching think quests, I came across a link for Dr. J.J.R. Teach You Computer! http://library.thinkquest.org/C007063/data/finalhome.html. It is a very informative site teaching children about the history of computers, the computer process, and computer terminology. At the end of the site, there are two short games (one is modeled after Who Wants to be a Millionaire) to reinforce computer concepts. Within the next couple of weeks I am going to try this think quest in one of my classes. My curriculum project is going well. I’m hoping to try it next week with my 6th grade class. After trying it with them, I will be able to judge whether or not it is worthwhile as an education tool. Last year I tried to design a web quest. It seemed really good until I used it in the classroom. Somewhere along the line I lost the focus of the project and it ended up having no point. Hopefully I learned from that web quest and have made this one better! Forum: E-Journals Date: Wed Oct 25 2006 18:16 Author: Carney, Susan <carneys1@student.wpunj.edu> Subject: Journal Entry 3 Reflection from Week VIII course material: Michael Lindeman’s PowerPoint presentation, “Instructional Design for Online Courses,” was interesting and informative. On one of his slides he states the differences in planning an online course and a traditional one is “the degree to which the instructor must plan the components of the course prior to the first day of class.” After having taken CIEE 611 last year, I found this to be very true when working on my Authorware program. During the instructional design process, constant attention needed to be given to the learning outcome. It seems to make more sense when designing an online course to start at the end with what you want your students to gain from the lesson and work backward in a systematic fashion. At every step you need to concentrate on how and what you would teach to achieve that goal. I never considered my web quest as an “online course,” but it really is. I think I should have spent more time on the end product of what I wanted my students’ learning outcome to be and built my web quest backward from that point. I think I would have ended up with a better web quest. I found the following web sites from my listserv: BEST EVIDENCE ENCYCLOPEDIA: RESEARCH REVIEW WEBSITE LAUNCHED "In 1984 the number of companies owning a controlling interest in http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/bigger.html Online book cataloging Forum: E-Journals Date: Mon Nov 13 2006 19:50 Author: Carney, Susan <carneys1@student.wpunj.edu> Subject: Journal Entry 4 I've been busy revamping my webquest; it is almost to the point where I'll be happy with it. I've changed some things and added more resources. I just need to revise my evaluation page and recheck my standards page. Over the past two weeks I haven't received anything interesting from my listserv. I have been busy, though, exploring the resources at the Cheng Library site. It really is a fabulous site! With Thanksgiving coming, I have been doing a little Internet research for my personal use. This has nothing to do with class but I think this is awesome--On Sunday, I was able to trace my ancestry back to 1481. My ancestry has been documented to five passengers on the Mayflower, but I never tried to find genealogy information from before that. With so many people documenting genealogy information, it was so quick to find the info I needed. |