Week 6 Posting

Please remember that I am posting a topic once every 2 weeks, but I  expect students to post every week, once to respond to the posting  and once to respond to other students.

In lesson 3 you read two articles on distance education; 'Distance Education, An Overview', and 'Why Teach at a Distance'. These articles discuss different modes of distance teaching-not just a online like this class. What experiences have you had or have seen in your school re one of these modes (such as interactive television). If you have had no experiences, from these readings, what do you think of this mode of teaching? Search the internet and see if you can come across any studies which gauge the educational value of distance education versus traditional education? If so give us the web address.


An interesting site that comes close to face-to-face online is

http://voicethread.com/

Check out some of the class examples and tell us what you think.

Week 4 Posting

Some interesting insights in the last posting, especially the use of smart phones (or iPads) in the classroom. As I searched the internet for more examples I concluded that perhaps we all should search the internet and share our findings. Obviously one use is finding good apps and having students use them in the classroom but this is not much different than finding good software and having students use them on their computers. Week 3 involves using the internet to do research such as finding information, so for this week do a search and try to find creative ways smart phones are used in the classroom and share with us what you find including administrative uses.