Holy feces! I completely forgot about this blog until Bruno's class today!
So, I did not get a chance to read the entire chapter and realize how completely worthless it is :'(
I guess I'll just have to use the summary due to my lack of time.
However, it still wont change my opinion on how worthless this book is.
Chapter 7: 7 x 3 is 21 + 2 = 23!!!!
OMG the number 23 is in the text!!!11!!! It's a sign from the big guy up stairs!!!23!!! OMG there it is again!!
Anyways,
This chapter is all about evaluation. What are we evaluating, Thomas? Well, let me tell you. We are evaluating Educational Technology. What?! Isn't that what this class is about?! YES!
Apparently, evaluation of educational technology is important before, during and after instruction. As if that wasn't already a given. Educators can rely on a variety of resources to help identify and evaluate the appropriateness of educational technologies, including those available from school districts, state Departments of Education, professional educational organizations, catalogs, and Web sites.
The next few sections detail the assignment that we worked on in class. Namely, the Web Resource Evaluation Form (WREF). The assignment was fun, c'mon guys, admit it. In all actuality, though, the assignment was helpful and the chapter provides further insight onto how and why the WREF's are helpful.
Our 1 page dissertations that we had to provide with the assignment would be a beneficial part of the blog for this particular idea, but I trust we all embrace the point.
Next, the chapter presents a number of strategies for integrating technology into one-computer classrooms and other K-12 instructional settings (such as multi-computer classrooms). These strategies include: Presentations, demonstrations and also hands-on experiences for the students. The chapter also includes strategies that can be included with the seven subject-specific curriculum integration activities. Such as curriculum pages, which are teacher created documents that contain hyperlinks to teacher-selected sites that have been evaluated for content and age appropriateness...e.g. the Wikipage's crap...
The last part of the chapter talks about how to be successful when integrating technology and creating lesson plans. The chapter finishes by talking about ways to obtain funding to increase the availability of technology in our classrooms. Including people within school districts, businesses, private organizations, foundations and the government. But there are numerous other ways to obtain funds.
Wasn't that fun and rushed?
Your liberal yet independent idiot,
-T
About Me
- BrassmasterTom
- We'll, there's not much about me you can get from reading a bio. You'd have to know me as a person to be able to experience my coolness. I am in band, I play tuba (well, its my main, I also play trumpet, french horn, baritone, piano, bass, guitar, air guitar, air drums...and probably something else, but I dont remember) My passion is music. I attend Florida State University as an English Education student. Go 'NOLES!
5 comments:
The beginning is the best part of your blog because it has absolutley nothing to do with the chapter. Good job!
How could you forget about the blog?!? I look forward to blogging every tuesday! I am astounded!!
i'm so glad you remembered, it was a pleasure scanning over your blog as always.
Tom, you consistantly continue to impress me. If there were more people like you, the white power movement would be unstoppable. Way to go Brother!
Good job on the quick write you still covered everything that was worthwhile anyways.
Post a Comment