I really enjoyed the presentation on Second Life. It brought back a lot of memories from Karen's Pedagogical Grammar I class. I didn't like the use of SL simply because I wasn't familiar with the controls. As mentioned before, it has a high learning curve and requires a lot of time for teachers and students to fully become accustomed to its controls. Time, that could be used elsewhere on better programs.
I'm getting excited to finish the final project. I feel like I know what I want to say and have already done the background research to talk about it in my paper. Ironically, this goes a long quite well with my APP research, so the information has been infront of me for a couple of months now! I am also excited that we will be meeting in class physically again following Thanksgiving. I feel that this will enable us to discuss what we have learned and what we hope to continue to do with the information we have gathered.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Edmodo
I found the presentation by Dr. Bibbee really interesting. The Edmodo website would be a viable alternative, with some flaws, to D2L. I like the fact that things are kept confidential from other students. I also found it pretty interesting how chatting section of the website was color coded per each student. I really think that would make organization of chats really easy to follow with regards to questions and comments from students. I think I'd like to use this website if I were to teach online again, for organization purposes relating to homework and PowerPoints. Even in a classroom context, I think it would still be useful. For practicality though, I will stick to D2L since I have been using for over one year.
The CMC project in my group with Xu and Dira is coming along well. I'm excited to finish it so that I can begin to focus on the final paper. I think I am going to enjoy writing it since I took so much pleasure from the observations! I really enjoyed seeing the technologies used in a CALL-based classroom environment. Looking for links and correlations to CALL pedagogy will be an easy thing to do for me since the professor's use of CALL was pretty limited in this lecture class.
The CMC project in my group with Xu and Dira is coming along well. I'm excited to finish it so that I can begin to focus on the final paper. I think I am going to enjoy writing it since I took so much pleasure from the observations! I really enjoyed seeing the technologies used in a CALL-based classroom environment. Looking for links and correlations to CALL pedagogy will be an easy thing to do for me since the professor's use of CALL was pretty limited in this lecture class.
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