I Tunes U

I Tunes University is a new way of receiving higher education. Its the new way for professors to get audio and video to there students. Its designed to inspire students to want to learn more. I tunes U makes it easy for students to see video and lecture footage from other universities around the world. The faculty posts the things they want their students to view on their own page of the I tunes website and its available to everyone.

I love this idea, because I am constantly having to do research and being able to use a website that is ran by teachers would be so helpful, and you never really know if what your reading on the internet is true, but if the posts were by professors and students, it would be more likely to be accurate information. I believe this is a great idea! I truly think that having an online post for professors and teachers is a new and improved way to reach your students and their parents.

I believe having a site like this will tremendously raise grades and make more students interested in their work. I would definitely use this as a student and a teacher. I think turning your I pod into a teaching device is a fantastic idea!!

Duke Uses IPODS

Duke University started a new pilot program this year examining a new way to use digital technology in a creative way. The program cost $500,000 to start and used the motto Attend School...Get cool stuff! They are going to create a special section on the apple website where students can download music, and most importantly course content, including lectures, and audio books.

The students will use the I PODS they receive throughout the year to download course work, field interviews as well as class lectures, that they may not remember or missed. This doesnt mean that if you attend Duke in the future you will receive a free I POD. This is merely a pilot program and they want to see if this really helps students. GO DUKE!!!

I love the idea of this its a great idea, lots of things come up and you may miss a class but being able to download the lectures will help tremendously and even if you were in class but cant remember half of it it will be right there on your I POD to listen to while your studying for an important exam. In the Elementary school I would use I PODS to help remember things like multiplication or the presidents by making up a song or just repeating them over and over again, then make them available to students parents so they can download them and learn along with us, the parents would be able to know what is really being taught in class and then help there children remember. This would really help with test scores!

A Culture Revolution

The article Dr. Strange wrote has alot of valid points in it. It talks about the differences in reading and writing and all the opportunities that are availble to us on the internet. Looking back I remember that in elementary school we had to read books then take quizes on them on the computer: Accelerated reader. But as we got older the assignments required that we read less and less. Our teachers would read to us, or ask us to watch videos on the internet instead. As a consequence I cant stand to read. I would much rather watch the movie or have my teacher inform me about books.

In my college classes today Im required to write papers, make websites, create blogs, there are less and less cases of reading books and handwriting papers. Almost every assignment is online. At my community college I didnt even have to print anything out, I submitted my papers to drop boxes and websites which read my papers and graded them for my teachers. The teaching methods and curriculum are changing greatly every year. It makes you wonder what kind of work our students will be doing in the next few years. There are less and less opportunites to read and write. And more opportunites to explore the interent. Dr. Stranges article predicted these things, and are being proved everyday we go to class.

Disney Pictures from Class

Walt Disney World!

The Little Girls and Ariel

Sepia

And here it is one more time in Sepia View!! These are only a few effects you can add to your pics via Picasa2!!

Black and White

Heres the same picture in Black and White!!

Picasa2

In class we are learning about googles version of Photo Shop its called Picasa so I took this picture of me and made some adjustments... mainly got rid of the red eye! I really like this program its makes it really easy to fix your photos!

Seymour Papert

In 1997 Papert received the Computer world Smithsonian award for leadership in education. The Seymour Papert is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and a source for education. Seymour Papert is artifical intelligence, as well as an inventor of the Logo programming language.
These days Papert is considered the world's foremost expert on on how technology can provide new ways to learn.
He has carried out educational projects on every continent some of in remote, villages in developing countries.
Papert lives in Maine, where he has funded a small laboratory called the Learning Barn to develop methods of learning that are too far head of the times for large-scale implementation.

International Teacher Blog #1

The first blog I found is from a middle school teacher who calls her self a TOC (Teacher of Color) in a Spanish Classroom. Shes very comical and loves to make people laugh. I really enjoyed looking at her blog and I hope you will too so check it out right here. Heres also something cool she had on her site, the picture to the right is actually a petition that she and other teachers are asking people to sign, go to her blog and read all about it.

Books vs. Internet

I believe that one day books for teaching in the classroom may disappear but if this happens, what will the children who do not have access to a computer or the internet at home do. I believe books that we use in todays classroom are a better choice then the internet, sometimes it is very distracting to be on the computer and do homework. From pop-ups, to games, and myspace and email. There are so many other things I would rather do on the computer then try and read my homework. If you have a book it is alot easier to just go in room sit in a chair and read your assignment, so from my opinion I really hope books stick around for awhile!