September 7, 2010

On tonight in class we had two classmates to present their Technology Showcase.  The presenters were Ms. Weaver and Mr. Woodard.  Both of their showcases were very intense and they included a lot of important information.  Ms. Weaver explained to the class how to create a blog, also referred to as an Electronic Portfolio.  Ms. Weaver explained before setting up your blog, you need to first set up a GMail account.  Ms. Weaver informed the class unless you wanted to pay, you should look for free links.  And she recommended http://www.blogger.com/.   She explained that there are four different elements involved in creating a blog or electronic portfolio.
Mr. Woodard discussed video/audio clip editing.  he explained to the class how to bring the real world into your classroom.  Mr. Woodard explained that photos could be added as an advantage.   he went on to inform us that one of the major disadvantages is really not knowing how to use this particular forms of technology.  Mr. Woodard stated that there are two types of videos and he explained taht they are as follows:

• Instructional Video
• Non-Instructional Video

The instructional video has no basic general purpose and it is not educational.  Mr. Woodard mad a video of how to get to Dr Kang's office.  It was a very unique and again informative video.
Dr. Kang reviewed and touched basis on information concerning some of the theories we talked about on last week.  Dr. Kang had the sites to create and draw a concept map.  The concept map had to show the relationship among concepts.  This map showed graphical tools.
The three theories were as follow:

• Behaviorism
• Cognitivism
• Constructivism

These three theories had to relate to technology.  The Pace site was assigned congnitivism, and we worked on it as a group. The spokesperson for our group was Ms. Peggy Johnson and the Jackson/Amite sites aslo had a spokesperson to speak on behalf of their group.
Next week we will not have class, but our group which consists of five individuals will work our cliniacal activity.  we will resume with class on Tuesday, September 21st.