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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

IP&T Questions

Delicious Questions

1. Teach with Movies

2. Diagramming Sentences, Grammar Exercises English, The Writer's Almanac, Common Errors in English

3. Teach with Movies is great for teachers because it gives lesson plans and ideas for teaching with movies that give you a great resource that students are interested in to use in class as examples from literature and literary terms. Students will be engaged and interested and by using up-to-date movies they will be excited and motivated in a way that s impossible without targeting students interests.

Remote Access Questions

1. Instant messaging, blogs, recordings, chat rooms

2. How did you change your teaching in order to move so completely over to a technological classroom? What do you do if students do not have access to computers at home? How do you get so much access to computers at your school? What is the socio-economic situation in your school? How do you teach students to use technology who have not really used it before without taking away from the bulk of the lessons that need to be learned?

3. I really liked that his blog is a discussion of what did and did not work in his classroom, how he is adapting, and his own struggles and triumphs with technology. I think it is balanced, real, and he has a very inviting tone. He is also a good writer and I, as an English major, can appreciate that.

Blog of Proximal Development Questions

1. blog, record mp3 files, connect with students online,

2. Do you feel that there is a balance between too much technology and not enough and how do you reach that balance? Do students view blogging in your class as work or do they enjoy it? Do technology problems get in the way more than using technology helps?

3. His blog is very personal and revealing but I appreciate his attention to his ideas about the classroom. He seems like a real person who is constantly adapting and improving and I think teachers can learn a lot from him. He addresses some hard questions about technology and I enjoyed the discussion. There is a lot to read though. He is very long-winded!

Blogs in Education Questions

1. Aggregators are programs that gather your favorite blogs and present them in one, basic text format for quick review. Only those blogs that have RSS feeds can be read by an aggregator. Those blogs usually have a little orange XML graphic ( XML feed button) which links to the RSS feed. That is the URL you would input to the aggregator.

2. It would be nice to have an aggregator because you could easily access the blogs of all your students without having to type in and remember or save every single blog of your hundreds of students!

Blogger.com questions:

1. A blog is your easy-to-use web site, where you can quickly post thoughts, interact with people, and more for free.

2. (posting…)

3. 1-extremely easy!