Week 6 Initial Reaction
My initial reaction to this week's lesson and exercise was quite overwhelming. It seems that there is so much to do but not enough time to do it. I really would like to provide a link to a podcast on my blogger but as the text has suggested it takes time and effort to learn new skills. There are only so many hours in a day. Thus, I am overjoyed to know that we can always keep our text and go back to them as reference manuals long after the course is over. Our goal at this time is to provide an introduction or overview to the literature that is out there. This is what is most important for any instructor or facilitator to realize; our goal is as the instructor is not to impart knowledge per say but to orchestrate learning opportunities for our students by providing thought provoking topics, discussions, and materials that will make them thirsty to want to learn more.
posted by nia | 4:16 AM
6 Comments:
Nia,
A quote that I like a lot is from William Butler Yeats. He states that "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
I try to provide my students with enough information to make them successful in their activities, but not enough to give them all the answers. The knowledge is so much more meaningful when they discover it themselves.
This week was some heavy reading ... interactive television, educational television, interactive educational television, instructional television ... those were all some terms that kept swimming together. Trying to sort out the terms was a challenge!
In my current job, I've got to be able to answer questions about any possible technology, so the texts and my research, and my readings are my keys.
Hi Nia:
I put my podcast on the internet and it was easy. I used audacity at the software and it is free. The only thing that I have yet to do is to make an RSS Feed for it. I will have to work on that part but the podcast is up and I know that the students are listening to it. Dianne
Karen,
This is so true, I love the aha moments or wow, I know what they are saying. It feels good to have the light bulb go off. She feel a sense of accomplishment. Or wow, I am really not that "dumb" after all (smile).
David,
I know that the textbooks are the keys to our success at work (our professional lives). As an undergraduate student, we were always told to keep the books in your major and not to sell them back. And I have always kept this up as a practice, so it helped me this class because the blue Multimedia book we use, I used in a previous class. So I only had o purchase the Richardson textbook.
Hi Nia! You are absolutely right. Too much to learn and too little time in our lives. We will have to keep learning after this course for it is necessary that we understand the technology first if we are going to design ways for its implementation. Fortunately now we have blogs on technology we can use not only to sustain a two-way written conversation but also to learn about how others use the new tools for teaching and learning. It is overwhelming the amount of tech-tricks one has to learn in order to put technology to work for us!
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