graduate student in instructional tech, University of Tennessee
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I am a secondary language arts teacher currently on an extended leave from the classroom while pursuing a graduate degree in instructional technology at UT-Knoxville. I am pursuing this degree NOT because I am a computer guru and NOT necessarily because I hope to become one. I simply want to infuse more technology into my practice as a teacher/learner, parent, and citizen.
I am most passionate about the field of media education, especially understanding how adolescents use media outside the confines of the traditional classroom. How might educators tap into this in ways that add relevance and rigor to our course content and, at the same time, teach young people to engage more critically and responsibly with all forms of new and electronic media?
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.
Love your passion - clue me in, as someone keen to see media use and understanding develop at our College, and to see the development of critical and responsible engagement - but also as someone who won't be a driver of this. I'd like to get some pictures of what growth and success in this realm would look like. Is there a relevant forum here, or there, or...
Sure,
The ning is private, just because its our curriculum digital learning exploration space for our own staff to ponder and reflect, fins and share wisdom. Having said that, it's just a bare bones ning - I've invited all our staff sub-committee to join and share on forums related to our curriculum questions. I've created three of the forums, but at least one other has been created. In the nature of the structure, this can be branched out to other discussions, forums and subgroups, as the mood takes the membership.
The reason for starting it is partly because of the discussion here on Faculty Meetings, and some comments exchanged between Dennis O'Conner and me about online learning. There are many things our group need to tackle - and to make it wieldy the admin wanted us to subdivide.
I, on the other hand, didn't want to wind up on 5 subcommittees, nor miss out on the transaction in 4 groups if we met simultaneously. It seemed to me to be great use of this framework to allow the possibility of a large number of people being in discussion, and yet, only one person is able to talk at a time, and everybody who has something to contribute can. The nightmare of scheduling and prioritising meetings can be reduced.
We started the process as a f2f group, and we'll regather, but the intermediate chats can be carried out asynchronously, fitted better to our individual schedules, and be wider ranging that a large disparate group.
(A minor sub-point, but relevant: for me a- partially deaf, I'm not as exhausted trying to filter out signal conversation from noise. In a large group with lots of chat, I'm cut out.)
At 11:24am on September 25, 2007, Brad Davis said…
we don't really have a policy yet but we do have an internet use policy
most teachers have been coming up with their own permissions slips for their blogs and or wikis
the link for my school's wiki is actually a private site but i would love to invite you if you want- it is in its infant stages now though-
and I too thought social networking was just a dating network- i have been pleasantly surprised
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I was thinking more of models of the use(s) of digital media and critical and responsible engagement with such media.
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Ian
The ning is private, just because its our curriculum digital learning exploration space for our own staff to ponder and reflect, fins and share wisdom. Having said that, it's just a bare bones ning - I've invited all our staff sub-committee to join and share on forums related to our curriculum questions. I've created three of the forums, but at least one other has been created. In the nature of the structure, this can be branched out to other discussions, forums and subgroups, as the mood takes the membership.
The reason for starting it is partly because of the discussion here on Faculty Meetings, and some comments exchanged between Dennis O'Conner and me about online learning. There are many things our group need to tackle - and to make it wieldy the admin wanted us to subdivide.
I, on the other hand, didn't want to wind up on 5 subcommittees, nor miss out on the transaction in 4 groups if we met simultaneously. It seemed to me to be great use of this framework to allow the possibility of a large number of people being in discussion, and yet, only one person is able to talk at a time, and everybody who has something to contribute can. The nightmare of scheduling and prioritising meetings can be reduced.
We started the process as a f2f group, and we'll regather, but the intermediate chats can be carried out asynchronously, fitted better to our individual schedules, and be wider ranging that a large disparate group.
(A minor sub-point, but relevant: for me a- partially deaf, I'm not as exhausted trying to filter out signal conversation from noise. In a large group with lots of chat, I'm cut out.)
most teachers have been coming up with their own permissions slips for their blogs and or wikis
the link for my school's wiki is actually a private site but i would love to invite you if you want- it is in its infant stages now though-
and I too thought social networking was just a dating network- i have been pleasantly surprised