Hi Mr. Murphy! Hope you're enjoying the winter break. I was wondering if you, your educator contacts or students would be interested in participating in a Vocab Video Contest @ MIT. Please let me know. Thanks!
With your work in Information Technology, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.
I read your comment on the 'Technology Integration group'. What did you mean by
(a) 'there is a demand for more direct tech instruction'?
(b) 'I don't see a future for this kind of position because as digital natives continue to enter the education field'?
I believe that the idea of 'digital natives' is a myth. Sure, there are students who seem to very good at computers but this is largely connected to social networking, gaming etc. When it comes to purposeful pedagogical engagement with computers, most are rather 'primitive'.
Brian
Dec 8, 2008
Jack
Dec 25, 2008
Mark Cruthers
With your work in Information Technology, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.
Jan 18, 2009
Joseph Ramanair
I read your comment on the 'Technology Integration group'. What did you mean by
(a) 'there is a demand for more direct tech instruction'?
(b) 'I don't see a future for this kind of position because as digital natives continue to enter the education field'?
I believe that the idea of 'digital natives' is a myth. Sure, there are students who seem to very good at computers but this is largely connected to social networking, gaming etc. When it comes to purposeful pedagogical engagement with computers, most are rather 'primitive'.
May 13, 2009