But it looks like GoogleDocs messed up some parts of it; like, none of the PPT animations, or animated GIFs, work.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
Outline for meeting first three ISTE standards...
1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
This one is fairly self-explanatory; well, it is worth adding that this standard includes utilizing digital environments as places of collaboration between students. I would use PowerPoint for certain group projects in the classroom, where the students choose their topics and (ideally) self-delineate research, composition and presentation tasks. This format allows them to incorporate traditional text as cues / info summaries, as well as the more palpable graphs, charts, pictures, music, videos etc. I would also use a blog as a tool to have students comment on specific readings or other kinds of prompts; the comments that follow would be how they would be graded.
2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
To me, this means using computers and other electronic devices to provide enhanced and more interfaceable learning activities for students. It also entails using these tools to get more and better data on student progress, and in an ideal sense teaching them to use tools to monitor their own skill development. The blogging mentioned above falls into the 'assessment' part of this, but I also want to develop virtual labs and to also bring as many of my materials (worksheets, notes, etc.) as possible into a central webpage. The virtual labs will allow either observation or exploration of exciting, real-world things. The materials on the web will provide a starting point for working-level translations into Spanish (re: BabelFish).
3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
This is probably the most straightforward of all the ISTE standards. Basically "know and use current technology as a cooperative teacher, and share what you know and learn with other adults that are stakeholders in your student's success. I think meeting this standard will basically come very organically out of a desire to provide students with multiple, interest-gathering in-roads to learning.
This one is fairly self-explanatory; well, it is worth adding that this standard includes utilizing digital environments as places of collaboration between students. I would use PowerPoint for certain group projects in the classroom, where the students choose their topics and (ideally) self-delineate research, composition and presentation tasks. This format allows them to incorporate traditional text as cues / info summaries, as well as the more palpable graphs, charts, pictures, music, videos etc. I would also use a blog as a tool to have students comment on specific readings or other kinds of prompts; the comments that follow would be how they would be graded.
2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
To me, this means using computers and other electronic devices to provide enhanced and more interfaceable learning activities for students. It also entails using these tools to get more and better data on student progress, and in an ideal sense teaching them to use tools to monitor their own skill development. The blogging mentioned above falls into the 'assessment' part of this, but I also want to develop virtual labs and to also bring as many of my materials (worksheets, notes, etc.) as possible into a central webpage. The virtual labs will allow either observation or exploration of exciting, real-world things. The materials on the web will provide a starting point for working-level translations into Spanish (re: BabelFish).
3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
This is probably the most straightforward of all the ISTE standards. Basically "know and use current technology as a cooperative teacher, and share what you know and learn with other adults that are stakeholders in your student's success. I think meeting this standard will basically come very organically out of a desire to provide students with multiple, interest-gathering in-roads to learning.
Introduction
Greetings! My name is Mr. Matthew Mikulski. By the end of the summer of 2010, I hope to be fully educated and certified to teach high school math and science in the state of Illinois. I am kind of tall (6'6"), which lends itself to playing sports as well as not fitting on most airplanes. I grew up in the south (Georgia) but have some extended family in Chicago (where I live now). I also like to play music with friends, forage for foods in the wild and go hiking and dancing with my wife. I will demand the full potential from all of my students, not only in their pursuit of the subjects I teach but also in their journey to acquire the skills to be tomorrow's leaders.
Deciding on the address...
It was a tough decision, figuring out what the web address should be for this TIE558 experimental blog. In the end, I thought 'mikulskiMnS' would be easy for students to remember. OK, let me see if this post works...
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