Week Three Reflections

This week was an interesting contrast for me. The first part of the week, for me, focused on the 2004 Bonk article, which I thought was an excellent read. It was interesting to see the technologies he saw becoming part of education flawlessly fall into distance education (discussion boards, blogs), while others, I hadn’t heard of and don’t think that I will (augmented reality). More than just taking away the content of the article, it again reminded me how quickly technology can appear—and disappear.

It makes me wonder in six years, what will distance education resemble?

Nine Principles of Good Practice Response

After going through the Nine Principles slideshow, I was asked for a response. Here’s what I wrote (actually, what I submitted was not my final product…I started typing in the box offered, but then wanted to go back and look through some of the slides again. When I was returning to the response screen I got a bit mouse-click happy and zoomed right past it, thus submitting it. What’s below is my full response.)

Concept Map

My concept map reflects a course directed towards educators wanting to learn more e-tools to use in their classrooms. (click on the image for a larger view)

Week Two Reflections

Sometimes learning is not about what you learn, but the way it connects to what you already know.

My side of the interview

Okay, David,

It seems we have a series of questions to work from or we can let the conversation unfold a bit more naturally. I say, given neither of us having an abundance of time to write emails to each other, we go for the first. So, here’s stuff about me:

Interactive Inventory Results

I feel I run a pretty learner-centered classroom and my results illustrated that. Part of what leads my classes being learner-centered are the courses themselves and the absence of other teachers teaching same courses. I teach four courses—English II, Shakespeare, Creative Writing, and The Short Film—and I feel they can be divided into two categories.

A Welcome Post

Welcome to my blog!  Feel free to take your shoes off and get comfortable as you get to know who I am as a teacher, thinker, and maybe as a person.

I was going to write a typical this is who I am, where I’m from, what I like to do but it just ended up sounding like I was trying to fill out a personal ad for one of those online dating sites.  And that’s not me (that type of writing, not online dating sites, although I’ve never visited those before and suppose I have no feeling towards them either way.  Love’s a fickle fruit, and if it takes the internet to make it ripe, all the better).

In short, my biography was sounding like professional mad libs.