Another Glogster Poster

miércoles, 27 de marzo de 2013
This is just another Glogster I made. It was about a theoreical situation in which I decided it's best to apply Games and Discussion as Intructional Methods.


In my experience...

Talking generally, I have lernt so many things in these first units of Tecnología Educativa.  First of all, I realized how technology is improving not only classroom equipment but also the way in which Education is delivered. Actually, Teaching perspectives and Learning Styles Theory made helped me to understand thoroughly the relationship between Technology and Education. Later, the Intructional Methods came to reforce and join all those concepts I had in my mind into a better one. To illustrate, my classmates and I are already capable to create a situation, a theoretical one, related to teaching and learning that will be analyzed and solved according to the requirements presented. As a conclusion, it allowed me be eclectic, and even aware of it, upon those issues of Education.

What I liked the most was the online tools we lernt to use during these units. Prezi, Mindomo and Glogster were predominant. In my case, I prefer using Glogster because it provides a large variety of items you are allowed to use in order to be widely creative, for Educational purposes and even more. After that, we started to use Blogs to share or work on those web pages I just mentioned. Currently, we are making opinios on Wikis. For me the Educational Technology Class' main goal, has already begun to fullfill.


Wiki

viernes, 22 de marzo de 2013
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Benefits of using Weblogs

martes, 12 de marzo de 2013
Using weblogs, especially for education, could be as useful as any other tool. As a media tool, it provides many things we can use, change, add and so on. For example, in this course of Tecnología Educativa we had to share our work using a weblog so that everyone will be able to see it, observe it and even make a comment about it. Most people use a blog for the same purpose, share. If you have ever used one or even tried to make your own, you will surely know what I am saying. If not, you can try it. It's easy to use and you can personalize it.

Regarding to the use of weblogs, there are some specific characteristics that help it to be more interesting. Firstly, it allows you to introduce your page. Then, there are plenty of functions it gives to organize your information or posts. For example, we've got gadgets. They serve to add extra functions, say, a small explorer, one that shows your posts, you can add links to other web pages and blogs, etc. Also, you can add media content, like a video, images and pictures, sound and everything that could be placed by adding the embed code. You can change the template too, as well as move the gadgets and chenge the look of your posts by placing it anyplace you want in your blog. These are some of its features, and the principal ones.

With respect to education, we can give it a more academic usage. In learning languages, for example and without loosing the main purpose of weblogs which is sharing, we as teachers can gathered all the information we want our students to explore and comprehend and share it using this tool. It could be some web pages related to one topic, tutorial videos from the web, dynamic games and exercises on line as well as all the work we do with media. These are some examples of how one could use blogs, but there are much more; however, we need some creativity.

Still talking about education and how blogs contributes in it, we can state instructional methods are involved in. In my point of view, tutorial could be the first one because any kind of information could be uploaded, thus one can add something about a given topic in order to solve doubts and add extra information to what was previosly seen and acknowledged. Likewise, cooperative learning is directly related to the usage of this tool. For example when we make a comment, we are pointing out what we find wrong or what was new for us and so on, we are working altogether cooperatively. The rest of the instructional methods are related too, but not as evident as the ones I pointed out. The way the blog will take depends on what its owner want to do.


Glogster Poster

viernes, 8 de marzo de 2013
This is the second work I want to share with you. It's a poster made on Glogster, another useful online tool full of items we can add and use to our poster in order to make it attractive to others and dynamic. It's all about Instructional Methods, specifically two of them in which I've just worked on. By the way, they are Simulation and Drill & Practice.

Regarding to those two Instructional Methods I've chosen, they were used to solve some problems in an hypothetical situation. In the situation or scenario I made up six students wanted to learn how to maintain discipline within the classroom. I chose Simulation because I thought it could work well with the students are going to learn. Their teacher will create different scenarios in which the discipline will be lost in order to demonstrate the students how to manage that kind of situations. Then, the students shall participate giving options and suggestions; creating their own scenario and showing their classmates the solutions they implement. Drill & practice might work but the more repetitive the less interesting it is. It make me hesitate because I realized that in the process of selection the most adequate instructional method, not only two of the worked. Demonstration, discussion, cooperative learning, problem solving and even presentation and discovery. Each one were present in the resolution.

Finally, I just want to add that we have to be very careful when selecting one or more instructional methods to use because oll of them are somehow related to one another. For example, when I was doing the selection  some of the instructional methods led to others. So, we have to ponder over our situation before selecting.





Prezi Presentation

Just to start using this blog, I want to share my first presentation. It was made on Prezi, which is a very useful and easy to use tool to make dinamic presentations.

The info it bears is organized and presented in order to illustrate what could be the relationship among three important topics we treat in this signature. They are the ones of The role of Media and Technology in Education, Teaching Perspectives and Learning Styles. It was a bit complicated to specifically establish such a relationship because all of the issues that compose those conceptas are closely related and like this find a way to write generally was a bit hard. Despite what I mentioned before, I found it really interesting and exciting. I hope the info result comprehensible to you.