Fall Semester 2005

Both ED633 and EDC 664 contain summaries of: posted questions, reading links, responses and follow up comments; artifacts; and transcripts from Blackboard,Moodle and TI session. The BAF initials at the end of a comment denote my own reflections as do bolded sections in book quotations.

ED633: Educating Today's Learner Sue Talley

• Stage One: Reflecting on the Four Essential Questions: A synopsis of the posted questions, reading links, my responses and follow up comment and questions from Moodle.

• Stage Two: Reflection on the Learning Theorist Assignment. This stage was to "read at least one original book by a learning theorist written since 1900. Construct your knowledge together by creating a SWIKI archive of information about what you learned from the book and about your theorist and then be be prepared to role play your theorist at a Tapped In session" but it ended being so much more than the required base .

• Stage Three: Ubiquitous technology- a mini action research study. In my case, cell phones and IMing.

EDC 664 - Learning with Technology Gary Stegar

• Learning Adventure One: Icebreaker Activities; original music compositions using Final Note Pad: and Frank Smith's Learning and Forgetting.

• Learning Adventure Two: Is Ned Kelly a Hero?

•  Reflections on The Children's Machine. Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer by Seymour Papert. 1993 Each section contains quotes that resonated for the reading of the week as well as reflections about them.

• Papert, Pluralism and a GRIPE! A lengthy discussion on BB.

• Learning Adventure Three and Four: Using Logo to make a quilt and a game, relating the construction to Papert, and reflections. 

•  Learning Adventure Five- Celestia: An overview of the program and a comment about using it.

•  Learning Adventure Six-Podcasting: An adventure in learning how to make Podcasts.

•  Learning Adventure Seven-Jerry Seinfeld Learning Theorists in Action

•  100 Languages of Children After reading the book, we were to group together to discuss the major themes of the book. A lengthy discussion of a comparison to Maria Montessori occurred in BB