http://brownie685.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org weblog Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:56:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Kearsley gives several topics of research for online education. Those topics include: student achievement, school-level impact, class interaction, virtual conferences, and learning communities. He talks about how technology has an effect on all of these topics and how we can research them in order to determine where the future of ... http://brownie685.edublogs.org/2008/11/09/kearsley/ Even though I don’t really speak in the chats I think they are important. They keep the class connected as a whole and allow a sense of being involved in a class. With online education it is hard to know the opinions of others, and the chats let other classmates ... http://brownie685.edublogs.org/2008/11/09/chats/ I found this article on the OLDaily blog and thought that it was interesting (http://www.universityaffairs.ca/2008/11/03/how-technology-is-transforming-the-lecture.aspx). In this article, a professor at York University makes web videos as lectures; however, his students gave him feedback on the lectures and told him that they did not like them. So he started doing ... http://brownie685.edublogs.org/2008/11/09/how-technology-is-transforming-the-lecture/ After reading the article on fear and humiliation I have realized that this is a major part of learning. We need to learn to get over our fears and the fact that we might be humiliated to accomplish the things that we need to do in life. If we never ... http://brownie685.edublogs.org/2008/11/01/fear-and-humiliation/ The global nature of the web, I think, does have some effect on the way that we teachers evaluate our students. Since there are times that sites may not work and students have a hard time accessing the things that they need for class then we are more lenient on ... http://brownie685.edublogs.org/2008/11/01/nature-of-web-and-evaluation/ Comparing the goals and objectives of an online course and a classroom based course, I don't see much of a difference. I think that they will be the same. There may be some slight differences but still essentially the same. The basic goals are to have students learn, which is ... http://brownie685.edublogs.org/2008/11/01/goals-and-objectives/ The article that I found is called Live in the Classroom! Fisher was teaching two classes, one in Snow Lake and another in California, and decided to have the two classes collaborate by use of live internet. They used both audio and video Skype to do the collaboration. He taught ... http://brownie685.edublogs.org/2008/10/24/fisher-students-demonstrate-learning/ Ever have one of those students who you feel is one of those overachievers? Maybe its because they are thinking like a learner. To assess those students we can assign them extra things to do for assignments or add more things for them to do. We could also assign them ... http://brownie685.edublogs.org/2008/10/24/assessing-student-who-thinks-as-a-learner/ These days most of what you hear about is the portfolio. Do we really need to have a portfolio? Yes and no. We can get by without one, we don't really have to stress it, but I do think that it would come in handy later on in the students ... http://brownie685.edublogs.org/2008/10/24/portfolio-big-deal/ Teacher these days are using blogs to let the world know what is happening in their classrooms. Some teachers have blogs with other teachers and some have blogs that link them to the parents of the children that they teach. Some blogs between the students and the teachers are private ... http://brownie685.edublogs.org/2008/10/24/teachers-writing-about-whats-happening/