Copyright and legal issues can be huge when it comes to technology. At a school, teachers and administrators must keep a close eye to avoid problems. One of the biggest points I’ve learned from this chapter begins with the 5 steps to avoid copyright problems. Step 1-create and implement a technology policy that includes a […]
I looked at a slide show named, “The future of e-learning is social learning”, by Jane Hart. Ms. Hart is a Social Media and Learning Consultant. It discusses how we can use so many different social media’s in the classroom or outside of the classroom informally or formally. It starts by saying how lecture was […]
The article I read was, “Text Messaging and the Community of Inquiry in Online Courses” by Cindy L. Kovalik. This article was extremely interesting to me. It discussed a study that had teachers and students text to communicate. All participants willingly gave their numbers to have reminders of assignments, exams, quizzes, etc. I do not […]
I read the article “The Validation of One Parental Involvement Measurement in Virtual Schooling”, by Feng Liu, Erik Black, James Algina, Cathy Cavanaugh, and Kara Dawson. This article focuses on parental involvement in a child’s education whether the child is in a physical classroom or a virtual one. I couldn’t agree more that parental involvement could […]
This chapter had points on leadership and new tools with technology and education. It expressed the fact that students are learning new technologies and teachers need to learn those in order to communicate effectively with students. I couldn’t agree more. We need to make sure the students are interested and in order to do that […]
The beginning of this chapter discussed how teachers are not adequately trained in technology and what should be done to train these teachers. It discussed how teacher in-services do nothing to train the teacher. I think what is the point of even having an in-service if you are not teaching the teachers something beneficial that […]