April 2006 Archives
Christopher D. Sessums shares his idea on the topic from a metaphysical and psychological perspective (based on Turkle's article). The link goes here.
yet another post off Christopher D. Sessums's blog, he's conducting this edublogging questionaire, some initial yet insightful findings. read them here.
and so reports CNET, it's an article abt one month old now. ADT stands for Attention Deficit Trait, and no one on earth is born with it; the cause is by all that data flying at you, e-mail, sms, handphone ringing, voice mail etc etc. and in the end, you "can't you pay attention anymore" !
the full report goes here.
it's an age old issue, copyrights, now of podcasted lectures, and students' podcasted work ... two MOV movies presentation discussing the above issues. check out HigherEd BlogCon for the full report.
Read this off podcasting news:
Arbitron, a research firm serving the radio industry, has released this report and besides the figure above, here are some trends:
- The weekly Internet radio audience has increased 50% over the last year.
- Nineteen percent of persons age 18-34 have listened to Internet radio in the last week.
- Satellite radio subscribers are twice as likely to live in 100K+ households
- Many people are still confused about what podcasts are.
- Podcasting attracts a relatively youthful audience. More than half of listeners are under 35.
- 11% of all Americans have listened to audio podcasts. That translates into approximately 27 million Americans that have tried podcasts.
- More than half of all teens own an iPod or other portable media player.
and that's in the US. wonder what's our local trend, and among them our students of coz *hmm*
chanced upon this resource list via the edubloggers links feed, just to list but a few here:
1. The Qualitative Report - An online journal dedicated to qualitative research and critical inquiry since 1990
2. Qualitative Research
3. Definitions of numerous philosophical terms used in the context of qualitative research
This is a paper that we have crafted for the upcoming AECT Research Symposia to be held in Indiana University, Bloomington from 22 - 25 June 2006. This paper reports on our pilot study "Project Muvocast" which involves Woodlands Primary School back in the second-half of 2005 with the support of Creative Technology Ltd.
How's the results? What are some of the findings? Find out for yourself :)
Download from:
Either
Audioblogging: Supporting the Learning of Oral Communication Skills in Chinese Language [Local mirror]
OR
Audioblogging: Supporting the Learning of Oral Communication Skills in Chinese Language [AECT mirror]
A cat lurking in front of a mouse hole.
The mouse asks "Who's there?"
The cat replies "Arff".
Thinking that there is a dog outside, the mouse comes out and is eaten.
The cat turns around and says "You see, being bilingual has its advantages."
just for laugh, the source.
Compiled by Jill Kerper Mora (Ed.D.) of San Diego State University, this list serves as a quick overview of existing L2 teaching methods:
The Grammar-Translation Approach
The Direct Approach
Reading Approach
Audiolingual Method
Community Language Learning (Curran, Charles A. Counseling-Learning in Second Languages. Apple River, Illinois: Apple River Press, 1976.)
The Silent Way (Caleb Gattegno, Teaching Foreign Languages in Schools: The Silent Way. New York City: Educational Solutions, 1972.)
Communicative Approach--Functional-Notional (Finocchiaro, M. & Brumfit, C. (1983). The Functional-Notional Approach. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.)
Total Physical Response (James J. Asher, Learning Another Language Through Actions. San Jose, California: AccuPrint, 1979.)
List of schools piloting approach:
2002
1. Anglo-Chinese School (Junior)
2. Methodist Girls� School (Primary)
3. St Andrew�s Junior School
4. St Michael�s School
2004
5. Fairfield Methodist Primary School
6. Henry Park Primary School
7. Marymount Convent School
8. Montfort Junior School
9. St. Anthony's Primary School
10. St. Gabriel's Primary School
11. St. Stephen's School
[source: MOE Media Centre]
Cross-posted this from Innovate -
Welcome to the April/May issue of Innovate, which focuses on changing the ways we think about technology and its role in educational settings. We open our issue with my interview with Joel Barker and Scott Erickson, co-authors of Five Regions of the Future: A New Way to Think about Technology (Penguin 2005). They encourage thinking about technology in terms of purposes and results, developing five interrelated groupings that form a new lexicon to help the general public participate in discussions about emerging technologies and to help us all understand the uses and potential results of a technology.Addressing the potential results of using video game technology in educational contexts, Michael Young, P. G. Schrader and Dongping Zheng encourage instructors, researchers, and designers to explore massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). They examine the learning environments provided by MMOGs using ecological psychology, a theoretical approach that emphasizes the interrelationship between the mind and its environment, and encourage teachers and designers to utilize the learning potential inherent in this popular medium.
Our next four articles provide practical accounts of how technologies are currently being used to enhance the learning process for K-12 students, educational leaders, and university students. I interview David Macquart of the Global Nomads Group, a group dedicated to heightening cultural understanding among our K-12 children. They use videoconferencing technology to bring together classes in different parts of the world and to stream video�or webumentaries�from cultural sites around the world. In turn, Donna Cooner and Ellyn Dickmann examine the advantages of using of e-journals to promote critical self-reflection, peer dialogue, and professional growth for interns in principal preparation programs. They also introduce us to Journey Mapping, a software program that can support structured e-journal writing for student principals and convenient data collection for their mentors and supervisors.
In college courses with large enrollments, the strategic use of technology can offer significant advantages as well. Jason Cole and Bruce Robertson illustrate how they used a model from the business world, market segmentation, to determine the diverse needs of students in a large core class; they then drew upon this model to develop a hybrid online/offline course that caters to different student populations�working and nonworking students as well as native English speakers and ESL students. Johnny El-Rady describes how he adopted an electronic voting system to facilitate class participation and assess student learning in a large lecture course. In assessing the pros and cons of using such a system, he argues that the benefits of such technology make it a valuable asset for instructors.
Our final feature offers recommendations for how technology should be used to maximize the value of existing university resources. John Shank and Steven Bell introduce us to the Administrators, Faculty, Librarians Instructional Parnership (A_FLIP), their model of a collaboration among instructors, administration, and librarians that centers around using the courseware system to facilitate involvement of the library in courses.
Enjoy this issue of Innovate. As always, we look forward to interacting with you through the journal's discussion boards, live webcasts, and other exemplary features.
James L. Morrison
Editor-in-Chief
