Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Task / Timeline
Advantage:
- Task “they will know what they have to do”
If they want to allocate tasks, they have to figure out what tasks they have to do and what have to be done first. It will give them a chance to study their tasks. It is important for them to learn about task before they start the project.
- IT and Study Habit “self-discipline”
Managing the tasks and completing them is about the self-discipline. Students who have good study habit would be able to perform better on their project than the other who doesn’t have because good study habit is from their self control, management, and motivation. They know how to manage and schedule their lives and study as well. They will try to finish their tasks before due date. They won’t feel reluctant to work on the project. Moreover, if there is appropriate IT at home, it will accelerate the efficient. They will get the information and collaborate with peers at the right moment and place.
- Time Consuming
One of the best advantage from timeline is you can assume and measure how long it will take to finish one task. To measure the time they will work on the task, they should briefly know what kinds of process they will go through. This procedure gives students idea what the task looks like.
Disadvantage:
- Frustration of being behind of schedule.
Once students lose their due date, everything will be putting off, and they will be frustrated. However, the most important thing from timeline is they know the brief schedule through the chart. That is not the major factor why they are working on the project. It is helping them work on the project efficiently with well managed schedule. It gives them the timing so they manage and won’t fall behind of their project without knowing what they have to do. So even if they are behind their schedule, don’t be frustrated or overwhelmed but think what they have to do. What is priority to be done and what could be little bit postponed.
- IT and Study Habit
As mentioned good study habit above, on the contrary, students with bad study habit wouldn’t be able to perform well on the project. They may not meet due date and fall behind. Even worse, if they don’t have IT support at home, it makes them harder to focus on the project.
- Task “they will know what they have to do”
If they want to allocate tasks, they have to figure out what tasks they have to do and what have to be done first. It will give them a chance to study their tasks. It is important for them to learn about task before they start the project.
- IT and Study Habit “self-discipline”
Managing the tasks and completing them is about the self-discipline. Students who have good study habit would be able to perform better on their project than the other who doesn’t have because good study habit is from their self control, management, and motivation. They know how to manage and schedule their lives and study as well. They will try to finish their tasks before due date. They won’t feel reluctant to work on the project. Moreover, if there is appropriate IT at home, it will accelerate the efficient. They will get the information and collaborate with peers at the right moment and place.
- Time Consuming
One of the best advantage from timeline is you can assume and measure how long it will take to finish one task. To measure the time they will work on the task, they should briefly know what kinds of process they will go through. This procedure gives students idea what the task looks like.
Disadvantage:
- Frustration of being behind of schedule.
Once students lose their due date, everything will be putting off, and they will be frustrated. However, the most important thing from timeline is they know the brief schedule through the chart. That is not the major factor why they are working on the project. It is helping them work on the project efficiently with well managed schedule. It gives them the timing so they manage and won’t fall behind of their project without knowing what they have to do. So even if they are behind their schedule, don’t be frustrated or overwhelmed but think what they have to do. What is priority to be done and what could be little bit postponed.
- IT and Study Habit
As mentioned good study habit above, on the contrary, students with bad study habit wouldn’t be able to perform well on the project. They may not meet due date and fall behind. Even worse, if they don’t have IT support at home, it makes them harder to focus on the project.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
AEA 267 “Teaching Strategies”
How will you guide your students to meet learning objectives? I just introduced the very helpful tool. How can you bring out more synergistic effects with using this web2.0 tool? What you need is right tool and right STRATEGY! Here they are! These teaching strategies are from the site “AEA 267,”and these are, especially, for collaboration.
Title: Think / Pair / Share
Content: Students will use a flowchart to confirm their understanding of a concept or process.
Result: Discussing an idea or process with a partner clarifies or corrects it.
Title: Six Hat Thinking
Students will have the steps to think logically until they do actual actions by followed questions presented by different colors:
- White (Information): What are the facts?
- Yellow (Benefits): What are the good points?
- Gray (Judgment): What is/could be wrong with this?
- Red (Feelings): What do I feel about this?
- Green (Creativity): what new ideas are possible?
- Blue (Actions): How can we put our ideas into action?
How do these strategies and the tool work together? The common thing from the strategies is it needs collaboration: thinking and SHARING. When they work on the project as a group, have to come up with ideas by discussion, share ideas, and so on, ShowDocument will help them to collaborate real-time in the Internet.
Online Collaboration Whenever and Wherever You Need It: “Web 2.0 Tool ShowDocument”
Begin a Web Meeting or Document Sharing session using...
Show Document is a Net Meeting platform for instantaneous and spontaneous online meetings where people can work together on the same document at the same time. All the Net Meeting collaborative services can be used to work together at the same time. Let’s take a look at ShowDocument.
* Main Purpose
Real-time web meeting and online document sharing
* Main Function
- Real-Time Online Interaction
- Viewing content
- Interactive whiteboard
- On-screen material (Maps and You Video Clips),
- Add a second camera to demonstrate products, highlight features,
and display 3D objects to other session
- No software purchase (free Software)
* Major Services
- Shared Document: Upload, view and share documents, web pages
- No software purchase (free Software)
* Major Services
- Shared Document: Upload, view and share documents, web pages
and images stored on your workstation or server.
- Shared Whiteboard: Exchange ideas and information with colleagues
via a real-time interactive whiteboard.
- Shared Text Editor: Communicate and collaborate with team members
- Shared Text Editor: Communicate and collaborate with team members
by simultaneously writing and editing text.
- Shared Browser: Review, analyse and annotate web pages concurrently
- Shared Browser: Review, analyse and annotate web pages concurrently
by utilizing a shared browser.
One of the coolest parts is NO NEED to download anything. It doesn’t even take 1 second to open your own session by clicking the start button. Once you start your own session, it will give you your own session number and web address that you can invite your peers with.
One of the coolest parts is NO NEED to download anything. It doesn’t even take 1 second to open your own session by clicking the start button. Once you start your own session, it will give you your own session number and web address that you can invite your peers with.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
PBL Projects Websites
Come and Get Awesome PBL Projects!!!
There are precious website out there or up there waiting for us to explore them!!!
1. Global School Net "Linking Kids Around the World!"
It is a very powerful website to help beginners start their own PBL project in class by following previous cases. The first strength of this site that I found is a strong search options. I can search PLB project that is going on in this semester, past semester, or future semester. It also allows me to do advance search such as search by age, curriculum, the types of technology and information, and collaboration type as well. Once I started searching, the data comes up with brief explanation of date, age of students, project level, curriculum that this project could be used, technology and collaboration type, and, the most important part, project summary. It is very thoughtful and reliable site for novice teachers’ reference and experienced teachers as well. Secondly, I can also find not only this project cases but also abundant web sources and tools in Collaborative Learning Center.
2. FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)
‘Teaching and Learning Resources from Federal Agencies’
I visit this website that I am recommended by our text book. This site is not a site for PBL project sources but a database of website that I can explore topics that are moderate, classic, and scholastic. The topics can be searched by subject once you click, it will show you the sources with interesting fact provided by FREE.
3. Project Based Learning ‘The Online Resources for PBL’
Who wants step by step guideline for starting PBL project? You can find the steps from this site. Once you sign in, you will be able to search projects, and also there is a guideline for me to start with my own project. There are five principles when I design my own project, and each principle has own explanation and additional information. This is quite amazing part for me when exploring this site, a project that I got from the search is explained very detail. It follows exactly what PBL online site wants them to do. It has every explanation for each design principle. However, if I feel reluctant to start with my own, I can search previous projects categorized by grade level, content/subject area, recommended time frame (I like this part. I can assume how long it will take for students to accomplish a project), and so on.
There are precious website out there or up there waiting for us to explore them!!!
1. Global School Net "Linking Kids Around the World!"
It is a very powerful website to help beginners start their own PBL project in class by following previous cases. The first strength of this site that I found is a strong search options. I can search PLB project that is going on in this semester, past semester, or future semester. It also allows me to do advance search such as search by age, curriculum, the types of technology and information, and collaboration type as well. Once I started searching, the data comes up with brief explanation of date, age of students, project level, curriculum that this project could be used, technology and collaboration type, and, the most important part, project summary. It is very thoughtful and reliable site for novice teachers’ reference and experienced teachers as well. Secondly, I can also find not only this project cases but also abundant web sources and tools in Collaborative Learning Center.
2. FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)
‘Teaching and Learning Resources from Federal Agencies’
I visit this website that I am recommended by our text book. This site is not a site for PBL project sources but a database of website that I can explore topics that are moderate, classic, and scholastic. The topics can be searched by subject once you click, it will show you the sources with interesting fact provided by FREE.
3. Project Based Learning ‘The Online Resources for PBL’
Who wants step by step guideline for starting PBL project? You can find the steps from this site. Once you sign in, you will be able to search projects, and also there is a guideline for me to start with my own project. There are five principles when I design my own project, and each principle has own explanation and additional information. This is quite amazing part for me when exploring this site, a project that I got from the search is explained very detail. It follows exactly what PBL online site wants them to do. It has every explanation for each design principle. However, if I feel reluctant to start with my own, I can search previous projects categorized by grade level, content/subject area, recommended time frame (I like this part. I can assume how long it will take for students to accomplish a project), and so on.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
little break time...
I've been updating so many files on the Internet. Whenever I updated, I had to change the file with the one that has correction. I didn't feel inconvenient to repeat doing same things several times until I know another method. Google doc, and blog.. I feel very fresh to use this applications because one of the reasons is I didn’t know this before and the other is even if I know I’ve never thought it could be used like this in education field, especially blog. I am having fun to play with it!! :]
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Develop yourself with PBL
PBL, Project-based learning.
What is PBL? What benefits make us to use PBL? PBL is a project-based learning that is popularly used in education as an effective instruction. Why is this used so broadly? Because it fosters students as who should be in the future with what they need.
In this chapter, PBL is explained with a focus on the characteristic of it from students and teachers both sides. What is high-quality of PBL and what could make it happen? Based on constructivism theory, PBL focused on having students doing for the project. Learner centered lesson. Let’s take a look at the notes for more detail. >> CH 2 Summary
Not only in education but also in your life, it could be used. Every day we are living in the world that we have to keep having challengeable tasks to accomplish, leaning by doing and from mistakes as well. Let’s know PBL and having benefits from it!
What is PBL? What benefits make us to use PBL? PBL is a project-based learning that is popularly used in education as an effective instruction. Why is this used so broadly? Because it fosters students as who should be in the future with what they need.
In this chapter, PBL is explained with a focus on the characteristic of it from students and teachers both sides. What is high-quality of PBL and what could make it happen? Based on constructivism theory, PBL focused on having students doing for the project. Learner centered lesson. Let’s take a look at the notes for more detail. >> CH 2 Summary
Not only in education but also in your life, it could be used. Every day we are living in the world that we have to keep having challengeable tasks to accomplish, leaning by doing and from mistakes as well. Let’s know PBL and having benefits from it!
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