http://sepowell50.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org blog Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:54:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The assumptions that Sylvia Martinez (President of Generaion YES) challenges are 1) that teachers do not use technology because they have not received enough and/or adequate professional development and 2) the way to get teachers to use technology is to offer them more and/or better professional development. Sylvia’s assertion is that ... http://sepowell50.edublogs.org/2007/12/09/challenging-assumptions-about-technology-professional-development/ I have young adult children.  My 27 year old daughter is just old enough to have missed the remix craze, so she is sometimes as mystified as I, but has greater appreciation for its inherent creativity than I.  My 24 year old son and his high school buddies have produced ... http://sepowell50.edublogs.org/2007/12/09/lawrence-lesig/ I was interested in the coordination of Web2.0 tools that November proposes. So far, I have only encountered these tools as they have been discussed in isolation. I attended a K12 conference in blogging. I’ve listened to explanations of how podcasting works. But I have not ... http://sepowell50.edublogs.org/2007/12/04/alan-november/ The Collaborative ABC Project: Using Technology To Tell Stories Kevin Hodgson & Bonnie Kaplan Kevin and Bonnie use a wide variety of Web 2.0 tools to tell the story of how they developed and accomplished the ABC project This project asked the contributors to compose a personal digital story based on ... http://sepowell50.edublogs.org/2007/11/11/the-collaborative-abc-project-using-technology-to-tell-stories/ New Tools Learn to Blog : Blog to Learn Anne Davis I chose this presentation because of the blogging requirement for this class and I am very glad that I did. If you are confused about the relevance of blogging in the classroom, what a blogging project would look like, or how to ... http://sepowell50.edublogs.org/2007/11/09/new-toosl-learn-to-blog-blog-to-learn/ Design Matters by Dean Shareski I chose this presentation to watch because I myself am interested in design and what goes into a good design. I found some very interesting concepts to consider in this presentation. Dean’s main idea is that design is an important element to teach. ... http://sepowell50.edublogs.org/2007/11/05/classroon-20-design-matters/ I think that it is interesting that so far I have said that we SBTS shouldn’t teach technology, but we should use technology to teach the content.  But the two articles that we read for this assignment seem to me to be taking another approach – the approach of using ... http://sepowell50.edublogs.org/2007/10/15/adventures-in-rubricland/ Literature Circle definition: The literature circle is a strategy for teaching reading comprehension.  Each circle reads the same text and each member is assigned a role that corresponds to a specific comprehension strategy for analyzing the passage.  When the group meets, each student presents the results of his or her analysis ... http://sepowell50.edublogs.org/2007/10/07/connections-literature-circles-bloom%e2%80%99s-taxonomy-nets-s-and-lesson-planning/ ...technology is only a tool.  A pencil is also a tool.  Each can be used to accomplish some of the same tasks.   Sometimes technology can accomplish some of those tasks faster, but in my experience, not always.  If you don't agree with that last statement, then I am probably older than you.  ...instructional technology by itself ... http://sepowell50.edublogs.org/2007/10/01/my-core-values-and-beliefs-about-instructional-technology-are/