Week+9-+Mar+15th

Class Reflection
 * Today we learned about photo story and photo shop. We were left to discover it on our own so below is my attempt at both programs.
 * Wordle- Can create word clouds to show a message. Many students in the PED 3119 class used this technology for their multimedia presentations.
 * Most of the class was used to work on our multimedia presentation.

Here is my Photo Story presentation of my trip to China:

Unfortunately, I am not able to put it up on the wikispace. I tried multiple times and ways of uploading my Photo story but have not been successful. I tried different formats (.wmv and .wp3) but neither worked. I tried to decrease the size of the .wmv because it said it was too large but nothing I changed seemed to help. The .wp3 would not play after being uploaded. The help sites that were given did not have instructions for importing it onto a wikispace either. I am disappointed that you will not get to see my amazing trip to the Beijing Olympics!

Here is an example of Photo Shop:

This is an image of two of my friends from a trip to New York. I darkened the colour and gave it an old photograph look to it.

Multimedia Link

This is an example of a wordle which I found on a wikispace about information fluency. This site gives lots of great links to check out information literacy issues. You can find it at: http://aaslsmackdown.wikispaces.com/Information+Fluency. This site appears to be a student run wiki similar to this project.

Reading

__Literacy is not Enough__, by Ian Jukes.

Reflection on Reading

Technology Corner
 * I like Ian Jukes ideas but, academically, I wish he cited his work. For example, Jukes states in page 3 that, "according to research we discard 98% of everything that comes into the brain". However there is **no reference** for this information.
 * Jukes discusses short term memory and the lack of ability for students to remember information. I think it is important to remember that not only how we teach but what we teach needs to be **authentic**. We need to teach information that is relevant to students and their future.
 * Although I agree that technology is a great tool for getting students involved, I do not think it is always the most authentic way to learn. We can teach students about plants through cool interactive games but until they pull a carrot out of the ground I'm not sure they can experience plant growth. Therefore, **I am not sure I agree that doing and computer simulation are the same thing**.
 * The **five fluences** are different from what we've learned. We think of literacy and numberacy. Now, problem solving is more important which is solution fluency.
 * Education seems to kill creativity. Creative fluency needs to be instilled in our students due to our robotic nature of education.
 * We need to extract, manipulate, and deal with information appropriately because we are bombarded by it.
 * Collaborative fluency is the ability to collaborate well with others.
 * Media fluency different media and how we are going to use them
 * I think it is true that we need to work on **higher order thinking** skills instead of lower order thinking skills.

A new trend in physical education is pedometers. This technology traces the number of steps a person takes in a set amount of time. Pedometers are a great way to track activity in the classroom. I went to a PD day session where we were taught how to effectively use this technology in the classroom.

The brand featured in the photo to the left can be found at: http://www.heartmonitors.com/pedometers.html