BU Education Alumni Jon-Ross Merasty-Moose
Review course Outline
Did we meet the objectives?
Extension
Pass / Fail Grading Option
Set up an appointment.
How about that Zoom?
Wednesday, 16 December 2020
Sunday, 13 December 2020
Class 16: Assessment, Other tech, and Troubleshooting
Follow up on Google Forms Self correcting self-teaching quizzes.
- Spreadsheets
- Top Hat at BU
Articles for the day
UN Declaration about the Right to the Internet
What have we missed?
- Mobile Learning
- Augmented Reality
- Virtual reality
- Second Life
- Immersive environment
- RPGs
Gaming is big business
- In Manitoba Ubisoft
- Job prospects in Manitoba
- Where will your students work?
- Their job might not have been invented yet.
Everything Bad is Good for You.
What should your blog look like at this point?
- Posts and Pages
- Look for Easter Eggs
Tuesday, 8 December 2020
Class 15: More maps and Assessment
Academic Paper of the Day
Csapó, B., & Molnár, G. (2019). Online Diagnostic Assessment in Support of Personalized Teaching and Learning: The eDia System. Frontiers in Psychology, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01522
In Hypothesis
BGIS and Maps
Google Earth Tour Builder
Making a KML layer
Adding a KMl Layer to Google Maps
Assessment
Assessment of learning not as critical as assessment for learning or assessment as learning.
Kathy Schrock
Summative
- Benchmarking
- Objective tests are still ubiquitous
- Teach people how to take the test.
Formative (Diagnostic)
- dipsticking
Assessment with Technology
Using Technology for diagnostic assessment
- TAO
- eDia
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21232777/examity-remote-test-proctoring-online-class-education
Sunday, 6 December 2020
Class 14: Maps
Teaching is not for the faint of heart. Teachers need to model a confident, effective, fearless commitment to learning. Out of your comfort zone is the place to be!
One more paper in Hypothes.is
Valtonen, T., Hoang, N., Sointu, E., Näykki, P., Virtanen, A., Pöysä-Tarhonen, J., Häkkinen, P., Järvelä, S., Mäkitalo, K., & Kukkonen, J. (2020). How pre-service teachers perceive their 21st-century skills and dispositions: A longitudinal perspective. Computers in Human Behavior, 106643. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106643
Podcasting
Let's try it again.
Enter podcast code DIWSOVW at https://gosynth.com/s/c/jfjrda
Computational and Design thinking.
Could be a whole other course, probably should be but you can teach yourself.
Let's try a Cryptopad. and figure out some Markdown language.
You could learn a lot more here if you wanted or needed to.
Maps
Reddit r/geoguessr
Review of Map editor
- Your Places
- Create Map
- Add layers
- Where do you get data for layers
- Search for KML files
- BatchGeo
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Class13: More Audio -Podcasting
Techsmith Capture. Download here.
- Video capture tool
- Free simple and easy
- Use it for your PechaKucha about TPACK
Social media typically implies a two-way street, a conversation. Builds engagement and inclusion. Podcasting as an educational affordance is attracting significant research in the field of education and training with interest from some interesting specialized fields. Medical and nursing training use podcasts extensively for educational purposes and lead some of the current research in the area.
Let's annotate another article and discuss it in a podcast.
See some of the articles I've added to our Zotero group.
When you post your podcast on your blog page you will have a comments section for people to interact with the audio presentation.
SoundCloud lets you put comments in the audio street in context. "Wow, that was a fabulous guitar solo?" What instrument did you use there?
Synth Podcasting platform.
Check out mine. Grey Squares Among Us
- Jump in and add a to the thread.
Another popular platform for podcast creators is Anchor.
Use Audacity to edit some clips for your podcast.
Cut and paste, (Control Z restores)
Time shift tool
Splitting tracks
Click tracks
Pinch tool
Sunday, 29 November 2020
Class 12: Digital Audio
Chromebooks
- MB has been buying truckloads preparing for remote learning
- The peoples' computer -- cheap, powerful stable.
- One Laptop Per Child
- Windows 10, MacOS
- pricy, elitist, exclusionary
- Digital Colonialism (Interesting theoretical perspective)
Theory: Some interesting older philosophies and theories still inform our understanding of current reality.
- Cartesian Dualism
- Digital Dualism
- Hypothes.is
- Join the Group at https://hypothes.is/groups/aVV8qPv3/ict-for-education
A little more Digital Video
- Windows10 Game Recorder and Video Editor.
- YouTube Streaming or upload
- Slow Motion
- Blurring distinctions
- just about every media outlet uses a combination of digital audio, video, and text.
- CBC Story
Three steps
- Recording
- Posting to a server
- Distribution to an audience
Some services offer all three steps
Download Audacity with Lame
Podcasting platforms
- Internet Archive
- Anchor,
- SoundCloud
Tuesday, 24 November 2020
Class 11: Video
Audio Visual representation has been a mainstay of educational practice.
Some times helpful some times just plain enjoyable. http://listen.hatnote.com/
Visual and auditory inputs provide powerful amplification of educational efforts.
Some theory first
- Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
- Social Presence Theory
- Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning
- Cognitive load theory
- Schemas
Neuropsychology investigations of learning processes sometimes turn our assumptions about aspects of learning and information processing upside down. My early experience learning how to do sterotaxic implantation and now.
RSVP Rapid Serial Visual Presentation
- Spreed
- Kreeder Chrome extension that allows you to read Kindle books with RSVP
YouTube was one of the first online video platforms and its clones are still ubiquitous. The first YouTube Video
Vimeo
TeacherTube
Khan Academy simple 5 minute videos. Organized cognitive chunks
Streaming video has become a very popular format.
Many other social media platforms now offer video capture with all sorts of funky add-ons. Tik Tok, Instagram, Facebook.
OBS Open Broadcasting System lets you stream video to Twitch or YouTube.
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