Verde Valley Learning Center - Resources for Students and Faculty
Please click on the link below to learn about the resources available through the Verde Learning Center.
http://www.screencast.com/users/awelden/folders/Jing/media/8114208b-39db-4c5a-8eba-77279b09b7df
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Final Reflection
June 1: What I Knew About Applying Technology
• Email
• SKYPE
• Send an email to tutors through Blackboard
July 23: What I Learned About Applying Technology ---What I Can Now Do:
• Create a Blog and know what they are
• Create a wiki for tutors that is a database of resources for tutors
• Sign up for SNS, LiveMocha to learn Italian
• Store photos in picasa and creating a slideshow
• Create a podcast about the Verde Learning Center
• Create a screencast about how to find the VLC resources on line
• Create a YouTube Video of a poem I wrote using vocabulary I learned from class
• Begin to understand the meaning of the Read/Write Web 2.0
• Take an online class
• Know when “good enough” will do
I could continue, but I already have monkey brain with all the ideas spinning in my brain.
July 23: What I Want to Know/Do:
• Create an imovie by myself
• Continue to apply technology to my work so I don’t forget anything! Is there another class?
• Learn to find the best sites in a timely way
Sincerely, I could not have imagined I would know how to do all the things we did! This was one of the most challenging and important classes I have ever taken. I have met my goal of learning to apply technology.
• SKYPE
• Send an email to tutors through Blackboard
July 23: What I Learned About Applying Technology ---What I Can Now Do:
• Create a Blog and know what they are
• Create a wiki for tutors that is a database of resources for tutors
• Sign up for SNS, LiveMocha to learn Italian
• Store photos in picasa and creating a slideshow
• Create a podcast about the Verde Learning Center
• Create a screencast about how to find the VLC resources on line
• Create a YouTube Video of a poem I wrote using vocabulary I learned from class
• Begin to understand the meaning of the Read/Write Web 2.0
• Take an online class
• Know when “good enough” will do
I could continue, but I already have monkey brain with all the ideas spinning in my brain.
July 23: What I Want to Know/Do:
• Create an imovie by myself
• Continue to apply technology to my work so I don’t forget anything! Is there another class?
• Learn to find the best sites in a timely way
Sincerely, I could not have imagined I would know how to do all the things we did! This was one of the most challenging and important classes I have ever taken. I have met my goal of learning to apply technology.
My Screencasting with Audio
Believe it or not, the screencasting with Audio took the most time of any of the projects.
Here's what I learned.
After getting your Jing account, (check out Tina's blog for instructions on downloading Jing http://tinaluffman.blogspot.com/) be sure that you have the microphone on while you record. I missed this the first two times. The next time, I muted the volume on my computer because my email was "blinging" into my Jing recording. That action wiped out the sound. By the tenth attempt at recording, I had success! and you might begin to hear the tension in my voice.
Quick equation to remember:
After getting your Jing account, (check out Tina's blog for instructions on downloading Jing http://tinaluffman.blogspot.com/) be sure that you have the microphone on while you record. I missed this the first two times. The next time, I muted the volume on my computer because my email was "blinging" into my Jing recording. That action wiped out the sound. By the tenth attempt at recording, I had success! and you might begin to hear the tension in my voice.
Quick equation to remember:
Embedding = Html Link = text/compose
In this screencapture (casting) below, I am explaining to students or faculty how they can learn about the resources available in the Verde Learning Center. Emphasis was on the online resources available. I am now thinking of a new project for the Employee Night for Faculty. Instead of me lecturing about what resources are available in our Learning Center, I can just show the screencapture and explain how they can view the information again ---
at their convenience.
Here is a link to the Introduction to Finding Verde Learning Center Resources on line:
Monday, July 20, 2009
My Educational Philosospy Revisited
Here is my philosophy from seven weeks ago. My philosophy is still the same. I am just learning to apply it to different formats.
My Teaching Philosophy
Amy Welden
He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha
To be a teacher, one must be interested and knowledgeable not only in content, but in the person who is learning the content. To be a true teacher, one must be a quiet observer, who holistically assesses the learner and matches the tools of the profession to the style of the learner. Since teaching involves individuals, there is never one right formula for teaching everyone. Like a blank canvass, the artist carefully chooses which colors, brushes to use to creating the best design – teachers are artist.What you get is who you get: Most often, in the formal setting, teachers are not allowed to choose who walks into the classroom. Students come from all backgrounds. A teacher, as observer, watches her students. What is new today about this person? What is consistent about this person? Like a person in the medical profession who sees things for what they are, makes a diagnosis and designs a course of action - the teacher makes a daily assessment, adjusts her curriculum and begins today’s lesson.Be prepared with as many tools as possible: People learn at different rates and in a variety of ways. A great teacher needs to have a wide range of teaching strategies available, be prepared to use them or change them or adjust them and be willing to back up and punt, regroup, refine, try again, accept setbacks and determined to move on, if not forward. A teacher uses teaching strategies not only skillfully but creatively as well.Provide inspiration: Think back to the people in your life who inspired you the most. My guess is, they were ones who supported you with encouragement by finding something you did well, praised it and built from that moment. Although they recognized when a task was not completed perfectly, they were still able to find something good to say about with you completed…even when it was so small most people would have overlooked it. Most of us have observed a baby learning to talk or walk. What is the response to their first efforts? Yes, cheers and encouragement! Not scolding for mispronouncing the word daddy or mother incorrectly!Teachers who excel in the profession are motivators and a source of inspiration. They accomplish these deeds through acceptance, by creatively applying a wide variety of experiences to match the learner’s style and by consistently using encouraging words.
My Teaching Philosophy
Amy Welden
He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha
To be a teacher, one must be interested and knowledgeable not only in content, but in the person who is learning the content. To be a true teacher, one must be a quiet observer, who holistically assesses the learner and matches the tools of the profession to the style of the learner. Since teaching involves individuals, there is never one right formula for teaching everyone. Like a blank canvass, the artist carefully chooses which colors, brushes to use to creating the best design – teachers are artist.What you get is who you get: Most often, in the formal setting, teachers are not allowed to choose who walks into the classroom. Students come from all backgrounds. A teacher, as observer, watches her students. What is new today about this person? What is consistent about this person? Like a person in the medical profession who sees things for what they are, makes a diagnosis and designs a course of action - the teacher makes a daily assessment, adjusts her curriculum and begins today’s lesson.Be prepared with as many tools as possible: People learn at different rates and in a variety of ways. A great teacher needs to have a wide range of teaching strategies available, be prepared to use them or change them or adjust them and be willing to back up and punt, regroup, refine, try again, accept setbacks and determined to move on, if not forward. A teacher uses teaching strategies not only skillfully but creatively as well.Provide inspiration: Think back to the people in your life who inspired you the most. My guess is, they were ones who supported you with encouragement by finding something you did well, praised it and built from that moment. Although they recognized when a task was not completed perfectly, they were still able to find something good to say about with you completed…even when it was so small most people would have overlooked it. Most of us have observed a baby learning to talk or walk. What is the response to their first efforts? Yes, cheers and encouragement! Not scolding for mispronouncing the word daddy or mother incorrectly!Teachers who excel in the profession are motivators and a source of inspiration. They accomplish these deeds through acceptance, by creatively applying a wide variety of experiences to match the learner’s style and by consistently using encouraging words.
Introduction Poem to Learning to Apply Technology
This is a poem that I created for my EDU 255 class for the video assignment. I modelled it after Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowing Eveing and entitled it Stopping by Net. Frost did not place and article in front of the noun, so I didn't either.
Poetry is a way to assess what students know. I tried to use all new technolgoy vocabulary correctly that we have learned and to incooperate them into a poem to show my understanding.
I did mispronuounce one of the SNSs. If you listen carefully, you will hear my mistake.
Here is the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFjaa15XFco
Poetry is a way to assess what students know. I tried to use all new technolgoy vocabulary correctly that we have learned and to incooperate them into a poem to show my understanding.
I did mispronuounce one of the SNSs. If you listen carefully, you will hear my mistake.
Here is the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFjaa15XFco
Friday, July 17, 2009
Video Introduction to the Verde Learning Center
Here is a link to the Verde Learning Center that I created last summer.
Some of the faculty have embedded this on their syllabus. I plan to do a remake and if it is good enough, I would like to show this at the Fall Faculty Welcome Back Night. It is such a hectic night for the faculty, that presenting it in this fashion, they might actually listen to the different services that the LC provides.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac7jWGPu1c0
Some of the faculty have embedded this on their syllabus. I plan to do a remake and if it is good enough, I would like to show this at the Fall Faculty Welcome Back Night. It is such a hectic night for the faculty, that presenting it in this fashion, they might actually listen to the different services that the LC provides.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac7jWGPu1c0
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