Journal 3 (NETS 1,3 )

McDermon, L. (2010). Bring the world into your classroom. Learning and Leading with Technology, 38(2), Retrieved from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/20100910?pg=36&search_term=linda%20mcdermon&search_term=linda%20mcdermon#pg1


Linda McDermon advocates the access of global collaboration. McDermon's article Bring the World to Your Classroom projects the National Educational Technology Standard for Teachers when she encourages the idea of classrooms going global through interactive video conferencing. This in turn forces professional growth and leadership with the educator and student. The video conferences model digital-age work and learning. With video conferencing in place students and teachers are linked and can undergo development. Nothing is off limits from plays to lectures, students and teachers have an audience. It's an engagement with professional growth. All the participation is local or global and allows everyone to be creative.



Question #1 What benefits are found in global collaboration? It opens up a whole other world for the student. The educator as well as the student take charge in an innovative technological community allowing for growth in technological activity.

Question #2 What can video conferencing do for the individual student? It fuses the pupil to others in different parts of the world. The classroom is exposed and allows cultures to clash. it removes the boundaries for the student and teacher making anything possible in a virtual interactive world.

Journal 4 (NETS T 1,2)

Johnson, D. (2009). Computing in the clouds. Learning & Leading with Technology, 37(4), Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/digital-edition-december-janruary-2009-2010.aspx

Computing in the Clouds, promotes and models the digital-age in a cost effective manner. Doug Johnson, the author of Computing in the Clouds offers up an easy finance situation for schools to be cost effective, promote and support student inventiveness, engage students in exploring digital tools, and be technologically current and proficient with innovative thinking. I've used a program exactly like this. With Google Docs, it's the same idea; making available shared resources via internet. This is really a nifty program, it truly makes your documents omnipresent. I agree with Doug Johnson when he says that this not only makes life easier, but efficient. I have a netbook and I don't want to slow it down with documents.

Question #1 Are all programs collaborative like this? I ask because I wonder about Prezi. It's great to weed out all the unnecessary effort. I think it would be possible. If internet programs cannot collaborate like this the users become estrange. The silver lining as Doug Johnson puts it is the network that makes way for innovative collaboration.


Question #2 What if I lose access to the internet? With this innovative collaboration tool there is also an applet if there is an issue getting online. So you'd be able to work on the documents but you would have to collaborate later, when the internet is back in action; and from what I understand it is dynamic. Imagine riding the world of flash drives and harddrives.

Journal 2 (NETS - T 1, 2)

Ferguson, H.J. (2010). Join the flock!. Learning & Leading with Technology, 37(8), Retrieved from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/20100607#pg1

Hadley Ferguson's article Join the Flock! is a quaint piece unraveling the aim, the etiquette, and the commitment it takes to create an interconnection of comprehensive professionals in the pursuit of shared knowledge. The main theme to Ferguson's article is communication and collaboration, and the two are drawn together through Twitter's Professional Learning Network, also known as a PLN. The PLN is a classic example of digital-age learning engagements. The PLN accomplishes self-achievements and an assessment of one's own efforts in a virtual world of collaboration. Twitter is a self help tool that serves on a give and take basis.

Question #1 How will I be sure of the PLN's credibility? The PLN has the power to elicit belief. As I begin to understand more and more about Twitter, what I am finding out is that it detours the traffic of mass information to the user. The credibility is considered with the information's origniator, be it the author, researcher or editor. A world of information is constant and Twitter helps sort out what the user finds most interesting and most credible.



Miller, S.M. (2010). Enhance your twitter experience. Learning & Leading with Technology, 37(8), Retrieved from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/20100607#pg1

As if in unison Shannon McClintock Miller's piece, Enhance Your Twitter Experience compliments Ferguson's article. Miller offers up a glossary of terms permitting the apprehension of the interpersonal digital language used on Twitter. Miller's article encourages the users of twitter to immerse themselves in an internet culture of quick and massive information systems.

Question #2 How do I promote student reflection with Twitter? Twitter forces refelction. When using collaborative tools the driving force behind the user is the desire to know. I personally am encouraged to sift through shared articles and resharing what I think is valuable.

ISTE Presentation Assessment (NETS 2,3, & 4)

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