Monday, September 23, 2019

Look Forward to Reading Your Blog Post # 5!

Hi, everyone

You all did a great job in spending hours in completing required assignments! Applaud yourself!

I have enjoyed reading your blog posts so far.

Look forward to reading your blog post # 5!

Your fifth post should contain:
  • A paragraph on which ELA technology standards you feel most prepared to teach with your existing knowledge and which require more learning on your part.
  • Based on Chapter 7, write a paragraph about the technology software/applications you like to use with your students and the digital citizenship concepts (end of chapter 7) will you need to address. Identify the age range of your students to situate the appropriateness of content and application.
  • A paragraph on new skills you acquired from working on the Newsletter Design assignment and reflect what you like about it/what you don’t like about it, how you can improve it next time, and how what you learned from the assignment can be used in your future career. Display your assignment on your blog.

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Look Forward to Reading Your Blog Post # 4

Hi, everyone

You all did a great job in spending hours in completing required assignments! Applaud yourself!

I have enjoyed reading your blog posts so far.

Look forward to reading your blog post # 4!

Your fourth post should contain:
  • A paragraph in which you provide an evaluation/critique of a lesson plan using the Dynamic Instructional Design model presented in Chapter 3. Be sure to link to the lesson plan.
  • Search online for the “open” terms mentioned in the podcast. Write a paragraph that extends the podcast information, including a specific site (linked).

Monday, September 9, 2019

Look Forward to Reading Your Blog Post #3!

Hello, EME 2040 Folks
I am glad to see most of you have already submitted your blog post #2. I have already checked some of them. Good job!
Your third post should contain:
  • A paragraph on how you’ve used MS Word as a student and how you’ve seen your teachers use it.
  • A paragraph about your experience with copyright and fair use of materials in an educational environment. How would you deal with these concepts as a teacher, developing your own instructional materials and having students create their own works (read CSMI’s best practices and listen to the podcast on this topic to find out more!).
  • Reflect on the implementation issues from Chapter 9.  Propose solutions to 3 issues you could implement in your classroom.  Be specific.

Please let me know if you have any question or concern! 

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Look Forward to Reading Your Blog Post #2

Hi, everyone
Your second post should contain:
  • What influences teachers (chapter 1) and students (chapter 2) to use technology in the classroom?
  • A paragraph in which you reflect on the ISTE standards. Specifically cite 1 standard that is meaningful to you and 1 that seems outside your current skill set.  (Include an explanation).
  • A paragraph on whether or not you agree with the label “digital native” for today’s youth. What does it mean to be a digital native? Have you seen differences between how you (digital native) and most of your teachers (digital immigrants) use technology? If so, describe them and what their impact has been on your learning experience. What differences do you anticipate between you and your future students in terms of how you use technology?

Please let me know if you have any question or concern. :) 
Ray

Monday, September 2, 2019

Stay safe during the hurricane season and read your classmate's self-introduction post!


Hi, everyone

I am sorry to hear that the hurricane did harm to some areas where some students live. I hope everything will be OK for you. Stay safe!

At your convenience, I recommend you could read your classmate's first blog post and leave comments if you like. Even though most of you cannot see each other face-to-face, I would like you all to know each other better, learn from each other. You can leave a comment to ask questions and even engage in an in-depth dialogue with your classmates through the blog. Your posts to your classmates should engage with their commentary by relating your own perspectives, analysis, or asking questions.

This morning I had one interesting conversation with my friend. We noticed that adults more frequently use Facebook than young people. So, what social media tools do you often use? 

Happy Labor Day!

Ray

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Adding the class blog link into your blog and accessing your classmates' blog

Hi, EME2040 students!

Are you working on your blog set-up assignment? Hope it goes well. :)
You might be confused that why our class blog is on Google Blogger, while you are asked to set up a blog on Wordpress. We would like you to experience how to blog on different platforms. I have posted on Google Blogger and Wordpress. Both of them are user-friendly.
To help you with your blog set-up assignment, I just created a new blog on Wordpress as you all did. Please let me know if you have a problem with completing the blog set-up assignment.

Did you all successfully set up a blogroll in your blog? Here is a quick tip about adding the class blog link into your blog and access your classmates' blog.

Step 1, after finishing signing up your blog, go to "Reader" View, find the "Search" button, copy and paste the class blog site https://eme2040-0007.blogspot.com/, and then follow the blog


Step 2, you will see your followed class blog on the page or find the "Followed Sites" button to manage the site.


Step 3, click "Visit" to visit the class blog on Google Blogger.

Step 4, you can access all your classmates' blog sites under "Class Blog Roll", and then feel free to follow all your classmates' blog sites and leave comments.
Now you can see only Taylor's blog that I added as soon as she shared her blog site to the discussion forum: Our Blogs.



That is it! Look forward to checking your blog site and reading your blog posts! :)

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Welcome

Hello everyone,

Welcome to EME2040 Introduction to Educational Technology! 

I am very excited to work together with you this semester. I’m looking forward to reading your blog posts! 

This blog will be used as an additional learning space along with the Canvas course site. Please add this blog link  (https://eme2040-0007.blogspot.com) to your blog (when you set up!👍). 

Hope you will enjoy this course and learn a lot about educational technology! 

I will see you all online! 😀


Best Regards, 

Ray