Comments for ETEC540: Text Technologies

Comment on Navigating the Hypermedia Sea by Tracy Gidinski

Tracy Gidinski — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:24:39 +0000

Not only was this beautiful in its simplicity, but it really captured the essence of how one’s thoughts can wander in a virtual environment, yet still maintain focus, and continually learning. I loved it!

Comment on The Holocaust and Points of View by Tracy Gidinski

Tracy Gidinski — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:26:47 +0000

Thanks!

It turns out that another bit of technology I used was the program Insight on our school computers. By watching their progress through the screens, I was able to throw a positive message when someone tried using a hyperlink directly to them, to remind students to try out the hyperlinks and to think about them, and was able to keep kids from wandering too far from the assigned task. With Insight too, I also threw out a quick poll: “How many people liked this assignment?” Even knowing it was anonymous, the percentage of “yesses” was 76!

Comment on Teachers Unite by Delphine Williams-Young

Delphine Williams-Young — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:23:43 +0000

I certainly agree with this statement
“I also strongly believe that we must not give ourselves wholly to the new. We must also make room for three R’s – Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. For the students to be able to fully participate in their community they must be well grounded in the basics of reading and writing. I am not sure if we can skip the basics but I am sure we can teach concurrently with teaching them to navigate the superhighway of the new technologies.”
Yes we cannot omit the basics. I believe that to be fair to the New London Group and Dobson and Willinsky we have to assess the audience for which the articles is written. For people like me these articles were really fascinating and motivated me to view literacy in a new light. They provided a springboard for me even though I agree that perhaps they could now write subsequent articles to really show more practical examples of how we can really encourage digital literacy among our students. I believe that they take it for granted that the prerequisites would have been established with the aid of learning softwares like Reader Rabbit , Hooked on Phonics and Starfall.com. I think that they want us to see digital literacy as an extension of basic literacy. These articles may not have been impressive to persons who are more knowledgable of the field.
However I want to be a part of your club. I have some real independent thinkers that I have created through a last minute blog I just set up. The process will continue as this is one of my first online courses.
Happy Holidays!

Comment on Connections & Reflections: A Visual Learning Gestalt by Bev

Bev — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:43 +0000

Great visual- What did you use?
Bev

Comment on Connections between my learning and my life by Bev

Bev — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:56:30 +0000

Hi Louise: I, like you, found Bolter much easier to read- as a result I think I got more out of this text. It was a pleasure to read it.

Just wanted to comment on the fact that you’ve never researched in a library. I did my undergrad work at UBC- way back in the day. I loved going to the library and researching- Sometimes it was like detective work- tracking down some real old documents- going through old newspapers on microfiche. It was dark and old and had a certain smell. If you ever have the opportunity to do some library research take it- just for the experience!

Comment on Radio Restated: Podcasting in Education – Major Project by Michael Haworth

Michael Haworth — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:06:26 +0000

Hi Natalie, we greatly appreciate your thoughtful comments. After your comment about the transcript, I wondered if we should have included that as well for another alternative method of accessing the podcast. It amazes me how text keeps coming back into the picture even with an orally based product such as a podcast. The software that we used with this podcast (Audacity and GarageBand) really helped with the development of the final product – we were quite pleased with the final product – glad that you enjoyed it too! Cheers, Michael

Comment on Map mash up by Bev

Bev — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:49:02 +0000

Great job Rachel: It is so cool to see where we all are. I love google.maps

Comment on (Re)telling a story… by Bev

Bev — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:40:26 +0000

This is lovely Kelly. Thanks for sharing something obviously very personal. Good luck with the new babe!

Comment on Tragedy of the Creative Commons by Stuart Edgar

Stuart Edgar — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:36:51 +0000

Thanks. After I posted this I googled “tragedy of the creative commons” and found that I wasn’t the first person to make this play on words. I guess others had already depleted the resource!

Comment on Tragedy of the Creative Commons by Erin Gillespie

Erin Gillespie — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:41:56 +0000

You’ve made a great connection and it is interesting to see Wikipedia advertising for donations as a header for this particular wiki entry….we are indeed depleting our resource!