This week the article I read is linked to:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/7220/19459/00899152.pdf
The article is titled Interactive Web based animations for teaching and learning. It is written by M. Syrakow, J. Berdux, and H. Szczerbicka. The authors are professors at the Institute of Computer Design & Fault Tolerance at Karlsruhe University in Orlando. The article starts off by saying that web based studies are now a rquirement in order to remain a competitive player in the aducational market. Meaning that teachers are competing to better their type of curriculm way of teaching by using web based studies. The univeristy is giving lectures on web based learning material for students to gain knowledge about multimedia and animation. Seeing that it is being a competitive source of learning the university thought it would be to there advantage to give some pointers on how to do it. The authors focused on animations and simulations. The students in the lectures use the animations and simulations mainly for individual experiments. The lectures seem to be effective so far and have increased knowledge of the students in the lectures.
The article also gives some deadlines for building interactive web based animations. There are two general guidelines for building interactive Web based animations. The first animation visualizes the search processes of direct global and local optimization strategies. In the second animation an artificial ecosystem is stimulated autonomous agents to perform a number of different actions to survive.
Animations are executed within the web browsers and they are available anywhere around the world at any time and no installing is required.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
Digital Imagery
The article I read this week comes from http://thejournal.com/articles/17145_2
The article is titled Increasing Visual Literacy Skills With Digital Imagery
By:Dr. Lance Wilhelm from Arizona State University- West Campus
Before reading the article I kind of knew what digital imagery is. I mean I have a digital camera and I love it. I use for just about everything! I had no idea that using digital cameras was becoming so popular in curriculm. It does sound like a fresh new idea for a teaching strategy. Society relies to higher degrees on images and visual communication strategies. Therefor this strategy of communication should be taught to children as well. For students to be more marketable in modern society they must aquire these digital skills. This type of curriculm captures children's interest and is more easily understandable. It helps the students focus on higher levels of processing and problem solving. Students gain visual literacy by using digital cameras.
The college of education at Arizona State Univeristy- West Campus students use what they call a "camera cart." The program enrolls three hundred students a semester. The very first semester the students were introduced to these carts they ALL used them. From the year 2003-2004 the camera cart was used fifty times by sixteen different teachers in the Arizona State Univerity area. A course that the education program requires all students to take is called C'E 313, Educational Technology in K-12 Curriculm. The course is in effective integration of technology in the classroom.
One teacher gave examples on how she uses the digital camera in her classroom. On the first day of every class she takes a picture of each student, then writes down their contact information, then puts it on word document, prints it out, and puts it into a binder. She said that it is so easy to do and it makes her life so much more organized. She also will take pictures of the whiteboard when a student puts important notes on it.
Students love field trips. What a great way to capture the experience of one with a digital camera. I know that when I was in elementary school I used to take a little wind up camera so I could take pictures. But, I could never look at the pictures right a way or even edit them. For my Bio of South West Florida class and my Colloquium class I take my digital camera on all the field trips.
I think that I would use this type of technological curriculm in my classroom, especially to organize myself.
The article is titled Increasing Visual Literacy Skills With Digital Imagery
By:Dr. Lance Wilhelm from Arizona State University- West Campus
Before reading the article I kind of knew what digital imagery is. I mean I have a digital camera and I love it. I use for just about everything! I had no idea that using digital cameras was becoming so popular in curriculm. It does sound like a fresh new idea for a teaching strategy. Society relies to higher degrees on images and visual communication strategies. Therefor this strategy of communication should be taught to children as well. For students to be more marketable in modern society they must aquire these digital skills. This type of curriculm captures children's interest and is more easily understandable. It helps the students focus on higher levels of processing and problem solving. Students gain visual literacy by using digital cameras.
The college of education at Arizona State Univeristy- West Campus students use what they call a "camera cart." The program enrolls three hundred students a semester. The very first semester the students were introduced to these carts they ALL used them. From the year 2003-2004 the camera cart was used fifty times by sixteen different teachers in the Arizona State Univerity area. A course that the education program requires all students to take is called C'E 313, Educational Technology in K-12 Curriculm. The course is in effective integration of technology in the classroom.
One teacher gave examples on how she uses the digital camera in her classroom. On the first day of every class she takes a picture of each student, then writes down their contact information, then puts it on word document, prints it out, and puts it into a binder. She said that it is so easy to do and it makes her life so much more organized. She also will take pictures of the whiteboard when a student puts important notes on it.
Students love field trips. What a great way to capture the experience of one with a digital camera. I know that when I was in elementary school I used to take a little wind up camera so I could take pictures. But, I could never look at the pictures right a way or even edit them. For my Bio of South West Florida class and my Colloquium class I take my digital camera on all the field trips.
I think that I would use this type of technological curriculm in my classroom, especially to organize myself.
Friday, February 8, 2008
Storyboarding
The topic for this week was another one I was not to keen on. I had never heard of storyboarding before. I could only relate the word to story telling, so I figured it had something to do with makin a story with technology somehow. The article I choose for this week's topic was found in a section of a website called Using & Teaching Educational Technology. The title of the article is "Digital Storytelling: A Pratical Classroom Management Strategy," published August 3, 2006. It is written by Mechelle M. De Craene who is a teacher.
Digital storytelling is when an individual or group of people craft a movie from start to finish. Storyboarding can be used in the classroom for students to enhace their creativity and writing skills. There are three phases that are in involved when making a digital story. Phase one is pre-production, phase two is production, and phase three is post production. Mechelle only talks about phase one, pre-production, in the article. She says this phase is the gearea for teachers. Pre-production is the cornerstone of building a digital story. It is the first stage of producing a video when idea sharing takes place and responsibilites are assigned to the students. The first phase is also where sketches and text seem to animatedly evolve. Children at this phase are excited and love to throw in their ideas for the story making. The students usualy get really hyped up and crowd around the teacher, this can be quite a fiasco for the teacher.
Using this type of curriculm in a classroom is great for classroom management and success in digital storytelling. It can also be suggested as language arts curriculm. So students are having fun while leaning.
I think that storyboarding is great to use in a classroom. It is a different way for students to engage with each other. It seems like a fun activity for both the students and teacher. When the story board is done the students have accomplished a movie. I can definently see students getting escited about this type of learning, claiming that they have made a movie and all.
Digital storytelling is when an individual or group of people craft a movie from start to finish. Storyboarding can be used in the classroom for students to enhace their creativity and writing skills. There are three phases that are in involved when making a digital story. Phase one is pre-production, phase two is production, and phase three is post production. Mechelle only talks about phase one, pre-production, in the article. She says this phase is the gearea for teachers. Pre-production is the cornerstone of building a digital story. It is the first stage of producing a video when idea sharing takes place and responsibilites are assigned to the students. The first phase is also where sketches and text seem to animatedly evolve. Children at this phase are excited and love to throw in their ideas for the story making. The students usualy get really hyped up and crowd around the teacher, this can be quite a fiasco for the teacher.
Using this type of curriculm in a classroom is great for classroom management and success in digital storytelling. It can also be suggested as language arts curriculm. So students are having fun while leaning.
I think that storyboarding is great to use in a classroom. It is a different way for students to engage with each other. It seems like a fun activity for both the students and teacher. When the story board is done the students have accomplished a movie. I can definently see students getting escited about this type of learning, claiming that they have made a movie and all.
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