Link for class

Below you will find the link we will be using to access our online class for EDU305. I will be giving an eclass demo for a middle school/high school class. We will be using www.time.com and viewing the pictures of the week.

Please click on this link to open up Adobe Connect.

http://byuh.acrobat.com/peterchan

Online Teaching Movie

This is the interview I did for the textbook, Instructional Technology and Media for Learning by Sharon Smaldino, Deborah Lowther and James Russell.  We did this interview for a DVD addition that comes with the book.   It is a helpful example for educators to use when teaching or learning about distance education.  We'll be reviewing this in class today.  Please come up with three questions you have about distance learning to ask in the Q and A after we view the clip.

Storyboard

O.K. Folks, here's what you've been waiting for, the storyboard!
Steps to making a great storyboard...
1. Write out your plan
2. Draw or add printed pictures
3. Color
4. Scan in
5. Upload and Link to your Blog.

This is the map to my movie. It's like a good PB and J, it's all there...the bread, peanut butter and jelly. Come up with a good plan and then create!

Video Production

O.K. Check it out...I learned how to make an "imovie". This may not knock your socks or your slippahs off but believe me when I tell you, I am stoked that I got this to work. I can now add audio, music, videos, text and photos into an imovie production. Here's my first official product! It's got an exciting title called, "Video Production for Education". Watch out Hollywood.

Click HERE to watch my video.

My First Podcast

Please click HERE to listen to my first podcast.

In this podcast I experimented with adding pictures and music. It worked! I also found some interesting podcasts in my search. In itunes, you might want to check out "Just Vocabulary", "Sesame Street Pod" and "How Stuff Works" for some educational podcasts. All the best.


To subscribe to my podcast in iTunes, please click Here.

Hi! My name is Joanie Ford; my nickname is Jojo. When I graduated from BYU-Hawaii in 1992, technology in the classroom meant that you typed your papers in a word processing program or you pounded out a few numbers in an spreadsheet document. Sure, we had a few overhead projectors, maybe a TV and/or a cassette tape player in the classroom but nothing like what I'm seeing at BYUH now. The future of technology in education is bright! For this blog, I will be covering three topics:

1. My experience with technology 2. How I'd use technology in my classroom 3. What I hope to learn from the Master of the Macintosh a.k.a. Peter Chan

First off, after graduating from BYU-Hawaii with a degree in Elementary Education, I taught at Hale Kula elementary school for a while, then I got a job teaching on the internet. This worked out well because I was a young mom, I needed to be at home with my children and I also needed to earn money to support my husband through law school. When we bought our first computer, I called it the "Alien". It was huge and really foreign to me! Overtime, I learned how to hold internet class, organize email files and grade papers with my new friend. I kept this job for over 12 years and learned a lot about online curriculum, eschools and eclass.

Moving on to how I'd use technology in my own super fun and educational classroom. I would want to get my students excited about learning with printing, publishing, using computers, music and photography in their work. That would start with using programs like iPhoto, iMovie, PowerPoint and Pages. I would also want to get them started learning how to create websites but I think a person and particularly a child should be very careful about what he/she publishes on the internet. So, this would be something we would do as a class so I could restrict who could view the projects.  Also, if I had the resources at my finger tips, I'd love to use a program called Compass Learning to enhance student performance. This program has a full curriculum for children K-12 to work on. For testing and for boosting abilities across the curriculum, I think this program is both exciting to learn from and easy to work with.

Lastly, I hope to learn a lot from my friend and mentor, Professor Chan.   I'd like to do video production, and learn more about the Google suite of tools. Technology is always growing, always moving, I'm ready to ride the train. =0)