Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Final Project (#16)
For this project, Woodie Holloway and I created facebook pages of historic figures relating to our current educational choices. I am an English Education major, so my facebook page was on Mark Twain, the author famous for his novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and because Woodie has a minor in music, his facebook page was on George Howard, a professional jazz musician who began his career in the late 1970's.
I think that an idea for a facebook page being incorporated into teaching would be very fundamental. Think of this scenario: I, after graduation, begin teaching literature at a high school. One of the weeks I am there, the class and I discuss a famous literary author, for example, Mark Twain. Assigning the students to create a facebook page about this particular literary figure is a wonderful idea because (1) it was very fun creating the facebook page on Mark Twain, (2) while doing research I learned many things about Mark Twain I had not known prior, and (3) facebook is a great tool that young students can easily relate to. They wouldn't really see it as "work," but rather a creative way to learn about a historic literary figure.
The only con to this project was that it was time-consuming, but because it doesn't even feel like work the time flew by relatively quickly. Also, a LOT of research is required to make these pages look legitimate... but the reward of learning so much about the historic figure is well worth it.
Click the links below to visit Mark Twain's and George Howard's facebook pages.
Because Mark Twain was simply his pen name, the facebook account is under his real name:
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
George Howard
I think that an idea for a facebook page being incorporated into teaching would be very fundamental. Think of this scenario: I, after graduation, begin teaching literature at a high school. One of the weeks I am there, the class and I discuss a famous literary author, for example, Mark Twain. Assigning the students to create a facebook page about this particular literary figure is a wonderful idea because (1) it was very fun creating the facebook page on Mark Twain, (2) while doing research I learned many things about Mark Twain I had not known prior, and (3) facebook is a great tool that young students can easily relate to. They wouldn't really see it as "work," but rather a creative way to learn about a historic literary figure.
The only con to this project was that it was time-consuming, but because it doesn't even feel like work the time flew by relatively quickly. Also, a LOT of research is required to make these pages look legitimate... but the reward of learning so much about the historic figure is well worth it.
Click the links below to visit Mark Twain's and George Howard's facebook pages.
Because Mark Twain was simply his pen name, the facebook account is under his real name:
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Final Report on PLN
The thing about a Personal Learning Narrative is it constantly changes. Just like you can't say "Alright, my mind has reached it's full capacity," you can say the same for a PLN. It simply doesn't work that way. The mind never stops learning, the internet keep expanding, PLNs continually grow. Midway through the semester we were asked in EDM310 to create a PLN. Now, the thing about it, which can be good or bad depending on your view of things, is that there are no rigid rules when it comes to creating a PLN. That is both the beauty and the curse, but once one gets over the question "what on earth am I going to do with this?" they can come to the comforting solution of "well, just about anything."
Truth be told I wasn't very comfortable when first using the Symbaloo website. It was complicated to navigate and had seemingly endless options. But that's what made it so great. I'm still getting used to it, but my homepage, which has features like facebook, youtube, gmail, twitter and apple, makes it relatively easy to get from one place to another while saving as much time as possible. If you have a youtube account or any of the other accounts mentioned above, which we are required to have in EDM310, all one needs to do sign into those accounts by clicking on the little link boxes, and it makes for much easier navigation. I'm still getting used to it, still finding new things, and am still getting confused... which, I think, is a good thing after learning what Dr. Strange has taught us, and I quote "I don't know. Let's find out." Those words ring amicably. My PLN will change, transform, morph... whatever word you want to use. And I believe, as the semester comes to a close as well as EDM310, that learning never ceases to change, our minds never cease to expand. If that weren't true, I wouldn't be writing this, and you wouldn't be reading this.
Truth be told I wasn't very comfortable when first using the Symbaloo website. It was complicated to navigate and had seemingly endless options. But that's what made it so great. I'm still getting used to it, but my homepage, which has features like facebook, youtube, gmail, twitter and apple, makes it relatively easy to get from one place to another while saving as much time as possible. If you have a youtube account or any of the other accounts mentioned above, which we are required to have in EDM310, all one needs to do sign into those accounts by clicking on the little link boxes, and it makes for much easier navigation. I'm still getting used to it, still finding new things, and am still getting confused... which, I think, is a good thing after learning what Dr. Strange has taught us, and I quote "I don't know. Let's find out." Those words ring amicably. My PLN will change, transform, morph... whatever word you want to use. And I believe, as the semester comes to a close as well as EDM310, that learning never ceases to change, our minds never cease to expand. If that weren't true, I wouldn't be writing this, and you wouldn't be reading this.
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