Posted in Summer Core, Technology Integration, Uncategorized, faculty training on Jun 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Since I started out the week thinking about the humanware excerpt, it seemed logical to read the rest of the chapter tonight. I want to start out just recording some quotations that jumped out at me as significant for Castilleja. I have put the quotations in bold so that it is really clear what comes [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Notes Wed. June 25
Summercore
Google Earth
Uses in class – tour of DC trip, extension with air quality overlay (Sarah), looking at a glacier in Chile.
New version includes street view – zoom right in to see the street.
Top – search
Bottom – layers, transparent overlays (changes all the time, they keep adding more)
Click on primary database to turn [...]
Posted in Summer Core, Technology Integration, ethics on Jun 25th, 2008 2 Comments »
My thinking about community and privacy in the previous post seems separate from my thoughts on copyright. I think we are moving in the right direction here, but we need more clear direction (maybe some professional development? Not exciting, but maybe necessary.). As I said today, I think we are fine on the software, and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, ethics on Jun 25th, 2008 No Comments »
All of the copyright and privacy readings kept sending me back to thinking about how we model and teach values in the classroom. We joke about not being able to remember the Five Cs (Conscience, Courage, Charity, Courtesy, and Character — if you have trouble remembering, it helps to think of 3 that start with [...]
Posted in Summer Core, Technology Integration on Jun 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
I ran a class blog for a few years, mostly as an online continuation of class discussions. It worked well some of the time, for many of the students, but it did not become fully integrated into my teaching, so when we went on another push to reduce student stress by reducing homework I dropped [...]
Posted in History of Technology on Jun 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
I was struck by the pace of change as I read through the size information — from the big floppys (which were in fact floppy) I saved my work on when I had an IBM PC jr (the Edsel of the PC world) to the Terabyte backup drive I bought last month — I was [...]
Posted in Summer Core, Technology Integration on Jun 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
“The key to success is increasing overall proficiency” the “Humanware” Principle #3 caught my attention because it brings together several things I have been thinking about both as a teacher and as a learner. As someone who thinks playing around with technology is just that, play, something I do for fun and for learning, I [...]
