Photosharing:
I am a big fan of Google and have filled up my allocated free space about a year ago so I pay five bucks to get 20 gigs more of storage. Above is a slide show that was very easy to place on my blog. I also wanted to try flickr out. I had an account years ago but stop using after I got hooked on Picasa. Here is the link to my flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweller2011/.
A reason I set up flickr was I have heard very good things about it and I wanted to see if I could create an account I could have student post images to via sms. (I am testing this out on Friday. I believe the students photos via text should show up the flickr account above. We shall soon see.
Why? Teaching High School if you tell kids you need them to turn on and use their cell phones! You have their attention. As a high school graduation requirement students have to present an electronic portfolio documenting their learning. One of the challenges is collecting their learning artifacts from Presentation or projects. A couple of pictures and a text and they have now documented their learning. This could be available to science labs or help students grasp math concepts. Once they get to a computer they could then collect their photos and assemble them into what ever media they needed.
Instructional design a lot to offer both now and in the future. I think the two ID characteristic of critical importance discussed are (1) instructional design is learner centered, and (2) typically is a team effort. I have listed the Characteristics below as a reference for latter use.
I do feel the educational lessons I assemble have cherry picked the best ideas from of ITIP format from Hunter and the ROPES I learned of in my CTE course work. No matter what format or combination of format I use I feel I meet characteristics 1 -5. The challenge is meeting number 6.
Currently we are going through the process of developing Professional Learning Communities (PLC). The leaders at WSD have managed to give us one hour per week to work in teams to begin the process of team planning and interventions, however, one hour as grand as it is does not provide enough time to really create education lessons plans with a true team approach.
Characteristics of Instructional Design:
1) Instructional design is learner centered.
2) Instructional design is goal oriented.
3) Instructional design focuses on meaningful performance.
4) Instructional design assumes outcomes can be measured in a reliable and valid way.
5) Instructional design is empirical, iterative, and self-correcting.
6) Instructional design typically is a team effort.
The main components ensure “congruence among goals, strategies, and evaluation and the effectiveness of the resulting instruction”. (Reiser & Dempsey, 18)
Reading
Activity
Bet you can figure this one out on your own. If you don’t already have one, set up an online photo sharing site and add some pics. If you have a digital camera, great. If not, perhaps you can borrow one. Let me know if this will be an issue for you.
On most of the photo sharing sites, you can add titles, descriptions and tags to your photos. Please try out these various options.
Here are some services to consider:
http://flickr.com/ (I use this one)
1) How might you incorporate photo sharing into a educational activity or unit? What might be some concerns you would have about allowing students play with these services? What might be a great benefit of such services?
2) In reading Chapter 2, what similarities and what differences did you identify between the process the authors describe and the processes you have used to develop educational lesson plans? If you have not developed educational lesson plans, were there aspects of the process described in this chapter that you found particularly surprising, useful or unnecessary?
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