http://rvella.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:44:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  "Screen Technology" By Rutty (Flickr)  This article that is being discussed below is the second article for week five. This article is called The Growth of Enterprise Pedagogy: How ICT Policy is Infected by Neo-liberalism. It is an article that I don't fully agree with. I feel that it was a hard ... http://rvella.edublogs.org/2009/03/25/ed-4134-week-6-the-growth-of-enterprise-pedagogy-how-ict-policy-is-infected-by-neo-liberalism/   http://static-p3.fotolia.com/jpg/00/00/78/60/400_F_786071_FxhMIEgyHE1Bd4EfzIj2B8Ij2pURNK.jpg (Google in Creative Commons) Brave New World Wide Web Here is my sound file! The author is David Truss with music by Moby & Great Big Sea (SpinXpress in Creative Commons) This weeks articles focused on technology in the classrooms and how teachers belief's really influence the use of technology in the classroom. ... http://rvella.edublogs.org/2009/03/25/ed-4134-week-5-teacher-pedagogical-beliefs-and-the-growth-of-enterprise-pedagogy/   http://mail.pittsfield.net/bwli/academy/01919B56-000F6E5A.0/webquest_intro?src=.PNG  (Google in Creative Commons) This week there were two articles to be read, both articles focused on webquests. I understand a webquest to be an interactive web based task, where the teacher has given the students a direction to follow and the students follow the direction, but are given freedom to explore ... http://rvella.edublogs.org/2009/03/19/ed-4134-week-4-some-thoughts-about-webquests-and-the-answer-is-the-question/  Leopard Fever by Crouching Donkey's (Flickr) The Jonassen article titled "What is meaninful learning?" focuses on different ways of conveying information to students to make it meaningful. To start Jonassen makes a valid point about how assessments in schools take form through 'tests'. Students have been conditioned to expect tests when ... http://rvella.edublogs.org/2009/03/11/ed-4134-week-3-meaningful-learning-and-elearning/  Computer Game by Prettywar-stl (Flickr) The article for this weeks blog focused on teachers using the social constructivist theory. The article focused on 8 classroom where teachers taught in a constructivist manner. In the article the teachers were able to communicate their methodology and constructivist teaching philosophy. When I first read ... http://rvella.edublogs.org/2009/03/04/ed-4134-week-2-constructivist-teaching/  "Craning for a book" by Your Guide (Flickr) Here is my Inspiration Concept Map. It is a an overview of both the Prensky article detailing about Digital Natives and Digitam Immigrants and the Bennett et al article which is a critical overview of Prensky's ideas. After reading both articles, I am tending ... http://rvella.edublogs.org/2009/03/04/ed-4134-week-1-digital-natives-vs-digital-immigrants/ It has been 13 weeks of ICT, and i must say that i really enjoyed the workshop. I have learnt many new things that i hope to use when i am teaching. I re-did my personal competency test to see how much i have improved. Check it out, you might ... http://rvella.edublogs.org/2008/05/30/final-ict-review/ Trek 2007... Here is my Photo story. It is title Trek 2007, it is the shortened name for my tour i ventured on last year whilst i was in America. I hope you enjoy it and get a glimpse of what i saw. http://rvella.edublogs.org/2008/05/29/portfolio-item-8-photo-story/ This week in ICT i worked on my photostory. I did not get it finished, so i saved the wrong copy and took it home! I went to open up the program on my computer but my computer failed so i had to go and work another house to finish ... http://rvella.edublogs.org/2008/05/29/weekly-ict-review-week-13/ This is my powerpoint presentation, it represents my inspiration mind map that i completed for portfolio item 6. Powerpoint was quite easy to use, i have been using this program for a while now. I have used the program during high school and for one of my presentations in university. ... http://rvella.edublogs.org/2008/05/26/portfolio-item-7-powerpoint-presentation/