So, I’ll start by being quite frank and honest, since the first time I heard about podcasting, I’ve been afraid of it. I don’t know why; perhaps its why some people are afraid of the internet and others the ocean. It’s a big, dark, unknown and I have no plan of action for how to [...]
Colleagues, thank you so much for your suggestions pertaining to the Collaborative Project my partner and I are currently engaged in. Your suggestion to check out “Dave’s ESL Cafe” as well as different cyber cafes for instances of preservice teachers reflecting was a huge success. You also suggested researching some Yahoo Chat Groups, which I did and [...]
Collaborative Project Proposal
Purpose
As the standards based movement and high-stakes testing era in the United States grows more popular, the value of teachers’ self-reflections risks being “swept under the table” due to its lack of tangible, quantitative data; however, these reflections offer us, as researchers, a chance to illuminate the importance of continual implementation of [...]
Jens Kjeldsen (2006), in his article The Rhetoric of PowerPoint, makes some very bold, very honest, and very thought-provoking statements. Could PowerPoint presentations be creating a “cognitive overload” for our students? Are we hindering our young students’ knowledge by presenting information on PowerPoint slides with bullets? How are we teaching preservice teachers to use [...]
