http://literacyinece.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:32:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As educators on the cusp of the digital divide, it's likely our children know more about technology than we do. They were born into a world where lexicon like cell phones, twittering, facebook, and google are common place. The same exists with Blogs. As future teachers, we have the opportunity ... http://literacyinece.edublogs.org/2009/09/20/blog-use/ Commentary with Experts in the field:Over the past four months I have been attempting to contact experts in the field to determine where and how preservice teachers are reflecting on their practice. The following three individuals were people I contacted:1) Suzanne Miller at the University of Buffalo.  Below is my email to ... http://literacyinece.edublogs.org/2007/04/24/comments-suggestions-from-experts-in-the-field/ Come check our our new website: http://www.preserviceteacherreflection.edu-a.googlepages.com/home.  We designed this website in attempts to draw more attention to the dearth of research and literature about the places preservice teacher reflect. We also hoped this website might help in the designation of more on-line spaces where preservice teachers' collectively reflect as a ... http://literacyinece.edublogs.org/2007/04/24/preservice-teacher-reflection-website/ Jamie Myers and Richard Beach, in their article Hypermedia Authoring as Critical Literacy (see link to article below), contend there is a need to provide students with myriad strategies for analyzing their "social worlds".  Similarly, I believe students must be provided with the tools to critically evaluate and interrogate the ... http://literacyinece.edublogs.org/2007/04/08/hypermedia-authoring/ I found the following article extremely informative and motivating.  Marc Prensky discusses the issue of teachers needing to meet students in a meaningful way.  The meaningful way, he describes, is speaking and teaching digitally, the way the current generation of studnets is growing up.  We, teacI have attached a link ... http://literacyinece.edublogs.org/2007/04/04/digital-natives-digital-immigrants/ Greetings Fellow Bloggers, Please take a few moments and listen to my podcast. I share, what I believe, to be insightful information which inquiring minds might want to know; however, I also pose some questions which I'm hoping you might be able to help me with. Thanks so much! podcasting-trial.mp3 http://literacyinece.edublogs.org/2007/03/29/you-listen-i-learn/ 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 ... http://literacyinece.edublogs.org/2007/02/21/a-not-so-scary-journy-down-podcasting-lane/ 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 ... http://literacyinece.edublogs.org/2007/02/21/5/ 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 ... http://literacyinece.edublogs.org/2007/02/15/research-proposal/    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 ... http://literacyinece.edublogs.org/2007/02/08/power-pointcognitive-overload/