Week 4 Final Project Video - The Future of LMS and PLE

Here is my video for the future of LMSs and PLEs...

The UdutuTeach and UdutuLearn pages can both be found on the Facebook social networking site.

Week 4 Comment 3 Tom Kowalewski

Re-finished audio with my own creation from GarageBand. Videos and ScreenFlows are from my personal collections, including the Howard Gardner segment. My District does not allow student access to many websites so I have built the lesson as a separate site, listed third, below. Please let me know what you think as I value your opinions.

My comment:

Tom, as always you have done an excellent job. I recall this lesson from a previous class and am glad you did it again. It is a definite refresher with a way to go at your own pace. I see you really have the hang of manipulating Udutu, which is cool because it is very time and patience consuming. Keep up the great work.

Week 4 Comment 2 Joy Flack

The program was difficult to use but I think with more time it could be efficiently implemented in a fourth or fifth grade classroom. Third graders may struggle unless they were paired with at peer.

My comment:

Joy, your lesson was a great lesson on working within Google documents. The ability for a student to learn to use Google documents as a way of keeping assignments online is valuable when transitioning between school and home. Imagine a world where 'I left my homework at home' as an excuse is obsolete. With the web being everywhere we go, there is no longer a reason for homework not be hosted online.

Only recommendation I have would be about the last PowerPoint presentation transitioning too fast. I couldn't read what was on the slides because the pages turned too fast and I am a pretty fast reader.

Week 4 Comment 1 Kimberly Coast

I just finished creating my UDUTU lesson and am posting it to Facebook and will be setting it up as available to all of my former students who are on my Maestra Coast Facebook page. I am also linking it back here so that anyone who takes the course can also feel free to leave me comments on the lesson here.

My comment:

I liked your Udutu project on the Spanish verb conjugation. It brings back memories of when I took Spanish in high school to further my knowledge of my native tongue. I am now able to read, write, and speak it properly.

I enjoyed the lesson because you were very thorough and anyone taking it would be able to effectively conjugate the verbs. I especially liked your assessment screens. You really got the hang of how to manipulate Udutu...

Nice job!

Week 4: My Udutu project

My Udutu project is for my recipe, Kickin' Bleu Cheese Burgers.

The URL for the project is: http://publish.myudutu.com/published/launcheval/20429/Course36319/Launch.html

Enjoy!!

Week 3 Comment 2 - Amanda Beery

Moodle is a free Course Management System (CMS)that many teachers are using to create online courses for their classes. With the outcome features students can complete tasks on Moodle and receive a grade that the teacher can then use in their grade book. This is good for students as well because they can easily monitor their progress as they complete various activities and desired outcomes. These outcomes can be grades or statements of completion, something students can think of as a list and check them off as they go.

My comment:

Amanda, this system described here reminds me of the Accelerated Reading (AR) tests that my children used to take when they finished certain books they read. The tests would evaluate whether the student’s comprehension of the book was sufficient enough to continue to another book. Whatever grades the student received would be the grade entered into the teacher’s grade book.

I know that I am happy tools such as this exist because it will help me to create lesson plans in the future when I become an instructor. I definitely like the idea of the Hot Potatoes tool as it seems very versatile and I’m sure there is a feature that allows one to print out the exercises, crosswords, etc. created.

Week 3 Comment 1 - Kimberly Coast

Clay Shirky is a visionary with a wonderful speaking style that is open and honest and he relates well with his audience. This reading was all about the future of technology in education. I included his video because it illustrates clearly coordinated group effort and he makes a clear argument for the benefit of that structure.

My comment:

Kimberly, I love your statement, “Students and their parents and communities have a common goal of knowledge, skills, and attitudes”, because that, to me, is the only way for education on any level to succeed. If any of the parties is in contrast to the end goal, the plan will fail and education or an educational tool will be unsuccessful. And for me, this is the concept that is not sufficiently grasped in today’s educational system: “Learners need to be motivated and need to see the reason behind the learning”. If for once, educators would understand that learners need to know why they are learning, as much as they need what they are learning, then perhaps the future of education as we know it would succeed. Learning must change because this question is going unheeded, which in my opinion loses our learners.