March 14, 2008Troy Hicks
Sorry that it took so long, but getting back to another crazy week finds me now, on the Friday might before MRA 2008, catching up on SITE.
That said, I have one final set of notes and reflections, and this keynote was a good one. Dr. Antonio Battro, the Chief Education Officer for One Laptop Per [...]
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March 7, 2008Troy Hicks
These are the final three sessions that I will attend at SITE before heading home. I have notes on the keynote and follow-up conversation from this morning that I still need to clean-up and process (as well as a podcast for my presentation from a few days ago). I will get that all done later, [...]
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March 6, 2008Troy Hicks
Reflective Digital Media in Teacher Education
Timo Portimojarvi, University of Tampere, Finland
Developing curriculum of teacher education
Cultural view of curriculum and profession
Historical, cultural, and political objectives
Teachers are social and cultural actors
The development of the curriculum is a practice-based research process
Three-level curriculum model
Personal level – autobiographical and individual process of developing a personal and professional identity
Experiential life world
Streams [...]
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March 6, 2008Troy Hicks
A Digital Storytelling Implementation Experience with Early Childhood Students
Aslihan Kocaman-Karoglu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
What is digital storytelling?
Story telling as an ancient tradition; digital storytelling integrates visual, interactive, and reiterative with constructive ideas
“combining the art of telling stories with some mixture of digital graphics, text, recorded audio narration, video…” B. Robin, 2006
Purpose of the Study
Outlines [...]
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March 6, 2008Troy Hicks
Thinking Creatively: Teachers as Designers of Technology, Pedagogy, and Content (TPACK)
Punya Mishra and Matthew J. Koehler, Michigan State University
Three points to the refrain
Teaching with technology is a wicked problem
Wicked problems need creative solutions
Teachers want to create solutions
Teaching
It is messy: Teaching is always “about something” — the content
Yet every discipline is messy, too — the canon, [...]
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March 5, 2008Troy Hicks
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: The Use of Digital Photography to Enhance Literacy Development in Young Children
Lauren Cummins, Regina Rees, and Kelly Bacroft, Youngstown State University
What do we know about literacy development?
Young children are natural storytellers, and they “write” stories through pictures
Children use pictures to help them remember about their story and be [...]
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March 5, 2008Troy Hicks
Why Do Some Teachers Trust Technology and Some Don’t?
Andrea Francis, Michigan State University
Reasons for Exclusion
Lack of social and institutional support
Lack of funding
Lack of adwquate training for the task
Psychological Factors
Fear of using digital technologies
Inability to overcome “functional fixedness”
Why do some people trust technology and others don’t?
Trust
Measuring trust: benevolence, reliable, competent, honest, openness; vulnerability and confidence of [...]
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March 5, 2008Troy Hicks
Thanks to those of you who attended my session at SITE 2008 on Project WRITE. As promised, here are links to the items discussed in the session:
Project WRITE Wiki
Project WRITE Blog
Presentation on Slide Share
Presentation Podcast
Please leave comments here so we can continue the conversation.
Thanks,
Troy
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March 5, 2008Troy Hicks
This week, I am at SITE 2008, preparing for a presentation on Project WRITE tomorrow. Today, I will try to blog from some of the sessions (as wifi will allow). Here are three sessions on digital storytelling that I attended this morning. (I will also cross-post on the Using Technology to Tell Stories Blog):
An Instructional [...]
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