Comments for Digital Thinking http://www.coetail.com/jbredy Media Explorations Mon, 13 May 2013 07:58:16 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Skills behind Skills by Gwen Martin http://www.coetail.com/jbredy/2013/04/20/skills-behind-skills/#comment-702 Gwen Martin Mon, 13 May 2013 07:58:16 +0000 http://www.coetail.com/jbredy/?p=82#comment-702 It has been great to have you in building so I can run and ask you questions when I get stuck. I am also grateful for our tech team. Poor Paul, he will be glad when I am done with these courses! The courses have made me realize the multi-level steps I will have to prepare students for before giving them a big project. It has also made me realize that there is so much more out there to learn. I am curious about the Google course you took on research. Next!!! It has been great to have you in building so I can run and ask you questions when I get stuck. I am also grateful for our tech team. Poor Paul, he will be glad when I am done with these courses! The courses have made me realize the multi-level steps I will have to prepare students for before giving them a big project. It has also made me realize that there is so much more out there to learn. I am curious about the Google course you took on research. Next!!!

]]> Comment on Skills behind Skills by Jeff Utecht http://www.coetail.com/jbredy/2013/04/20/skills-behind-skills/#comment-690 Jeff Utecht Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:52:38 +0000 http://www.coetail.com/jbredy/?p=82#comment-690 Love that layers of skills and you see why we don't let people just come in at any point. COETAIL is built on these layers and I'm excited that you can see how everything you have done in this program has helped you to get to a point where you can feel like you can do this! We didn't give you everything, but gave you enough to start playing with and see the possibilities. From there it's up to you. Great photo website...nice job club! Love that layers of skills and you see why we don’t let people just come in at any point. COETAIL is built on these layers and I’m excited that you can see how everything you have done in this program has helped you to get to a point where you can feel like you can do this! We didn’t give you everything, but gave you enough to start playing with and see the possibilities. From there it’s up to you.

Great photo website…nice job club!

]]> Comment on Final Project, Course 4 by Jeff Utecht http://www.coetail.com/jbredy/2012/12/09/final-project-course-4/#comment-627 Jeff Utecht Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:38:23 +0000 http://www.coetail.com/jbredy/?p=78#comment-627 The Google Power Search course is a great one and one that I continue to recommend for all teachers. So powerful. Jeff The Google Power Search course is a great one and one that I continue to recommend for all teachers. So powerful.

Jeff

]]> Comment on Managing Laptops by Cheryl Terry http://www.coetail.com/jbredy/2012/12/09/managing-laptops/#comment-626 Cheryl Terry Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:18:06 +0000 http://www.coetail.com/jbredy/?p=76#comment-626 Hi Julie, I agree with you that we have to be careful 'policing' technology. I teach elementary so it's a little different for me and I have very few problems, but if we motivate students then I think most students will make good choices. It takes a change of thinking for some people, but if we emphasize the ideas of respect, responsibility and safety then most students will make the right decisions. The way you're interacting with students helps to manage technology in a much more natural way, and personally, that's the way I think we should manage technology. Hi Julie,
I agree with you that we have to be careful ‘policing’ technology. I teach elementary so it’s a little different for me and I have very few problems, but if we motivate students then I think most students will make good choices. It takes a change of thinking for some people, but if we emphasize the ideas of respect, responsibility and safety then most students will make the right decisions. The way you’re interacting with students helps to manage technology in a much more natural way, and personally, that’s the way I think we should manage technology.

]]> Comment on Student Ownership of Learning by bezygezu http://www.coetail.com/jbredy/2012/12/02/student-ownership-of-learning/#comment-625 bezygezu Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:46:56 +0000 http://www.coetail.asia/jbredy/?p=69#comment-625 I do use the same method in my class room and students love it.I usually show them video which has direct link with the lesson and then students write note on their own .And also they do work sheet after watching the video.I saw their work after the lesson and most of them did impressive work.Lecturing might be boring since they are grade 3 students I am sure they do not have patience to listen to every single thing .However when I give the lesson through video they follow up the lesson with interest plus with out any interruption.Moreover the lesson was concerning digital privacy ,digital foot print and copy right,for me these lessons are pretty crucial to our students since we are talking about digital world. Our kids suppose to know how to respect others,protect themselves and express them selves as well. I do use the same method in my class room and students love it.I usually show them video which has direct link with the lesson and then students write note on their own .And also they do work sheet after watching the video.I saw their work after the lesson and most of them did impressive work.Lecturing might be boring since they are grade 3 students I am sure they do not have patience to listen to every single thing .However when I give the lesson through video they follow up the lesson with interest plus with out any interruption.Moreover the lesson was concerning digital privacy ,digital foot print and copy right,for me these lessons are pretty crucial to our students since we are talking about digital world. Our kids suppose to know how to respect others,protect themselves and express them selves as well.

]]> Comment on Get the Hook by 1 Computer, 1 Document Camera | The Thinking Stick http://www.coetail.com/jbredy/2012/11/18/get-the-hook/#comment-616 1 Computer, 1 Document Camera | The Thinking Stick Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:13:53 +0000 http://www.coetail.asia/jbredy/?p=62#comment-616 [...] was reading and commenting on COETAIL blogs when I came across this blog post from Julie. Julie and Gwen (a teacher and a librarian) work at the American Coopertive School of [...] [...] was reading and commenting on COETAIL blogs when I came across this blog post from Julie. Julie and Gwen (a teacher and a librarian) work at the American Coopertive School of [...]

]]> Comment on Substitution or Modification? by jbredy http://www.coetail.com/jbredy/2012/12/01/substitution-or-modification/#comment-607 jbredy Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:31:36 +0000 http://www.coetail.asia/jbredy/?p=66#comment-607 Thanks for your feedback, Meghan. I appreciated reading how Museum Box strikes you. Thanks for your feedback, Meghan. I appreciated reading how Museum Box strikes you.

]]> Comment on Substitution or Modification? by Meghan http://www.coetail.com/jbredy/2012/12/01/substitution-or-modification/#comment-605 Meghan Sun, 02 Dec 2012 06:20:20 +0000 http://www.coetail.asia/jbredy/?p=66#comment-605 My opinion, for what it’s worth, is that using Museum box would sit comfortably at the modification level. My reasoning? It can’t be substitution, because the items that go into the shadowbox are not physical items, but rather information and ideas garnered from digital sources. I also do not believe that it is augmentation, because even though it is basically taking the idea of a shadowbox and makes it multimedia, it brings more to the table than this with its addition of the viewing audience from other schools. I don’t believe it could be at the top level of redefinition however, because the concept is not a radically new one made possible only with Web 2.0. I’ve never heard of it, but it sounds interesting. I’ll take a look! My opinion, for what it’s worth, is that using Museum box would sit comfortably at the modification level. My reasoning? It can’t be substitution, because the items that go into the shadowbox are not physical items, but rather information and ideas garnered from digital sources. I also do not believe that it is augmentation, because even though it is basically taking the idea of a shadowbox and makes it multimedia, it brings more to the table than this with its addition of the viewing audience from other schools. I don’t believe it could be at the top level of redefinition however, because the concept is not a radically new one made possible only with Web 2.0.
I’ve never heard of it, but it sounds interesting. I’ll take a look!

]]> Comment on Get the Hook by jbredy http://www.coetail.com/jbredy/2012/11/18/get-the-hook/#comment-599 jbredy Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:14:53 +0000 http://www.coetail.asia/jbredy/?p=62#comment-599 I like the design your own library idea. I like the design your own library idea.

]]> Comment on Get the Hook by jbredy http://www.coetail.com/jbredy/2012/11/18/get-the-hook/#comment-598 jbredy Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:13:34 +0000 http://www.coetail.asia/jbredy/?p=62#comment-598 Thanks for all of your thoughts, Jeff. I really like the possibility of using a stop-motion video feature through the doc camera. Thanks for all of your thoughts, Jeff. I really like the possibility of using a stop-motion video feature through the doc camera.

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