MELIScellaneous Media and Tech Blog for Discovery Education/Wilkes University Online classes. I’m getting my Masters in Instructional Media through the program.

Syndicated from My Wilkes.Discovery Education Blog.

Media and Tech Related Blog Entries:

1. Tech Try Out (Recommendation for you) - Wherever I go online this quote seems to be haunting me…in reference to Amazon’s Kindle E-reader, Steve Jobs was quoted as saying: “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last [...]
2. Wow, I sound REALLY paranoid - This week’s readings/discussion about Anchor activities and classroom management have got me thinking. One of my biggest issues in the library is that I am…not in the library. What I mean to say is, I’m split between two buildings, so one week I am at DES and the next week I am at WES. I [...]
3. Teachers’ DI Fears - How timely, I received an email from our union rep this week regarding our school vision/mission plan. The Union has been fighting some of the wording of the plan since the beginning, his they used phrases like “teacher’s responsibility” and they fear something like that will open up the door for merit pay, or effect teachers [...]
4. Resources - This week we had many game sites listed as resources. I have used quia and made a powerpoint game since starting this class, but there are many other templates and ideas I want to check out, so I am listing the links in my blog, so that I can visit them long after the class [...]
5. Tech Try Out: VoiceThread - Why, oh why have I not played with VoiceThread before? I’m really not sure what  thought VoiceThread was, I knew the concept, but if I had known it was this easy I would have been using it like mad. I think back to my time at Harpursville, when I was asked to help create podcasts [...]
6. 503 Tech Tryouts: Introduction Post - I was reading over the blog assignment and found that our blog is more open-ended, a spot to post our thoughts and discoveries as we go through the weeks of our class (in other classes sometimes a specific blog topic has been assigned weekly.) I was watching the news the other day, and they have [...]
7. Differentiating Instruction….in the Library - I just deleted nearly 600 Spam comments on this blog…some of them were…interesting, haha. But we are back in action with the Wilkes/Discovery Blog. This time around I am taking the course “Differentiation Supported by Technology” which is easing me into the world of formal differentiating. I was always more of a adapt as you go [...]
8. The Pieces of PBL Management - In my district all of our lessons are to be designed in a specific nature, be they PBLs or otherwise. We have to start out with a defining question, and goals. When reading about how to organize and manage a PBL this week I was struck by how many thing I already incorporate into my [...]
9. Our Group Project Glog - http://mchrusch.glogster.com/group1-502/
10. It’s all coming together - To make life easier for the poster of this blog (hi!) and the reader (well, hello there, reader, thanks for coming!) I am going to paste in the 2007 NETS . My comments related to how web 2.0 tools (communication, collaboration, and publishing tools) meets these needs will be in bold.. The 2007 NETS are [...]