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Category: 1.2 Content Knowledge

Content Knowledge: Using – Candidates demonstrate the ability to select and use technological resources and processes to support student learning and to enhance their pedagogy.

Worked Example Screencast

Worked Example Screencast

Screencasting is something that I believe strongly in. The ability to take a project and make a less than 8 min video on exactly how to do something, I think is a great learning tool. These days if I really want to learn anything, a quick youtube video is my goto. The tough part of this assignment was to come up with something to do a screencast on that has some sort of activity or followup that the students can do as well. I…

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Coherence Analyis

Coherence Analyis

First, I would like to state that after this lesson, I have this Coherence Principle down! Not only have I read (and re-read) the chapter in the Clark and Mayer book but I have researched this principle all over the internet and spent much more time than I expected on answering the questions associated with this assignment. In a nutshell the Coherence Principle states that in order to maximize learning we need make sure that all of the media in…

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6t – A new podcast

6t – A new podcast

Create a podcast was the foundation of the assignment. My first thought was “Oh yeah, I got this.” In 2007 I attended a conference where podcasts were all the rage, heck I even created a podcast back then and coded the XML wrapper,  (however it was only 1 episode and really never went anywhere) years went by and podcasts kind of faded into the background. When I say into the background I mean for the general person who wanted something…

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Educational Technology – A definition

Educational Technology – A definition

The class ended with us reading the definition of Educational Technology as put forth in the book by Alan Januszewski and Michael Molenda based on the AECT. I read the definition (about 14 pages), and then read it again and yet a third time before things really started to click. We were tasked with creating a graphic that would summarize the definition. I have long been a photoshop person, but decided to try my hand at a couple of new…

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