tech 1:1 week 4

First I'd like to speak to this week's videoes. Brave New World in its delightfully unusual presentation made a statement that I will tape on top of my computer, "See opportunties rather than obstacles" to help me if the frustration level rises when I can't make some tech skill work the way I want it to. Then the video went on to show the place of technology in the 21st century. I was afraid that the author would place technology in the center of the educational wheel. But it placed it as one of the spokes in the wheel. This too made a positive impression on me.

Now, in my head, I just need to try to understand what in education is no longer important -- handwriting, reading hardcopy books, grammar -- because I am seeing them all fade in importance.

Second: public domain vs privacy and the role of the teachers. I would ask first and foremost that parents be added to that topic. Schools must take on parent education in technology before anything that we do in schools has any lasting effect.

What would/should be published in newspapers/magazines or shown on TV might be good beginning guidelines to help students understand public domain.

We need students to know that:

• what they put into cyberspace never disappears and that it could come back and interfer with their lives at a later date.


• what they can't say to a person face to face has no place being sent out via technology


• what personal data/images that are posted can be accessed by people who will use it for dangerous purposes....financial, moral, physical


• what we take from cyber space needs to be credited just as one acknowledges sources from books


• what is in cyberspace is often not edited for authenticity, accuracy


• they will be drown with information from wonderfully exciting sources


• that it is easy to feel swamped


• that it will be tempting to just grab some information and stick it in a report without being critical consumers

The first step is that we as teachers see these trouble spots and now we must step back and teach more HOW and even less WHAT

tech 1:1 week 3

What I crave is a vehicle to get biographies of pertinent artists and examples of their work on the laptops of all the students in a grade. Since I have so little time with the classes, I would like to have kids have home access where they have time to read, observe, reflect and write. Thus Google Docs is fine for written observations. Am I right in thinking that this Blog is the most efficient forum for the display of pictures?

tech 1:1 week 2 The continued saga of uploading images

Well, at least I got it on the post albeit sideways! ;-)

Tech 1:1 week 2

welcome to MS art is smart!

[1] The main differences between gmail and eunet fall into 2 categories. First positive , gmail has universalityof access which eunet webmail does not have. Gmail has numerous added features and large storage capacity.

Second negative , I personally find gmail extremely clumsy for the novice. I feel its heaviness to move around. The toolbar is spread all over the inbox. When I want to "reply", it's hard to delete just part of the correspondence. But I will learn it.

When I tried to import contacts, it picked up my whole isb webmail account and moved it over into my gmail account, and it keeps doing this periodically.



[2 and 3] I can envision using blogs as a learning tool in art. Blogs would be a way of giving information on artists AND examples of their work for the students to study and write about as a home assignment.