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(1 to 5 of 5)     [|Edit] | [|Delete] == [|My Last Journal- I Enjoyed Learning With this Group and I will Miss You Dr. D.] == Posted by [|Elisa Jackson] on 11/29/2011 at 11:21 PM, EST.Author Tags: None ( [|Edit] )
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||= =This was a Fantastic Learning Experience = || I have gotten a very well understanding of the contribution of the development of the Web 2.0 technology, and how to use it better to deliver a high quality online learning material.
 * At the beginning of this course I had some knowledge and skills in the mechanical use of the computer technology, but not in the effectiveness of online instruction. This was my main focus when I started on this class. At this point I feel that I have learned the use of the tools and the components that helps in the making the online learning a successful experience. In this course I have had the opportunity to explore and to analyze successful and not very successful learning objects. This course and its assignments have also provided me with the research skills to locate in the Web material that contains great elements that can be integrated in Reusable Learning Object.

To reflect on the effectiveness of this metacognition blog, I would like to say that this style of self reflection is, for me, a great way stop and think of what had been the brain doing all this time when my hands were going all around it, my eyes reading a lot and looking at pictures all sizes and colors, my ears were hearing combination of sounds that were in good or bad balance. Now, with this strategy of a metacognition it is time to reflect if the strategies I use to plan, to process, and to produce and deliver my assignments were the best or if there is room for improvement. And, I can say that there is. There is still one stage left, and that will be the implementation of what I have being working all together from the beginning of this class. I can wait to put all the great skills I learned together with classmates with the guidance of your fantastic experience and dedication to learning in general. I will remember your energy and your passion for learning and teaching. I will remember you, Dr. Sharri Davis you are a fantastic instructor. Thank you, and hope to found you in another one of my learning chapters. ||


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Viewed 8 times. [|Edit] | [|Delete] == [|My Third Journal-I am Learning a LOT!!] == Edited by [|Elisa Jackson] on 11/29/2011 at 11:29 PM, EST.Author Tags: None ( [|Edit] )

||= = I Am Enjoying Learning With this Group !!! =

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 * In this unit I have learned a lot. We have a large number of Web 2.0 tutorials for different multimedia software programs. Some of them allow direct interactivity, and others just are program to create dynamic learning object.

In this unit, I was very happy to create a learning object using a very new tool to me. I used Animoto.

Even though I like my final product, I think that to create an effective learning object, it is necessary for instructors to review as many alternatives and as many as software application it might be necessary to come up with a learning object that is efficient and effective for everyone involved in the learning activity. This can be very stressful, but with the advances in the computer technology and in the digital world, this is complicated in different way, but it justtakes courage and determination to make a difference in our chattering educational system.

I was reading with my husband yesterday about his great-great-grand father, a man with character, a man that did so much in those hard times to keep himself educated, because that was the right thing to do. I bet that it is much easier to ignore all these complicated technology issues, and relax, don’t do, but that is not the human nature and I am so glad I know that by reading Tue, human being are engaged in any learning journeyanything by nature. It just to find the strategy that works better for the learning we want to do. I find that I love learning new things, and I am willing to try as many strategies as there are to improve every day my skills in the use of the technology of the XXI and + Century.

Thank you for reading my post, you radiate positive energy, and I am very privileged to have you as my teacher. Bravo! ||


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Viewed 3 times. [|Edit] | [|Delete] == [|My Second Journal- Everything is going Fine] == Posted by [|Elisa Jackson] on 10/19/2011 at 12:49 AM, EDT.Author Tags: None ( [|Edit] )

|| My experience taking a quiz, At first I wanted to wait until I have read all the chapters to feel better. To tell the true, I love to take the quizzes before I read my material. I love to do that. I think that is is like checking how much I know about a subject. The fact that I needed to take the quiz only once, almost blocked me. I am very emotional about a lot of learning strategies, and learning styles. I love to use discovery education tests, for my students, and I use them for me as well as an indicator of what I still need to put my focus on when I select my reading materials. Discover education has tests that students can take over and over. When I see a student taking the test twice, I have the impression that he is enthusiastic about learning. And doesn't give up. So taking the quiz only one time, keep the sense of assessing myself how much I know about a subject before I get to read what educators say. || I was also very busy with my other class, which had us creaate a long and complex project in two weeks, that was a marathon. || thank you for reading my posts,
 * Attending the seminar is for me more like a social commitment. I was very disappointed on Monday, during the seminar, I loved the way that you bring new and exotic interactive website, but I still prefer a video conference. Taking a quiz, is evaluating how much understanding I have from doing my own reading. I still have hard time with the seminar format from Kaplan. It is frustrating at times. This is due to technology limitations. I know. This last seminar I had some difficulties with my laptop, What had happened is that I bought it in the U.S. and Best Buy here has nothing to do with Best Buy there, and my laptop got a virus, I am afraid.
 * In s synchronous seminar I think that I will feel confident. It is important to be proactive, that is the key think. Being the teacher, the technology used is more powerful than my poor private laptop. So I trust the education department in providing me with the required equipment and I will make sure I feel prepared, that always have helped me to feel conformable. ||
 * Yours are the bestssss! I feel that you are in love of what you do. Once a professor in high school told us that the best teacher is the one that love what he or she does, and Ihave this feelings that you do love teaching and enjoy the challenges. That inspire me. ||
 * Contiguity, I think that designing the layout of a visual is my strength. So I have to say that I agree with all about contiguity, with Clark and Mayer. ||
 * Working in group is my culture! I raced a family based on that principal, I have one son in Peabody the conservatory for the music, at Johhs Hopkins University, and I have a daughter that is a lead in most of what she does. I love working in group, I believe that if teachers, in the US. would consider working in an integrated curriculum would be a good strategy for many new and old, specially if technology is the skill in question.

Elisa ||


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Viewed 7 times. [|Edit] | [|Delete] == [|My First Journal Prior Knowledge=Better Engagement] == Posted by [|Elisa Jackson] on 10/2/2011 at 9:20 PM, EDT.Author Tags: None ( [|Edit] )

|| = **Prior Knowledge=Better Engagement** =

|| Since I started to work as a private school teacher in the year 2005, I got very curious about taking classes online. In the year 2006 I took my first online course: "Technology Instruction to Teach Online Classes." I loved it. My Instructor was very motivating. That was my first time learning from a internet multimedia. Then, I took a job as a Spanish teacher, and I got the great opportunity to use Web 2.0 software applications to enhance teaching. I used SharePoint, the Learning Management system the school just got for enhancing communication with students and students families. Since then I started my enthusiasm with the use of Web 2.0 applications. Today I feel very familiar with the use of Wikispaces, Model, and Blackboard to interchange learning and teaching activities with teachers, students and school community. Working and taking classes online has been very exciting for me because it helps me to communicate with educators in other places and to share with them my experience, my concerns, and learned from them a whole lot. This positively affects my learning experience at this time in my life. As the economy in our country is going through difficult times and my family moving to places where job made us go, being in an online learning program is very convenient for me. It allows me to complete my education and improve my skills for the job market in a 21stCentury. ||
 * Prior knowledge I have about online instruction is minimal. On the other hand, using the computer technology for my work as an architect, I started since the 1990. Then, I was a teacher in an elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia, where I taught fifth-grade students and some teachers the use of computer technology. I also introduced them to the use of Intranet and Internet. I used Netscape then.


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Viewed 20 times. == [|Your Personal Journal (Blog)] == Edited by [|Sherri Davis] on 9/28/2011 at 9:28 PM, EDT.Author Tags: None

The Metacognition Journal (your blog) is a private space for you to journal. Within this course, you will be directed (by way of assignment) to journal. Some students, however, like to journal all the time, randomly which is fine as well. Only you and I (Dr. D.) will have access to the journal entries. I typically read all journals at the end of the week and post my comments. This is not a discussion board. Just a place to journal and share your thoughts based on your writing prompt. To add a new entry, click on the **Add A New Entry** button in the far right hand corner. Be sure the include the following in your signature line each time you blog: Full Name, Blog Wee ||