Summary of Learning
Instructional Technology 575
Sprin2018
University of Akron
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Thankful to Dr. Savery for this course...
Monday, February 12, 2018
Open Education
Students can download many applications to their mobile devices, and there are many companies that provide educational applications that can be used to enrich knowledge. For example, Apple currently conducts scientific research on the use of mobile devices in the educational environment intensively. In this research, iPods, iPads and iPhones are used to measure their impact on student achievement, and their data have so far proved very successful and strongly support students when using mobile devices in the learning environment.
Students will be able to take photos, record videos, communicate with teachers and colleagues, record lectures, access the Internet, download books and educational applications, enhance their educational experience and many more.
Teachers will oversee the integration of these educational tools efficiently into the course program to make the learning process more smooth and useful. So in my opinion the open education will be the future of learning.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Sharing
We discussed the importance of sharing. So, when a teacher shares an idea or a way of doing something with another teacher, it will help them shape the idea better, and then when they share their idea with another teacher who may be outside the scope of their school - through social media for example, that would be contributes to the benefit of others and may benefit from other experiences that may improve and develop their idea for the better.
Friday, February 23, 2018
Copyright and fair use
In this huge improvement and spread of technologies at everywhere such as Trading, industry, medicine, and Education, there are many of ways to share every knowledge through the internet. Anyone can find a beautiful picture, amazing video, nice music, or important information that could help with their research. Some people will use anything of these without ask the permission from the owner. In this case This would be the unfair use, so we must use and share the content under just the fair use. We can exchange the knowledge under the law of Copyright and fair use.
We have to know the rule of get anything from the internet, and we have to realize that each file on web has an owner. The owner could be corporation, government, or person. therefore, we must follow the rules that belong for the internet law. For example, copy a single copy of a document of personal would be a fair use, but no more that paper without permission from the owner and so on about picture, videos, and music that are belong with different rules. Nowadays, Copyright and Fair Use is one of sciences that still not understand to some people. We should explain that very clear to our community, students, employee and our family too.
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Cool Tool #1
One of the Cool Tool that could be very useful in education is the Nearpod. It customizable and ready-to-teach interactive lessons for all K-12 grades. Engage students one-to-one by synchronizing your lessons across all student devices in the classroom or home, and get real-time feedback on their comprehension. It can offer many different lessons either from teachers or experts of Nearpod. These lessons leverage research-based instructional best practices. Nearpod can help each teachers and students to create their lessons and get the interaction about their lessons, all what you need is create an account in www.nearpod.com , create lesson title and give the learner the code to allow them log-in to the lesson, and you will get the all interaction and the feedback in same moment.
All the learners can you use their personal computer, school computer lab, smart devices. Nearpod can work in both cellphones systems IOS and Android through these links: for IOShttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nearpod/id523540409?mt=8 for Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.panareadigital.Nearpod&hl=en .
Learn more about Nearpod In this Youtube.
Thank you...
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Blended Learning
In the class of Instructional Technology we use the blended learning through ourselves and through Brightspace that University offered it for students, in contrast, the ineffective ways just workgroups.
I believe that the blended learning now is one of most way that help students to improve their skills and get the maximum benefits from their subjects that they learned it in school. This kind of learn depends on tools of technology such as, personal computer, smart devices This kind of learning gives many opportunities to students to choose the right way to learn. Student can work alone or in work group, also students have all day to keep learning with their teachers through the internet, get feedback about their learning and grades. Teachers can assist students all the time through blended learning. Parents can monitor their kid’s skills, grades and connect with school.
The most striking thing that I took from Stacy's presentation was when she defines the blended learning and how can student control their time, place, path and pace. The models that she mentioned were very clear and it help with blended learning, also she described the variety drivers of blended learning very well. She covered most details Mindsets, qualities, adaptive skills and technical skill. I think it will effect on my learning, because I will follow all the blended learning to have most abilities and skill that help improve my self during my educational journey.
The Cool Tool that I explained it in the last blog about Nearpod is very related with Blended Learning because it depend on the learn from any place, time, and devices. Visit my blog about Nearpodhttp://salehmohammad3.blogspot.com/2018/02/cool-tools.html.
3-3-2018
Cool Tool #2
Visually's mission is helping you create visual content. It is a platform that help users (companies, teachers...) to create many kinds of visual methods which connect with their clients (customers, students,) in perfect and attractive way.
The methods that users can use it with their clients are: Videos, Infographic, E.Book, Reports & Persantations, Social Media Content, Intractive Microsites, and Illustrations.
1.VIDEOS:
produce animated videos
2.INFOGRAPHICS
(beautiful infographic design)
3.EBOOK & EGUIDES
(writers and designers to create eBooks)
4.REPORTS & PERSENTATIONS
create presentations and slideshows that make a big impression
5.SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT
create micro content and social media images that shine
6.INTRACTIVE MICROSITES
design and build captivating interactive microsites
7.ILLUSTRATION
create images that get results
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Digital Citizenship
Digital Citizenship is a concept that helps teachers, technology leaders and parents understand what students / children / technology users should use appropriately. Where digital citizenship is not just an educational tool, it is much larger than that where it is a way to prepare students using technology for a true technological community. And to address the students 'and adults' abuse of technology.
In my digital life I often do not share content that may cause me a problem despite the many temptations in the internet sea. I used this digital world mostly in education and job, so I did not try to hurt any user on the net. I realize that the Internet is now a real world full of good people and bad people. Therefore, I advise my students and family to exercise caution while using the Internet regardless of the program used.
3-12-2018
COOL TOOL #3
Picbash is one of the many applecations that can help with make pictures, you can add photos from Facebook, create a custom pic and then share it with friends on Facebook or send.
Digital Learning Spaces
In my opinion I think that the good learn space have to have these points to improve the students skills and provide them with all knowledges in school environment, these point are:
· Effective: Provides many materials that are dealt with in manual work and are explored ..
· Elasticity: Provides multiple options for: learning experiences, ways to form groups of children, and learning space.
· Interactive: Adults and children discuss and ask questions and discuss the following among them.
· Resource-rich: Materials that encourage children to think, solve problems, respond and innovate.
· Respectful: Accepts different beliefs, perspectives and abilities in a partnership-based relationship.
· Collaborative: multiple roles for all.
I think University of Akron for example, have provided these factors for their students beside the electronic ways either Brightspace or social networks. In addition, google for example have offered Google apps to help learner such as Google classroom.
3-19-2018
COOL TOOL #4
Audiotool
Audiotool
Audiotool is a powerful online DAW right in your browser with a built-in publishing platform to share your creations.
Build your arrangement by dragging the devices to the desktop and connect them with virtual cables.
All device settings can be saved as a preset and be shared with the community resulting in more than 50.000 presets for the various devices.
Choose from more than 380.000 samples in the ever expanding community fed cloud based sample library.
Use the various routing & mixing tools to build up complex signal chains only limited by your imagination.
What you get:
Synths & Sampler
Pulverisateur - modular polyphonic synthesizer
- 3 OSC
- Audio In
- Filter unit
- LFO unit
- Filter & Amp modulators
- 17000+ user generated presets
Heisenberg - PM synthesizer
- 4 OSC
- 49 different Waveforms
- Modulation Matrix
- 3 Envelopes
- Pitch Envelope
- 2 LFO
- 19000+ user generated presets
Machiniste - sample player / drum machine
- 9 sample slots
- individual Filter for each slot
- individual Envelopes for each slot
- Built-In matrix sequenzer
- 8000+ user generated presets
Vintage Line
Beatbox 8 & 9
- vintage Rhythm Composers with the classical sound & controls you would expect
Bassline
- vintage Bass line player with the classical sound & controls you would expect
Effects
- Rasselbock - resampling groove shifter
- 2 band graphical EQ
- Autofilter
- Exciter
- Stereo Enhancer
- Tube Distortion
- Stereo Detune
- Slope
- Reverb
- Pitch Delay
- Phaser
- Parametric EQ
- Gate
- Flanger
- Delay
- Crusher
- Compressor
- Chorus
Tools
- Splitter
- Merger
- 16 Ch Mixer / 2 AUX channels / 3band EQ
- 4 Ch Minimixer / 1 AUX channel
- Crossfader
- Audiotrack
Sequenzer
- audio regions
- note regions
- automation regions
- pattern regions
- selectable region colors
- inplace audio editing
- MIDI file import
- Web MIDI API support
- global shuffle
You can add as many devices to the desktop as your computer can handle and build up complex arrangements.
Since every parameter on any device can be automated through the use of automation regions in the timeline of the sequenzer, you are free to build up whatever you imagine without being restricted by the tools you use.
3/25/2018
COOL TOOL #5
ThingLink Inc. is a Finnish-American provider of in-image interaction tools. ThingLink, launched in 2010 and led by Ulla Engeström and Janne Jalkanen, develops tools for image interaction that allow content sharing via online images.
This app can provide for many services, for example:
Education
ThingLink’s image interaction technology helps students become fluent in
using digital media to express themselves and demonstrate their learning.
With ThingLink, teachers and students can easily create interactive
infographics, maps, drawings, and engaging 360 documentaries in a
classroom setting, at home, or on field trips.
It can help teacher
Hint on ThingLink
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Productivity Tools
The importance of technology in education is very important in that it plays the role of productivity to the teacher by directing the correct direction in the presentation of the material and communicating it to students in an easy and clear manner, thus increasing the ability of students to receive information in a simpler and faster way. Compared to the traditional methods used in the field of education, which leads to help them to obtain higher scientific achievement than ever before, in addition to the fun obtained by the student when studying modern means and methods. When students use modern technologies such as computers, the goal of using them is purely scientific by using them as a mentor and an electronic teacher, helping them through various programs and different functions as well as acquiring new talent and developing and strengthening mental abilities in scientific subjects as well as the large role played by the Internet which allows students to participate in many different educational activities through the process of information exchange and search in all ways. Technology is a major source of access to the abundant information needed by both the teacher and the student. At present, the Internet has become one of the most important sources through which diverse information is obtained such as access to encyclopedias, dictionaries, maps and other important and necessary applications in various fields, these applications cannot be obtained through different traditional methods and its importance is that it saves a lot of time and effort when searching for the information it needs. Technology is an important source in the communication process between the student and the teacher through communication through social networking sites and other places dedicated to talk, so that the student can talk to his teacher sitting at his home in front of the computer screen, in addition to their ability to dialogue and discussion with regard to in science, in which case the technology connects students to teachers, and connects teachers with each other.
Thursday, April 5, 2018
I think that one of the most important questions to consider at the beginning of the classroom is how useful these tools are in achieving the goal of learning. Because the more tools are combined, the more the sense was more exciting and exciting. It may be exciting but it is very detailed and therefore the teacher must have the abilities and competencies that enable him to employ them. Based on the above, it can be said that there are a number of technical standards such as computers and smart board, as well as administrative standards such as running the classroom well in terms of seating arrangements and taking into account the time and Educational in terms of justice in the distribution of tasks among students and the importance of participation of all. So, these elements are very important at the beginning of the classroom.
The tools have many positive features that contribute to the goal of learning, including raising students' attention to the lesson, as well as moving away from the boring routine used in the traditional way of the teacher and known as the delivery and indoctrination. So, the use of tools within the classroom is an effective way to improve the level of students.
The selection of techniques to enhance teaching methods must be built on many elements to achieve the benefit of these techniques. For example, a lesson in explaining apple fruit needs to bring a real apple and dissect it or go to an apple farm and see the fruit in fact. One of the factors that contributes to the selection of the appropriate technology is to know the capabilities of students and their absorption of content through this technique, for example, cannot use the microscope to explain the cells of apple plant to the first-grade students!
After my full knowledge of this content I find that it is not difficult to achieve the objectives of education in the use of this Technology, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge, but my question, what is the impact of the absence of one of these elements on the achievement of students? I think that in my view, the absence of one of these elements will lead to the disappearance of what the students learned in school and the information will be lost over time.
Friday, April 13, 2018
E-BOOK
Despite the great advantages of electronic books in terms of ease of access, ease of use, attractiveness and storage, but in my opinion, may affect the ability of students to master the skill of handwriting, where is relying entirely on electronic devices and thus less reliance on handwriting, which will affect This is definitely about the writing skills of students. Students will give full focus to e-books that will also affect students' reliance on the teacher in class, which may frustrate the teacher and feel insignificant! E-books from my point of view should be an aid to both the teacher and the student.
Therefore, the time and content required in the e-book should be determined for the student to obtain the desired benefit from the lesson. Therefore, when electronic books are designed by the students and supervised by the teacher, appropriate objectives will be set and educational goals will be achieved. I see that e-books designed by students are the best.
The use of e-books, the quality of the devices used and their suitability for the age group of students should be taken into consideration. These books should contain all the elements of the lesson in order to ensure that the objectives of the lesson are realized. Other students are writing by hand or reading from paper books.
