Monday, June 27, 2011
Multimodal Learning Principals
My rankings for the Multi modal Learning Principles are as follows:
1. (1) Multimedia Principle - Pictures are important. It gives something to go along with the words.
2. (5) Modality Principle - Animation w/ narration rather helps keep the students tuned in to what is being taught. Animation with on-screen text will provide the opportunity for the student to zone off.
3. (6) Redundancy Principle - I think redundancy is important. If something is repeated over and over, it is remembered.
4. (3) Temporal Contiguity Principle - When you think of the word correspond, you think together. The words and pictures need to be together.
5. (2) Spatial Contiguity Principle - Almost the same thing as Temporal Contiguity Principle. The pictures and words need to be together.
I eliminated (4) Coherence Principle. I strongly disagree that students learn better when extraneous words, pictures, and sounds are excluded rather than included. Students need something to go along with the words to help them remember.
1. (1) Multimedia Principle - Pictures are important. It gives something to go along with the words.
2. (5) Modality Principle - Animation w/ narration rather helps keep the students tuned in to what is being taught. Animation with on-screen text will provide the opportunity for the student to zone off.
3. (6) Redundancy Principle - I think redundancy is important. If something is repeated over and over, it is remembered.
4. (3) Temporal Contiguity Principle - When you think of the word correspond, you think together. The words and pictures need to be together.
5. (2) Spatial Contiguity Principle - Almost the same thing as Temporal Contiguity Principle. The pictures and words need to be together.
I eliminated (4) Coherence Principle. I strongly disagree that students learn better when extraneous words, pictures, and sounds are excluded rather than included. Students need something to go along with the words to help them remember.
Senses and Memory
Explain how the reading expanded your knowledge of how we use our senses and memory interact with the world.
The reading expanded my knowledge in the way that I did not know that senses and memory had anything to do with multi-tasking. I guess I had never thought about it very much because most of the time when you are multi-tasking, you don't think about what you are doing...you just do it.
Provide some examples of the various types of memory from your academic career.
In my academic career, I use working memory mostly in math. Since working memory is where thinking gets done. Math is a process and you really have to think when solving a math problem. I use sensory memory when studying for a test. I have a process when studying for a test and I think my brain involuntarily remembers things because of the way I study. I use long term memory by studying as well. After all, that is why we study in the first place...to remember, right?
How has this class so far interacted with your existing scheme of instructional technology?
This class has shown me how to integrate different types of technology into the classroom.
Multitasking: Fact or fiction based upon your reading?
Fact. I believe that no matter if you are working at a job, cooking dinner, studying for a test or taking notes for a class...you are multi-tasking. We do it everyday.
The reading expanded my knowledge in the way that I did not know that senses and memory had anything to do with multi-tasking. I guess I had never thought about it very much because most of the time when you are multi-tasking, you don't think about what you are doing...you just do it.
Provide some examples of the various types of memory from your academic career.
In my academic career, I use working memory mostly in math. Since working memory is where thinking gets done. Math is a process and you really have to think when solving a math problem. I use sensory memory when studying for a test. I have a process when studying for a test and I think my brain involuntarily remembers things because of the way I study. I use long term memory by studying as well. After all, that is why we study in the first place...to remember, right?
How has this class so far interacted with your existing scheme of instructional technology?
This class has shown me how to integrate different types of technology into the classroom.
Multitasking: Fact or fiction based upon your reading?
Fact. I believe that no matter if you are working at a job, cooking dinner, studying for a test or taking notes for a class...you are multi-tasking. We do it everyday.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Self Portrait
An issue I encountered was going back into portrait after I had already saved it. I wanted to add some color to it but there was nothing to click on to edit the portrait. The link to the site is http://www.picassohead.com/. Next you will find the link to my self portrait. http://www.picassohead.com/search.html?submitted=1&where=&query=self+portrait+-+kelly+maze&x=0&y=0&selected=1237986
Snipping Tool
I have used the snipping tool to have easy access to a feature on fairmontstate.edu. I think it will be helpful to have it on my desktop since I do not have to go into another program to get into it. Students will learn that the snipping tool will useful for easy access.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Dale's Cone
Dale's Cone of Experience might be of interest to someone in an instructional technology course because it is credited for the original linkage between instructional theory and communications media.
I think Dale's Cone of Experience is "nonsense". I say this because not everyone remembers things the same way. Everyone is different in so many ways. We all have seen this when we study for a test. I remember by writing things over and over again. The person next to me might remember by making flash cards. The Cone is not accurate.
I think Dale's Cone of Experience is "nonsense". I say this because not everyone remembers things the same way. Everyone is different in so many ways. We all have seen this when we study for a test. I remember by writing things over and over again. The person next to me might remember by making flash cards. The Cone is not accurate.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Web Browsers
To be honest, I really did not know what a web browser was until this class. The only web browser I actively use or have used is Internet Explorer. I was not aware that Moxilla FireFox or Safari were web browsers. I find them useful since you have to have them to browse the internet. Web browsers help you find the sites that you are not sure of the name of the actual website. I currently use many addons, such as popup blockers, which is required by Blackboard. My experience with addons is pretty neutral. I am leary of some addons because you don't know if they contain a virus or something else that may harm your computer. Other addons are for the most part, cooperative. Most of them work smoothly and others either take a lot of time to install or make my computer function slowly. This activity matches starnard A:promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness. It also matches starndard C: promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes. This activity matchs standards A and C because it helps them learn more being creative and to be inventive. Also, it help promote student reflection by having them reflect what they have learned by using collaborative tools to show their creative process.
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