There is a new country song by Brad Paisley and he sings about playing Pac Man at the arcade when he was younger, and now he plays it on his phone. He also talks about being on a video chat with someone from Japan. Both of these mobile technologies have changed the way we see the world… [...]
Archive for December, 2009
ITEC 57430~Mobile Technologies
Posted in ITEC 57430 Discussion Journal, tagged KSU Fall 2009/Dr. Kovalik, mobile technologies on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ITEC 57430~Marc Prensky
Posted in ITEC 57430 Discussion Journal, tagged KSU Fall 2009/Dr. Kovalik, Marc Prensky on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gaming mogul, technology maven, educator, and entrepreneur are just four titles given to describe Marc Prensky in our class discussion. We all did a little background checking on just who Marc Prensky is and what soap box he was speaking from to get his message spread. I chose to read from the man himself on his [...]
ITEC 57430~TPCK
Posted in ITEC 57430 Discussion Journal, tagged KSU Fall 2009/Dr. Kovalik, TPCK on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What in the world is TPCK? I definitely had no clue! So, I started reading about technological pedagogical content knowledge and immediately saw the light–NOT! I had never heard of the word pedagogy before. Maybe I shouldn’t be admitting that since I am a teacher…because I found out that pedagogy was a really fancy word [...]
ITEC 57430~Death by PowerPoint?
Posted in ITEC 57430 Discussion Journal, tagged KSU Fall 2009/Dr. Kovalik, PowerPoint on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Seth Godin shared with us that “Communication is the transfer of emotion” while discussing the proper use of PowerPoint, in his blog. In our discussion about the wonderment of PowerPoint, many possibilities were shared that helped convey many different emotions. Jodi Cooper Wentz said that she used PowerPoint as a sort of revolving bulletin board to make [...]
