Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Friday, November 2, 2012
Excellent Pronunciation site... use these videos and become a great teacher
When I find an excellent pronunciation website, I think, "Wow, I wish I had created a site like that!"
http://www.rachelsenglish.com/videos/vowels
It's worth it. Why not hit her videos?
Thursday, February 16, 2012
technology and the heart... remember the pencil!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/technology/technology-in-schools-faces-questions-on-value.html?pagewanted=all
Engaging With Paper
“I start with pens and pencils,” says Ms. Furman, 41, who is short and bubbly and devours young-adult novels to stay in touch with students. Her husband teaches eighth grade in the district, and their son and daughter are both students.
At the beginning of the school year, Ms. Furman tries to inspire her students at Aprende Middle School to write, a task she says becomes increasingly difficult when students reach the patently insecure middle-school years.
In one class in 2009 she had them draw a heart on a piece of paper. Inside the heart, she asked them to write the names of things and people dear to them. One girl started to cry, then another, as the class shared their stories.
It was something Ms. Furman doubted would have happened if the students had been using computers.
“There is a connection between the physical hand on the paper and the words on the page,” she said. “It’s intimate.”
Any comments about creating a "complaint desk" about Instructional Designers and Technologists?
Wouldn't it be nice if we teachers could complain about a design of an online curriculum or post a comment on a central association website that tracks the work of professionals?
...if I have a lousy experience with a mechanic, I can warn others to stay away by leaving a post on www.CarTalk.com. If I don't like how a lawyer treated me, I can lodge a complain with Better Business Bureau and the bar association. I can even sue the guy....
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ISPI (International Society for Performance Improvement)
ISPI's vision is that members have the proficiency and insight to customize Human Performance Technology to meet the needs and goals of their organizations and clients, so that the members are recognized as valued assets. ISPI's mission is to develop and recognize the proficiency of its members and advocate the use of Human Performance Technology. IPSI provides exclusive resources such as PI, PIQ, PerformanceXpress journals, job and resume posting services in aCareer Center, and conference discounts to its members. ISPI also provides the instructional design community with development opportunities such as the CPT (Certified Performance Technologist) as well as professional conferences, institutes, and webinars. ISPI also has multiple state chapter organizations throughout the United States. ISPI is a wonderful instructional design organization that also offers podcasts on human performance improvement topics.
Talk with Phil Harris AECT about “how to complain about an Instructional Technologist”
I asked Phil Harris if there was a way to complain about an instructional designer or an instructional technologist who has produced substandard work (or who claimed to follow high standards and the product does not produce the results in my classroom). Can I complain somewhere to try to produce some sort of response?
For example I made some recommendations to an online curriculum and spoke with someone who claimed to be able to relay suggestions to the designers of the course, and I haven’t seen any change to the questions that I worried about. How do we get bad apples out fo the profession? How do we get improvements in existing courses? How can we complain to embarrass a vendor into improving content?
Here is what Phil Harris shared with me -- it’s a rough capture of his words to me. Phone call 15 February 2012…
Notes from talk with Phil Harris, AECT
We have a number of Instructional Design models that people will go to great lengths to defend. “If you follow this design model, you will get this outcome.” There is some research that would support those claims.
What you are looking for is analogous to an attorney who did not represent you effectively, you could file a complaint with the bar association… or with the medial profession or with a pharmacist. Or a CPA but we have nothing like that in much of education. Of course, with moral behavior, there can be sanctions. In much of education, a discussion of competent professional behavior is not addressed.
I’d be curious about what kind of response a query to a listserve might get even if you want to post a question to me and I’ll distribute it to the leadership of the association (AECT).
It doesn’t have to just be a division listserve through the AECT organization – it could be wider…
It would be interesting to see if there are others who want to see a procedure to identify good and bad technologists and designers.
The AECT standards address teacher PREPARATION courses, not actual teacher certification. We don’t address instructional design. ASTD and ISPI might be alternatives. ISPI has the best set of standards for instructional design. They are not national, regionally or locally recognized for certification, which is a state function. No state is using their standards currently to register designers as a profession or to regulate the profession.
(end of my notes of conversation with Phil Harris)
(I THINK PHIL HARRIS MENTIONED “ISPI” BUT IT SOUNDED LIKE “ITSIPI”…
Comments by McCrea
Note: a teacher’s certification can be suspended…for professional reasons, or ethical/moral grounds.
Posted by McCrea on ITDE closed Facebook (you can join the group by search “ITDE” on facebook. And put in a request…
This post also appears on my personal website www.sites.google.com/site/EDDSteve2011 and my blog.
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Items to share...
Reference... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructional_design
http://www.instructionaldesigncentral.com/htm/IDC_instructionaldesignsites.htm
From a website BEGIN QUOTE
ISPI (International Society for Performance Improvement)ISPI's vision is that members have the proficiency and insight to customize Human Performance Technology to meet the needs and goals of their organizations and clients, so that the members are recognized as valued assets. ISPI's mission is to develop and recognize the proficiency of its members and advocate the use of Human Performance Technology. IPSI provides exclusive resources such as PI, PIQ, PerformanceXpress journals, job and resume posting services in aCareer Center, and conference discounts to its members. ISPI also provides the instructional design community with development opportunities such as the CPT (Certified Performance Technologist) as well as professional conferences, institutes, and webinars. ISPI also has multiple state chapter organizations throughout the United States. ISPI is a wonderful instructional design organization that also offers podcasts on human performance improvement topics.
END QUOTE from the website instructionaldesigncentral.com
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Day 1 The Group Project -- 500 Videos and Websites
Day 1, Week 1, Day 1
1.1
Good morning.
We will meet this week 3 days
next week 5 days
week 3 = 4 days MLK DAY (what is M L K? )
week 4 = 5 days
week 5 = 5 days.
We have 22 meetings.
This photo shows a comet. It is a cool video. You can find it on youtube...
1. We are an English - Language program in a normal US high school.
2. We will learn new words by speaking, presenting information and listening.
3. We will collect new words with a simple system -- a sheet of paper. each day, turn in a sheet of paper with words.
4. We will set up
5. We use a system here call the IB. what are the ten words above the white board?
6. There are ten activities and questions. We don't need to do all of them, but you can go to the youtube channel and see these activities.
youtube.com/FreeEnglishLessons
7. In 5 weeks the teacher gives a report -- a letter grade with comments.
8. How do you get points? You can earn up to 20 points each day.
22 meetings x 20 = 440. 20 points for the group project, 40 points for an individual project.
9. Group Project: we will complete this project by Jan. 12. We have 8 days. We will collect 500 videos and websites that You Should see before you graduate high school.
(20 points)
when you find a website or video that inspires you or motivates you or educates you, then send the link to BIBPenpals@yahoo.com and write at least 5 sentences about the site or video.
a) What are the SEARCH WORDS to find the site or video?
b) Why did you select this site?
c) What is in the site or video?
d) What is NOT in this video?
e) Who will benefit from this video? What is the main topic?
Example
a) Dan Heath Change
b) I selected this video because I don't make changes very easily. I need motivations to push me and to encourage students to change. That's my job, asking people to change. I'm a teacher.
c) There is a guy who talks simply, clearly and gently. He does not shout. The message is simple: Show something that makes people feel something, so then they get the energy to change. Don't educate the person. He gives an example about smoking. People know that smoking can hurt you, but they continue to smoke and they don't change. Why? Dan Heath explains.
d) You won't find loud music, fancy graphics or special effects. It's a simple message and it has changed the way I teach and how I ask people to change their behavior.
e) Teachers need this. Students who want to influence others (don't we all?) will find it useful.
10. Individual Project (40 points): Choose something that really interests you.
That's enough for today. We can talk more -- you need to email me every day to get points. Look at the board to get the points.
tomorrow we will talk about how to get more points.
If you have more than 500 points, you can turn them in to me and I will turn those points into trees. 10 points = 1 tree. (planted in the tropics, perhaps in Honduras).
My email is FreeEnglishLessons@gmail.com -- send me a message each day.
Group project: send the links to BIBPenpals@yahoo.com
Text me, call me, get points.
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