My Final Reflections

I have come a long way! I really feel empowered and confident with all the tools I have mastered in this class. I must say that at times it was challenging and sometimes frustrating especially working on my second podcast when I had trouble balancing the voice level. New technology has always intimidated me, so hearing about audacity and lame literally scared me and the wealth of information really overwhelmed me! However, after countless trials and errors, I feel like I have accomplished a lot!

My favorite projects included Digital Story I, Podcast1 and Educational Poster. I enjoyed working on digital story 1 because in addition to learning how to use the tools, I was also able to reflect on my life past and present and make a promise to myself to balance my life and paint more, since the story was about my paintings and the joy it brought me. I especially liked podcasting since it would allow students that are uncomfortable in front of the classroom to express themselves on digital radio. I had a lot of fun creating my first podcast which was based on dialect from my country. It was both nostalgic and entertaining for me. I believe my students will have a lot of fun using this tool to express themselves. I will definitely be teaching my students to create informational posters for future projects like anti smoking campaign and “go green “campaign etc. I really enjoyed exploring my creativity while creating my let’s podcast educational poster.

I must also add that it was fun interacting with Will Richardson as a class, especially since skyping was new to me.

My least favorite project was the Wiki, maybe because in the beginning I did not fully comprehend how we were supposed to present the information. Then again, we were the second group to present and did not have a lot of time to collaborate with each other as a group.It went well though...and my team mates Robin and Linda were fun to work with.

Finally, I am happy that I took this class, since I have learnt all these new tools to use in my classroom. Although it was very challenging at times, the final product made me feel really confident enough to teach it to my students and to include it in my instruction.

Let's Podcast!! Educational Poster

Informational poster (shu)revised6

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I chose podcasting as the topic for my educational poster. It will be a great tool to use in my marketing class, especially when I am cover advertising. I believe my students will have a lot of fun recording and listening to their commercials on a podcast.

I was able to incorporate some of the theories that we covered in class including Information Processing and Visual Literacy in my poster.

Information processing theory was used to chunk information into smaller parts for easy recall. I used a consistent font to make material legible and used color for visual impact. I also used a white font on a solid background for the title to grab the viewer's attention and to draw them to the poster.

Finally,for Visual literacy, the images were all used to connect and associate with the topic of podcasting. For example, the Mp3 and Audacity logo will serve to connect the viewer to digital media.

Episode 2 " Worse Than Work"

References
Mayaro Beach
http://www.tobago.world-guides.com/tobago_beaches.html
Macaw,(1959): Worse than Work. Caribbean Child.
http://berdina.tripod.com/macawworse.htm

Music :
http://wynia.org/wordpress/2005/08/free-music-loops-for-your-podcasts
Zouking
http://downloads.flashkit.com/loops/Ethnic/Carribean/Zouking-Bil_Brya- 5078/Zouking-Bil_Brya-5078_hifi.mp3
Island Beat
http://downloads.flashkit.com/loops/Ethnic/Carribean/Island_B-Mugeek_- 10403/Island_B-Mugeek_-10403_hifi.mp3

Podcast: Episode1:Yuh know yuh is a Trini if........

References
Douglas, K, Paul. Party Poop. Website http://berdina.tripod.com/ahtrini.htm
"You know yuh is a Trini if...." Caribbean Child. Website http://berdina.tripod.com/ahtrini.htm

Image http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/images/flags/trinidad-flag.gif

Digital Story 2:Coping With Alcoholism-A family's journey:

Questions for Will Richardson

Hello Mr. Richardson,
I am begining to feel very empowered with all the web tools that I can use in my classroom  and am very excited to share this with my students.Until I signed up for this course,and started reading your book, I had no idea that there were so many tools at my disposal. My questions are:

1. How do I encourage other teachers to embrace these powerful tools so that all students could benefit?


2. Since I teach Marketing in a High School where my students sometimes create commercials etc, which web tool would you highly recommend for this type of activity?

Thank you!
Sue Fermin

Sue's Artistic Journey-Digital Story 1

Sue's Visual Vocabulary Assignment

Visual vocabulary assignment

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The Information Processing Theory

The information-processing theory is associated with the development of high-speed computers in the 1950s. Researchers—most notably Herbert Simon and his colleagues—demonstrated that computers could be used to simulate human intelligence. This development led to the realization that computer-oriented information-processing models could provide new insight into how the human mind receives, stores, retrieves, and uses information. The information-processing theory was one of several developments that ended the decades-long dominance of behaviorism in American psychology. It focused on innate mental capacities, rather than on conditioned, externally observable behavior. By enabling experimental psychologists to test theories about complex mental processes through computer simulation, information-processing models helped reestablish internal thought processes as a legitimate area of scientific inquiry.

The information processing system works in quite the similar way of the computer. The external stimulus comes into the first component of the memory system -- the sensory register. Without extra reinforcement, the information received by sensory register will exist in memory only for a couple of seconds. As soon as outside input is received by the senses, the mind starts processing it according to our experiences and mental state, namely the initial processing or perception. The perceived information is transferred to the second memory component -- short-term memory, which, with a limited capacity, can hold information for only about thirty seconds. After rehearsal and coding, the maintained information is transferred to long-term memory. Once information is stored in long-term memory, it can last for quite a long time, even for a lifetime although we may lose the ability recall the information. Theorists usually divide long-term memory into three parts: episodic memory, semantic memory, and procedural memory.

References
Hetherington & Parke, (1999).Child Psychology: A Contemporary Viewpoint, 5th ed.
New York: McGraw-Hill
Lindsay, Peter H. (1977).Human Information Processing: An Introduction to Psychology. San
Diego: Academic Press.
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~foreman/itec800/finalprojects/annie
/infoprocessingmodel.html
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/information-processing-theory.html

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