My EDM 310 Blog Assignments are now complete

This semester was a very enjoyable time and thank you for making the class enjoyable for 2 hours and 30 min. Also have a great summer.

The Last Post

The EDM 310 class was very enjoyable. some of the things that I learned include some of the Word and Excel Functions. One of the things that really helped during the class were the video lessons on the blog. the best thing about them is if you miss some thing all you have to do is rewind the video and watch the missed part again. I really enjoyed working on the web page and learning HTML code, the Igoogle home page and Rss feeds are things that I really liked and can see myself using after this class is over.

The Wiki

I believe that Wikipedia could not be trusted at any time as a sores for an academic paper. The fact that any one can change the info compounded with the fact that places like Wal Mart, Exxon, and others have altered their pages to make them selfs look better makes the site unreliable. Their is not any time when it could be used with out backing it up with a trusted sores.

iTunes U Stanford

This Video was about the fixed intelligence VS the Growth Intelligence mind set. the video talked about how people with that mind set tend to be more driven. then they did a study to see if they could teach the growth mind set and it showed that you could and that just teaching study skills does not work because the kid has no motivation to use them. later it showed how that mind set could be good in the corporate environment.

This video and what it talks about could be an important tool in a school. it could be used to get people to exercise their brands more by studying and show kids that their is some incentive to study and do their work. It also helps a kid to understand that mistakes happen and it is just best to get over them and move on.

iTunes U WGBH

The WGBH store has many different subjects. For all grads from K-12. some of the subjects include Engineering, life science, Arts, and many more. the videos are broken in to different grads and the subject that they cover. they also have a section with free public lectures.

The video that I watched was about trebuchet and some of the engineering principles of them. the video talks about a person who is designing and building one. it talks about early desires and some of the problems that he ran in to. It also talked about how the addition of wheels would fix the major problem. I thought that it was a very interesting video.

iTunes University

iTunes University is a cool program by Mac that has lots of uses in a modern class room. iTunes U is a program that allows teachers to pick digital content from Macs Library and use it in the class or load their own. The things range from Songs for a Music class, to speeches, and even lectures from the mornings class. The best thing about all of this is that all of the content is free to the student that would be using it. The content will work on any mac or PC but the best thing is that you can load the content on to your iPod and take it any were.

I think that iTunes U could have lots of uses in a class room. It could help people learn in a more convenient and fun way. The convenience comes from the fact that in stead of being relegated to one area that you have to watch a video or listen to a speech you can take and view it most any were. I believe that things like iTunes U are going to be an important thing in education in the next few years.

Ipods In The classroom

In The Fall of 2004 school year Duke University Started distributed Ipods to around 1600 incoming freshmen to see how effective a tool they could be in helping them learn. The Ipods were used mostly in Forane languages, English, and Music classes. It was used for saving lecture notes, listing to music and other digital audio , and even recording lectures from the class.

I think that it is a good thing to use Ipods as a tool for learning. I think things like podcast, lectures, and music for a class would all be used more if it was made as portable as an Ipod is. The biggest problem that I see is trying to approval to use the digital content on the Ipod.