Week 8 Reflection
This has been another hectic week! (Do I say that every week?) I had a grant due today, that I finally finished last night! I spent a lot of time refining my podcast, but still do not have the RSS feed quite right. I did manage to create and upload the file and made an RSS feed that validates, but I cannot seem to subscribe to it.I have had a relatively busy MSN week also. I have talked to Phyllis, and Nia, and David, and Lisa, and Dr. Powley. David was a great help in trying to get the RSS feed to work, Yolanda and I commiserated on projects that were not quite up to par, and Dr. Powley and Lisa and I discussed virtual reality. (Thanks for the site info Dr. Powley...I have been hanging out there quite a bit!)
I found the information on Wireless in the classroom to be quite interesting. Here in the States, wireless computing often means laptops and PDA's, though in many other countries, wireless computing is done on cell phones! In my school we are recipients of Freedom to Learn laptops for our middle school students, so all 6th - 8th grade students have wireless laptops. We have several access points in the school, so they can be used in various classrooms. I am also hoping that we will soon have PDA's in the 3rd through 5th grade classes if my grant is accepted. DO you also have wireless technologies in your schools?
posted by Karen Keffer @ 10/26/2006 11:40:00 PM
4 Comments:
Karen,
In my current learning environment and when I left Justin Ford Kimball High School in Dallas, Texas, there was no wireless technology being used. We have wireless technology that we use as staff within our office but our students do not use it. It is hard enough to get them to check their email.
But I think we were all stressed to the max after that Multimedia presentation and now the daunting task of reviewing them. But it's all good. Just four weeks to go and this will all be over for now. Some of you will start another class but I get a little breather to work on KAM's.
As I think about all of these technologies we are being introduced to ... it can be overwhelming! Like you, I've been trying to get a vodcast to work. It's really challenging ... I think I know how the technology works, but it doesn't work the way I'd like for it to work. But, the challenge is what we all deal with, right?
Hi Karen:
I really like our wireless laptops but I want to go wireless with a smaller device. I have retrieved a PDA from our school but the internet is spotty at best. I keep looking at the blackberry cell phone. I wonder how much Internet access on your cell phone costs? Am I so addicted to the internet that I can't do without it for even a little while? It is an interesting world we live in. See ya. Dianne
Karen, I teach at the higher education level, and I have my PDA (an old Palm m500 model), but most of my colleagues at the university don’t have one. Some of them have a Smartphone instead. I am planning to obtain mine. Our campus is mostly covered for wireless connectivity, but most students and teachers use wireless laptops to connect. Regards
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