Comments on: New Year http://brandtschneider.edublogs.org/2008/09/03/new-year-2/ Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:31:06 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: brandtschneider http://brandtschneider.edublogs.org/2008/09/03/new-year-2/comment-page-1/#comment-61 brandtschneider Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:24:10 +0000 http://brandtschneider.edublogs.org/?p=71#comment-61 Ryan: We do use the chat function at times. At the moment I am trying to have students use the blog function to make comments on work. We will use multiple platforms as the class develops. Ryan:

We do use the chat function at times. At the moment I am trying to have students use the blog function to make comments on work. We will use multiple platforms as the class develops.

]]> By: Ryan H, Internet literacy http://brandtschneider.edublogs.org/2008/09/03/new-year-2/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Ryan H, Internet literacy Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:12:29 +0000 http://brandtschneider.edublogs.org/?p=71#comment-60 And one other thing Can students talk to other students and thusly share and collaborate ideas over synchroneyes? If we can then perhaps this is a way for collaboration to take place and for you to monitor the collaboration so that thusly you can ensure the topic of conversation doesn't leave the class, and we can fully collaborate with fellow students. A program should always be used to its maximum capabilities. I know for example that I would have liked to put out a message on a general chat board of all the collective students asking if anyone needs my held with their work today after I finished... And one other thing
Can students talk to other students and thusly share and collaborate ideas over synchroneyes?
If we can then perhaps this is a way for collaboration to take place and for you to monitor the collaboration so that thusly you can ensure the topic of conversation doesn’t leave the class, and we can fully collaborate with fellow students. A program should always be used to its maximum capabilities. I know for example that I would have liked to put out a message on a general chat board of all the collective students asking if anyone needs my held with their work today after I finished…

]]> By: Ryan H, Internet literacy http://brandtschneider.edublogs.org/2008/09/03/new-year-2/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Ryan H, Internet literacy Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:08:08 +0000 http://brandtschneider.edublogs.org/?p=71#comment-59 One of my personal heroes, Randy Pausch, was a college professor of virtual reality and computers and he set up a very highly succesful program in his classes to get his students learning, more importantly collaborating, and most important of all excited and interested in what they were learning. To achieve this he created a program where students with all different backgrounds would work together to create a virtual world. He opened up their construction of these worlds to whatever their imaginations spit out inside their groups. After a couple weeks he would look back at what the students had created in their groups and then grade them upon what they have made, and also allow for students to grade each other. The students were allowed to grade how each other performed and how they worked with the other members of their groups. Then after the grading was done randy would look back and tell the class, what you have accomplished here is pretty awesome but I know you can do better. Then He would reorganize the students into all new groups and tell them to do it again. <a Href="http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/" rel="nofollow">Randy Pausch's page</A> <a Href="https://sites.google.com/site/bvwpublic/" rel="nofollow"> The course, Building Virtual worlds</A> One of my personal heroes, Randy Pausch, was a college professor of virtual reality and computers and he set up a very highly succesful program in his classes to get his students learning, more importantly collaborating, and most important of all excited and interested in what they were learning. To achieve this he created a program where students with all different backgrounds would work together to create a virtual world. He opened up their construction of these worlds to whatever their imaginations spit out inside their groups. After a couple weeks he would look back at what the students had created in their groups and then grade them upon what they have made, and also allow for students to grade each other. The students were allowed to grade how each other performed and how they worked with the other members of their groups. Then after the grading was done randy would look back and tell the class, what you have accomplished here is pretty awesome but I know you can do better. Then He would reorganize the students into all new groups and tell them to do it again. Randy Pausch’s page The course, Building Virtual worlds

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