GlogsterEDU

GlogsterEDU is a great Web 2.0 application that allows students to make a digital collage! Students cans showcase their knowledge on a number of topics using GlogsterEDU. Glogs on various topics can be assigned to students for them to review and respond to. GlogsterEDU also works well with Discovery Streaming videos. Just assign media to students in your Discovery Education classroom group, or have them search for media on their own to include in a project glog. Use GlogsterEDU portfolios to create collaborative and interdisciplinary projects.

Tech tools glog

Mac Blog Post #4: Week 4 -Response to Bianca Woods' Project

"Introducing my Media Project:
Working With Angry Customers: A Customer Service Simulation

The project is a website containing a customer service simulator created in Udutu. It allows retail workers an opportunity to practice giving high quality customer service under the pressure of an angry customer.

My thesis is on the use of simulator software to rehearse skills that must be performed under high amounts of stress. The media project demonstrates just one aspect of the proposed software: branching dialogue."

Link to Bianca's Project:

http://web.me.com/biancawoods/Customer_Training/Course.html

Monique said...

This is a great customer service course. Good use of visuals and colors. Your project gave me a great idea to use with my students. I will use Udutu to create social skills interactive lessons. This will allow my students to practice appropriate responses to common interactions that prove to be problematic for them.

March 28, 2010 7:46 PM 

MAC Blog Post #3: Week 4 - Grace Under Pressure

"Grace comes from owning the risks we take in a world by and large immune to our control."

-The Art of Possibility: Rosamund and Benjamin Zander

This is the perfect definition of "grace". Many of my co-workers become angry and indignant when they observe how my students suffering from a range of emotional and behavioral disorders treat me. They do  not seem to understand that I do not take it personally. I expect this behavior from the population that I teach. Sometimes the most important thing that I can give my students is grace and understanding in the face of extreme opposition and negativity. Hopefully my modeling graceful behavior and not giving up on them will matter in their lives someday.

MAC Blog Post #2: Week 4 - Being the Board

"If I cannot be present without resistance to the way things are and act effectively, if I feel myself to be wronged, a loser, or a victim, I will tell myself that some assumption I have made is the source of my difficulty."
-The Art of Possibility: Rosamund and Benjamin Zander


I try to practice this in daily life. I usually do a good job, but sometimes I slip and have a really bad day. I recently ran into this concept with work. I have been feeling very unsatisfied with my co-worker's  comments and behavior towards me. It seems as if they do not understand me, my philosophies, or my reasons for working with behaviorally challenged students. Many of them comment that I need to work somewhere else where I can use all of my education and teaching talent. I realized after reading this chapter that I can set them straight by finding a way to help them understand and know who I really am, or I can continue to accept that fact that they do not, and take their comments in stride with this knowledge. Either way I will not be taking there comments personally.



*This chapter has reminded me to take the high road in life.

Week 2 Wimba –Media Project Check-In

I feel much better about the media project after this Wimba. My thesis is about using technology to engage learners at-risk of academic failure or poor preparation for adult life. My media project, which is the applied portion of my thesis, is an e-course. This course was created using the Udutu course authoring tool. It will serve as an example of e-Learning that can be used to support the education of at-risk students.

Week 1 Wimba Session: Course Intro, Media Project & Content Proposal

I really enjoyed the video syllabus! I had not thought of creating a video syllabus until I viewed the one created for this class. I will try to incorporate content like this with my students next year.  During this program I have really learned how to make media my ally.  I have now been empowered to solve many classroom problems with media content that I will create to assist in differentiating and engaging my special education students. 

MAC Blog Post #1: Week 4 - Media Project

My Project

My project is a udutu course on the Civil Rights Movement. It is an example of an e-Learning course to support my thesis proposal that technology such as e-Learning courses can be used to aid at-risk learners in completing their educations. E-Learning courses can be tailored to meet the needs of individual learners. E-Learning can be used to solve scheduling and time management problems for teen parents in high school. E-Learning can make higher education accessible to more people by removing scheduling barriers and leading many people into life long learning. One day it may be possible to earn a certification and even a degree by watching cable television. Media content providers such as Barnes & Nobel, Amazon.com, History Channel, Discovery Education, etc. may join forces with teachers using Udutu or other course authoring tools to make courses based on the media content these companies distrubute available to the public.

Media Project - My Udutu Course