Web Accessibility and Adaptive technologies

Steve Sullivan talked about the Web accessibility for all, and how we can learn how to teach what we have learn today to a person with a disability.

Week 6

Internatioal schools blogging are pretty much the same as American schools. They use it pretty much for the samw things as the American schools. The schools in Shanghai, China uses the Wiki, where they can entend extend their learning that goes on in their classes, they can meet and chat with friends about related topic to their class. They also used it to find ways to connect the content they are studying. Shanghai schools also uses blogging to send parents annocement ,and news bulletins concerning their children progress and school activities.

Computers are widely used in Quebec schools for teaching and learning activities, as well as for doing reasearch and carrying ont tele-collaborative projects. Other current projects in Quebec are the Remote Networked Schools. Today, more than 50% of teachers are using the Internet and computers in their classrooms, and several more are using them for the administrative areas of teaching. Their are over 75% of students using the internet for their studies and their everyday learning.


www.shanghaiamericanschools.com

www.quebecschoolsusing blogs.com

Week 5

As I learned each time I review a sit on the internet, that blog is simply define on line as a journal. It is made up of reversed chronological entries infused with text, images or multimedia. Blogs embody a place where individuals expression and online community development coexist. Blog readers can post thoughts and feelings on a weg page for the world to view. Bloggers can link to other bloggers creating an interwoven, and perhaps independent.

Blogging can bring learning to life for K-12 educators and students. Blogging inspire students to create and publish rich digit content and collaborate with other people. Blogging in the classroom is a way for teachers to build digital communication skills in their coarsework, allowing then to prepare students with skills that are consider essential in the 21st century. Blogs are inherently different from personal web pages. Blos have been heralded as opportunities to promote literacy learning by allowing students to publish their own writing whether it's a journal or story, or even comments on class readings. Blogs allow educators and students to interact in the same common space and format.



www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives

blog.classroomteacher.ca/showtostart/-an-educational-blog

First blog for Week #4

First of all, I was really impress with the presentation. I'm very amazed and impress with the My Space page, and how it has grown over the few years. I can definitely agree with the presentation that, if the My Space page was a country it would be the largest in the world. Everyday I always here about someone has created a My Space Page for themselves. That's one of the top conversation on my job, among the coworker although I don't have one yet.This generation today have a beter knowledge about the technology, and how fast it's growing. When I was in elementary school, we didn't have the access to computers like the students have today.

More and more people are surfing the web, more and more people are communicating through the internet, text messaging, and blogging. I have never heard about blogging until I enrolled in this class. The more technology a person learns, the more they will change jobs, because of their learning of the new technology they are learning. The students today have a better chance of getting a better job than the one's we have today, because of technology.

The presentation also stated that China will be the largest country to have English as their language. China has the largest numbers of college graduates. The overall presentation was an excellent one, I have learn alot from just watching and listening to it.

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The Access allows students to take classes on line through video conferencing. The students will have an advantage to have advance placement. Access offers classses that might not be offered at their school. It connects students statewide, it builds on the state's existing real world education system, enhancing, enriching, and taking students to places they can never imagined.

It is a powerful new learning experience available to students. Teaching Access in the classroom can allow student to have access to computers, internet connection, software and textbooks required for specific cources. The Access program gives the student a sense of independent learning. When teaching this program each students can become an effective writer. It also allows students to participate in daily learning such as, discussion, projects labs, groupwork, writing workshops, and assement. Access can offers under priviledge students a better education.

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Blogging in the international schools, I've learned that many of their blogs are to the parents. They used this techonolgy to inform the parents about their school fees, and the different activities that they are having throught out the year. They also used blogging to inform the parents about the staffs member's of their school. Zhuhai International school used blogging to distribute newsletter each week, to every family in their school.

The schools in Singapore, used blogging as a way of communicating. They use it as a way to boost the school spirit, and participation by playing video clips of their sports activies. Blogging is used for promoting the schools clubs, and teams so that other students can find out what is going on in the school. The school blog can also provide links to other valuable educationals resources that can be used for their benefit. Most international schools used blogging to post recipes of their food.

http://www.blogging%20in%20international/ school

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With blogging, it is eaiser for teachers to be involved on the writing process of their students. Teachers can view early version, and get an idea of how their students papers was built. In viewing the different sites on blogging, I have learned that teachers can communicate with their students. It is easier for teachers to be involved in the writing process. Blogging can connect teachers from every level.

A teacher can maintain their own feedback. Blobbing can faciliate a good working relationship with the students. Blogging can allow alot of direct communication with the teacher, without putting the onus on the students to schedule an appointment, or send in an e-mail. Blogging is a fantastic way for students to share, and collaborate their ideas.

Techonolgy can be used to enhance a classroom environoment. Technology can be used as a teaching and learning tool. While my experience stems from teahcing, alphabets at a preschool level. Technology in the classroom is a good setup, in which instructors can bring their own laptop to the classroom, and connect to the network. Techonolgy in the classroom can lead to a very exciting experiecne for the students.

Technology can be used in the elementary math instruction, for the kindergarten's through the sixth grade. Technology is being used in the classroom ,in inclusive classrooms. It is being used to improve students academic achievements, to ensure that every student is technologically liberate. Technology in the classroom is being used for many things, like demonstrating the writing process, modeling soft ware. It is being used for teaching powerpoint inspiration to organize their ideas. Technology has become a way of life in todays society.

http://www.technology/ in education.com