Class Ten

June 27, 2012

Tonight we met in the library to learn about web searching and evaluation. That's what the syllabus says anyways. Our first activity of the evening had us get in groups of 4 and explore the library. We were sent out with a worksheet with sets of questions on them.

The questions were...
How are student using technology in education? What technologies are they using?

My group essentially walked around the main level of the library and stalked people on their study habits. The majority of people who were studying or looking studious were using pretty standard forms of technology. Like the desktop computer provided by the library and then individually owned forms of technologies such as smart phones and tablets. One student was using headphones to listen to I'm assuming music while they typed something on a desktop computer. Double technology usage!

How is the library using technology and providing technology to support education?

I will confess that my group kind of cheated when finding this answer. We stopped at the librarian's help desk and he strongly hinted to us where we could find our answers. There was a list of all the types of technologies and services that the library offers. They were online catalog, ask an actual person, computers obviously, smart phones and tablets, electronic books, printable journals/newspapers/magazines, digital articles, print books which seem like an ancient form of technology now a days, music/film titles, a scanner, microfilm, and QR codes those things that you scan with a smart phone app.

We were also given our guidelines for our final assignment tonight. We are to create a lesson plan on a topic of our choice. Then insert some of the Web 2.0 activities we did throughout the semester. I made a glog or Glog, do you capitalize stuff like that? But I made one of those on The Butterfly Life Cycle. I am planning on creating a lesson plan on that and then having my fictitious students make a glog or Glog on an individual specific topic of their choice. So a student could choose to just do a glog or Glog page on the caterpillar stage. I also think it'd be great to have them make an Animoto video. Mainly just because I like using Animoto. It was so simple. 

We also then got to explore Fairfield's data base online. Checking out the online books were pretty neat. It's amazing how much information we can access now via the internet. I often forget that I have literally every type of article, book, document on any given topic with the simple click of a mouse.