Saturday, January 31, 2009
I think I have arrived at the conclusion that these medium requires a balance between static and dynamic technologies in order for it to really work for most people. I think there needs to be static elements, elements that work more asynchronously, because without which the schedules of distance education could be just as limited as traditional schooling. On the other hand, in order to maintain a reasonable pace, you vitally need those more dynamic or synchronous elements of a class. For example, I think content delivery is an area that has to be balanced. Some things just need to be plain printed texts, or podcasts/vodcasts that we see and listen to. The dynamic elements need to be those that encourage interaction, discussion, and sharing of resources beyond what the instructor places center stage. Technology such as White Boarding, or peer file sharing, allow students to own the technology in a sense, and builds their understanding of content and the learning community at the same time.
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Hi Rachel,
I like the look of your concept map and the way in which you used color to guide the reader through the nodes of your network. Likewise, you have included a number of items that I did not consider in my design. Nicely done! With your comments about making use of a mix of static and dynamic technologies, I say that I agree and see that some of the technologies depicted can fall into more than one bucket, if you will, within the static-dynamic educational technology continuum. For example, I think that Web pages could be considered static, but at the same time, they may be updated automatically based on database triggers for example. While the content is not interactive, it is still dynamic in this case. A very simple example is the case of the Web counter. That is a dynamic object found on many Web pages but does not offer interactivity for the most part. Yet, it does change as each person visits a given page. Again, you have utilized a nice design in your concept map that is originally what I thought I would design. Yet, I selected an alternative approach as I felt compelled to do so. I can follow your tree/branching/network structure quite easily. Thanks for your offering!
Shane.
I decided when I was done that there needs to be a 3D graphic organizing tool that can be used for this type of thing so that you can create the effect of the overlap and being able to go in doors and arrive at the same points.
I think web pages have changed enormously in the decade, and there are more and more that are interactive. As a science teacher, I have found a few good ones over the year that have been maintained and developed by larger institutions such as NASA. If the website is up long enough, and the people behind it have the means, I think there is a gradual evolution going on toward more interactive and less static websites.
Rachel-
I like the way you reorganized your map with things like collaboration both static and dynamic break off into their own links. It was a totally new way of viewing the same information. I don't like posting photos (our maps) to the blog as they are not as clear as they should be, like when they are on our own screens.
This is great! I think it is very comprehensive and covers all bases. I think you should publish it somewhere/somehow. The organization and structure were very clear. Yes, it was a bit fuzzy (a little difficult to read), but I thought that was a subtle ironic commentary - that with all these great multimedia, interactive technologies, blog pages won't support a clear graphic! Ha!
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