During the 6th day of the Spring Course, I learned how to use tools like PhotoStory, Picassa movie creator and Audacity altough I was more familiarized with Picassa and Audacity I hadn’t use it in a formal way … just like a form to show and evidence with pictures my life in different places through the developing of the master. I think is a very didactict form of developing ICT skills while reflecting on a determined topic and preparing to give presentations and cautive students to become more comitted to prepare materials, share it and to receive feedback as from their fellow students and professors. This is a very good introduction in the digitalized learning generations where the students is always who directs its own learning environment with the supervision and recommendations from their tutors. Now …. wait … and see how our project presentation can be … this will be my first presentation linked to a my personal blog.
March 16, 2009
March 12, 2009
Getting into the world of e-Portfolios
Erasmus Mundus bring me to Spain again, the educative service resources is specifically the place where I am working as a practitioner helping with the e-portfolio project, this is very interesting for me because since the practicum in Oslo and the joining of the LATINA lab I knew that elearning is my major concern in the educative field. e-Portfolio is one of the collaboration tools that are part of the new generation of technology and educative resources that offer the place to student and lecturer to show and to evidence the process of learning during a scholar period, bachelor and hopefully open as a professional and during the live. Additionally there are many aspects surrounding this tool, because it doesn’t work as a single identity, or just as a repository of files from one single person. It can be like that, however when is integrated within the context of a university many aspect need to be integrated, already learning and administrative application running, the contextualized aspects, the Bologna process regularities that are framing and ruling the tertiary level institutions, the different fields in which it can be applied, implemented and used and in which others can be utilized in different form.
There are many existing platforms solutions running in different universities, all of them with different purposes, the is actually a good place to find information about http://www.eife-l.org
I will keep looking for good solution of the ePortfolio solution
February 18, 2009
Learning and teaching with WIKIMEDIA
Learning in a digitalized world, is what I am been doing today, it can be interepretated as a mere virtual class with many advanced devices, but what I’ve learned through these relevant experience is the importance of the precense in a group of learning guided with a good teacher who can use the new roles so adecuately for teaching and a good group of intercultural people
Today I had the possibility to explore this bring me good ideas to continue diggint into it and to learn more about it, and how can I consribute with wikipedia, who is a good example of a comunity.
This bring me to mind a good reflection that the proffessor touch in class as well, we have to understand the community with another way of thinking, because we have the tendency of thinking about the traditional organizations that has a very different dinamic than in a comunnity where people can be active member or pasive members with a different role
February 11, 2009
Two Metaphores of Learning (Sfard 1998)
The acquisition metaphor and the participation metaphor.
I want to use this metaphor of the to positions of the student’s learning, the first is when he/she is a pasive-receptive, in which learning is mainly a process of acquiring chunks of information, the latter perceive learning as a process of participating in various cultural practices and shared learning activities. Doing the practice in a College have forced me to think more like a teacher and what do the students from tertiary level need to take more advantages of the education they received. All of these is with the purpose to get more information from the lectures that when I speak with them I tryed to make them aware of my point of view as student in education and try to share with them my still in process of construction learning of all the activities involved in clases and its preparation. However, I feel that I have more skills everyday to speak about the topic of these reseach and the motivation and iniciative to continue with these part of the master which sometimes is hit with some obstacles I hope that those difficulties gave me more strength to face them and for a consequence make me feel more eager of experience more in the environment I have been trying to take some useful information and examples of well done things and also some of them that has to be improved, because as every organization is in a process of knowledge building.
January 10, 2009
The Theory of Expansive Learning
As part of the process of finding the literature that can help me to predicate and support the purpose of this study applied in the practical field in College of Oslo and as a research for the Master in teachers training in technical education I have found the Theory of Expansive Learning as a valuable knowledge that I would like to explore more, even though I have been studying it since the Lecturers in Akershus University College proposed as a reference for the classes at the innovation module during the third semester
As well as, expansive learning analysis can be directed for learning organizations related with workplaces or academic institutions; the concept is based on linking the learning cycle with the social and economic changes that are generating the need for improving the learning process, in consequence appear the need for innovation.
I found that this theory fits with the topics I want to dig in order to find a good proposal of effective innovative learning methods and teaching practices, as I said this, I find that I have to relate the theory of Expansive Learning with Connectivism and as a result Innovation
As Expansive Learning have that Investigating the links between individual and social dimensions of learning and knowledge creation is one of his premises I consider social dimension and knowledge creation as key issues to relate both theories
I am now very interesting on this topic and I have found good sources of information applying an innovate method of elearning the Networked Student , hope I can continue improving the funcionality of this blog
January 9, 2009
Finding the basis for this exploration
Ximena Castaño
The Need of this study
We are now in a moment were the technology and the way people learn is changing. The amount of information in Internet is growing with and accelerated rhythm and the new generations are choosing more often on finding sources of learning through the big cloud of information, then, the concern that the information management will be a major challenge in the 21st century is present. How the new students of the new era of information can determine what is useful among all that knowledge? How can they choose what is worthy for them? Which changes do the institutions make to guide students and to complement face-to-face classes with the virtual world? How do teachers and lectures will have to change his role and competences in order to adapt to that change?
Additionally, and more important how the teaching practices will change and adapt to face this transition that it is considered imminent and actually happen. As Downes says.
The students of technical professions can integrate the collaborative use of technology to enhance their learning methods and the effectiveness of acquiring updated topics and information that complement the course material on the curriculum.
January 5, 2009
Practicum
Location: Faculty of Engineering Oslo University College
- Purposes
Compare the extent to which technology has been integrated into teaching-learning process
Compare the barriers that prevent teachers from implementing technology the teaching-learning process
Compare teachers perception of their teaching performance and effectiveness
Compare teacher’s technology anxiety
Compare sources of technology training
Compare technology available for use in the teaching/learning process
Determine if selected variables explain significant proportion of technology integration - Objectives
To know how is the pedagogical and technological upgrading in the Faculty of Engineer at Oslo Univerity College - To determine and reflect over pedagogical practices in action and management of teaching in technical subjects
To detect the use of pedagogical practices and technology integration
To determine the adaptation of international students in the project semester program
- Questions
Which are the characteristics of the study plan for the Engineer Education in HIO?
Which innovative projects are carried out?
What kind of formation had been given to the teacher stuff?
How is the technological infrastructure of HIO?
Which needs in technology integration are detected for the professor?
What kinds of needs are detected for students?
Is there some relation between the labour field and studies?
What teaching methods are used in classroom?
Which collaborative tools does the teacher use? - How is the process of adoption of new instruction based technology?
- Does exist integration of technology in HIO?
- Are innovative ways of using technology to improve learning?
- Is the learning with technology based more efficient than traditional instruction in HIO?
