Tapped in

Activity One
Favorite parts of Tapped In:

1. So easy to set up!
2. Transcripts of all chats
3. for K-12 classroom seems very sheltered and “clean”

Activity Two
Compared to other websites Tapped In (TI) is very bleak as far as eye appeal.  The website does not take full advantage of web 2.0.  With this being said, it is the easy website I have… Continue reading

I was pleased to hear my professors reservations about distance education!  I am a strong proponent of public education and believe that students should not go to private school or take school purely online.  I also have believed that distance education was strictly that, for distance education.  When I heard a fellow teacher comment that she was taking her online class to be a principal from a local university I… Continue reading

Chapter 2 –

This chapter covers the history of distance education from the late nineteenth century.  According to Moore and Kearsley there are four main stages:

1. Correspondence/Independent Study (1890-present)
2. Open Universities: (1969- present)
3. Broadcasting & Teleconferencing (1960s-present)
4. Multimedia & the Web (1980s – present)

This chapter does seem to me as interesting that it only focuses on 1890 to present.  I would… Continue reading

Week 1 January 20, 2010

√ Without a stock definition, locate a strong example of distributed/distance education and come up with a paragraph justification explaining WHY it is strong.

Bible.  Widely available and in many languages.  The Bible is one of the first worldly distributed teaching tools for distance learning (around the 1380′s).  Easily accessible to almost anyone in any circumstance. Many “teachers” that are familiar or trained… Continue reading

I love my mac, but has apple started a trend for consumers to demand beauty as well as functionality? Does an object that is just a tool need to also be beautiful? Michael Angelo’s paintings are exquisite, but his tools were everyday. So now a final question, does beauty blind us of substance?

Windows XP (2001 release date) became a good, stable working version of… Continue reading