Instructional Techology

Sonia Small 
EDU-651 - Collaboration and Learning in a Virtual Environment
Ashford University.

What is Instructional Technology - It is the art and study of building a learning system and also building a feedback mechanism into the learning system in such a way thhat the system is senstive to the dynamics of each individuals learning experience as well as the whole of everyones experience and is built in such a way tha the system is ever improving in tis effectiveness and delivery of the subject matter.

Reference - http://codeconnoisseur.org/it/edit6100/task1

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Since I have stated the degree program I have learning about tools that are on my computer, and never really used them to there capacity, instructional teachnology has taught me a verrate of way to implement different tools into my class in order to ingage students in a more collabortive way of communicating with each other.

One tool I enjoyed learning was the CourseSite tool it has given me a number of ways to communicate with my students, and link assignment for their view, while tracking the progress of students with learning disabilities.

Sonia Small,

Amendment -DQ 1-Week 3

November 27, 2015

To:  Ben

From:  Ms. Small

Re:  Hands-on Learning Activity

Ben, this letter is in regard to your suggests of creating a blog for our hands-on learning activity for school.  After researching blogging and looking at the pros and cons, which I will list below.  Blogging is not a tool I would want to use for a hands-on learning activity right now until a savvy is completed and all involved are on board.  After speaking with colleagues, co-workers, parents, and students regarding blogging I would like to look at other ways to come up with a hands-on learning tool.  Why?  Because before we implement something like blogging we have to insure that all individuals involved in blogging understand the policy about when to blog.

How will you/we ensure students are blogging with his or her peers and classmates regarding the activity, who will monitor student, and for employees that have never blog before how will we conduct workshops and when will those individual workshop be completed?

Below are a list of pros and cons regarding blogging and how important it will be to understand when and where to use.

Personal blogs is for someone to create and maintains a blog to express his or her personal convictions, observations, suggestions, and other matters about selected topics that interest him or her. 

Topic or Industry blogs – These blogs focus on the nature, history, developments, trends, and players in a given subject area or industry. 

Publication-based blogs – As outgrowths of established media outlets, these blogs foster dialog about subjects of interest to the parent publications’ readers.  Typical bloggers are editors, reporters or freelancers who follow a subject area closely and want to benefit from the greater knowledge of the masses who would be willing to share that knowledge (Beeson, 2005, Wasserman, 2004).   

Corporate blogs – A hybrid of the personal blog, these blogs are fairly new and feature the insights, assessments, commentary, and other discourse devoted to a single company.

Sincerely,

Ms. Small,

http://small32.blogspot.com/

week 3 DQ 2

I am trying to learn something new.  Not sure if I am doing this right but anyway here I go.

This post is regarding Jing and using it as a E-Learning tool, since we had to use Jing for another class I already and it downloaded on my computer.

I was stressing about this assignment because of all the different tools we are learning and I am not sure if I will get it in time to complete my assignment.

Below is the link to  view my Jing video.  I viewed it myself and it came out ok.

Sonia,

Having fun learning new tools.

http://screencast.com/t/ufpvwr8ditni

Week 3 DQ 1

Good Morning Class and Dr. Johnson,

I am new to this tool, which I did not no I had it on Goggle Chonice,  I am learning something new each day.

I have never used blogger before now.

Sonia,