ETC Blog#2

Through out the videos the main idea is to change traditional methods and use a new approach to educate future generations. Personal knowledge of technology had me limited to iMovie, ComicBook, and Power Point to make available to students as technology use. Although, involved cooperative participation it did not provide the capability of asynchronous work among group members nor the option to maintain an ongoing communication.

While learning about Web 2.0 I read and article that appeared in Educause written by Bryant Alexander and he points at one important part of Web 2.0 that is social event: “Given the Web 2.0 ethos of sharing content across services, and the importance of social software, it is only logical that crossbreeds of news and social software have emerged.” http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0621.pdf

Parting from an educator standpoint about writing objectives for the classroom, Bloom’s taxonomy plays the most important part identifying what the expected behavior at the end of the lesson is going to be. Anderson and Krathwohl revisited Bloom’s taxonomy and changed nouns to action verbs and by doing so created an updated taxonomy distribution that could work with current education demands. http://www.cte.umd.edu/teaching/newsletter/2008-09/April-May/spencer_bubbles.htm

Creativity is the key option that today students need to succeed in any endeavor that in turn will get them ready for life in the 21^st century. Furthermore, when creativity is accompanied by communal contribution becomes a superb productive learning environment. Learning in a world interconnected through Web 2.0 applications in the classroom will allow students to share and communicate ideas and knowledge quickly and effectively.

My plan is to get started with a student’s blog to collect ideas on projects from students and then sort the shared ideas according to the applicability to the school’s Spanish curricular requirements. Students will then be invited to vote the top ten projects that will be part of work for the school year. Through the use of Web 2.0 tools, students cooperatively will work towards the completion of the various projects and share their work with peers, parents, and teachers.