[Edu] Degree

[Pat]

That is totally bitchin. Thank you for that story; I am going to retell that
one for a while!

_pat

On 4/27/07, Magi D. Shepley <magid at concentric.net> wrote:
>
> Congratulations, Ryan!  I agree with your assessment about technology.
> We do a lot with it in my classroom, but its never passive.  The
> students are always responding orally or actually doing the computer
> activity themselves.
> I don't use technology just for the sake of using technology.  I often
> laugh when I hear of or read about some teachers who have been
> recognized for their use of technology and realize that it wasn't all
> that special...  they just happened to be the ones that were noticed.
>
> Magi
>
> miyu wrote:
> > Well today I presented and defended my work for my grad degree and
> > successfully passed everything to finish up my MAT.  Go me. :)
> >
> > What was interesting though is I got into a semi-heated discussion of
> > the role of technology in the classroom and I was arguing that it is
> > being misused and there are far cheaper and easier alternatives to
> > teach the children.  A professor was explaining to me how easily a
> > PowerPoint demonstration could be used to visually illustrate teaching
> > above, below, behind, in front of, to the side of, etc. in Spanish.
> > Unbeknownst to him this was the exact thing I had been working on
> > recently.
> >
> > I reached into my school bag and pulled out a Treehouse stash.  I then
> > demoed Tic-Tac-Doh! and showed how it could be used to teach all those
> > concepts as well as colors and had the added benefit of the children
> > actually participating instead of passively watching a screen.  Then
> > my final clincher was to tell the panel my method costs 9$ retail plus
> > shipping.... and asked what their computer, software and projector cost.
> >
> > :lol:
> >
> > You could have heard a pin drop.
> >
> > Everything though went very well, I passed with flying colors, and the
> > only comment was that I wasn't dressed as professionally as the others
> > (they were in suits and ties... I didn't even wear a tie when I got
> > married let alone for a class).
> >
> >                             -Ryan
> >
> > --
> > Ora, lege, lege, lege, relege, labora et invenies.
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