The document discusses the future of mobile learning and the use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) in the classroom. It outlines how mobile learning can enhance the learning experience through portability, informal learning, and context awareness. It also promotes active learning through spontaneity, interactivity, immediacy, and self-evaluation. The document considers both benefits and criticisms of mobile learning and suggests teachers supplement traditional instruction with PDAs. It provides examples of how PDAs can help with literacy and concludes with statistics on growing mobile phone and technology use among students.
This document discusses using assistive technology to help students with autism. It describes using digital picture cues as visual aids for students who are visual learners, rely on adults, and learn sequentially. Data is presented showing that for one student named Matthew, using picture cues to prompt replacing a trash bag and taking it to the dumpster reduced the number of needed prompts from adults and increased his ability to complete steps independently.
The document discusses the future of mobile learning and the use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) in the classroom. It outlines how mobile learning can enhance the learning experience through portability, informal learning, and context awareness. It also promotes active learning through spontaneity, interactivity, immediacy, and self-evaluation. The document considers both benefits and criticisms of mobile learning and suggests teachers supplement traditional instruction with PDAs. It provides examples of how PDAs can help with literacy and concludes with statistics on growing mobile phone and technology use among students.
This document discusses using assistive technology to help students with autism. It describes using digital picture cues as visual aids for students who are visual learners, rely on adults, and learn sequentially. Data is presented showing that for one student named Matthew, using picture cues to prompt replacing a trash bag and taking it to the dumpster reduced the number of needed prompts from adults and increased his ability to complete steps independently.
Tenmacho Elementary School Visits Kings Park Primary Schoolngo0059
Tenmacho Elementary school students visited Kings Park Primary School. The Japanese elementary school students traveled abroad to see how education is conducted at the British primary school. The visit allowed for cultural exchange and learning between the two schools.
Judy Ngo took photos at an art gallery. The photos showcased various paintings and sculptures on display. Ngo's photos help document and share the different works of art available for people to see at the gallery.
Using 'web 2.0' and social media tools for small projectsmdda
This document discusses using social media and web 2.0 tools to support small projects. It provides examples from two projects that used comments and photos on sites like Flickr to engage people. It also discusses using video hosting sites and ensuring videos are captioned for accessibility. Maintaining administrative aspects like shared email access and passwords is also covered. The overall message is that social media can help people connect with each other and projects, but policies are needed to moderate interactions and comments.
MDDA is an organization that supports the digital sector in Manchester. They help community and arts organizations as well as small businesses through various projects and workshops. MDDA uses social media and Web 2.0 tools like blogs, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr to more efficiently support their own work. They share materials online instead of using paper, track statistics, and collaborate with others in the digital community. MDDA encourages other organizations to use social media to connect with their communities and create social change.
This document provides a summary of different project management and CRM applications, including Ms Project for Mac, Basecamp, Zoho Projects, and Salesforce. For each application, the summary includes what it is used for, key features, pricing information, and comparisons between applications. The document finds that Zoho Projects provides good value and caters to both small/medium businesses as well as larger enterprises. Salesforce is seen as the industry leader for CRM solutions but does require an internet connection and ongoing costs.
Helen and Judy pulled deep weeds from the garden, requiring great effort. The author works with a gardening group consisting of girls and boys. The author waters a plant that was planted by another class so that the plants can grow to produce food. Janette and the author waited to fill their watering cans.
This document provides a personal timeline of Andrew Shelley's experiences with educational technology from kindergarten through college and into his current career as a teacher. It outlines the various technologies he was exposed to at different stages of his education, including listening to music and stories on records and cassettes in kindergarten. In high school he learned word processing on Word 97 and programming formulas while playing math games. In college, he relied heavily on Microsoft Office and the internet for research and staying connected. Currently, he hopes to incorporate more assistive technologies into his special education classroom to help students with limited communication abilities.
This document outlines a service learning project pairing leadership students with a special education classroom. The project aims to create meaningful relationships between students, expose leadership students to careers in teaching, and provide new learning opportunities for both classes. Leadership students will volunteer one-on-one as tutors and assist with art projects, cooking, and classroom tasks over a 12 week period in the fall semester. The goals are to increase interaction, time on task, number of tasks completed, and response time for the special education students.
This document discusses using assistive technology to help students with autism. It describes using digital picture cues as visual aids for students who are visual learners, rely on adults, and learn sequentially. Data is presented showing that for one student named Matthew, using picture cues to prompt replacing a trash bag and taking it to the dumpster reduced the number of needed prompts from adults and increased his ability to complete steps independently.
The document contains photos from a school gardening class. It includes pictures of the student watering plants, picking weeds, waiting to fill water buckets, talking to the garden teacher, carrying mulch, making food for the workers, planning the garden layout, and moving mulch. The final sentence lists the members of different gardening groups for bananas, tomatoes, apples, and grapes.
This is my presentation from eMetrics Toronto 2011, presented April 29th. The purpose of the presentation was to introduce Analysts to the user experience design process so that they could understand how UX practitioners design experience, and could see where metrics might help inform the design process.
Introduction to Design Thinking for Business StudentsPatrick Glinski
This was a presentation I gave October 16th, 2010 at the Queens School of Business responsible leadership weekend. The talk was designed to introduce the principals of design thinking to undergraduate and MBA students with an interest in corporate and social change.
Nuclear power is the fourth largest source of power generation in India, with a total installed capacity of 4780MW as of July 2012 according to NPCIL. India operates nuclear fuel mines within the country to supply its nuclear power plants. Nuclear power currently provides a small but important portion of India's overall power supply.
Tenmacho Elementary School Visits Kings Park Primary Schoolngo0059
Tenmacho Elementary school students visited Kings Park Primary School. The Japanese elementary school students traveled abroad to see how education is conducted at the British primary school. The visit allowed for cultural exchange and learning between the two schools.
Judy Ngo took photos at an art gallery. The photos showcased various paintings and sculptures on display. Ngo's photos help document and share the different works of art available for people to see at the gallery.
Using 'web 2.0' and social media tools for small projectsmdda
This document discusses using social media and web 2.0 tools to support small projects. It provides examples from two projects that used comments and photos on sites like Flickr to engage people. It also discusses using video hosting sites and ensuring videos are captioned for accessibility. Maintaining administrative aspects like shared email access and passwords is also covered. The overall message is that social media can help people connect with each other and projects, but policies are needed to moderate interactions and comments.
MDDA is an organization that supports the digital sector in Manchester. They help community and arts organizations as well as small businesses through various projects and workshops. MDDA uses social media and Web 2.0 tools like blogs, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr to more efficiently support their own work. They share materials online instead of using paper, track statistics, and collaborate with others in the digital community. MDDA encourages other organizations to use social media to connect with their communities and create social change.
This document provides a summary of different project management and CRM applications, including Ms Project for Mac, Basecamp, Zoho Projects, and Salesforce. For each application, the summary includes what it is used for, key features, pricing information, and comparisons between applications. The document finds that Zoho Projects provides good value and caters to both small/medium businesses as well as larger enterprises. Salesforce is seen as the industry leader for CRM solutions but does require an internet connection and ongoing costs.
Helen and Judy pulled deep weeds from the garden, requiring great effort. The author works with a gardening group consisting of girls and boys. The author waters a plant that was planted by another class so that the plants can grow to produce food. Janette and the author waited to fill their watering cans.
This document provides a personal timeline of Andrew Shelley's experiences with educational technology from kindergarten through college and into his current career as a teacher. It outlines the various technologies he was exposed to at different stages of his education, including listening to music and stories on records and cassettes in kindergarten. In high school he learned word processing on Word 97 and programming formulas while playing math games. In college, he relied heavily on Microsoft Office and the internet for research and staying connected. Currently, he hopes to incorporate more assistive technologies into his special education classroom to help students with limited communication abilities.
This document outlines a service learning project pairing leadership students with a special education classroom. The project aims to create meaningful relationships between students, expose leadership students to careers in teaching, and provide new learning opportunities for both classes. Leadership students will volunteer one-on-one as tutors and assist with art projects, cooking, and classroom tasks over a 12 week period in the fall semester. The goals are to increase interaction, time on task, number of tasks completed, and response time for the special education students.
This document discusses using assistive technology to help students with autism. It describes using digital picture cues as visual aids for students who are visual learners, rely on adults, and learn sequentially. Data is presented showing that for one student named Matthew, using picture cues to prompt replacing a trash bag and taking it to the dumpster reduced the number of needed prompts from adults and increased his ability to complete steps independently.
The document contains photos from a school gardening class. It includes pictures of the student watering plants, picking weeds, waiting to fill water buckets, talking to the garden teacher, carrying mulch, making food for the workers, planning the garden layout, and moving mulch. The final sentence lists the members of different gardening groups for bananas, tomatoes, apples, and grapes.
This is my presentation from eMetrics Toronto 2011, presented April 29th. The purpose of the presentation was to introduce Analysts to the user experience design process so that they could understand how UX practitioners design experience, and could see where metrics might help inform the design process.
Introduction to Design Thinking for Business StudentsPatrick Glinski
This was a presentation I gave October 16th, 2010 at the Queens School of Business responsible leadership weekend. The talk was designed to introduce the principals of design thinking to undergraduate and MBA students with an interest in corporate and social change.
Nuclear power is the fourth largest source of power generation in India, with a total installed capacity of 4780MW as of July 2012 according to NPCIL. India operates nuclear fuel mines within the country to supply its nuclear power plants. Nuclear power currently provides a small but important portion of India's overall power supply.