Day 9-Exit Slip

     Today we discussed chapter 7 of Rethinking Education. During the chapter discussion, we were allowed to examine a particular gain/loss situation and we were able to decide whether the gain outweighs the loss or whether the loss outweighs the gain. Sometimes it is difficult to pick which one outweighs the other, because sometimes they almost seem equal. I thought that the group did a very nice job of using the SMARTboard and encouraging a lot of class participation. One thing that Dr. Boyer brought up during the debrief, was the importance of locking objects to allow to move so that you avoid objects from going straight to edit-mode, when you want to simply move the object. After the chapter discussion, we examined how to use elluminate. Elluminate can be used for web conferencing, webinars, and virtual office hours. It looked like a very cool tool to use, but when I tried to access it, there was an error message and it would not allow me in. We then discussed the podcast assignment. It is important that we identify a contemporary issue, related to technology, that focuses on PK-12 learners. (Contemporary issues are issues that were in the news within the last year.) For this podcast, I will need a 90-minute script, with lead-in music and lead-out music.