Sunday, March 25, 2007
Friday, March 16, 2007
Conference Information for Free
Information Strategies - Material from MACUL
I had briefly heard about the MACUL conference through various faculty among the TE department and I had figured that it did not relate to me. This is a mistake that I've made for the past four years, always tuning out when I hear anything about "professional development" or "conference". I had always assumed that those types of things were for people with real jobs, never thinking that an undergrad could benefit just as much. Once I began to realize that these events do related to me specifically as a pre-professional, I automatically looked into the provided information. After looking at the details of the events I came to realize that the high registration cost would probably not allow me to attend very many of these events. Fortunately this week I learned the great amount of information, material and resources that are still available for the vast amounts of people who did not attend the conference. I was amazed at the range of hand-outs, presentations and resources guides that are available for free. I feel that I have greatly gained from investigating all of the free material. I believe that this assignment has taught me about greatly resources that I will continue to use throughout my professional career.
I had briefly heard about the MACUL conference through various faculty among the TE department and I had figured that it did not relate to me. This is a mistake that I've made for the past four years, always tuning out when I hear anything about "professional development" or "conference". I had always assumed that those types of things were for people with real jobs, never thinking that an undergrad could benefit just as much. Once I began to realize that these events do related to me specifically as a pre-professional, I automatically looked into the provided information. After looking at the details of the events I came to realize that the high registration cost would probably not allow me to attend very many of these events. Fortunately this week I learned the great amount of information, material and resources that are still available for the vast amounts of people who did not attend the conference. I was amazed at the range of hand-outs, presentations and resources guides that are available for free. I feel that I have greatly gained from investigating all of the free material. I believe that this assignment has taught me about greatly resources that I will continue to use throughout my professional career.
- The first site that I came across that I thought would be valuable was a particular page from Anette Lamb's website http://eduscapes.com/. I was amazed at the vast amount of free resources that are provided on this page.
- The second site that I enjoyed was link to MACUL's winter 2006-2007 journal. I found this journal to be very interesting. I was particularly interested in an article by Kelly Kermode about Blogging in the Classroom. I would love to create a classroom that uses blogs in their general education, but I sometimes get overwhelmed with the actual details of creating such as assignment. I enjoyed reading an actual teacher's ideas about blogging. I also found this article interesting because it provided resources for blogs that could be restricted and filtered. One of my worries with having students blog would be any inappropriate behavior. Kermode provides resources to help with this problem
- This third interesting site that I found was http://www.geocities.com/phyl_barto/Excel/Excel_lent_Integration.htm. I thought this website was interesting because it incorporates ways to use simple programs like Excel in the classroom. It also provides a wide range of ideas and examples for the classroom.
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