Annotated bibliography
1. Citation:
Smith Nash, S. (2007). I’m new to e-learning: what do I do? Leadership and the e-Learning Organization
Website:
http://beyondutopia.tripod.com/xplanazine/
Summary:
This journal explains all that you need to know about e-learning. She first talks about taking online courses that it can be intimidating to both new and as well as experienced learners. However, the convenience and flexibility of being able to take the course any place and at any time helped you overcome your initial trepidation. In the journal it talks about the following things: The importance of introductions, as your professor to post video or audio, making sure you understand how to urn in your work and to do the assessments using e learning, not panicking if it takes the instructor time to respond to you, and time management as well as goal settings.
The author uses methods of trying to establish contact in more than just one or two ways.
Most instructors will provide phone, alternative e-mail addresses, and ways to post messages within the course management system or course space. Searching for additional textbook resources is an awesome way to get other viewpoint of the material.
1. Find out if your course textbook has a supplemental website, PowerPoint presentations, practice quizzes, audio files, or video reviews.
2. Then, use them to review the topics that you have questions about.
3. Take notes on the readings, and organize the concepts into topics.
4. If there are sample papers, be sure to ask for them.
The author talks about not being shy and to ask for feedback along the way. This shows you what are your highlighted points as well as things you need to approve on, to then make thoughts your strong points. If you are required to write a research paper or an extensive paper requiring references and cited sources, ask if you can turn in the work as it progresses. This will help you avoid unpleasant surprises. For example, ask if you can turn in an outline, bibliography, drafts, and revisions. If your professor does not have time to grade them or give you feedback, ask if he/she can set up a discussion area where you can upload papers and share with your fellow students. This will give you a chance to collaborate and to obtain peer feedback and review.
If you’re new to eLearning, you’ll probably be pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable your experience will be, and, perhaps more importantly, how much you will learn. Keep in mind that the key to your success always involves a combination of time management and connection. Log in often, keep in touch, and don’t get behind. You’ll succeed and enjoy yourself in the process. She then wrote, “Good Luck!”
Review:
I thought that this journal entry was perfect for all who are advanced in technology as well as beginners. She totally puts herself in the perspective of the beginner as well as of someone who is intermediate and has one or two questions. First of all she put it into step by step information that way it is not a bunch of “mubo-jumbo” it makes sense; on top of that she also had the begging four(4) important word in bold so you know what step your about to read. She let the reader know what you are support to do first all the way to the last and it seemed as if she was there guiding you. What I thought was perfect was that she also had all that she wrote in a podcast, so if one does not have enough time to read it they can just go to listen to it or if they have no time at all they can sync it on their Smartphone or even their iPods.
2. Citation:
Smith Nash, S. (2006).What is e-learning today? Leadership and the e-Learning Organization
Website:
http://beyondutopia.tripod.com/xplanazine/
Summary:
According to the journal, written by Susan, The concept of eLearning has expanded in dramatic ways since colleges and universities started to use it about three to five years ago. It’s universal in many ways, first, because it works on multiple device computers even a mobile phone etc. Secondly because e-Learning is graphical, one person can be way from the Philippians or China or even India etc. E-learning is now able to be universal it is available for people all around the world from all walks of life, goals and even backgrounds. E-Learning is made to help a students’: needs’, experiences’, education…
With mobile learning, there are numerous ways to interact with students and to have significant interactions. There are numerous amounts of technology from discussion board, which is used for posting texts, images as well as audio. There are video conferencing using the following technology: Skype, iChat or even AIM. Podcast using audio blogger from a Smartphone, and instant texting and messaging with Smartphone. Another thing Susan mentioned is that it’s not only easy to use but you are able to use it at any location at any time. It’s also possible to download content of curtailed access and to read the material at any given time, to write papers, and even to do and as well as review activities later on at any given time. Another thing is that you and/or your students are able to use the technology at the park and to take photos of leaves up in the trees and then use that to do something educational. For example, they can challenge a fellow peer to identify the tree by the leaves and all that they had to do was to brig their smart phones with them. So e-learning is a really productive form of technology to communicate around the world who are all engaged in the same curriculum; thus allowing a viewpoint from different perspectives.
Review:
Well, in my perspective this article would be excellent for teachers who are getting ready to be instructors in eLearning. Because it not only explains the use of e-learning but also ideas for using this technology, which is great because someone may understand the technology but not have any use of it. Susan goes beyond e-learning letting the reader also understand the different types of technology that is similar to e-learning, and a brief sentence or two about that material.
3. Citation:
Smith Nash, S. (2006). Mobile learning,” great books,” and e-books. Leadership and the e-Learning Organization website:
http://beyondutopia.tripod.com/xplanazine/
Summary:
The growing popularity of mobile devices, coupled with the ever-increasing number of high-quality e-books available for free download is causing a re-examination of core curriculum and instructional philosophies. Perhaps the most – making “great books” programs available and accessible – newly interesting, despite misgivings and political correctness of the last few decades.
Free online copies of world literature texts began to change the landscape of world literature studies because hard-to-obtain texts newly became available. Reliable secondary sources lagged behind, although primary texts in the public domain have been available for several years now, there is now a robust supply of secondary texts, which include biographical, historical, and critical responses to works of literature. In the history of the study of world literatures, the approaches and underlying philosophies have come under fire many times, depending on prevailing attitudes about knowledge, access to education, and even socio-economic class distinctions.
Inspired by the popularity of the Harvard Classics, but feeling the need to update the list so that it reflected a different time and place, University of Chicago president Robert Hutchins and researcher Mortimer Adler collaborated to develop a list of “Great Books of the Western World” that would provide the background in the history of intellectual thought necessary for businessmen in the post-WWII twentieth century to possess a well-rounded education. Consisting of 54 volumes, the collection was published by Encyclopedia Britannica and became an instant addition to households. Purchased often together with the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Great Books series promised instant access to the ideas and thoughts that had shaped history. It was much more than an encyclopedia, however.
Ironically, the Harvard Classics and the Great Books of the Western World projects were attacked for actually resulting in the opposite of their stated intentions. Instead of forming the cornerstone and foundation of a liberal education that resulted in an ability to think freely and to contemplate issues from several vantage points, the collections were thought to be reinforcing ethnocentric mindsets. Following the civil rights movement, feminism, and the rise of post-colonial thought, philosophers such as Michel Foucault pointed out how the people in power subtly brainwash the populace to value ideas and precepts that reinforce the status quo. Instead of empowering the disenfranchised, the works simply serve to reinforce one’s feelings of being disenfranchised and excluded, according to the detractors.
The idea of adherence to, if not a canon, at least a body of solidly recognized works, presents an exciting opportunity if one embraces an interdisciplinary approach. While the specific objectives, visions, and outcomes may sound a bit utopian in tenor, the idea of bringing together rigorous analytical approaches means that not only will the documents act as catalysts in intellectual thought. The protocols and procedures of study will catalyze students, guides, and institutions alike to address the needs of human beings in their worlds.
Review:
I found that the resource was sort of limited she talked about different things but they all were kind of the same I felt that she had to much, it was to hard to understand and that it all seemed as if it wasn’t up to date.
4. Citation:
Smith Nash, S. (2006).Inspiring e-learners to listen to each other. Leadership and the e-Learning Organization website:
http://beyondutopia.tripod.com/xplanazine/
Summary:
If designed and managed well, online discussion boards can be a very lively place where ideas, concepts, and work are exchanged, and where students thrive as they engage in creative problem-solving, synthesis, and other intellectual activities together. You learn from each other, and as well as learning by doing. When you get something wrong, your peers tell you, then show you the right way. In very transparent terms, this is what the theories of Vygotsky, Skinner, and others affirm. In the discussion forum, you learn by expressing your thoughts, showing what you’re thinking, and then adjust and grow in response to others.
For example, if you’re teaching a composition class, you can ask your students to write a review of a movie or a book as though they would be posting it on Amazon.com’s website. However, instead of posting it to amazon.com, they can post it on the discussion board. If you require the students to respond to their fellow students’ posts, and if you provide them with clear guidelines on how to be positive, and to make meaningful, connection-filled comments, you may be surprised at how engaged the students become. Further, they tend to be very supportive of each other, particularly when students have seen the same movie — whether they liked it or not. As well as if they thought it was a challenge or too easy.
Review:
I really enjoyed reading this one because it not only talked about what you as a teacher should do for your students but as well as what you as a school to work together and get different feedback. It also talked about feeling like your students; your listeners are not listening. Ideas for projects but also to include them in the activities one does.
5. Citation:
Smith Nash, S. (2006).When online is better then face-to-faceinstructionLeadership and the e-Learning Organization website:
http://beyondutopia.tripod.com/xplanazine/
Summary:
The author began to talk about thanks to advances in technology and a better understanding of how people learn in a distributed or virtual environment, online courses can be better than face-to-face instruction in some situations. How when online courses were a new thing, the notion of “no significant difference” emerged. In essence, this concept held that online courses should be not be significantly different than face-to-face courses; presumably traditional lecture courses. In practical terms, this was considered to mean that the course content would be the same (or not significantly different), the readings and course materials the same and the ways assessing student work would be equivalent. The only variation would be in the delivery method.
Many educators are now finding that there are many environments when online delivery of content and an eLearning space for students are actually much better than face-to-face instruction. The following are examples of attributes of online courses that can make the e-learning environment more dynamic, personal, flexible…The author ended by saying,” You may be surprised at how much you enjoy the experience.”
Review:
I personally liked it because I enjoy face to face but others don’t so I was able to learn great ideas as well as why one likes face to face and why others don’t. I recommend this for any educator because it informs them in many ways about face to face e learning.
