Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Why I teach?

  • Describe yourself as a teacher. What do you teach? How long have you taught?
  • Why did you become a teacher?
  • What's your favorite thing about teaching?
  • What are 2 or 3 of the most important things you want students to learn, in general and about your discipline?
  • What do you think makes someone a good teacher?
  • What's the best way to motivate students to learn?

Beginner Entry


  • This is my first blog entry.

Podcast Interview Questions

Potential Questions for Podcast Interviews
  • Which technologies do you like using the most and why?
  • What has been the biggest impact of technology on how you read and write?
  • How does technology impact how you communicate?
  • Where do you think technology is headed next?
  • Which technologies do you like using the least and why?
  • How has technology changed the way you read and write?
  • Technology continues to change. How have you responded to that change in your life over time?
  • What kinds of technology do you use the most?

What is literacy?

  • What does the term "literacy" mean to you?
  • Why do you feel literacy is important?
  • As teachers, what should our goals be for teaching literacy?
  • What's a key thing we can do to strengthen the literacy skills of our students?

Monday, June 8, 2015

Going Tech Free

  • How successful were you at going Tech/Literacy free for a day?
  • What was the hardest thing about trying to go Tech/Literacy free?
  • How did your friends/family respond to you do the task?
  • What was the short term impact on you of doing this task?
  • Was there any long term impact on you?
  • Did going Tech/Literacy free cause you to get more physically active or less? Why?
  • What did you miss the most while you were going Tech/Literacy free?
  • What did you miss the least?
  • I asked you to keep a simple journal about your experiences. Please review those entries and discuss something of interest that you wrote down.
  • Overall, what did you think of this experience?

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

The Time Machine

Primary Blog Question

  • When compared, the two film clips help illuminate a key question for this course: How has our relationship to technology changed over time?

Secondary Blog Questions
  • How has film technology changed?
  • How have we changed as film viewers?
  • How has our understanding of time evolved?
  • How does fiction/science fiction impact our relationship to technology?



Sample First Post

This is my first blog post. I am trying this out. I am a beginner.
  • How exciting!