Week 4 The Future of PLEs and LMS Video

Week 4 Wimba Session

Wimba Session Week 4

Well it appeared that sharing the UDUTU projects was not a simple task in the Wimba session but it was great to hear everyone discuss their projects and talk about UDUTU. Jordan shared his UDUTU on music geographically, or at least he tried to but there were technical difficulties. It seems that several people had a little nit of trouble with UDUT and saw it has a huge learning curve. I have to agree with Stacy that I liked the fact that I was able to have the freedom to choose my templates, and I liked the flexibility. If I wanted to make each assessment question appear differently I was able to do so and that was a nice trait of UDUTU in my opinion. Thanks for another great Wimba!!

Week 4-Comment on Abbie Toy's UDUTU Project

Screenshots taken from Abby's UDUTU Project.

http://publish.myudutu.com/published/launcheval/21382/Course38199/Launch.html

I found Udutu to be difficult to navigate, which in turn made creating my lesson harder than I had planned. It took me several days to set up my account, read through tutorials on the program, and then get my lesson up and running. Even after creating my lesson for this class, I am still feeling a bit confused by the Udutu program. Although I understand the concept of Udutu, I feel like there are probably other programs that I could use in order to create interactive lessons for my students that would be easier and more time-effective.

Amanda said...

@Abbie-
Your UDUTU lesson was nice in the fact that it went through step by step of the process of creating a ning site. If I might make one suggestion it would be to make the font a little smaller so that it fits on one screen. It seemed like I had to scroll a few times to be able to read all of the directions. Nice job!

July 28, 2010 4:41 PM

Week 4-Comment on Kathy Kellen's UDUTU Project

Comment on Kathy's UDUTU Project, Images take from Kathy's UDUTU project.

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This unit/project is targeted for 2nd grade music students and links directly to my Action Research project for EMDT. I feel it will be a powerful tool as I teach my music note-reading unit next spring to my students.

@ Kathy-

Your UDUTU project turned out really nice! Colorful, eye appealing and highly functional. This is such a fun lesson and I know your students will enjoy using it. Great job and thanks again for all the help with my UDUTU project!

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 03:32 PM

Week 4-Comment on Joe Huber's UDUTU

Comment on Joe Huber's UDUTU Project- Screen shots taken from Joe's project.

My UDUTU lesson:

This lesson is designed to introduce students to the Bill of Rights and also to have them interpret them as they attempt to deliver a verdict in an actual U.S. Supreme Court case.

@Joe- Your UDUTU project is very nice. The use of pictures and video was a great touch as well. Your directions were very clear and I think the user will appreciate that! nice job!

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2010 - 04:22 PM

Week 4-UDUTU Project

http://lms.myudutu.com/LMSGadget/courses/lms/21313/Course38069/2267/v2010_7_29_6_58_10/course/Course38069.html

Above is the link for my UDUTU project. You can also find it under Social Skills Kindness & Cooperation on UDUTU Learn on Facebook.

My UDUTU lesson focuses on the Social Skills of Kindness and Cooperation.

Wow, what an experience! At first I was frustrated with UDUTU but after working out a few kinks and talking to a few friends (thank you Kathy!) I was well on my way to creating a lesson on UDUTU. Once I got going, I decided that I really like this tool. It was easy to create an assessment and link the pages to the correct answers. I did find it frustrating that some of the fonts were difficult to change and make larger. I can certainly see this being a nice tool to use in the future!

Week 3 Reading Activity 11-The MMOG and Simulation

Week 3 Reading 11 The MMOG and Simulation

Jayakanthan (2002) likens the influence of the computer gaming industry on youth today to the influence of music, religion, and politics in previous decades. In fact, computer games are so popular that blockbuster films are being made about them (e.g. Super Mario Brothers). Let’s face it, gaming is a huge part of our youth’s lives and this will not change anytime soon. Gaming does have a place in education as this article points out, the demand for MMOGs will continue to rise.

Games can help students focus on specific skills or competencies and might tap or foster user creativity and adaptive, higher-level thinking skills. MMOGs are addicting and highly graphical in terms of 3D.

Oblinger (2003) claims that the learners of the early part of the twenty-first century are accustomed to ubiquitous computing environments where multitasking and staying connected are the norms. She further notes that students who are active participants in the information age want to engage in relevant meaningful tasks rather than just complete worksheets and accumulate knowledge.

Bonk, C.J., & Dennen, V.P. (2005). Massive multi-player online gaming: A research framework for military training and education. Retrieved July 20, 2010 from http://www.adlnet.gov/SiteCollectionDocuments/archive/GameReport_Bonk_final.pdf