Reflections on Chapter 9

Today, with the increase in Internet connection speeds, advances in technology, the increase of total number of people online, and the decrease in connection costs it has become increasingly common to find traditional television content accessible freely and legally over the Internet. In addition to this, new Internet-only television content has appeared which is not distributed via cable, satellite, or terrestrial systems. Internet television utilizes the connections of the Internet to deliver video from a source to a target device. Teachers use this technology to bring classes together outside the normal classroom. Some of the ways in which Internet delivered television is used include: A digital camera capable of downloading images to a computer for transmission over the Internet or other network. A digital camera is capable of downloading images to a computer for transmission over the Internet or other network which give students the capabilities of a visual interpretation. Webcam software typically captures the images as JPEG or MPEG files and uploads them to the Web server. There are countless Webcam sites on the Internet that have cameras pointed at virtually everything. They provide videos of people going about their daily work as well as offering the online equivalent of the live audience. NetMeeting is a multi-point videoconferencing that has included in many versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 to Windows XP. It uses the protocol for video and audio conferencing, and is interoperable with based clients such as Internet Locator Service as reflector. NetMeeting was a popular way to perform video conferences and chatting over the Internet with the help of public ILS servers. This capability provides a learning shared environment, which a question or answer can be shared and gather to further the learning process.

Reflections on Chapter 8

Not all school websites are created equal. Some look nearly primitive while others appear professionally designed. But classroom web sites greatly improve communications with students, parents, and community. Communication is improved in ways that parents can monitor what their children are doing in class. The majority are simple vehicles for communicating the news and happenings of the school or the school district. You might be able to read a digital version of the school's newsletter but, which can help you know what to look towards in the future. There are several reasons for the investment in many school sites. School districts can afford to hire professional web designers or pay a staff member to be the webmaster. These webmasters are sometimes paid, which helps explain why so many school websites are not updated regularly and may appear neatly assembled. This is how a website can improve home-to-school communications.
Well-designed school websites can meet the specific needs of users and be a valuable bridge between home, school, and the community. This is confirmed what I already knew busy parents and students rely on web-based information, so it's only natural they would look to the Internet for news about their school and educational support. I learned that involving all parties in the website development process results in universal use, and support of the website and a school. The process is rewarding for everyone involved. Not only is it a vehicle for teaching the students web skills, but it also helps parents gain involvement with their kid school and value their community.

Reflections on Chapter 7

Streaming is a method of delivering an audio and video signal to your computer over the Internet, and differs from the normal method of receiving Internet audio and video in one important way instead of having to download a wav, au or other type of file completely before being able to listen to it and see, you hear the sound and see the video as it arrives at your computer, and therefore do not have to wait for a complete download which would be difficult with a live broadcast anyway!As the data arrives it is buffered for a few seconds and then playback begins. As the audio is playing, more data is constantly arriving or streaming, and as long as you are receiving a constant stream of data, you should hear constant audio. Obviously you'll need a soundcard, speakers or headphones and the appropriate software for this all to work. Think of a bucket the buffer with a hole in the bottom, being topped up with water the data. As long as there is water in the bucket, it will continue to pour out of the hole, and will do this as long as there is water in the bucket. Similarly, as long as there is data in the buffer, you will continue to hear sound. Unfortunately the buffer can empty due to congestion on the Internet which may stop you from receiving data this explains the net congestion buffers the message so you may see from time to time with the RealAudio software. Media has been altered by web-casting. Web-casting is used for live events where there can be potentially many viewers. Web-casting delivers one stream to many students simultaneously. It is essential to note that streaming serves require the appropriate hardware, network connections, and basic usage knowledge. The advantages can be seen through the creativity in the classroom, by students being able to visualize or receive auditory instructions. This type of media will help the classroom environment through communication and complex streaming.

Reflections on Chapter 6

Authoring systems are computer based programs that help non-programmers create applications. They vary in the features they provide, in the cost, and their usage. Most authoring systems also support a scripting language for more sophisticated applications. Authoring systems vary widely in orientation, capabilities, and learning curve. There is no such thing as a completely point-and-click automated authoring system; some knowledge of thinking and design is necessary. Whether you realize it or not, authoring is actually just a faster form of programming. Authoring programs can be categorized by the way in which they work. Authoring encompasses the Web site creation process that incorporates Languages. I know you all have seen those Languages many in which I today I do not know what all of them mean such as; HTML, SGML, SVG, XHTML, and XML. I could inform you on what all of those mean but why bother, just know that authoring systems uses them to make our lives easier. There are dozens of authoring programs form which teaching and learning is used. Teachers can build content where their students will have to react to situations that help them better understand their work. You can author questions and assessments using a Windows-based program or a browser with a server-based system. Windows-based authoring, which requires that software be installed on your PC, provides a powerful environment for creating simple and complex questions and assessments. MAC also offers some basic and complex programs to help the interaction with students. The advantage of authoring programs is that students can see how visualization is structured to make it easy for the learner. For instance, the flexibility to create this online course through authoring systems gives you the ability to read and interact on the reaction and thoughts of this very question. This helps provide a completely integrated E-Learning tool. It is no longer necessary to sit in the classroom to learn about systems from one outlet there are many, an authoring tool from another, and collaboration tools from a third. Whether you decide to learn the traditional classroom method by attending class or interacting with others outside the classroom, there are many versatile authoring systems that a teacher can give control to a student so that they may be active rather than passive participant. These programs include sound, incorporate text, graphics, video, and animation. Regardless of which system is used the authoring program can make the development process efficient and cost effective.

Reflections

As an advocate of equity for all children, I challenge the common, though usually unarticulated, assumption that the American educational "mainstream" is white, middle class, male-dominant, English-speaking, without disabilities and of Anglo-American culture. The corollary of this assumption is that other girls and boys-poor, or racially, culturally, ethnically and linguistically diverse, or with disabilities exist on the educational periphery as exceptions with special problems to be corrected, deficits to be made up, and needs to be met before they are fit to join the educational "mainstream." The logic of this view divides our children between two student bodies - "mainstream" and peripheral and defines two distinct sets of educational parameters, making it seem natural to measure the quality of education by "mainstream" achievement while equity is measured by the extent to which peripheral boys and girls are given access to educational offerings and experiences designed to meet the needs and characteristics of "mainstream" students. It is this dualistic imaging of students that allows some to frame debate about national educational equity. I reject the exclusionary approach for which the term "mainstream" has become a code word. Our children are of both genders, many nations, every ethnic group and all economic backgrounds. They speak many languages, reflect all types and conditions, and represent all individual talents and abilities. And they are as different from each other within their groupings boy to boy, Latina to Latina, African American girl to African American boy, and so on - as they are different from each other by group. In all their diversity, they make up the true mainstream of our student population and it is our responsibility to meet their diverse needs as the needs exist, not as we find it convenient. We owe them all schools that give each the opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and understanding at the highest possible levels. We owe them schools that expect to educate, are equipped to educate, and are committed to educate a student body that mirrors the rich diversity of our people. Schools that expect less, or that are only capable of less, fail their students and the communities that support them. In the national search for educational excellence, therefore, equity is not a secondary goal that can be postponed. Equity is education is a necessary condition for national educational excellence.

Reflections on Ch 5

A spreadsheet is a rectangular table or grid of information, often financial information. The word came from spread in its sense of a newspaper or magazine item text and graphics that covers two facing pages, extending across the center fold and treating the two pages as one large one. The compound word spreadsheet came to mean the format used to present bookkeeping ledgers with columns for categories of expenditures across the top, invoices listed down the left margin, and the amount of each payment in the cell where its row and column intersect which were traditionally a spread across facing pages of a bound ledger book for keeping accounting records or on oversized sheets of paper ruled into rows and columns in that format and approximately twice as wide as ordinary paper. A spreadsheet program is designed to perform general computation tasks using spatial relationships rather than time as the primary organizing principle. Many programs designed to perform general computation use timing, the ordering of computational steps, as their primary way to organize a program. A well defined entry point is used to determine the first instructions, and all other instructions must be reachable from that point. In a spreadsheet, however, a set of cells is defined with a spatial relation to one another. It is often convenient to think of a spreadsheet as a mathematical graph, where the nodes are spreadsheet cells, and the edges are references to other cells specified in formulas. This is often called the dependency graph of the spreadsheet. References between cells can take advantage of spatial concepts such as relative position and absolute position, as well as named locations, to make the spreadsheet formulas easier to understand and manage.
The education environment has gain changing their current practices through spreadsheets. One prime example of how educators monitor their class progress in the learning environment. This program creates a changing process, by reducing the time the educator spends on preventing skills to be lost from not knowing the class weaknesses. This is one example of an educators making preventative time wasted, while becoming educationally responsible. These spreadsheets resource can be used in such a friendly to use inexpensive preserve that educators can also share ideas that can be concerted from a particular task or direction.