Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
TextSpeak
Textspeak. The cool kids use it, the uncool, the smart, even the dumb kids use it. They lv it. See what I did there? Yeah, I'm a textspeak maverick.
Look, if I'm down to a few extra letters in a text message and need to cull the sentence to "cm on, im rly lnly n :(, pls go out wit me" to fit inside the prescribed letters to stop it going out as one text rather than two, the message gets across, I've saved $0.30 and it just means I can send a few more pleads to other girls I've met on the internet. But if a student is going to write an assignment, I'm going to cruicify him or her if they include text speak. Seriously, I will hang them and suffer the legal ramifications. My hatred for textspeak is on par with my hatred for Masterchef. How the hell is that thing popular? I digress.
I will let students off with a slight backhand to the face if they use textspeak whilst taking notes. This makes a great deal of sense, and highlights to me that students understand how the word is correctly spelt.
I think you need to set clear instructions about when students can and can't use text speak.
Look, if I'm down to a few extra letters in a text message and need to cull the sentence to "cm on, im rly lnly n :(, pls go out wit me" to fit inside the prescribed letters to stop it going out as one text rather than two, the message gets across, I've saved $0.30 and it just means I can send a few more pleads to other girls I've met on the internet. But if a student is going to write an assignment, I'm going to cruicify him or her if they include text speak. Seriously, I will hang them and suffer the legal ramifications. My hatred for textspeak is on par with my hatred for Masterchef. How the hell is that thing popular? I digress.
I will let students off with a slight backhand to the face if they use textspeak whilst taking notes. This makes a great deal of sense, and highlights to me that students understand how the word is correctly spelt.
I think you need to set clear instructions about when students can and can't use text speak.
SBS - Insight
There was a fascinating topic discussed last night on Insight (SBS), called "Top of the Class", which I think you would find interesting. The thoughts of Doug Lemov regarding the measurement of teacher quality are particularly timely.
http://news.sbs.com.au/insight/episode/index/id/207#watchonline (watch online)
http://news.sbs.com.au/insight/episode/index/id/207 (program overview)
http://news.sbs.com.au/insight/episode/index/id/207#watchonline (watch online)
http://news.sbs.com.au/insight/episode/index/id/207 (program overview)
Podcasting
Following the tutorial today, and the Smartboard session that followed, I am quite convinced that of two things. Firstly, those little gold stars you can post on Smartboard are awesome. And secondly, helping students develop multiliteracies has significent rewards. Provided schools can afford the equipment, and organise ongoing PD for teachers to utilise such technology, students are exposed to new methods of learning.
In this blog I would like to discuss Podcasts.
Podcasts can be shared amongst schools, and also help students who might be away from classes due to distance, illness, holidays or suspension. However I would not want students to rely upon Podcasts if they 'zone out' in class, and then plan to listen to them later. When lecturers post their lecture's audio, I never listen to them again. Can't be bothered. Waste of time. If I didn't listen to him/her the first time, I certainly don't plan on listening to their boring, monotone voice in the comfort of my home, interrupting the Festival of Fun which is my day to day domestic life.
Likewise, when I'm really sick and skip a lecture, I always tell myself whilst driving to the beach for a surf, 'no worries, I'll listen to it on the internet later'. Never do. Never ever ever. Sometimes I might scan it, searching for the key term. But its hard to listen to a lecture when the latest Lady Ga Ga single is playing via my iTunes. When such lyrics as "I got seniority with the sorority, so that explains why I love college, getting brain in the library cause I love knowledge when you used your medulla oblongata", it's bloody hard to concerntrate on the Aboriginal Education or, um, I mean, any lecture I wasn't listening to.
Encouraging students to develop their own Podcasts would be an interesting excercise - rather than say a poster or a project.
In this blog I would like to discuss Podcasts.
Podcasts can be shared amongst schools, and also help students who might be away from classes due to distance, illness, holidays or suspension. However I would not want students to rely upon Podcasts if they 'zone out' in class, and then plan to listen to them later. When lecturers post their lecture's audio, I never listen to them again. Can't be bothered. Waste of time. If I didn't listen to him/her the first time, I certainly don't plan on listening to their boring, monotone voice in the comfort of my home, interrupting the Festival of Fun which is my day to day domestic life.
Likewise, when I'm really sick and skip a lecture, I always tell myself whilst driving to the beach for a surf, 'no worries, I'll listen to it on the internet later'. Never do. Never ever ever. Sometimes I might scan it, searching for the key term. But its hard to listen to a lecture when the latest Lady Ga Ga single is playing via my iTunes. When such lyrics as "I got seniority with the sorority, so that explains why I love college, getting brain in the library cause I love knowledge when you used your medulla oblongata", it's bloody hard to concerntrate on the Aboriginal Education or, um, I mean, any lecture I wasn't listening to.
Encouraging students to develop their own Podcasts would be an interesting excercise - rather than say a poster or a project.
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