Welcome faculty,
This is the faculty blog to accompany the project. We will be posting directions for the project in Google Documents area. This blog is for you to get further clarification, ask questions, and let us know how the project is progressing. If students have questions you can field them with this group if you need assistance. We can each reflect here on what works, what is difficult, observations of students, and celebrate their learning.
We should start by introducing ourselves. If each of you would post who you are, where you teach, what you teach, and other information about yourself that would be help us all get to know each other. I think this experience and exchange will enrich our own teaching and be useful for our students, too.
REMINDER: Don't tell your students who the partner countries and institutions are before the first activity, so they can make up hints for "Guess the City" activity.
Again welcome. I look forward to hearing from you.
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My introduction:
I am Sarah McPherson, chair of Instructional Technology program for New York Institute of Technology. I teach in New York City, Long Island, surrounding off-campus partner sites and online. I'll be using this project in an instructional technology course called "Diversity, Learning and Technology". I think this project will be a unique approach to topics in this course.
Hi, I am Ruth Wood and I teach at Kingston University in London, UK. My specialist area is ICT in Education and I work with students who are undertaking a programme which leads to Qualified Teacher Status. The students involved in this project are postgraduates and they are completing a one-year course. This project provides opportunity to examine ICT, learning and teaching within a global context.
Hi Ruth, Nice to have you on board. We met briefly in Hawaii the day after the earthquake. I'm glad you are interested in going forward with this project. I think we'll all learn a lot.
Shiangkwei reminded me today that I set up a Global group, which you joined, and she has posted project directions there. I think the blog will be better for dialog, unless it gets to be too many places to check for information. When students start blogging we may get really busy quickly. Right now we seem to be starting off fairly slowly.
Dear all:
Nice to mee you here.
I am Mengping Tsuei. I am teaching at Taipei Municipal University of Education. My specialist area is in ICT or E-learning especially for elementary education. I am really exiciting about this project. Most of members in our groups are in-service teachers in Taipei. Some of them are student-teachers. I believe we will have a great results.
Hi Mengping. Did you have a nice new year's celebration?
I started the project with setting up Google tools last night in my class. They were excited to be participating. Hope your students are looking forward to it too.
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