Blog Post #8

1. When watching Richard Miller's I Have a Dream Part 1 and 2 he brought about some good points. He was taking about how when he was a student he was in the library all the time because those are where the resources were. He loves books and that is why he said he made a career of it. He wrote a book but now the book is not printed anymore. It is online for everyone to view. You can buy it on Amazon for 59 cents even. He made his knowledge in the book available to all.
He even said that he now does research without stepping into a library. All the resources he needs is available with the internet. Making documents available on the internet and not through a book gets ideas out quickly. If you wanted on a book it might take two or more years. The internet Miller says is a "way to push ideas."
Miller said that people were downloading lectures from teachers on the internet more then they ever have. That is giving people knowledge that they once did not have. Miller says, "Ideas don't belong to us, but instead to our culture and we as educators must share our ideas freely." This is so true without the sharing of ideas then we are holding ourselves back it is just like "two heads are better then one," but imagine billions of heads and how great ideas can come from those people.
I feel like I am not prepared to write with multimedia right now but I know by the end of EDM310 I will be more prepared and will continue learning throughout my career. When I learn the skills of multimedia I will teach the base line of it to my students and I will let them explore it with their own imagination and responsibility.
2. In Carly Pugh's video Blog Post #12 she has come closer then I feel like I ever could or most EDM310 students could writing with multimedia. That assignment was definitely something Dr. Strange would think up. It would teach you to expand your thinking of what internet is and does like Millers says and puts your ideas for all to see and to learn from.
3. After watching The Chipper Series and EDM310 for Dummies the primary message of these two videos is EDM310 is possible but only if you organize your time properly. I seriously want to be those girls sometimes in the EDM310 for Dummies that throw the keyboard because I am just that frustrated. My idea for a video that I would like to create is a video that records what I have to do in a week for EDM310 and explain how I handle the assignments with what I do in all my other classes. I will not be just happy in this video I will be like how I really am and scream at the computer when I am frustrated and express my frustration and show how I get through it.
4. In the video Learn to Change, Change to Learn I feel like the arguments are very reasonable. If they were not I do not believe we would have to take EDM310 to be a teacher. EDM310 is a building blocks for us as teachers to give us the tools and showing us how to use them in a very basic way. We ourselves have to explore more before we are teachers to fully understand how we can incorporate technology and social networking into the classroom.