Indeed, there are so many apps that can be used in teaching! Can you imagine that most (if not all) of these educational tools can be easily replaced by just a tiny gadget?

Given that the classroom is WiFi enabled, teachers will now have a way to check or verify information right away with just a simple tap on an iPhone. It fosters curiosity not only for the students but also for the teachers while being provided with up-to-date resources.

Although my old Sony Ericsson P990i smartphone can take pictures through its macro shot, the iPhone’s camera still overpowers it. Through apps that can instantly upload photos right after taking it, students can now easily share photos (e.g. TwitPic) of laboratory experiment results on a class blog instead of using a paper and pencil that is prone to inaccuracy and the fact that it has low accessibility too.

Students can also create productions such as podcasts or even vodcasts (e.g. Qik, Ustream, etc.) – and this is what I would like to see in a preschool setting in the Philippines in which kindergarten students make a presentation using these media. Isn’t that wonderful, cute, and amazing at the same time?

Feedback is now interactive and a lot faster. The reactions or reflections of students can be easily gathered, published and even archived. For the teacher, assessment is fast and more accurate; say goodbye to manual computations on paper. Last 2nd semester, I found out that the Edu 2.0 portal had an iPhone version as well! Impressive!

Now, can you imagine yourself teaching with an iPhone in hand as well? Go paperless now and grab that powerful toolbox that fits in your pocket!

Wish me good luck!

Quoting from an email:

Alison is an inspirational presenter who is passionate about helping individuals make progress in their lives through education – and, in so doing, to help their families, communities and countries to prosper. She has a wealth of educational experience interacting with international educators to share best practice and contribute to improving the learning outcomes for students. Alison works closely with teachers, school leaders, and bureaucrats to ensure that students access the very best teaching and learning opportunities.

I will try to live stream the event via Ustream in a bit and hopefully the stream will be clear enough for I will only use a SmartBRO connection if I don’t get to have a decent WiFi connection.

Live TV by Ustream

Quoting the Ed/ITLib:

The Digital Library is a valuable online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and conference papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.

The AACE Digital Library enables users to:

* Conduct scholarly research.
* Keep current on the latest research and publications in their fields.
* Access and fully search to publications in an easy, searchable, and efficient manner.
* Maintain their academic interests in the area of information technology in education.
* Receive Table of Contents Alerts prior to publication.

Export capability is offered in the following formats:

* BibTex, compatible with LaTeX and similar TeX-based text processors.
* EndNote, compatible with EndNote and any application capable of importing references in EndNote format.

It also offers eBooks, presentations, and several featured & public collections – paperless resources! I just hope that this digital library shall also be included in my university library’s online subscriptions soon. This resource will be very handy especially in the field of educational technology.

Goals: Understand, Learn, Realize, Know, Appreciate, Be aware, Feel, Believe, Desire, Enjoy.

Instructional Objectives: Identify, Outline, Operate, Compute, Name, Detect, Volunteer, Write, Construct, Support.

For example, your topic is on Web Development:

G: Learn HTML programming.
O: Create a simple HTML.

G: Understand the various frameworks used in web development.
O: Operate on a specific framework in creating a website.

G: Know the different terminologies in HTML.
O: Name the different terms or concepts used in HTML programming.

G: Appreciate the beauty of web development.
O: Volunteer to present and demonstrate your own website in class.

G: Be aware of the different strategies on web development.
O: Detect and identify the methods used in developing a website.

For more examples, check out these references:

Portals, HTML5, learning objects, courseware development, short courses, workshops – name them all! This year’s going to be a very challenging one and exciting as well! So let’s welcome this year with a bang!

Happy New Year! Cheers to 2010!

Here’s a sample of my presentation:

Surprisingly, delivering the talk was somewhat easy for me because I only have to illustrate and compare the transition of education’s components from the 1.0 to its 3.0 counterparts. Although it’s just my first year in my graduate studies in the College of Education and my first time to take up Educational Technology, I’ve been doing a lot of research already on such technologies and its usage in the academe. However, the hard part in it was the research process on getting the established definition for Education 3.0 because based on what I had found so far, the term can only be defined by describing the sum of its parts.

Also, here are the questions raised by my audience:

What will happen to the schools in Education 3.0? What are their roles then? Is there a standard criteria existing to evaluate if a school is using Education 3.0 already?

…well, what do you think?

I used to bookmark a lot of articles or links about computers, technology, open source, programming, etc. but now, another tag – education has emerged as I traverse another path as an educator and a graduate student of education. The same was true for my Twitter account; I’ve gained a lot of contacts that were also educators. In fact, most of the links I post on my Del.icio.us came from their updates on Twitter. This simply means that we can really use Del.icio.us for collective intelligence through websites and perhaps share them via Twitter.

Although I have a rich collection of bookmarks on my account already, there were still lots of bookmarks stored locally on my browsers that were not yet organized. Such bookmarks were considered as my “to read later” articles due to lack of time.

Well, perhaps sometimes it’s just so hard to keep up with the pace of the development of technology and the doubling of the exponential rate of information explosion. Here’s another take about the role of del.icio.us in education:

So, what do you think?

Change is indeed inevitable and constant. In this new blog, I shall be writing my ideas and reflections on the field of education and technology that I will be learning from my experiences not only as an educator but also as a student. I also hope that starting with this very new post, I will not be encountering the so called blogger’s block ever again.

It’s now or never.