Ryan

//**The Curious Incident of a Teacher and a Coffee **// //Welcome to my coffee can... the storage place for my LATTE learning... actually, I prefer double doubles, but I'll manage.// 



When I began this trip to the coffee house, my personal understanding of technology revolved around surfing the web for sports sites, checking my email, and messing around with a Blackberry and then my iPhone. (For crazy new possibilities with the iPhone check out the article on [|Media sharing] ... tight!)My use of technology in teaching was to play my iPhone through the PE speakers and try to help disabled students with their assistive technology. Now that I have rolled up the rim on the possibilities of technology in my teaching practice, I find myself learning new ideas and skills daily, and yet feeling like I am being pulled by the rip tide even further from shore. I will post some of my thoughts and samples here but I will also be working on a blog, a website, and other wikis which will be linked here. Try clicking pictures, they are sometimes links too!

 One of the first "tech" things I tried was the Garage Band podcast, and in an hour or so I had recorded my voice on my iPhone, converted the audio file into iTunes, combined the new audio with photos from my life and the net, and added some background tunes and produced my first assignment. It is posted on my newly created website, which is more personal than LATTE, but does have samples of my exploration, and information about me.

Other cool links to my learning... Okay they are not that cool.



Most of my reflections are on my blog, an Edublogs we set up together. I have posted thoughts on the capacities, reflections on readings, and ramblings about guest speakers and my own classes. I am bailing out of edublogs and using a wiki instead. For past edits click the photo... for new posts hit it here.

One of the most important ways for me to demonstrate growth and learning is to provide samples of my teaching practice and how technology is changing and influencing the way I work with students. This year in my Planning 10 class I decided to give wikis a go, and we did a podcast assignment as well. I need help with getting the podcasts into the wiki, but I am sure there is way. (I found the way! Insert the file (not video) and use text edit to increase the size.)



This is the foundation of the Field Study Program... the Inquiry Questions... the focus of our active, collaborative research. It is a working, changing, living entity that will be developed as the next few semesters unfold.

PORTFOLIO SUMMARY DEC. '09