warrington’s blog

Well, our session with the SFU librarian was very helpful in learning how to use ERIC, the library search engine, and I did find a few sources to back up my Field Study idea, “Will making my classes student centered lead to increased student motivation”. However, to be frank, I was just as successful in [...]

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Wow! To be honest, I didn’t really see the value in re-doing my autobiography. Didn’t I just do this last year?? How much could I really have changed in 12 short months? Aren’t I fundamentally the same person? I did just think that this was simply another writing assignment that TLITE needs us to do [...]

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(Subtitle: A rather obvious, but accurate, description of this assignment.)
Well, as I look back over the past year, I remember coming into the summer session as a totally new, first year TLITEr. I was a bit in awe of the second year TLITErs, seeing them as Info Tech pros, and felt excited, but somewhat daunted. [...]

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Nb: See also my previous blog entry, Review of an Ed Tech article, The Role of Tech in Quality Education(1). That article was a research paper about online learning. It was not intended to be persuasive one way or the other, but in my review of it, I came down on the side of caution, [...]

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My wide topic is, “How to motivate and encourage academically-challenged students?”
It’s heart-breaking for all teachers to see students slipping through the proverbial cracks in our classroom floors, especially when, for one, it’s our job to help them and, for two, you know you COULD help them if only you didn’t have so much else on [...]

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I found a most academic article about online learning. The focus was on higher education, but the issues it raised are relevant to elementary and high schools. The article is:
The Role of Technology in Quality Education
http://hcl.chass.ncsu.edu/sscore/garson2.htm
It was written by a guy, G. David Garson, from North Carolina State U. He doesn’t’ mention if he’s a [...]

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Boys’ marks in school have been in a pretty serious slide in the last 15 years or so all through the western world. Nowadays, girls succeed better than boys in every area of pre- and post- secondary school, except physics and engineering. There are more women, with higher marks all through university, approximately 60% women-40% [...]

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Today I’m presenting a comparison between Camtasia and JIng screen capture software. I researched Camtasia by looking at an article published online on Digital Inspiration, a tech site with thousands of articles on info tech issues. I downloaded Jing, since it’s free, whereas Camtasia is $300 (!)

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