Teaching in the Age of Technology

Growing Up Online is a series of videos created about young people and their interaction with the  internet.


This small excerpt from the hour long program, aired on Frontline, focuses on technology in the classroom and shows two points of view on how teachers feel about it.

As a student at Frederick Community College, I am very grateful for the teachers who embrace technology and use it actively in their teaching. Yes there is a place for traditional methods, but if your goal is to teach... than why not use tools that merely take a little bit of training to acquire, and help your students to excel in a technology driven world?


"I feel that my time is over" said one of the teachers.
Your time is never over as a teacher! You have more to share now than you did when you first started! Take the challenge and show your students that you too can excel at learning. Never give up.

Every Day Is A New Day

Don't you love how every day is truly a new day?

I notice all sorts of things when I choose to get up in the morning and enjoy the day that God has prepared for me. This morning, on my walk to school, I peered down at the sidewalk and realized that the worms were beginning to cross the pavement! As I kept walking I began to see a lot of them making the perilous journey.

It was six minutes until class started so I quickly pulled out my camera to document this "side-trip."

I am happy to say that I arrived to class on time and had a blast! We had a really cool activity where we had to pick 5-6 headlines for a newspaper out of a list our professor gave us... many of them were very interesting.

Back to the worms.

Walking back to my vehicle, I thought about my little friends squirming across the flat expanse we call a sidewalk. Looking down, I was pleased to not see any... until I came across this grisly scene. Apparently not ALL of the worms made it.

So I suppose the question should be...
Would you make it as a worm?

I Have A Problem

I have a problem with learned behaviors, especially the gag-reflex.

The Lorax was a fun little movie that I watched with a younger brother, that was completely focused on saving the trees, or the planet, or whatever happens to be dying at the moment.

I suppose most people could not say that they can love and dislike a movie at the same time, but I can.

The Lorax made it very clear in the beginning that it was an environmental movie. Now, about this learned gag-reflex of mine. I hear people say all the time, "Uh, great!" rolling their eyes, "Not another tree-hugger movie!" I too can be blamed for this response. 

However, I don't plan on bashing the environmentalist ideals and progress.

I want to live in a healthy community where I don't have to wear a face mask, or fear my drinking water. They bring real issues to the forefront that must be paid attention to.

I believe The Lorax will instill in humans of all ages the possible extent of our poor stewardship of this world, and being a student of movies... I know this one will be studied in the future to show what people were concerned with during this generation.

So, the gag-reflex is going away because I know the purpose... but I'm still not quite over it. 

~ This has been a post for my CMM 101 class in accordance to the requirements of an assignment.

Monkey in the Middle

Photo taken on the set of a Cyber-Light Production

Jonathan and Bethany pose with puppet, Chip.

Although many months away, Vacation Bible School planning and preparations are in full swing for Victory Baptist Church. Here we have Jonathan (the puppeteer) and Bethany on the set of It's A Jungle Out There, a puppet show that will help kids memorize their Bible verses.

Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day!

One of my dear brothers bought these delightful chocolate covered strawberries from 

The Perfect Truffle

Woops!

Can this really be?
Yes it can. I saw this as I drove by earlier today and had to snag the opportunity to take a photo, it's not something you see every day.


Comments have ranged from, "Maybe they're in distress?" to "WcDonalds... LOL!"

I love images.

I would say that I love photography, which is an art, but in the most basic form I like to gaze at images.

This could be pictures or movies or a variety of other things.

I enjoy performing as a photographer.

I dance about the stage of life composing shots and capturing moments that might otherwise be lost in time that sweeps so quickly by.