Sunday, October 12, 2014

C4T #2

C4T #2 Post #1

      This week I was assigned to comment on Mrs. Lisa Thumann's blog, a professor at Kean University in New Jersey. In her this week she brings up a situation which has been bothering her for a while now. She helps organize and run the EdubloggerCon East in Boston, a conference to help people talk about education. In recent years, attrition has worn down the number of attendees for the conference so she posted asking others to offer suggestions about how to fix this problem. I offered my opinion in that maybe people are forgetful and a system of e-mails or calls needs to be set up so that the people who register are still able to make it. I also suggested making sure that the venues have topics that people are interested in just in case people have become bored with the conference.

C4T #2 Post #2

      This week I once again had Mrs. Thumann's blog. In this week's post Mrs. Thumann talks about 20% time. 20% time is a concept in which people are allowed to devote 20% of their work hours to a project of their own choosing. She gives an outline of the project and took a poll to see if teacher's are implementing such a concept in their classes. As it turns out many teachers are, and I commented on the post saying what a great idea it would be to have in the classrooms. Students would actually want to attend class and it would alleviate any boredom or stress they might be under. It wold give students a chance to express their own opinions and ideas, something which rarely happened when I was in school.

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