Hello, This blog contains an archive of my readings and thoughts for an Introduction to Instructional Technology Class. I will not be updating this blog again, but will leave it online as an archive of my writings. At some point, if blogger decides to offer categories, I will collapse all of my IT blogs into one large blog, with the classes creating the categories.

http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/mlr/readings/articles/tyner/elephant.htmlBasically, this article talks about the history of media literacy and how political and social issues have impacted it from funding to the perception of it by practitioners.

http://www.gsu.edu/~mstswh/courses/it7000/papers/media.htmMedia Comparison ResearchThe author points out that many believe that there has been a shift in education from instructional media research from behavioral to cognitive.

He defines Media as

http://www.nwlink.com/%7Edonclark/history_isd/attack.htmlThis week's readings could just as well be called IT hangover. :)Perrsonally, all of the articles in this week's reading, just seem like an expected backlash. Before people change a habit (or way of doing something) there is often a big flurry of regression/nostalgia for the old way. I think that is completely true with what is happening with technology.

http://www.tnellen.com/ted/tc/computer.htmOh, haven't we all suffered from the computer delusion at one time or another? Something that will make our life easier ends up taking up more time than if we had just done it the old-fashioned way.Wasn't it supposed to get rid of the stacks and stacks of paperwork I have to do?

http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_7/white/index.htmlThis is from firstmonday which I used to read abit when I was in "library school".The author notes the following points:Where he agrees on the topic of digital diploma mills:

• Technology is used as a means of social control (e.g., there is a division between those who are pro-technology as a new mechanism for teaching and those who feel that teaching is best served in a traditional setting) As he points out, change is neither good nor bad and does have th

http://communication.ucsd.edu/dl/ddm1.htmlOk, first let me say that I lost my first post on digital diplomas which was long to the blogger monster. I will try to summarize that post below. Also, I am very tired & yucky feeling, so please pardon, any typos.Basically, this article divides higher ed into two camps:faculty & students vs. administrators & legislators (for those of us in public institutions)In other words, learning vs.

Ok, I just finished a big part of my chunk of the webquest assignment (I think). I still need to review the web resources and help out with the evaluation stuff, but the part that is the most important to me is done. I say the most important to me, because it is really the only area of the webquest I feel any competence in. I do not know any high school students. I do not teach and the only classes I have taught have been college freshmen or con't ed kinds of things. I have no clue what appeals to a senior in highschool.

http://www.virtual.gmu.edu/SS_research/cdpapers/ascdpdf.htmI think all of these questions are very relative but some are more critical over the long run. Certainly funding up front for computers is needed, and adequate future funding to maintain those computers. However, in the long term support for computers and the technology must come from the community (#4). If parents, legislators, the school board, governing board, etc.

Sorry, I accidentally marked some of my earlier entries draft, so you probably did not see them (if you were looking for them...)