I have been finding it difficult every year to convey ethical issues to my students. Today I searched the Internet for "teaching ethics" and found some useful looking resources. Some are about ethics in general, but I found www.doug-johnson.com/ethics which has scenarios about computer-related ethical issues which I think will be very helpful. Another useful webpage was joycevalenza.com/ethics.html which reports on four activities used with ten year olds to help them engage with the issues in question.
Saturday, December 11, 2004
Electronic Portfolios
I attended a presentation by Dr Helen Barrett about electronic portfolios at Ultralab South yesterday. Her definition of an electornic portfolio as "a dynamic celebration of learning across the life span" excited me as I can see the relevance of this for me and for my students. The framework for creation of these portfolios and her discussion of the different software tools that can be used was very useful and I plan to create my own portfolio and encourage my students to make their own.
The day before attending this presentation I had downloaded Multimedia Builder to experiment with for my classes next year. The students will be building a multimedia product to solve a problem for Unit Standard 5936. I think that making my own electronic portfolio will be an excellent way of getting a feel for the software - thanks Tim for the suggestion.
The day before attending this presentation I had downloaded Multimedia Builder to experiment with for my classes next year. The students will be building a multimedia product to solve a problem for Unit Standard 5936. I think that making my own electronic portfolio will be an excellent way of getting a feel for the software - thanks Tim for the suggestion.
Why Am I Blogging?
As a teacher of computing, I have come across blogging a lot recently. I want to be able to use blogs with my students next year, so am partly experimenting with that in mind. I also can see the potential to use a blog to share ideas and resources with other teachers of computing. While I find the NZIST listserve www.nzist.org.nz very helpful at times, if I do not save the emails I cannot refer back to them, and it is hard to keep topics of discussion organised.
So I am hoping that this might be the beginning of a useful online collaboration, perhaps drawing in the network of people around the country with whom I am in touch.
So I am hoping that this might be the beginning of a useful online collaboration, perhaps drawing in the network of people around the country with whom I am in touch.
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