Week 13: TCC 2012 Online Conference

Aloha! This week was my first experience with the TCC Online Conference. Actually, it's my first time attending any conference.  This experience was a great one.  There were so many different presentation topics available to learn about. One in particular was Laureen's presentation on Electronic Resources.  Not only did I learn a lot from the presentation, I also got to see what it's like to be in a presentation & give a presentation since I'll be giving one next year. I got to comment on discussion forums and share my thoughts about the presentation topics.  It was interesting to see everyone else's discussion posts.

My group & I will be working together to complete a group reflection on the TCC 2012 online conference.  It'll be interesting to see what their thoughts are on the conference & how their experience went.  I created a "Storify" to share with others  about the TCC Conference.  It was also my first experience with Storify so that was fun also.  I also created Tweets about the conference labeled with the hastag #2012tcc. You can go ahead and check those out.  If you haven't experienced a TCC Conference I would highly recommend you check it out in the future.

Aloha & God Bless!
chelseaETEC

Week 12: Internet of Things

In class tonight, we talked about "Internet of Things".  We had group discussion breakout rooms where we could brainstorm some ideas and we shared 3 of those ideas with the class. The three ideas we shared were:

• Museum: Class excursion to a museum (BYOD environment) teacher allows students 1 hour to explore. GPS on phone to track students onto teacher's ipod and teacher can tell where students' are located within the museum and see who returns on time. Maybe museum has a app for it. Social learning atmosphere could be created with students interacting via class forum etc. (Could be for any location)
• Culinary: device that calculates temperature & time and utensils, pots, etc. that measure students' performance,
• PE/Nutrition: device that communicates calories intake, burned, etc  or PE teacher wants to chart student's progress, there can be a link to a class website where the info would upload directly to a gradebook, Using Edmoto to link student progress online

I also registered for the TCC Online Conference.  That should be exciting.  I've never been a part of an online conference and I'm looking forward to this one.