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My name is Lisa Seyler and I teach second grade at Wellpinit School District #49 on the Spokane Indian Reservation. I am married and have four sons, one daughter, and two nephews.I have four grandkids and I currently serve on our Booster Club, Youth committee for Youth Explosion, as well as other youth events in our community. I also coach Jr. High track and cross-country.

Identification of an appropriate Instructional Model: Schema Theory

Identification of a framework for Analyzing & Evaluating Media: Lasswell's Model

Responses to Guiding Questions: 1) To which century does our teaching/learning belong? (Action) Inquiry activity with paradigmatic words.I feel that the learning belongs to the 21st century. I really needed this class to open my eyes to all of the tech stuff out there. My college sons and high school son all have my spaces. and they feel that I am too old to have a my space. I feel that they are discriminating with my generation. I still need more classes and awareness. I live in a rural area but there are no excuses!

2) My students seem to be more fluent in the technical terms due to a great librarian who tries to keep current on all of the latest technical games, and educational applications. I feel that I still need to take some classes to get updated on the latest tools. We have some teachers in my district who have attended technical classes and I feel that I need to tap into what they have learned. We also have some technical assistants in the building and they offer classes after school. I really need to get signed up and make it a priority.

3) Sometimes I think that my second graders are playing too many video games if that's possible. For example I have a student that will write stories about games or things that he thinks are real. He seems to blend reality with fantasy. This alarms me and I would like to see this student get outside more and experience life.

4)The constructivist learning environments that my group evaluated were the schema-based theory. I also feel that it was a little project-based as well as inquiry-based.

5)We chose the schema-based theory since we used a book or books to build our schema in a unit called "Trail of Tears" about the Cherokee Nation in the early 1800's. We wanted to build background knowledge and be able to use other subject areas to really have the students be able to grasp the concept of people being removed from their homes without any choice. We focused on vocabulary,fluency, comprehension schema, history, research, and self-reflection.

6) We chose Laswell's Model because it was easier to comprehend and it laid it out in a teacher-friendly way.

7) Web 2.0 I have not heard of until taking this class. I also asked many of my friends and family and they had no idea. I thought my college age sons would know, but their friends knew a little about wiki-spaces. These tools will help educators and students get involved in projects simultaneously,with animation, structure, video, hands-on, and interactive and teacher-student friendly in most cases. The 2.0 tools will allow them to use web blogs, wikispaces, video with sound and picture, widgets, photos, animation, scrolling tools and much more.

8.) We decided this as a group and came up with this criteria:

1) User-friendly 2) Descriptive, colorful 3) free 4) interesting and engaging ( higher level thinking)

There are some learning tools out there that are hard to manage and require too many links to be effective. We stuck with the teacher-student friendly tools and would like to try protopage in the future. We like hot potatoes, and used Surveymonkey, but would like to also try audacity in the near future. We used MSphot story 3, powerpoint, and webQuest zunal.com which all turned out great.