Part 1: Provide feedback on the VRML lesson today, i.e. content, pace, and deliver method. Please be sure to include any questions you have about today's VRML lesson.
Part 2: Please post your ideas for promoting awareness of IT careers among teachers and students; was your awareness of these careers affected by today's presentations?
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Bad Time to Blog. To Hot. Things were interesting, panel was good, more graphic work!
The VMRl cool. I enjoyed the learning experience. I'm hoping to use it in my classes.
The soup was good with the sandwich, can't wait intil tomorrow.
I enjoyed the introduction to VRML this morning. I have experience programming before, and I look forward to using VRML extensively this summer.
The panels this afternoon were very informational. I now have a greater unterstanding of the uses of IT skills in industry. I also realize that opportunities and paths that students can take after high school.
I love the VRML and can't wait to learn more. I found all of the speakers to be very informative and interesting. The information from the businessmen will really help me in planning career exploration activities for my students. It was also valuable to learn from the colleges what is available for students interested in IT/technology careers.
I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
I loved the lesson - I still want to know how to make cones with the same base but different heights.
I feel better about advising students about majors - especially to add majors to their technology fields. I also feel more confident about saying what I already knew - problem solving is what we need to be teaching, too many students only know how to plug numbers into formulas!
I found VRML really exciting but am not 100% impressed yet.
As for the panel of experts, i found their information really useful. to know that there are that many IT jobs available is an exciting and almost enticing. To see that each employer likes to see a 4 year degree behind the applicants name, lets me know that these are serious careers not just quick fixes to a rise in technology.
Part 1
I felt that the overall delivery of the vrml lesson was very well done. Once I got started it was very easy to use.
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I feel that if we to try incorporate these new technologies into our classrooms we will foster and yield growth in the computer sciences. Putting the technology in their hands will put the tools they need to be successful in their hands.
Pt 1: I really enjoyed being able to create a 3-D image. I want to show this technology to my own kids and my students when school starts. I can't wait to see what else I can learn to do.
Pt 2: I think that we need to get these businessmen and higher education teachers into our classrooms. Maybe Marshall Co. could have a day or a week devoted to having businesses & colleges in to speak to students about what they need in employees.
The morning clasas was quite hard. I feel overwhelmed.
The student of today need exceptional computer skills to compete in the job market.
Really enjoyed being introduced to VRML. It is definitely something that one needs to play around with to become comfortable with ... but know students would pick it up much quicker than I I am anixous to go home and play around more. It was short and good ... but some of us need lots of practice
The opportunities for future jobs are limitless! Students need to be introduced to these exciting things!
The VRML workshop was a really engaging way of showing more powerful applications for students. Someone brighter than I once said that really what we suffer from in public education is not an achievement gap, but instead, we suffer from an engagement act. I think that VRML is just another tool in the arsenal of a teacher to engage students in technology and technology integration.
As for IT careers, the idea that careers in West Virginia generally and the northern panhandle specifically, look different than those in the Simi Valley of California, or in other areas flies in the face of pushing so many comparisons through policy and legislation.
Instead, these industries should be helping us in provided a needs assessment for jobs that are needed to create a better economic climate for our children. Unlike so many other interesting and effectual grants and opportunities that have come and gone in education, I hope that the synergy being exhibited and hopefully being fueled through CITERA will continue.
I think the gentlemen from the various business were very informative as to the desires they require for an employee.
I got from the panel that the really important factors were attitude, passion, commitment and work ethics.
This is something that I can instill in the students.
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