Week 10: Blog Summary

My entrepreneurial idea started out as a system where a person’s entire wardrobe is in their computer and the user clicks options for the weather of the day, the type of occasion they are dressing for, and their mood, and the system picks out an outfit for the person based on what they click. As the course continued, my idea evolved because I was able to understand how certain aspects to it could add or change how the system is looked at. I found that the system had more parts than I originally thought that it did.

As I learned more lessons, I was forced to apply it to my idea. I had to dig into what the lesson was about in order to be able to apply it because I normally could not see how it related to immediately. I had to find specific parts of my idea that related to the lesson, such as pixels in a picture.

            My idea evolved from just a system with simple algorithms to a database that is part of a network. As I’m reading through my blog I see how each week it changed because of what we had spoke about in the class prior. The most difficult part of writing this blog for me was finding how to relate it to the class. All in all, I’m happy with my idea and maybe one day it’ll come to life!

Week 9: Blog Review

           Lisa Nielsen writes the blog “The Innovative Educator” in which she shares ideas for making a learning environment a more exciting place. She writes about ideas and recommendations she has geared towards educators and people interested in education. She embraces technology as a factor to be used in the education process.

            She’s made blog posts titled “Celly for Administrators, Teachers, and Students” as well as “Twitter for Administrators, Teachers, and Students” in which she explains how technology that is consistently banned in the classroom should in fact be embraced. She uses examples from different types of schools or teachers as well as her own ideas to prove why these types of technology should be used in the classroom. She believes these types of technologies are easy ways to communicate as well as review questions in a classroom.

            She also posts true stories on how technology has helped education. In one blog post titled “Develop language skills with cell phones- True stories” she talks about Google Voice, which has been used for oral reports, assignments, and sound bites. In her blog she introduces these types of technologies so educators can be informed of them and use them in the classroom. In this particular blogpost she inserts an anecdote from a teacher’s experience using the technology.

http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/