Abstract

Education is a major part of our lives. After our basic education in our early lives, it is in our own interest that we pursue higher education. Since education is a value part of our lives as students, we expect the best from our professors and higher educational system. In today's digital age we find education to be more incorporated with technology everyday.

Higher education has to deal with the incoming uses of modern technology. This is great for the newer generation and older generations of students. Old uses or techniques that higher education uses are outstanding and forever lasting. Having new technologies ever increasing in our digital age. Higher education is now starting to incorporate both old methods and new technology tools to help students learn more with ease. 

With the final webtext coming up. There is still much that can be done to improve it immensely. First things first, i would either rethink or readjust the introduction. The introduction does give an idea of what i am going to be talking about, but not specifically. I could either add on to the intro, or i could edit most of it to help refine its meaning. Afterwards, i would make sure that i have all my 10 sources. Most of my sources do come from online information. However, some do contain sources from physical text. Each source should be checked over (only because i never really understood how APA worked at first) to make sure they are correctly formatted. I also need to find a way to somehow incorporate the field research i have done for this webtext. It will not only add on to my webtext, but help create more factual information. I have checked all of my images, i have thought about adding maybe 2-3 more. However, i am still considering that option (it is not a major factor compared to what i need to do to). Making sure i have 6-8 anchor text would be great. (I do know actually know how many i have). I do need to look at the anchor text information again to make sure it is all there and correctly incorporated. To connect my podcast to my webtext would be an easier task than it was previously. I have already worked on making sure the two are connected. The only minor things i can find to help connect the two is by making sure all material is related in some way. If i do find any material that isn't i will either add or remove some of the material from my webtext. Finnaly, i do feel a complete redo of the final conclusion is in order. The last paragraphs are better conclusions, than the conclusions themselves. The conclusion needs to wrap up everything i have talked about, the research that has been done, and the factual evidence well organized from the body of the webtext.

I do have enough support, i just need to make sure it is well incorporated within my webtext.

Webtext titles

Non Phrase
Educations multimedia integration

Verb Phrase
Looking forward into educations future

How to fragments
Higher Educations work to Balance its common methods with Technology

Questions
Can colleges perfectly integrate technology with traditional teaching methods?

Sub-Titles
Functions of future and traditional learning: New methods of learning

I will use the fragments title. It is a clear phrase that promises a goal that i am reaching within my webtext.

5 new images and 2 new sources journal

Adam (Nov. 11 2010). Hybrid classes can offer modern day online education conveniences with classroom-based courses. Retrieved Online From http://www.classesandcareers.com/education/2010/11/11/hybrid-classes-can-offer-modern-day-online-education-conveniences-with-classroom-based-courses/

This article discusses how higher education institutes integrate technology at different levels and for what courses technology is mostly needed for. They categorize different types of courses which technology helps the most, and also includes the courses that don't require much technology. However, they do require technology for the high-demand courses. Colleges can offer "hybrid' classrooms that integrate traditional teaching styles that include lectures without using computers or programs, but use technology for students to grasp different aspects of concepts.

This article seems to be misleading when you look at the author. The only author information is a name of just Adam. With little information about the person other than articles done by the same author, the site itself is extremely credible. It has different tabs discussing about factual college information that it uses in order to create true informative articles. There is much accuracy due to its use of college information and links to the colleges that generated the educational information. The article is also only a year old. Showing that this information is recent and applicable to today's day of age. The article has little bias to it due to the wide variety of college information it uses.

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Eric Mazur (March-April 2012). Twilight of Lecture. Retrieved online from http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/03/twilight-of-the-lecture#.T1URI3sRLkw.email

Studies have shown from Eric Mazur that learning is at its highest when using active learning, instead of having students look up online information when they don't understand it at first. Students are able to grasp concepts more easily if subjects are discussed with fellow peers. He also discusses how students might be able to look up any information on a subject online, but does that information really teach concepts to students? According to his statistics, apparently, not all of the time. He creates his studies off of the courses he teaches with trials and  tests of his own. However, he does use other college studies of how other professors have had students interact with each other instead of using technology after lectures were over. The main point of his article was to inform us as readers that technology is useful. However, traditional uses and techniques are one of the most fundamental ways of teaching concepts by using active learning.

Eric Mazur is a college professor of physics at Harvard University, a leading ivy league school developing new studies for student technology integration. He is a well known professor throughout the educational community. His studies are well known and have been used in other courses within the higher educational environment. The information that he discusses and develops are from his own work and advice of other co-workers from Harvard. Eric Mazur has been constantly updating this recent article since march of 2012. This information can easily relate to today's use of technology integration. Eric Mazur seems to be slightly biased, but most of his information seems to come from much credible sources other than his own.
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Twilight of Lecture (2012) Images, From Google Images http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/03/twilight-of-the-lecture#article-images

I will use this photo explaining the techniques of traditional education. How students learn more interactive with each other instead of using computers and other devices.











Reaching The Last Technology Holdouts at the Front of the Classroom (2011) Images, Google http://chronicle.com/article/College-20-Reaching-the-Last/123659/

This is a simple example of how technology is used in todays digital age. It will help create a point about technology integration in education.







Will 2011 be the year of the ipad 2? (March 2011) Images from Venturebeat online http://venturebeat.com/2011/03/02/will-2011-be-the-year-of-the-ipad-2-video/

This would be a perfect slide about the conflict of technology going into one direction of education and liberal arts, education, and lectures going in a completely different direction.

ABC's of Technology In Classrooms (2011) Images, Google. http://educ506aug2010.blogspot.com/2010/08/abcs-of-technology-in-classroom.html

This shows how students are working together and also using technology. Using this slide would show how students are taking as much advantage as they can to learn material.











Classroom of the Future? (2007) Image from Images Google, http://teacherdudebbq.blogspot.com/2006/12/classroom-of-future.html

This would be a first slide showing how much classrooms have changed from traditional and basic classrooms.

 Hybrid classes can offer modern day online education conveniences with classroom based courses (2011) Images, Google,

http://www.classesandcareers.com/education/2010/11/11/hybrid-classes-can-offer-modern-day-online-education-conveniences-with-classroom-based-courses/

School blackboard dimensions (2010) Images, Google,

 http://www.dimensionsguide.com/school-blackboard-dimensions/

 A Tech Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn't Working (2011) Image, Google

http://chronicle.com/article/A-Tech-Happy-Professor-Reboots/130741/

In the slideshow, I would want to start it off by pointing out that higher education uses technology. Slides would include newer classrooms that use modern technologies within a campus, graphs showing what percent of colleges use modern technology. It will show students actually interacting with new pieces of technology, and also show how professors use modern tech to teach. Then show what original uses are still used today by showing modern classrooms with older equipment still being completely useful within a classroom. Also, there will be some sort of factual slide showing how much traditional tools are used within higher education classrooms. After discussing those points, I will bring up the how professors admit to new technologies interfering from students actually "learning" the material. Slides will show test scores dropping. Thus explaining that technology can help students remember, but keep students from learning the actual material. I will slowly conclude the slide by showing what has been done to approach these problems, and that technology is a great tool to use. However, technology needs to be used carefully in order to have a well developed course within this digital age of time.

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