Tara Decker

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Edtechnot (Technology Maven) Hall Davidson

The individual who I chose to read about on www.edtechnot.com was Hall Davidson.
Hall Davidson is the director of the discovery educator network. He also served as the director of educational services at KOCE-TV, a PBS station in California where he was nominated for an emmy as a producer. Hall Davidson is nationally known as a teacher, author, staff developer and a lecturer. His viewpoint regarding technology is that in the coming years technology will play a major role in all classrooms used to teach students. Hall has used technology in the past to teach individuals worldwide through his program where he was a mathematic teacher on educational programs which he also produced. Hall has also done extensive work with copyrighting and has also created a quiz for educators to take which from what I have experienced gives you real life situations and grades you on how you would react to the questions. Here is the link to Hall's Copyright resources where you could take the copyright quiz and there are also links to charts and articles about copyrighting. ( http://www.mediafestival.org/downloads.html)
Hall has led copyright workshops for educators and also has authored "No FAT
Guide to Copyright".

Hall Davidson has taught many students using technology, he was an on camera mathematics teacher and has produced series for teachers on the Internet and Big6 information literacy strategy. This series was created to meet the needs of high schools in the digital high school program, it integrates information literacy with technology literacy. Hall also co-founded Video-Using Educators in Los Angeles in 1985. Hall has served on the board of directors for Computer-Using Educators where he teaches educators how to teach their students using technology.

Hall Believes in using technology in the classroom and has devoted alot of his time teaching through technology. Hall Davidson had dedicated his career to teaching through technology. Whether he is authoring literature or producing educational series he is spreading his knowledge and teaching both students and teachers through technology.

1 Comments:

Blogger Hall Davidson said...

Tara,
Thank you very much for that biographic note! I'm glad you find the resources worthwhile. Like other folks in technology I have a blog at http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/media_matters/ It is great to see you using this technology for your own purposes. Next, wikis, Twitter, and who knows what! Thanks. See you in the Discovery building in Second Life!

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