Tuesday, November 30, 2010
C4T Teacher # 4 Summary Post
My teacher that I had to comment on was Ms. Bayda who is a teacher but not your average teacher. She travels around the world teaching and learning from other cultures and people. She said that she has been so grateful to be able to travel and see things that most people do not ever get to see. The first post that I had to comment on was about her volunteered traveling around the world. She got to help the children and work hard with them while she was visiting the countries. She made a comment that work hard and play hard but keep your eyes open the whole time and I thought this was an amazing comment because it's so true and I will try to follow that. The second post that I commented on was some of her pictures that she uploaded to show us the people and children she got to work with. Her pictures were amazing and they really showed me how the other half of the world lives and that in america we really have it good. Now that I have read her post and looked at her pictures it inspires me so much to get out there an experience things I may not be comfortable doing at first.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Blog Post # 13
I got to review the ALEX website and learn some things that I never knew about. ALEX stand for Alabama Learning Exchange and it provides information to teachers about different technology and what is available to teachers. My favorite thing that I played with a little bit is the lesson plan link and it lets you choose what you want your lesson plan to center around. It takes you to this site that explains every detail about a lesson plan that you get to choose. I looked at the arts part of the lesson plans and it tells you how to incorporate the arts into everyday lessons. It's got a podcast Treasury that allows you to view other podcast by different teachers around the world.
ALEX seems like a great resource for teachers of all experiences and I know that I will use this site now that I know about it. I can use this to help me develop lesson plans when I am first beginning to do lesson plans and it will give me resources to use podcast in my classroom. I really love this site and I can't believe that I didn't know about this site. I will tell everyone that doesn't know about this site because it is so helpful and can really help a new teacher. I lived in Louisiana for most of my life and I don't know if they have a site like this but if the did it would really help the teachers over there and if they don't have a site like this I feel like this would be a good site for teachers every where and not just in Alabama.
Additional Assignment #5
I absolutely love Mr. Johnson and I find his writings amazing. He is so funny and I love the metaphors that he uses with pencils. Most people don't understand what he is trying to do when he talks about pencils because, I have had to comment on Mr. Johnson's blog I understand him. At first I didn't really get the concept of what he was doing but after reading more of his post I love what he is doing. Pencils are so generic but what you can do and accomplish with the meaning of a pencil. The pencil can represent so many things especially in learning and in the real world. My favorite post is "Sketchy Portraits: 8th grade Identity and Pencils because it really tells you and explains what he is doing with the whole pencil metaphor that he uses. I know that I will continue to follow his blog because it teaches so many different things in a really different way.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Progress Report on Final Project
My partner and I are going to be demonstrating on a smartboard how to do a wordle and putting it in simplified form so that our future elementary classrooms will be able to understand and do a wordle. The directions that Dr. Stange gave us for our wordle were very in depth and not really understandable for an elementary student, so we are going to simplify the directions and incorporate smartboard technology.
Summary of responses for project 6
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What do you do if there is no parking | |||||||||||||||||||||
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How would you rate the parking layout | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Do you think that there needs to be something done about parking on campus | |||||||||||||
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Blog Post #12
Watch this video on youtube and reflect on what your feelings are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8
I really liked watching this type of video and I know we have watched one similar but I really find that these videos really reach and teach us all something. I learned that more people are using Internet and others means to get their media information and that newspaper printings are down really low. More and more people are getting their information in a digital form and the traditional means of getting information on products are no longer the leading thing. The thing that really got me was that mobile devices are the worlds primary Internet connection tool and I just find that amazing because I know that it's true because 85% of the time I am on my IPhone using the Internet for school or just browsing. These videos are really mind boggling and since watching them in this class I find myself looking for them on the Internet because they really teach us things that we may not have known about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8
I really liked watching this type of video and I know we have watched one similar but I really find that these videos really reach and teach us all something. I learned that more people are using Internet and others means to get their media information and that newspaper printings are down really low. More and more people are getting their information in a digital form and the traditional means of getting information on products are no longer the leading thing. The thing that really got me was that mobile devices are the worlds primary Internet connection tool and I just find that amazing because I know that it's true because 85% of the time I am on my IPhone using the Internet for school or just browsing. These videos are really mind boggling and since watching them in this class I find myself looking for them on the Internet because they really teach us things that we may not have known about.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
C4K Summary Comments 3-7
3:
I really enjoyed reading this blog because it gave you a perspective of how people in different areas of the world learn and work. The children were so much more advanced than I ever thought they would be. I commented on grade four and I really enjoyed reading this blog post.
4:
I had to comment on a student named Kyle. He was really honest and so were his blog post. The post that I had to comment on was about his school having a social and that he really enjoyed himself. I talked to him about how I remember going to socials when I was in school and that I loved being able to hang out with my friends outside of school. I also told him that he should enjoy things like that and keep his studies up.
5:
I had to comment on a young girl and her name is jacqui. The post that I comment on was about her plans for the holidays. She is planning on going to a sleepover and is really looking forward to it. She thinks that her mom is going to get her some hightops and she really didn't want it to rain so that her and her sleepover friends could play games outside. I commented back that I remember having sleepovers and how much fun they were. I also asked her how everything went and how she liked having a sleepover.
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I had a student named Payton and the blog post was about going to church and eating the bread and grape juice. Payton was telling a story about the time at church where the bread and grape juice was all that was being thought about. I really laughed when I read this post because I knew exactly how she felt the bread and grape juice really do go well together. So I commented on that saying how much I agreed and wanted to taste the bread and grape juice. I also said that making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich was similar to eating the bread and grape juice. I think that out of all the comments for kids I really enjoyed reading this blog by Payton.
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This comment that I had to make was on Mr. Mcclung's world and he is a professor. I liked commenting on this blog because I learned a lot about different activities that I can do in my classroom or have my students do. He is very insightful and really easy to understand. I like how much he Incorporated videos in his blog post it made reading the post so much easier and I felt that I could do some of the projects and activities myself.
I really enjoyed reading this blog because it gave you a perspective of how people in different areas of the world learn and work. The children were so much more advanced than I ever thought they would be. I commented on grade four and I really enjoyed reading this blog post.
4:
I had to comment on a student named Kyle. He was really honest and so were his blog post. The post that I had to comment on was about his school having a social and that he really enjoyed himself. I talked to him about how I remember going to socials when I was in school and that I loved being able to hang out with my friends outside of school. I also told him that he should enjoy things like that and keep his studies up.
5:
I had to comment on a young girl and her name is jacqui. The post that I comment on was about her plans for the holidays. She is planning on going to a sleepover and is really looking forward to it. She thinks that her mom is going to get her some hightops and she really didn't want it to rain so that her and her sleepover friends could play games outside. I commented back that I remember having sleepovers and how much fun they were. I also asked her how everything went and how she liked having a sleepover.
6:
I had a student named Payton and the blog post was about going to church and eating the bread and grape juice. Payton was telling a story about the time at church where the bread and grape juice was all that was being thought about. I really laughed when I read this post because I knew exactly how she felt the bread and grape juice really do go well together. So I commented on that saying how much I agreed and wanted to taste the bread and grape juice. I also said that making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich was similar to eating the bread and grape juice. I think that out of all the comments for kids I really enjoyed reading this blog by Payton.
7:
This comment that I had to make was on Mr. Mcclung's world and he is a professor. I liked commenting on this blog because I learned a lot about different activities that I can do in my classroom or have my students do. He is very insightful and really easy to understand. I like how much he Incorporated videos in his blog post it made reading the post so much easier and I felt that I could do some of the projects and activities myself.
Blog Post #11
I loved watching this video with the first grade class. I think that first graders are super cute and they are brutally honest. Mrs. Cassidy is doing a very good job incorporating technology in the classroom. I feel like I can learn a lot from watching this video and it gives you very good ideas. These children are so young and to watch them interact with technology is great and they seem really comfortable. I love that the first graders are learning how to spell and read by using technology. It covers so many things that a normal classroom may not be able to cover. The children learn to use the Internet and they also learn everyday things that they need to be learning. I really liked how Ms. Cassidy uses skype in her classroom. She is able to talk to other professionals and gain advice from others. I like that she allows the class to communicate with other classroom and this really expands the knowledge of the children. They learn that there are others out there they may look different, sound different, or learn different. I think Ms. Cassidy is on the right track with allowing video games in the classroom. Some of the games can be educational and teach things that may not be taught in the classroom. The video game that allows you take care of dogs or cats teachers responsibility and that may be hard to teach each child that.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
C4T summary post teacher number 3
Moving at the speed of creativity: Wesley Fryer
My teacher is a college professor in Oklahoma. He likes to post things about using the Internet and things his students are required to do to in his class using the Internet. One post was about the safety of using sites that require a login. He stressed that someone can hack into your accounts and know a lot about you without you ever knowing that someone is looking or reading things about you. He also stressed being careful when you are connecting to unknown Internet connections and if you are you should be using a commercial VPN service to protect your self. He explained about a site called Astrill and how he always uses it when connecting to unknown wifi connections. His post about this topic was very informative and I didn't know anything about the sites that can ensure your safety. I now know that I should use the sites to make sure that people don't hack into my personal information.
The second post was about an activity that he required his students to do. He set his class up into different groups and made them use the flip camera's in a video scavenger hunt. The videos were very interesting and well done especially using only the flip camera's. He asked the readers to vote on which video they liked best so I choose to vote on the talking about stress video. I really liked this one because the students interviewed other students about what causes stress in their lives. The responses were very funny and I could really relate to some of the responses.
Overall I enjoyed reading this blog and found that some of his activities seemed really interesting and fun. I wouldn't mind doing some of them especially the scavenger hunt. His other post were really informative and I learned a lot from them.
My teacher is a college professor in Oklahoma. He likes to post things about using the Internet and things his students are required to do to in his class using the Internet. One post was about the safety of using sites that require a login. He stressed that someone can hack into your accounts and know a lot about you without you ever knowing that someone is looking or reading things about you. He also stressed being careful when you are connecting to unknown Internet connections and if you are you should be using a commercial VPN service to protect your self. He explained about a site called Astrill and how he always uses it when connecting to unknown wifi connections. His post about this topic was very informative and I didn't know anything about the sites that can ensure your safety. I now know that I should use the sites to make sure that people don't hack into my personal information.
The second post was about an activity that he required his students to do. He set his class up into different groups and made them use the flip camera's in a video scavenger hunt. The videos were very interesting and well done especially using only the flip camera's. He asked the readers to vote on which video they liked best so I choose to vote on the talking about stress video. I really liked this one because the students interviewed other students about what causes stress in their lives. The responses were very funny and I could really relate to some of the responses.
Overall I enjoyed reading this blog and found that some of his activities seemed really interesting and fun. I wouldn't mind doing some of them especially the scavenger hunt. His other post were really informative and I learned a lot from them.
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