Additional Assignment 4

What's Your Sentence?

Instead of asking yourself if you are technologically literate, you should ask yourself if you are technologically fluent.

Project 15-Stay in School

C4K 10

Wow, That was sweet!!!

By Chase

Chase is a student in Mrs. Huebner's class. His post was about how he and a friend were playing football on the PS2 and did a great job and I responded much like Mrs. Huebner did. I agreed that something really needs to be done about the "real" Vikings.

Post 13

ALEX (Alabama Learning Exchange)

ALEX is essentially a way to stay organized and on top of things as an educator. It is divided into several different categories, which include: Course of Study, Web Links, Lesson Plans, search, Personal Workspace, Professional Learning and Podcast Tresuary. Not only is it helpful for teachers, but it can also be helpful for administrators and students as well. The site is extremely easy to navigate because everything is on one page. It helps secure (for a lack of better words) that your lessons plans are on key and everything that needs to be taught is being covered. I feel that one of the most important aspects of being a teacher is staying organized and (ALEX) can helps us do that with ease. ALEX was created by the Alabama department of education to provide quality for learning.

Form results of project 6 (survey:College Life)

https://spreadsheets.google.com/gform?key=0Ap41S7FUD67fdEZFc292QWFrX1VDaDYtVFFOMVNFRVE&hl=en&gridId=0#chart

Progress Report for Final Project

Progress Report on the Final Project

Education

My progress on the final project has been quite a project! I have attempted to work with several different people and unfortunately they fell thru. Therefore, I have finally decided to work with Trung Nguyen (Tommy) and several others. He has brought up the idea to do the project on teaching plans or resources. I began researching today and have found tons of websites which happen to include a few we used through-out this semester. I think this project is going to turn out great.

C4K 9

Grade level 5 French Immersion

Remembrance Day

This is a grade 5 French Immersion class at New Maryland Elementary School in New Brunswick, Canada. These children are bilingual 21st Century Learners. I commented on the classes remembrance day wordle project. They will be leaning how to do their own shortly as we did at the very beginning of the this semester. Keep in mind we just learned this as they are except they are in the 5th grade! Just another reminder that we must stay up-to-date with technology if we want our children to learn from us.

Post 12

Do you think that technology in the classroom takes away from a child's ability to be creative and to be interactive with other children? Does technology cause children to be anti-social in person?

Instructions:

1. Find a blog that justifies your answer

2. Write at least a pharagraph

C4K 3-7 Summary

I really enjoy doing C4K for the most part. Sometimes I feel that we have to comment on blogs which don't have much of a meaning which is hard to do because there's not much to say. However, I think it wonderful that teachers are incorporating blogging into their classrooms because it keeps everyone up-to-date on their work.

additional assignment 5

Tom Johnson's Adventures in Pencil Integration

This was a really great post! There should be more teachers who think the way Tom Johnson thinks! Blame is no way to handle any situation, and a teacher should know, practice and understand this concept better than most. Blame has many effects on people, and none of them are positive effects. As a teacher you must do more than just "try" to understand and know your students. I think many teachers say to themselves, "I only have them for a year and then their gone." What these teachers aren't understanding is that there are too many times that "bad" teachers or teachers who simply don't care leave a major impression on those students and in turn these students hold that experience with them forever in some cases or they hold it with them until they are blessed with a good teacher who shows them the light.

Project 13-Smartboard Presentation

C4T 3

MIddle School Matrix

The Wonder of Some Exercise

Mr. Hadley wrote a post on how he had decided to take his students on a walk during their 80 minute period which was held first thing in the morning. The purpose of this class period was to talk about study strategies. He wanted each individual student to find the best study strategy for them. He found that by not putting so many restrictions on them during the walking period that they were able to communicate with one another about the topic and by the time they got back inside they were very much focused on their work opposed to to fidgeting and creating distractions.

Following My Own Advice

Mr. Hadley wrote a post on exactly what his title says. He followed his own advice.

The post before this one was titled, The Wonder of Some Exercise. I think we have all been here. I know I have! I experience this problem more than twice a week. People tend to want to get their work, "Out of the way." Therefore, they have the tendency to want to work nonstop until it's done. However, this is not always the best way to do your work. When we try to sit down and get all of our work of the way everything seems to start running together. Mr. Hadley went on to tell how all of his students comments and post seem to sound the same instead of being unique like the usually are. We all need to take a break once in a while and when we do we usually end up with a better end result with whatever it is we are doing.

Post 11

Little Kids.... Big potential

Mrs. Cassidy's little kids from Moose Jaw, Canada most certainly do have big potential! They will be the graduation class of 2025. They are using blogs, wikis, webpages and Skype to further their learning. Not all children learn in the same manor or time span. Now that children have access to such tools they are no longer limited to relying on teachers who are only available monday-Friday. Children can now go home and take it upon themselves to learn material that they might have not understood they way they teacher taught it.

I can clearly remember being in elementary school and coming home with homework or projects that were do over the period of a weekend. The problem was I didn't always fully understand how to go about doing it. Thankfully I was lucky enough to have my father around when I needed help with that sort of stuff, but in this ever so modern world that we live in many parents don't have the time to help their children, or may not understand the subject matter themselves, so with that in mind technology can actually serve as a teacher. There's only one condition, and that is, the students must understand how to navigate a computer. Learning how to work with a computer is just as important as any other subject if not more due to the fact that with out it they may not be able to get help until after their homework is already late.

I think the approach Ms.Cassidy used to influence technology in her classroom was great. She let children be a big part of of it instead of just kind of throwing the information into their laps and expecting them to understand it. Mrs.Cassidy has incorporated blogging as part of her approach to introduce her students to technology. One reason I feel that at the children are so interested and more importantly stay interested in their work is because they get feedback from the people that matter to them the most like their parents and friends. We were all children at one point in time and as I can recall, when my parents had input on my work it pushed me to do the best I could. Children want and need to know people that the people closest to them care. Blogger makes this very easy

C4K 8

Happy Columbus Day, Nonno!

This particular post from Mrs.Yollis' 3rd grade class was about Genoa, Itay. Genoa, Italy is also where Christopher Columbus was from. This post has to be one of the most informative C4K post that I have ever read.

Project 12-Skype Interview

Free online screen recorder

Project 11-Holly's Halo