2/28/10 HW Week 7

Comments 4 Kids

I went to Mrs. Goerend's class and read a essay by Katie S on how to take care of a pet rat. I must say that she went into great detail about how to do it. Also, she is quite a good writer for her age!
Richard Miller: This is how we dream part 1 and 2
This is very interesting to watch. Richard some great ideas about how things are changing around us so quickly that we need to catch up with the times. I loved his presentation he made, like how just gave us some quick insight on some things about becoming more involved as teachers, or future teachers, on how we need to use technology. He said something about how soon the way we teach will totally change in using things such as multimedia.
He did so much stuff on multimedia that it was kind of hard to keep up with. He showed how
one could use videos and sounds and put them all together and make excellent presentations. He
even showed us how technology is starting to become more ingrained in our culture, for example he
used the most recent election. He showed us how a person could have gotten online and watched
how each state was voting throughout the whole process.
I think that this is just absolutely amazing! But, as far as am I ready the answer to that is no! To be honest I don't know how to do all that stuff well at least for now I don't, but soon I shall learn how to do it. Once I learn this, I will most definitely incorporate it into my class, so that my students will know how to do it when they get to college.
Networked Student by Wendy Drexler
I thought that the video was very neat and pretty interesting. The reason I say this, is because you know we talk and talk about how we are going to be techlit teachers. But you know that if we don't stay with doing it our students are going to fall behind a lot. This in turn puts the blame on us and how we should have done a better job on teaching our students everything. I love how she just gives a walk through of everything that will go on in the process of helping your student become a technological literate person.
As of right now I am not completely ready to go on a journey with my students teaching them how to do everything that I am doing. Now, I could teach them to create their own blogs and follow me on the computer where I would post their homework and assignments. I also could teach them how to use podcast and iTunes U for their advantage to help them further their education. But, I am not very good with multimedia and other things we haven't explored yet.
The reason the kids will need teachers in the future, even though most of the work will be online, is because they will need someone to help them clear things up. Like if they had a question if a website was reliable the teacher could let them know if it is or not. And the teacher can help them keep things from getting cluttered on them and help them connect with people in their class and around the world.
Michael Wesch
This was video I really really liked. Mr. Wesch brings up great points how things have changed such as words like "whatever". He talks about how our generations change with interaction. How we have moved to talking to a camera which the whole world could end up watching. I think it is just awesome how we are united in a sense, even though we don't see each other. We have the beliefs and share them as one on one website.
It is true that basically does describe my life, when I post things on facebook. I don't even think that everybody I know can see and make a comment on it. It shows me that if I made videos for my students to watch and let them make comments and even video responses it gets everybody to get involved and learn at the same time.
PLN
As of right now I am working on how to establish my PLN making it larger so that I may follow more blogs and see whats going on with other people around the world. I am following Mr. McClung's blog, because I love the information he gave in one of his earlier post we had to read. I am also receiving notifications from Mrs. Goerend's student blogs.

My Presentation

2/21/10 HW Week 6

Dr. Alice Christie's Site

Dr. Christie has a very interesting website there is so many things there to just look at and get new information on stuff. Like she has examples of geocaching and she put it in her class. She had her students go find the stuff she hid around campus and once they had found the hidden things, they had to come back in and sample them and make graphs. She also teaches us how to make web designs like with tips and designs. She has so much with educational technology and photography.

This website is perfect for teachers now a days, just to help them with making a move into being a technology literate teacher. It is also great for students who are working to become teachers. This gives me great ideas and great insight on how to get myself ready for what I can do to help them get more involved which does help students learn more when they are more interactive with what they are learning.

Itunes University

I have to say I will probably use this thing provided by Itunes, because this has so many different looks on different topics and even in-depth looks at things. I like how it has recordings of some of the brightest teachers around the world. It helps students to go back and listen to the lecture if they missed it or they just weren't paying attention in one part. This actually helps one learn something by going back and taking notes on the subject again. As a student I am going to use this more than once, on a subject that I might need more help on.

As a future teacher I will use this to help me prepare my lectures if I get stuck on a certain part and I want more insight or a different view from another outside source. But, as a teacher this is an amazing gift to their students to find things and maybe do some research for their projects I would give them in class. This is such a great thing and there is so much one can learn more at this site.

Ipods in Instruction

As seen in the website,here, there it talks about and shows how the ipods can be used in classrooms. It gives us different looks on how podcasting or vodcasting or using ipods in the class are good. It teaches children or the teenagers how to interact with one another in things such as the things listed before. I think that this is a great idea with getting our kids to use this technology as a way of learning and interacting with their fellow students. The students can use the ipod, because they got some notes from iTunes U and that will help learn things a bunch. They will also use the podcasting and vodcasting to have interaction with the students, so they are learning together and having fun.

Looking at what The University of Duke has done during a study using iPods has proved to be rather helpful in most cases, where the students have learned better or their knowledge increased a little more in the subject. What Duke did was give iPods to incoming freshman and they had recorders on and most of the students used that for lectures and would play the lectures back later on to help them remember stuff for test. Some students just used the iPod for what most people use it for music and their grades showed why. There was some problems that were involved with this whole process, such as teachers who weren't technologically advanced and who used PC and not Mac's. Other problems is some students didn't know how to find the teachers lectures online, but in the end the iPods in class proved to be a great thing when used properly. To find some more information here is the Duke site here.

Comments For Kids Week 6

I went to here and searched around the website and looked at Asena's blog page and watched a video on what she likes to do.

2/14/10 HW Week 5

Wikipedia

I knew that Wikipedia was not the most reliable source on the internet, because my teachers in high school told me that I should not use it. I never knew why exactly that was, but now I know why. Because, anybody and their mother can get on their and write what they think something means on any subject. Then the world can get on there and think it's right without even checking out other sources. It is also crazy that the FBI and the CIA get on there and change things about their organizations. Especially big companies are known for doing these kinds of things to keep their company look good to the world's eyes.

There might come a time where we can finally trust wikipedia 100%. Until then, I think that we should be very careful about which things we pick out that we won't to use. But, don't get me wrong it still is a very interesting website that offers a lot of insight to the world and people which they never knew existed.

At The Teachers Desk

Mr. McClung wrote a very interesting blog. He just gives great ideas on how to do some stuff when it comes to the students. This blog is perfect for me, because it helps me know what to do a little more when I start my student teaching and then work my way into my own classroom. I mean I want to do this for my students, I want to know them personally to help them and mold their lives as they will move on. I want them to look back and remember me as someone who helped them in their life's journey.

I agree that all teachers should know how to work a computer and the programs with it to help teach the students new and brighter things instead of keeping them back. We should as teachers carefully listen to what our students say and do, and give the right direction not snap at them and make them feel down about themselves. All I have to say is Mr. McClung opened my eyes just a little bit more on what I should do with my future students.

Comments 4 Kids Week 5

I went to here and checked out Xochiti M's blog and looked at her picture she made and commented on that.

2/7/2010 HW Week 4

The benefits of Podcasting in the Classroom

This video is very interesting and quite informative on podcast in general. It gave me a lot of insight on how big it is starting to get. Like the sixth graders in Mr. Dells class, are already listening to and making podcast on their own for their class. I think it is great how he is already familiarizing children at a young age something that they are going to be using in the future to come. Not only because the teacher is doing it, but because the students will have to know how to do it when they get into college and maybe even high school.

I like the idea a lot of podcasting. It gives me thoughts about using it with my students so that they will be able to find what they need whether it be notes or lectures. This will be a way for me to get my students involved in something that will like, most likely, and use for the rest of their lives.

Comments 4 Kids Week 4

I went to here and checked out Willy's blog and saw his science project which

was pretty interesting and I left him a comment.