2-28-2010

Comments4Kids -

This week I had a little girl named Isabella from Mrs. Kolbert's class. She was running to be the representative for her class. She listed a few good reasons for why she should be elected. I hope everything went well for her.

Here is her blog-
Isabella's Posts

Richard E. Miller: This is how we dream -

During the video I realized that a lot of our research is through the web today. Many books are becoming available through the internet. The information that is available to us can be found in text, voice threads, or videos. The information is usually updated frequently. iTunes U is used by many college students and teachers to help find information and to hear missed lectures. One of the things that Mr. Miller mentioned that idea's belong to us as a culture and we need to share our idea's as teachers. Also, we place limitations and restrictions on ourselves and we need to be inspired teachers.

Wendy Drexler -

This presentation show us why we, networked students, need teachers. We need them to show us how to build our networks on the internet. They offer guidance when needed, they can show us how to communicate correctly and how to ask to correct questions. Teachers can show networked students to recognize the difference between good and bad information. More so, teachers help us stay organized.

Michael Wesch -

In this video Mr. Wesch pointed out that the majority of conversations are focused around television. For example, the use of the word “meh” became popular because of the T.V. show Melrose Place. Also, the word “whatever” has several meanings. One, is the “whatever- what you said,” another is “whatever- I'll do what I want.” How these meanings keep changing? Every generation chooses a different way to explain it. Our generation is more disengaged leaning towards conceded; not everyone, but a lot of people are this way.
Video's posted on the way are posted by people who are not talking to anyone in particular just a webcam. They are talking to something not someone. It might be easier this was because of the embarrassment or issues that people have to talk to and object and not a real person. Whatever works for them, go for it. We also do not who or when our videos are going to be viewed. Someone in Norway could watch a video post that morning from someone here in Alabama at 3:38am their time. Some people use videos are confessions, I suggest being careful on what is said.

Personal Learning Network -

I decided to make my Personal Learning Network on Twitter. All I had to do was follow their directions and sign up. Mainly, I have tried to add people from my classes. Although, I do have a few friends on there, but many use Facebook. So far, I like to think that everything is going well.

2-21-2010

Dr. Alice Christie -

I decided to look at the constructive criticism area of her website. I do agree that everyone learns from their mistakes. Everyone has experiences and knowledge on how to change things and make them better. This can be seen at useful to teachers because of the hands-on mistakes that are made by their students. Each student will learn to find new ways to correct what went wrong. If a child is having trouble in math, they would figure out a different way to solve their problems if they way they learned is not helping.

itunes U -

iTunes U can be useful to students in many ways. If a teacher post podcast or video cast on iTunes U, then their students and review what happened in a previous class session. Also, if a student missed class they can always from the teachers podcast/ vodcast and watch the class session that was missed. Teachers can also use this for their students to help them with their classes.

2-14-2010

Wikipedia Scanner -

There is a possibility of Wikipedia being a reliable source in the future. Virgil Griffith created the Wikipedia Scanner to find who was editing the information already on the wikipages. Some of the bigger companies, such as, Diebold, Wal-Mart, and polical campaigns login and make positive changes to their pages and deleted anything that could harm them. However, by using the Wikipedia Scanner, many students doing research for school among other things can now view who editing the information to find out if Wikipedia can be used as a source.

“What I have learned this year” by Mr. McClung -

This post really makes me realize that all the things that I want to go a certain way will most likely not happen. I need to learn to mold myself to my students and learn from them as well as my students learning from me. Mr. McClung learned to change things around and work with what he had. He is pointed out things that should be obvious, however, are not until you hit to teaching world.

2-7-2010

I chose to listen to “The benefits of podcasting in the classroom.” I have learned numerous things about podcasting that I hope to utilize in the years to come. Podcasting is an effective way to get the students to interact with each other, it can be listened to anytime and anywhere, they also allow a more in depth learning. In this podcast, I learned that my generation is called a “Milllenail,” which is a child born after 1980. This means that the children born after 1980 have always been surrounded by technology. We have not gone a day in our lives without it. The podcast allow for differentiation in the classroom, and teachers can record and playback their lectures from earlier to study and recap. This will come in handy.
The difference between a podcast and a vodcast is that podcast are tools to be listened too and vodcast are videos for the visual learners that can also with viewed and listened too. Many teachers who use podcast can upload them to iTunes. If a student is out sick they can find their class lecture from that day and not have to miss any information. The podcast that are uploaded are also beneficial to the parents because they can also listen to what their child is learning in class.

My Presentation.