Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Final
I feel that this class. Has helped me in so many ways. Before I started in September I didnt know how to turn a computer on. I was afrid of tecnology and knew that I had to get over that fear. Therefore, I did I now am able to stand up and explain different ways to use tecnology in my everyday life, as well as in a classroom as a student and as a teacher. Which is very important to me. I greatly appreciate all the hard work I have done to learn all the knowledge that this class has provided me. I can't wait to learn more and use all the knowledge I have learned within the past semester.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Assessment
I fell that all my entries are there and are to my best ability.I always tried to make sure I used all the requirements in each entry. For example I tried conecting to what I was learning by how I would use it or how Ihave used it. I also, feel that I have grown alot and learned from each entery.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Kidspiration
This week we were to create a graphic organizer in class. I decided to make mine based on a lesson plan. I feel that it went over very well. It was quite easy to get my thoughts out. I was able to take each step one by one and elaborate on it. The program that I used was Kidspiration and it was wonderful it made everything easy to use and add my information. I don’t feel there was any negatives to using this program.
This graphic organizer will help teachers lay out and plan for there lessons by getting there thoughts out and be able to see how they might flow as you go through your lesson in stead of just a listed lesson plan.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Idea For My Kidspiration Graphic Organizer
First -Today in classwe talked about what we could do our organizer on. We decided that we could do it on the cheerleading, EDUcation etc. Due to we both had theses things in comon.
After, we had brain stormed and decited that we would use the idea of how to write a lesson plan.
Next time in class we will take out steps and together make a ghraphic organizer that suports the steps in writing a lesson plan.
Second - Briefly describe how any of the technologies you have learned about in our class could be used for a creativity lesson.
We can use the technology and the knowledge from other class to create our graphic organizer:
- We could use jing make a tatorial that explains our organizer
- We can use a blog and or probean to have the teachers comunicate what the students did in class to let the parents know.
- We can use jing to send the parents pictures of what the students did in class and send it to them with in a blog.
- We can also send letters to parents using Kidspiration
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Using JING to teach about Kidspiration Cont.
My new verbal and graphic communication skills support the NETS-T #4 Critical Thinking, Problem -Solving, and Decision-Making, b. Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.
This support because my video is showing how to use a program to Plan, manage and complete a project.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
What I think of audio in learning environments....
Today we useed Audacity in the class and I feel that it was a different experience for me because I was able to find many Positives and Negitive by using this type of tecnology.
Positives & Benefits:Audacity and recorded about Learning content which you can find in my blog Podbean.com Best Podcast Hosting Audio Video Blog Hosting!
Positives & Benefits:Audacity and recorded about Learning content which you can find in my blog Podbean.com Best Podcast Hosting Audio Video Blog Hosting!
- I was able learn how to use a piece of technology.
- I though it was interesting how the students on the Mac computers were able to get going quickly and didn’t have to worry about headphones and microphones like the PC computer students.
- Technology dose not always work the way its supose to. ( ex. After all the steps my audio still dosent want to play on my blog)
- I didn’t like the sound of my own voice
- During the process of trying to post my audio I came to the problem of not all the steps were on our worksheet. Therefore, I had to ask for help and the teacher and I had to figure out what steps were missing. Then after I emailed the rest of the class to give them a heads up. Therefore they wouldn’t have the same problems as me.
- Teachers can have it set for each child could click on their name and it would play them what they would have to do (ex. Morning rutie, tests for students that get them read to them)
- Teachers can use it to make the children more interested in a book.
- Teachers can play there lesson plans for the sub- teachers.
- Teachers can leave messages for there students if they cant make it in to school
- Teachers can send home messages to parents to let them know whats going on during the day.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
7 things you should know about... Digital Storytelling / Content learning Continue
After reading the 7 things you should know about... Digital Storytelling from www.educause.edu/eli I learned that Digital storytelling means "combining narrative with digital content, including images, sound, and video, to create a short movie, typically with a strong emotional component." I feel you could use this in your classroom as a group or individual activity. This is a good activity for students due to they don't have to have much technical background knowledge to be able to create a digital story. There are many programs online that are free to be able to create these stories. One way many teachers use digital storytelling could be having the student listen to a story that the teacher made and then having them create their own story in groups and or individually. Then have they create they story using digital story programs.
After re-reading in the book Pearson Custon Education Itroduction to Educational Technology EDU 102 The Teacher Academy at NCCC, about Content Learning and talking with my teacher I learned that content learning is a basic fact that a student has to memorize.
Declarative is the idea of just memorizing.
For example, the students will memorize the grapheme of the letters of the alphebet.
Structural is the idea of how the students peice things together.
For example, students could conect the idea of grapheme and phonems together.
Procedural knowledge is the idea of how to do something.
For example having the student apply what they learned during the lesson by using a game.
An example of a game many elementary teachers may use is:
I got the idea for this game from the web site Prekinders.com.
If you would like to read more you are more than welcome to go to the website I used: Prekinders
After re-reading in the book Pearson Custon Education Itroduction to Educational Technology EDU 102 The Teacher Academy at NCCC, about Content Learning and talking with my teacher I learned that content learning is a basic fact that a student has to memorize.
Declarative is the idea of just memorizing.
For example, the students will memorize the grapheme of the letters of the alphebet.
Structural is the idea of how the students peice things together.
For example, students could conect the idea of grapheme and phonems together.
Procedural knowledge is the idea of how to do something.
For example having the student apply what they learned during the lesson by using a game.
An example of a game many elementary teachers may use is:
Musical Letters
This is a fun game we play if the children are interested in writing letters. We place the chairs in a circle, and I place a letter and a different colored marker on each chair. While the music plays, children march around the circle holding a clipboard with paper or a dry erase board. When the music stops, they must find the closest chair, take the letter and marker and write that letter on their paper or dry erase board. You are welcome to use any kind of music that gets your students involved.I got the idea for this game from the web site Prekinders.com.
If you would like to read more you are more than welcome to go to the website I used: Prekinders
Merlot / Content Learning
After reading and looking on the website Merlot I learned about learning objects and I went out and found a game called Find the Letter in Your Name that students could play to be able to help them learn the grapheme of their own names.
Find the Letters in Your Name
The children really enjoy this game because they love to wander around the room. I folded a paper in half and wrote “Letters in my name” on one half and “Letters not in my name” on the other half. Children attached these to clipboards and walked around the room looking for letters in the classroom. When they found a letter, they determined which half of the paper to write it on.
If you would like to read more you are more than welcome to go to the website I used: Prekinders
After I was to read in Pearson Custon Education Itroduction to Educational Technology EDU 102 The Teacher Academy at NCCC, about Content Learning. I was not sure if i understood the information. Therefore, I went back to class and went and talked with my teacher to be able to understand what the content learning was actually about. After I came to the conclution that Declarative is the idea of just memorizing, Structural is the idea of how the students peice things together and Procedural knowledge is the idea of how to do something.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
21st Century Skills - p21 Framework part 1
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org and this paragraph; “A speaker at the FETC Virtual Conference and Expo said he believes that 21st centruy learning is not an option, it's a necessity for students who must go out and compete on a global level. He said "Students deserve it. The world demands it" To make it happen, he said changes need to be made in the way we assess students and in the way we develop teachers.” After reading these two pieces of writing I have to agree that throughout the years teaching has changed due to the rapid growth of technology and the mind set of people wanting to learn.
This week we were asked to read from
One question that many will think about after reading these is “How do you think teaching and learning will differ for you and your future students compared with how it was for you and your teachers in K-12?” I think its amazing the changes that our future children will be able to will be able to progress from. For example, When I was a young child technology was just not really in schools like it is today. My idea of technology was a typewriter throughout elementary school for the most part. When we would learn new ideas we had to go read books. Even the library was different back then now a days to have a computer to find a book in the library back when I was in school I would have to get a librarian to help me search through the old card catalogs. On the other hand, when I become a teacher and have children its going to be interesting to how technology will play a role in how much children really will be learning the “criteria” vs. how to use the technology to do what they want for them.
When you look at the 21st skills you have to think about yourself as being teachers and how are you going to teach this information and be learning this information at the same time due to technology is always changing. We have seen this in the short amount of time that the EDU 102 has been created at Niagara Community Collage.
On my own I had found a video on teachertube.com that talked about the 21st century skills and it really gave me a different outlook on them and made me really think how we as teachers have to learn so much and teach so differently then the way we were thought back in the day. Now due to the fact these children are able to access so much technology We as teachers have to teach them how to use this technology to better themselves because want these children to not only want to learn and know the right answers, but to be able to ask new question and want to know more than what’s right there in front of them. (This video will be found on 21st Century Skills - p21 Framework part 2)
This week we were asked to read from
One question that many will think about after reading these is “How do you think teaching and learning will differ for you and your future students compared with how it was for you and your teachers in K-12?” I think its amazing the changes that our future children will be able to will be able to progress from. For example, When I was a young child technology was just not really in schools like it is today. My idea of technology was a typewriter throughout elementary school for the most part. When we would learn new ideas we had to go read books. Even the library was different back then now a days to have a computer to find a book in the library back when I was in school I would have to get a librarian to help me search through the old card catalogs. On the other hand, when I become a teacher and have children its going to be interesting to how technology will play a role in how much children really will be learning the “criteria” vs. how to use the technology to do what they want for them.
When you look at the 21st skills you have to think about yourself as being teachers and how are you going to teach this information and be learning this information at the same time due to technology is always changing. We have seen this in the short amount of time that the EDU 102 has been created at Niagara Community Collage.
On my own I had found a video on teachertube.com that talked about the 21st century skills and it really gave me a different outlook on them and made me really think how we as teachers have to learn so much and teach so differently then the way we were thought back in the day. Now due to the fact these children are able to access so much technology We as teachers have to teach them how to use this technology to better themselves because want these children to not only want to learn and know the right answers, but to be able to ask new question and want to know more than what’s right there in front of them. (This video will be found on 21st Century Skills - p21 Framework part 2)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Why use a blog/digital journal for your EDU102 reflective journal? What kind of information should yours have for this class?
I think blogging for this class will make it easier to communicate and learn from each other in the class.I also, feel that students will be able to reflect and see how the actually learn by the end of the semester. As a student I feel it's a very good thing to reflect and be able to understand and learn from what you and others may have learned from the same concept. My blog will show you what i have learned over the course, what I felt about some information and or how I could use this information in "real" life situations and or in a classroom.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Compare the NETS-T to the brochure NETS-T. Why did ISTE update these standards for teachers? Now compare the NETS-T with the NETS-S shown on page 5 in your textbook or at this link http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForStudents/2007Standards/NETS_for_Students_2007.htm. How do the NETS for students differ from the NETS for teachers?
I felt that both the Nets-t and Nets-S were very similar. For example the 1st one of each was just said differently. The new one just made the students become more creative and think more instead of just learning the technology and using it to look things up and not really being creative and using their own creativity!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Why do you think this quote has to do with the reasons you are here? List two or three goals you hope to accomplish by taking this course. Print your response to be used for next classes Partner Activity.
"Teaching is not a science; it is an art. If teaching were a science there would be a best way of teaching and everyone would have to teach like that. Since teaching is not a science, there is great latitude and much possibility for personal differences."
George Polya, cited in O'Connor & Robertson, 2002) and page 2 in our textbook Introduction to Educational Technology.
I feel this statement prove we show be in this class because with technology there is an endless amount of opportunities and ways to teach the young students of future.
Goals:
1-I want to learn more about technology and feel a little more conformable with using technology.
2- I also would love to get an A in this class therefore, I would have my GPA up!!!
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