Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Time Toast Timeline
In EDM310, we have found a new program that could be useful in the classroom. I think it would be particularly useful in a history class. It is timetoast timeline. It is very easy to use. I experimented with it and made a fun one about Alabama Football. Click here and check it out.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Week 10
"An Open Letter to Educators"
This post by Morgan Bayda makes you think. It makes me think about the classes I take and how some of them are exactly has described by Morgan and in the video by Dan Brown. I can not help but feel the same way about some of the classes that I take. I sit through boring lectures where the professor reads off a power point. Then, you can get the power points off their website and read. It makes it almost pointless to go to class when you just read yourself online. It wasn't for mandatory attendance, I probably would not go. I think there should be change in education. We shouldn't stick to the old ways of teaching and learning such as memorizing facts. Although I do not see the "old school" way of learning to be my chosen education, the fact is we have no choice. I want to be teacher and I need to make a living somehow. How is it possible to be teacher and make a living without a degree? I need it. So I have to take these courses. But, I can take these values with me to the classroom and change the mindset of the next generation.
Comment For Kids
This week I commented on a young students post which was a recount of her activities through out the day.
This post by Morgan Bayda makes you think. It makes me think about the classes I take and how some of them are exactly has described by Morgan and in the video by Dan Brown. I can not help but feel the same way about some of the classes that I take. I sit through boring lectures where the professor reads off a power point. Then, you can get the power points off their website and read. It makes it almost pointless to go to class when you just read yourself online. It wasn't for mandatory attendance, I probably would not go. I think there should be change in education. We shouldn't stick to the old ways of teaching and learning such as memorizing facts. Although I do not see the "old school" way of learning to be my chosen education, the fact is we have no choice. I want to be teacher and I need to make a living somehow. How is it possible to be teacher and make a living without a degree? I need it. So I have to take these courses. But, I can take these values with me to the classroom and change the mindset of the next generation.
Comment For Kids
This week I commented on a young students post which was a recount of her activities through out the day.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
ALEX-Alabama Learning Exchange
This website, the Alabama Learning Exchange, is a very useful website for teachers. It offers tools to help a teacher to improve ones teaching in the classroom and their experience. It offers helpful advice so that we may improve on ourselves professionally. This website is a good site t be familiar since we are going to be future teachers.
This offers links to others sites that can also be very helpful. It offers lesson plans for all subjects taught. It even has podcasts that relate to education and some that can be used in teaching lessons. There are interviews with famous intellectuals that can be played in class. I think I will be visiting this website often throughout my career.
ACCESS - Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide.
This is a program that allows students to take classes that are not offered where they live. It was launched on November 1, 2004. This program also allows students to receive supplemental teaching. This program uses technology to teach these students from across the state.
I think this program is a very good program because it allows students that didn't have the opportunity to get a high quality eduacation to now have the opportunity. Plus it also shows a good way that technology is being used for.
Comments For Kids
This week, I comment on students blog where she used video and audio to describe a dinosaur.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Week 8 Post
"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"
This was a very enlightening video. Randy Pausch made it very interesting. It wasn't hard to pay attention for a hour and 20 min. I think he makes very good points in here about achieving your dreams and life in general. It was uplifting to see him have a positive attitude even though he was dying.
Many kids have dreams but they never try to work for and give up. Some are they cannot fulfill them or that they shouldn't have dreams. As teachers, we should do everything we can to help our students fulfill their dreams. Sometimes, that might be challenging them or getting them to work harder. It depends on what their dreams are and how the students respond.
Being a future educator I took a lot of advice about teaching since Randy Pausch was a teacher. He made a point not to set the bar or expect a certain level of performance from the students. I think this is a good way of looking at education since you want to teach as well as you can. If you set a level of expectations then you will only teach to that level and you want to make sure the students get the best education possible.
The video was very good. It teaches lessons that we can use in life and take with us as we start teaching.
Comments for kids
This week, I commented on a students blog. She post blog about monsters and whether to believe in them or not.
Comments for Teachers
For this assignment I have been following a blog, "At the teacher's desk." It is a blog that is comprised of a team of teachers from all over the world. I can not keep up with all the new blog posts so Dr. Strange has narrowed it down to two contributors for me, Jarrod Lamshed and William Chamberlin. I have followed the blog for 3 weeks and learned alot. As a future educator the ideas and advice that you can find in all blogs, not this just this particular one, can help to better prepare you as a teacher. I know I have gained good insight of what the future has in store for me.
Week 7 was the first time I visited this blog. William Chamberlin posted information about a webpage he found. It is called Kidsblog. When I read this I thought, what a great post. It is always good to get information that can be beneficial in the classroom. As you can tell, our EDM310 class blogs all the time and we have seen elementary students do it to. But there is a problem with safety with the younger students because of creeps on the internet. Now there is a solution to the problem. Check out William Chamberlin's post for more information. He gives the full scoop.
Week 8 was the second time I was visiting the blog. So I scrolled down to the newest post published by William Chamberlin. He published a post about google alerts. This is a system on google that will search the internet automatically and email you alerts. It doesn't just search fro anything. You give it key words. It keeps a constant look out for the key words or materials related to the key words. For an educator, this is great. I know have google alerting me about new information pertaining to secondary education and mathematics.
Week 9: The newest post that was published was about how Disney now allows access to stream videos online. This seems to be a housekeeping post but it is the only one I saw written by William Chamberlin since the last time I visited. Although, this is very good information for people with families. Kids love Disney movies. I know I did.
All in all, I have learned a lot from William Chamberlin's blog posts and the blog "At the Teacher's Desk" in general. Mr. Chamberlin has shared excellent information that I'm sure I might use when I get into the classroom.
Week 7 was the first time I visited this blog. William Chamberlin posted information about a webpage he found. It is called Kidsblog. When I read this I thought, what a great post. It is always good to get information that can be beneficial in the classroom. As you can tell, our EDM310 class blogs all the time and we have seen elementary students do it to. But there is a problem with safety with the younger students because of creeps on the internet. Now there is a solution to the problem. Check out William Chamberlin's post for more information. He gives the full scoop.
Week 8 was the second time I was visiting the blog. So I scrolled down to the newest post published by William Chamberlin. He published a post about google alerts. This is a system on google that will search the internet automatically and email you alerts. It doesn't just search fro anything. You give it key words. It keeps a constant look out for the key words or materials related to the key words. For an educator, this is great. I know have google alerting me about new information pertaining to secondary education and mathematics.
Week 9: The newest post that was published was about how Disney now allows access to stream videos online. This seems to be a housekeeping post but it is the only one I saw written by William Chamberlin since the last time I visited. Although, this is very good information for people with families. Kids love Disney movies. I know I did.
All in all, I have learned a lot from William Chamberlin's blog posts and the blog "At the Teacher's Desk" in general. Mr. Chamberlin has shared excellent information that I'm sure I might use when I get into the classroom.
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