Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Blog Post #14
In the article, Teacher Knows If You've Done the E-Reading by David Steitfeld, he talks about a online text book that teachers use in the classroom called CourseSmart E-Texbooks. These books are awesome and can track the students history of when and for how long they read their textbook. It tells the teacher know who is actually studying or who opens the textbook the night before the test. They know when the students are skipping pages, not highlighting important information, or not even opening the book. This is seriously the coolest thing I’ve ever heard of! I think this new form of technology is extremely helpful because it can increase the number or students who will actually study instead of just cramming the night before the test. It also gives the option of one on one teaching with the students instead of just reading straight from the book during class. As a student, I am in love with this type of studying because it seems super interesting a great way to persuade me to actually do my work early instead of waiting until the day it is due (like I am doing right now). I like the feature of being able to highlight the important material and that it saves your place for you to come back later.
If I were to talk to the teacher described in the article I would ask the following questions..
1. Do the E-books help or hurt your students more?
2. Are the student’s grades improving significantly?
3. Do you or your students have any major problems using this online method?
If I were to ask the students in his class I would ask the following questions...
1. Do you like this system, or would you rather use the more traditional teaching way?
2. Do you think your grades are better since using E-books?
3. Is there something about E-books you like better than the old teaching way?
4. If you could change anything about this system what would it be?
I had to think long and hard as to what comment I would leave Mr. Steitfeld, and then I realized I would simply thank him. All the other comments came off extremely ill, and honestly I find that to be just rude. The man was simply sharing some knowledge and I really like the idea of an online text book where the teacher can see what the student is doing. Also, if the student can highlight some parts in the book, they could highlight something they don’t understand and go over it the next day in the class. People need to realize technology is a coming and we just got to hold on for the ride. This is an exciting new find and I truly like it.
Final C4T
This week I read a post from Mrs. Becky Goerend and her blog Live the Conversation. She is an extraordinary teacher who writes about daily life as a teacher. In her particular blog that I read "Struggles" she discussed how hard it is to get her students to calm down with the socializing and pay attention to her lesson. I left her a comment agreeing with how hard that can be because I am an after school counselor and I too sometimes run into this problem with my own class. She didn't have any replies from other teachers with suggestions, but she said she will be putting up follow up blog with results from other teaching methods that her colleagues have tried. Can't wait to read it!
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Blog Post #13
1. Back to the Future
What a fantastic video, the kids were using technology with their studies and appeared to really be habing fun doing so. This video showed me how the children didn't necesarily learn directly from the technology, it was just there to help them! They used that technology to help them learn and grow outside of the classroom. Mr. Crosby was my kind of teacher, he used to technology to show the children things, but then allowed them to go out and experience things first hand. The children worked with there hands and then would use technology to share their experiments with the world!!! Mr. Crosby was a great a teacher, he was the kind of man that believed in using technology but not absolutely relying on it to teach his students. He was a great man and a true inspiration for all future teachers.
2.Blended learnig cycle
Paul Anderson combines Blended learning and the Learning Cycle into something that is his very own system which he calls QUIVERS. This is an arcronym for Question, Investigation, Video, Elaboration, Review, and Summary quiz. He tries to pose questions for the class to allow them to debate and investigate the answers. He uses technology to show the answer and help the class. The class then takes the answer and tries to disect it and teach each other something they didn't notice before. This is a fun and interesting approach to teaching, it gives the students the confidence to look for the answer and even when they get it wrong they are given the chance to fix it and help their peers. I love this and I really feel like it could be good in a classroom, it gets the kids working together and not struggling on their own. If a child doesn't understand something this teaching approach shows kids that they aren't alone and can work together and fix the outcome. It's great and I know any teacher could use this in almost in classroom. (I didn't post any images to go along with this blog post because my computer has decided to be a total butt, sorry.)
What a fantastic video, the kids were using technology with their studies and appeared to really be habing fun doing so. This video showed me how the children didn't necesarily learn directly from the technology, it was just there to help them! They used that technology to help them learn and grow outside of the classroom. Mr. Crosby was my kind of teacher, he used to technology to show the children things, but then allowed them to go out and experience things first hand. The children worked with there hands and then would use technology to share their experiments with the world!!! Mr. Crosby was a great a teacher, he was the kind of man that believed in using technology but not absolutely relying on it to teach his students. He was a great man and a true inspiration for all future teachers.
2.Blended learnig cycle
Paul Anderson combines Blended learning and the Learning Cycle into something that is his very own system which he calls QUIVERS. This is an arcronym for Question, Investigation, Video, Elaboration, Review, and Summary quiz. He tries to pose questions for the class to allow them to debate and investigate the answers. He uses technology to show the answer and help the class. The class then takes the answer and tries to disect it and teach each other something they didn't notice before. This is a fun and interesting approach to teaching, it gives the students the confidence to look for the answer and even when they get it wrong they are given the chance to fix it and help their peers. I love this and I really feel like it could be good in a classroom, it gets the kids working together and not struggling on their own. If a child doesn't understand something this teaching approach shows kids that they aren't alone and can work together and fix the outcome. It's great and I know any teacher could use this in almost in classroom. (I didn't post any images to go along with this blog post because my computer has decided to be a total butt, sorry.)
C4K Assignments 5
#9 Chris S.
Chris is a 4th grader in Mrs. Geldes class. They live in Nebraska and he told his readers a story about snow. There was also a little bit about "Daisy" who had been shot, but was ok now. It was a confusing story to follow because it lacked punctuation. However, I give the kid props because I don't even remeber 4th grade stories I told and he was telling his in a blog. What a super smart kid, can't wait to see what the next C4K brings!
#10 Ava
Ava is in something called 4KM and 4KJ, she is from Austrailia and I guess school grades are slightly different. She is a very bright little girl. All of her posts were extremly well written and exciting! She has a strong love for horses and it shows all over her blog. She wrote about horses and all the different types there are, I had no idea there were like thousands of kinds of horses. It was super cute blog and I truly enjoyed reading her work.
Chris is a 4th grader in Mrs. Geldes class. They live in Nebraska and he told his readers a story about snow. There was also a little bit about "Daisy" who had been shot, but was ok now. It was a confusing story to follow because it lacked punctuation. However, I give the kid props because I don't even remeber 4th grade stories I told and he was telling his in a blog. What a super smart kid, can't wait to see what the next C4K brings!
#10 Ava
Ava is in something called 4KM and 4KJ, she is from Austrailia and I guess school grades are slightly different. She is a very bright little girl. All of her posts were extremly well written and exciting! She has a strong love for horses and it shows all over her blog. She wrote about horses and all the different types there are, I had no idea there were like thousands of kinds of horses. It was super cute blog and I truly enjoyed reading her work.
Final Project Progress Report
This week, Tuesday, we made all of our picture slides for the project introducing the project, each other, our topics, and acknowledgements. On Thursday, we filmed all of our tips and suggestions. We also edited all the slides and videos into the order they appeared on our outline that we made last week. None of the music has been added yet and hopefully the finalization and uploading will be easy to complete next Tuesday. Be ready for a sweet Final Project!!!!
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Blog Post #12
In this week's blog assignment Dr. Strange has us create our own blog assignment speacilizng in our feild of education. To be honest I am completley lost, and not really sure how to go about doing this so instead I just started Googling "history teachers with a blog" well after a few duds I found this blog called US History Teachers Blog and y'all...I was hooked. Everything I read was cool and neat, he had a few games that caught my eye that I would totally use in my classroom, like Jeopardy. This teacher's blog is phenominal! He even has helpful things for quizzes and reviewing. This teacher is on top of his game and a total help for newbies like me! Ya'll should check it out if you are interested in teaching history like me.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Blog Post # 11
This week's topic for blog was posting was pretty exciting for me. We have been given opportunities to speak to children almost every week and this week we are all meeting the same classroom and same teacher. This was great and so much fun to see a first hand account of what a teacher who uses technology in the classroom is actually thinking. Miss. Cassidy and her first grade class are such a great inspiration for future teachers. She is so positive and understands that technology and classroom are certainly beginning to integrate more and more each year. She is doing so much to help her students make it and understand technology better. She has her young students doing so much more than I ever could when I was their age, heck they are doing more than I could even do last semester! I think it is fantastic that she is doing all these things; my favorite thing that she does is the video games. Honestly I have always hated video games but I can't seem to go anywhere without seeing a child on a video game device of some sort. As an educator she has turned video games into a way for those children actually take away some knowledge from playing on them. She says in the Skype video that we watch, that as teachers we should "do it for what we are interested in," talking about the ways to relate to the students when teaching. She gives different examples of tools to teach with and I think that is great! We need to be ready to jump in feet first with technology in the classroom. She also says that technology is here and only going to get bigger in the classrooms and she couldn't be more correct. There is no reason to shut it out; she said that some of her colleagues didn't necessarily want to change the way they taught and felt what she was doing wasn't the best way. She is great and I loved watching and hearing of what her students could do, those children have bright futures ahead of them and thanks to Miss. Cassidy they won't be afraid of technology as they get older. Those kids have already had some amazing opportunities and their horizons have been broadened by learning to work with technology at such an early age!
C4T #3
This week I left another comment for Mr. Crosby and his Learning is Messy blog! I am never bored reading his blog he is always doing something super interesting and new! This week he delivered rainbow trout eggs to two fourth grade class rooms in Nevada. Every year these kids learn and track the life and growth of trout. He showed where the kids write down new information and how they knew that trout grew in cold dark climate so the class built special boxes to cover the tanks in their classrooms. I love getting to read his posts because he always has some cool project that he is sharing. I love these kinds of things so getting to read them is so much fun!
The week of March 1-April 7
The second post I read from Mr. Crosby was a little bit different than before. As usual he talks about STEM learning and how it affects the classroom. This week's post was different because it wasn't written directly on his blog, it was written on a completely different site but he gave his readers the link and I found it, read it and thanked him because I really do enjoy reading his posts because he is the type of teacher I admire. He is the hands on type that plays by his own rules really, his posts make him seem like he is just winging projects but he actually knows what he is doing and all his projects are fun and entertaining and could be great in almost any classroom. I love his ideas and think everyone should give them a chance, maybe even take what he has done and do something similar that works for your classroom and environment. JUST GIVE HANDS ON LEANING A TRY!!!!!
C4K assignments 4
#7 Matthew's awesome blog
This blog was interesting, and slightly hard to follow. I can't tell you his age or school and I promise I tried to find any information. I honestly don't even feel like any of his blogs made much sense but because I am not a heartless person and children are usually all over the place I found a post I could relate to. He was talking about a movie that I seriously just watched it was great. The post was about the movie Pitch Perfect and sadly he did not life it too terribly much. He was fun and seems full of energy so it is great that he is all about posting blogs and using technology!
#8 Madison: Genius Hour
This blog was probably by far one of my most favorite blog post I have gotten to read. It was from a 13 year old girl in Mrs. Krebs' class. She was explaining to her readers about how to paint your nails and do a special "newspaper effect." It was so neat, you paint your nails a base color and then after it drys you soak them in rubbing alcohol and then lay a news paper over them so that the lettering sticks, after a while you peel up the paper up and your nails have the letters attached. It was so cool because I am in love with painting my nails and just about every girlie thing there is. I told her about my Pintrest account and how I learned of other really cool nail painting ideas, and I even shared a few with her! I loved it and I had so much fun talking about it, it is so much fun when you can relate to the kids and I think that makes for a more entertaining classroom.
This blog was interesting, and slightly hard to follow. I can't tell you his age or school and I promise I tried to find any information. I honestly don't even feel like any of his blogs made much sense but because I am not a heartless person and children are usually all over the place I found a post I could relate to. He was talking about a movie that I seriously just watched it was great. The post was about the movie Pitch Perfect and sadly he did not life it too terribly much. He was fun and seems full of energy so it is great that he is all about posting blogs and using technology!
#8 Madison: Genius Hour
This blog was probably by far one of my most favorite blog post I have gotten to read. It was from a 13 year old girl in Mrs. Krebs' class. She was explaining to her readers about how to paint your nails and do a special "newspaper effect." It was so neat, you paint your nails a base color and then after it drys you soak them in rubbing alcohol and then lay a news paper over them so that the lettering sticks, after a while you peel up the paper up and your nails have the letters attached. It was so cool because I am in love with painting my nails and just about every girlie thing there is. I told her about my Pintrest account and how I learned of other really cool nail painting ideas, and I even shared a few with her! I loved it and I had so much fun talking about it, it is so much fun when you can relate to the kids and I think that makes for a more entertaining classroom.
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