Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Blog Post #5
Travis Allen
This guy immediately just amazed me by the way he was speaking and teaching like he was already a teacher. He seemed so comfortable in front of his audience. He has opened the gateway for schools to have technology and use the Ipads. He was showing the teachers how he used his Ipad and made flash cards for each subject. He was very talented and I was very impressed.
He also raised the bar for high school kids everywhere because if he can get up and teach that well and accomplish all that he has, it makes the high school kids of today look at them selves and say well what have I done. Maybe this will drive more students to try and achieve and excel in places where they are talented.
Eric's Virtual Choir
While watching Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir is was amazing how far our technology has come. He directed them as if they were all in the same room, how awesome. When I noticed that it was really people at home singing in their individual homes as a choir it was unbelievable. This choir sounds beautiful and in key, this was breath taking. Technology has come so far and I am just excited to be able to witness it. I am very glad I got to see this, I had no idea things like this even existed. Its crazy whats going on in the world and you don't even know about it.
Teaching in the 21st Century By: Kevin Roberts
While watching this video I couldn't help but agree with Kevin. This video explains how important it is to teach kids how to use technology. It explains that simple questions could be answered if students or anyone knew how to use the web correctly. For example: Who should I vote for? My connecting flight was just canceled what do I do now? He simple states create ,evaluate, analyze, apply, understand and remember, these are the things that students should be doing. He says teaching in the 21st century means we need to rethink the tools we use and the types of problems we ask students to solve.
I think that this video was very accurate so many people, like myself think that since we were born and raised in the millennium that we know computers and we don't. Teachers should incorporate things like blogs, twitter, and online activities so that when they are in college they will know everything. And it will be easy for students to learn these types of things when they have a teacher with them 5 days a week and they can ask questions and get answers rite then. I will definitely show my students how to use certain sites and search engines.
Why I flipped my classroom By: Katie Gimbar/ Flipping the classroom By: Ms. Munafo
While watching this video I learned why Katie flipped her classroom. She said she was teaching to the middle of the class, the students that could follow along with what they were doing while she had another group who were bored ready to move on , and another group who were struggling to understand. They weren't receiving enough content or help. This lead to 90% lecture trying to meet their needs, when they weren't being met. They talk about not having enough time to teach and get everyone on the same page. Since then she does a self based program online and they can work ahead or master things they don't know. I think that this is a very good idea, because I can relate to the kids who didn't get exactly what they needed. This is such a good opportunity for the students to be able to have a fair shot in getting their education.
This guy immediately just amazed me by the way he was speaking and teaching like he was already a teacher. He seemed so comfortable in front of his audience. He has opened the gateway for schools to have technology and use the Ipads. He was showing the teachers how he used his Ipad and made flash cards for each subject. He was very talented and I was very impressed.
He also raised the bar for high school kids everywhere because if he can get up and teach that well and accomplish all that he has, it makes the high school kids of today look at them selves and say well what have I done. Maybe this will drive more students to try and achieve and excel in places where they are talented.
Eric's Virtual Choir
While watching Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir is was amazing how far our technology has come. He directed them as if they were all in the same room, how awesome. When I noticed that it was really people at home singing in their individual homes as a choir it was unbelievable. This choir sounds beautiful and in key, this was breath taking. Technology has come so far and I am just excited to be able to witness it. I am very glad I got to see this, I had no idea things like this even existed. Its crazy whats going on in the world and you don't even know about it.
Teaching in the 21st Century By: Kevin Roberts
While watching this video I couldn't help but agree with Kevin. This video explains how important it is to teach kids how to use technology. It explains that simple questions could be answered if students or anyone knew how to use the web correctly. For example: Who should I vote for? My connecting flight was just canceled what do I do now? He simple states create ,evaluate, analyze, apply, understand and remember, these are the things that students should be doing. He says teaching in the 21st century means we need to rethink the tools we use and the types of problems we ask students to solve.
I think that this video was very accurate so many people, like myself think that since we were born and raised in the millennium that we know computers and we don't. Teachers should incorporate things like blogs, twitter, and online activities so that when they are in college they will know everything. And it will be easy for students to learn these types of things when they have a teacher with them 5 days a week and they can ask questions and get answers rite then. I will definitely show my students how to use certain sites and search engines.
Why I flipped my classroom By: Katie Gimbar/ Flipping the classroom By: Ms. Munafo
While watching this video I learned why Katie flipped her classroom. She said she was teaching to the middle of the class, the students that could follow along with what they were doing while she had another group who were bored ready to move on , and another group who were struggling to understand. They weren't receiving enough content or help. This lead to 90% lecture trying to meet their needs, when they weren't being met. They talk about not having enough time to teach and get everyone on the same page. Since then she does a self based program online and they can work ahead or master things they don't know. I think that this is a very good idea, because I can relate to the kids who didn't get exactly what they needed. This is such a good opportunity for the students to be able to have a fair shot in getting their education.
Blog Post #4
Judy Scharf's Podcast Collection:
Judy Scharf's Podcast Collection is a simple information site for either someone wanting to produce a podcast or someone teaching a class to do one now. Ms. Scharf breaks down the process into sensible and easy to view sections. She provides links for instructional videos on both YouTube and TeacherTube that show how to do a podcast. All the Information on Ms. Scharf's Collection was very informative and helpful to me a ton.
The Practical Principals with Melinda Miller and Scott Elias:
Melinda Miller and Scott Elias's Blog about Practical principals was simply information for someone who did not know how to set up a podcast. It shows you how to get started and what to do for each kind of software that you have. There are clickable links for you to click on so that you can know just exactly what they are trying to explain. It goes in depth if you keep scrolling down the blog.
The Benefits of Podcasting in the Classroom By: Joe Dale
Joe Dale's Blog was set up to me perfect, right when you go to his blog there is a video you can watch about what the benefits are of a podcast. The first thing I did was watch the video. He states that the podcast can be heard anytime anywhere and that is the biggest benefit. Kids spend countless hours on computers, video games, and other types of electronic devices. This is why Joe says that podcast offers a new way to teach your kids to learn and have fun with it. Podcast projects allow students to show their creativity. Also if kids are sick they can stay home and still get lecture notes downloaded to their itunes as a podcast. This site was very informative and it does show the importance of a podcast.
While visiting and watching videos I have learned that podcast are very important in schools now days. Not only can kids listen to lectures on their ipods but they can also use this when they are home sick. This is almost like having a virtual teacher around 24/7. There are no excuses for not knowing the material if your teacher has a podcast. This would be something that I wish we had when I was in grade school, maybe if I heard it over and over I would have gotten better grades.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
C4T Project #3
Mr. Shawn Cornally #1
During this project I was assigned to Mr. Shawn Cornally (Art Viewer) you can see his blog here http://burrowsart.edublogs.org/2011/02/15/state-bound/comment-page-1/#comment-62 He views all types of art, and this was so crazy because I love art too, so it was perfect. While I was commenting and reading his different blogs I read about a girl who was in the 11th grade. She had a video of herself drawing a face. This video was very impressive and when I commented on it I made sure that I praised her drawing so that she would feel accomplished.
When I read the next blog post it was about a girl named Molly. She did a pastel piece on a subject brushing his teeth. The way she captured this was awesome. The shading made the nose look like it was actually standing up and not flat on paper. I was blown away by this piece. This was very interesting to me and i enjoyed seeing all the different art.
Steve Anderson #2
His blog was named, blogging about the wed 2.0. His recent post was about Class Connect. It was a website set up by a bored student named Eric. The website allows you so much memory and you can have binders and folders filled with all of your work. I commented on it and said that I might have to set me up an account since its free, and it will keep me organized. Very cool how it came about because of a kid who was bored in class one day.
C4T #3 Tony Baldasaro
This guy was talking about how the schools are encouraging kids to chew gum to concentrate and do all these different things just to make them get a good score on the NECAP test. I researched this and actually found out that indeed gum does help you concentrate. This is was I said to Tony:
During this project I was assigned to Mr. Shawn Cornally (Art Viewer) you can see his blog here http://burrowsart.edublogs.org/2011/02/15/state-bound/comment-page-1/#comment-62 He views all types of art, and this was so crazy because I love art too, so it was perfect. While I was commenting and reading his different blogs I read about a girl who was in the 11th grade. She had a video of herself drawing a face. This video was very impressive and when I commented on it I made sure that I praised her drawing so that she would feel accomplished.
When I read the next blog post it was about a girl named Molly. She did a pastel piece on a subject brushing his teeth. The way she captured this was awesome. The shading made the nose look like it was actually standing up and not flat on paper. I was blown away by this piece. This was very interesting to me and i enjoyed seeing all the different art.
Steve Anderson #2
His blog was named, blogging about the wed 2.0. His recent post was about Class Connect. It was a website set up by a bored student named Eric. The website allows you so much memory and you can have binders and folders filled with all of your work. I commented on it and said that I might have to set me up an account since its free, and it will keep me organized. Very cool how it came about because of a kid who was bored in class one day.
C4T #3 Tony Baldasaro
This guy was talking about how the schools are encouraging kids to chew gum to concentrate and do all these different things just to make them get a good score on the NECAP test. I researched this and actually found out that indeed gum does help you concentrate. This is was I said to Tony:
Hi Tony, I am a student at the University of South Alabama.
I am currently in the EDM310 class where I was assigned your blog this week. I
have heard that chewing gum really does help you concentrate. I also researched
this on the web since it caught my interest from your post. It was discovered
that when you chew gum your short term-memory is enhanced. I just thought that
was an interesting fact, love your blog.
C4T #4 Travis Allen (The life of a 21st century student)
While readying Travis Allen's blog post about the Otter Box I left this comment:
Hey my name is Kayla Szymanski and I am currently in EDM310 at the University of South Alabama. I have an Otter Box and would not own any other kind of case. I enjoyed reading about the people who own the Otter Box company, that was pretty cool. Also the otter slide was jsut about the best part of the story to me. Thanks so much for the post keep up the great work!
C4T #4 Travis Allen (The life of a 21st century student)
While readying Travis Allen's blog post about the Otter Box I left this comment:
Hey my name is Kayla Szymanski and I am currently in EDM310 at the University of South Alabama. I have an Otter Box and would not own any other kind of case. I enjoyed reading about the people who own the Otter Box company, that was pretty cool. Also the otter slide was jsut about the best part of the story to me. Thanks so much for the post keep up the great work!
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Blog Assignment #3
Title: What is Peer Editing?
Title: Peer Edit With Perfection Tutorial
Link: coming soon
To me the video with the elementary kids displayed the perfect message of how letting peers grade each others papers can turn into a mess. They had every situation from kids being to mean,sensitive,fast, ADD and even a little to picky. A lot of times I myself have been in these situations, every class should have to watch this video, if they are going to peer grade. When grading a peers paper its hard because you don't want to hurt any ones feelings. A lot of time people take it to personal and think that you are just tyring to pick a fight.
When I took the time to peer grade myself today I thought to myself well, I just don't want to be too mean. But if you look at the big picture you are actually helping them out a ton. On the blog that I was proof reading the student did not know how to place simple words and phrases. Also I could tell that they might have been in a hurry because a lot of words were misspelled.
Video:Technology in Special Education
Link: coming soon
In this video is shows how special ed kids used to have to be singled out. An example is a little boy who could not read as good as the other kids, so a teacher would have to single him out and take him out into the hall to be read out loud too. With the new technology that we have he is able to plug in headphones into his smart phone and the stories are read to him out loud into his head phones. This little boy not only feels normal again but he is learning and understanding. This is definitely a good idea that I could use in my own classroom to make kids feel better about themselves.
Also some kids that cannot move or speak, they can be hard to understand at times.They also do not always get what they want because of thesemisunderstanding, and it has to be frustrating to them. With our new technology they are able to type out what they are in need of or want, how much easier is that then sitting there and pointing to letters all day. To me if I were teaching special ed they would all have iPads, so it would be a nice fun experience.
Video Title: How the iPad works with Academic for Autism
link: Coming soon
I found a App on the Apple.Education Apps.com its called: How Rocket Learned to Read. This App is very brightly colored and interesting for special Ed kids and even regular age appropriate kids. This App is applying the Language Arts while the kids have fun. I would use this in my classroom as a center maybe. I would have reading centers each center would have a game or in this case a iPad where you could play but yet learn at the same time. The kids would also hence the iPad and want to jump rite in because even though they are elementary or special ed they know that a iPad if one of the hottest things out rite now, that would make them even more eager to play with it.
Title: Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts
Author: Vicki Davis
Link: coming soon
This video shares how these middle school age looking kids were blogging and using the same software that we are using in this class. Its crazy how I am in my 3rd year of college paying for a computer class and they are doing almost the same exact thing for free in a public education system. I think that Mrs. Davis is doing a wonderful job with her students.She seems to really have a passion for letting kids teach themselves, like she said teachers don't have to know everything. I think that now days that is kind of a down fall with our teaching system, all the teachers do not want to ever be wrong, and most of the time the students could help them out they just don't want help from us.
They are learning how to us Blogger and other kinds of Software that will help them in college, when they go to apply for a job, it really will come in handy when they need it. I do believe that in this video she states that for some students paper and pen just aren't enough, some have to have sort of a hands on learning experience to excel to their full potential
Title: Peer Edit With Perfection Tutorial
Link: coming soon
To me the video with the elementary kids displayed the perfect message of how letting peers grade each others papers can turn into a mess. They had every situation from kids being to mean,sensitive,fast, ADD and even a little to picky. A lot of times I myself have been in these situations, every class should have to watch this video, if they are going to peer grade. When grading a peers paper its hard because you don't want to hurt any ones feelings. A lot of time people take it to personal and think that you are just tyring to pick a fight.When I took the time to peer grade myself today I thought to myself well, I just don't want to be too mean. But if you look at the big picture you are actually helping them out a ton. On the blog that I was proof reading the student did not know how to place simple words and phrases. Also I could tell that they might have been in a hurry because a lot of words were misspelled.
Video:Technology in Special Education
Link: coming soon
Also some kids that cannot move or speak, they can be hard to understand at times.They also do not always get what they want because of thesemisunderstanding, and it has to be frustrating to them. With our new technology they are able to type out what they are in need of or want, how much easier is that then sitting there and pointing to letters all day. To me if I were teaching special ed they would all have iPads, so it would be a nice fun experience.
Video Title: How the iPad works with Academic for Autism
link: Coming soon
I found a App on the Apple.Education Apps.com its called: How Rocket Learned to Read. This App is very brightly colored and interesting for special Ed kids and even regular age appropriate kids. This App is applying the Language Arts while the kids have fun. I would use this in my classroom as a center maybe. I would have reading centers each center would have a game or in this case a iPad where you could play but yet learn at the same time. The kids would also hence the iPad and want to jump rite in because even though they are elementary or special ed they know that a iPad if one of the hottest things out rite now, that would make them even more eager to play with it.
Title: Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts
Author: Vicki Davis
Link: coming soon
This video shares how these middle school age looking kids were blogging and using the same software that we are using in this class. Its crazy how I am in my 3rd year of college paying for a computer class and they are doing almost the same exact thing for free in a public education system. I think that Mrs. Davis is doing a wonderful job with her students.She seems to really have a passion for letting kids teach themselves, like she said teachers don't have to know everything. I think that now days that is kind of a down fall with our teaching system, all the teachers do not want to ever be wrong, and most of the time the students could help them out they just don't want help from us.
They are learning how to us Blogger and other kinds of Software that will help them in college, when they go to apply for a job, it really will come in handy when they need it. I do believe that in this video she states that for some students paper and pen just aren't enough, some have to have sort of a hands on learning experience to excel to their full potential
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