Blog Post 9

Mr. McClung's Blog
I loved reading Mr. McClung's blog because as a future educator I always wonder what it is like those first couple of years as a new teacher. I can clearly remember when my mom started teaching, it was tough but she absolutely loved it. My mom is actually one reason I wanted to get into teaching. But anyways, his blog post were so encouraging and helpful. He said how it was. I don't feel like he sugar coated the message. He was very helpful and encouraging. I think that his blog posts were very helpful for upcoming teachers, and even teachers who have taught for a long time can learn something from his blog post.

In his post, he gave advice. One of the ones that I loved the most was on his very first post, "Never Stop Learning." I think this is a great point that he makes. Just because we graduate and are now teaching others, doesn't mean that it exempts us as teachers from continuing and learning. It is a wonderful thing to keep learning and not be complacent with what we have already learned.

Smart Board Project 14

C4T #3

I was assigned Caren Carrillo. The first post I commented on was titled "Awkward Classroom Silence" She posted some advice she was given about what to do when the classroom goes silent when the teacher asks a question. I am glad she posted what she learned on her blog to share with others. I think that her blog post is very encouraging, and it reassures you that if there is an awkward silence, it is natural and going to happen.

The second post I commented on was titled "No Lessons--Just Ban It." This was a very good post to read. She focused on how schools are just banning things left and right and not even explaining why they are doing it. The example she gave was of a school banning hugging. The main point was that we need to teach lessons on why the students behavior was bad or good. She also focused on saying yes more than no. It was a well thought out post that was very interesting.

C4K for March 2012

The student I received for March was a site with many post on it. I commented on Kaitlyn's post. It was a quiz she had made up. The sad thing is, I knew none of the answers. I got to check out the entire website and see many of the other kids post, and they were all really good.

Blog Post 8

Richard Miller: This Is How We Dream Parts 1 and 2

I thought Richard Miller has a brilliant idea. The videos he showed were very interesting. He made a point to show what can be done during his talk and video. If we are going to be successful, we need to be able to express our ideas in a way that can be understandable. Richard Miller did this in his videos.

He talked about how we dream. It is interesting to see him incorporate all the uses of technology into his presentation. It is also interesting how big of a role that technology has in how we dream and come up with plans for the future. He was able to write things and make things with his computer that I would have a hard time trying to figure out.

I think this video was a very useful video for this class. It was able to show the possibilities of what technology has to offer. I also believe it showed how essential technology is in the world today. The video opened my eyes and kinda made me want to learn more about how to do some of the cool things with technology.

Carly Pugh

When I read Carly Pugh's Blog Post 12, I thought she was very creative and a fantastic writer. The way she wrote made it very interesting and lively. I could tell that she had worked hard on her blog post and that she took it very seriously. I feel as if that would have been an assignment that Dr. Strange would have assigned. I believe she really understood what Dr. Strange was going for in that project.

EDM For Dummies and The Chipper Series

I had already watched these videos before at the beginning of the semester. The main idea is to do your work on time, don't procrastinate, and if you do the work you will learn things. I think both videos get the point across very well about what this class is all about. I guess if I had to think of some videos I would want to create would be on how effective the stuff we learn in EDM310 can help us in the classroom. Maybe the video could show a teacher doing her lesson with the technology available and showing how interested the class is.

Learn to Change, Change to Learn

When I watched this video, I liked some of the points that were made. I believe that we will always have the school system, but I believe it will be changed dramatically because of the use of technology. I think teachers will have to incorporate technology into their lessons or they will never keep the attention of the students. I liked when one woman in the video said, "We ave a classroom setting when we could have a community setting." I think this video implies that using technology will make it more of a community. People will learn from other people around them, not just the teacher.

"Scavenger Hunt"

The first thing I found was a video tool. I went to PhotoPeach. This was a website a teacher could use to make slideshows. Some of the special features included being able to sign up student accounts without emails, projects can be organized and presented for parents and students to see, download unlimited shows in burnable CD, create unlimited photo albums, and many more. This site seem very helpful when creating power points.

The second thing i found was how to make my poll. This was my first poll question:

Replace audience response hardware with Poll Everywhere

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The third thing I found was how to make my own comic strip. This was a very thing to do. I always liked reading the funnies when I was a kid in the newspaper so it was fun to make one of my own, (even though it wasn't technically funny).

I will be adding all three of these to my PLN, because I can see them being useful in the future.

"The Selfish Crocodile" (Project #11)

Book Trailer

PLN Progress Report

I have created my PLN. It is still a work in progress, but I can already tell this is going to be a very useful tool I learn how to use from this class.

Instructional Timeline 9b

Blog Post 7

The Networked Student


This short video was different. It had a narrator who used paper cut outs to illustrate what he was talking about. His topic was about the 21st century teacher and student. The examples were of what a student goes through in a modern day class. It gives various examples of what he is required to do for the class. It shows that it is a lot of self-learning, and it is not a lot of the teacher teaching the class like the norm.

During the video the story shows the student having to learn different techniques, like the ones we are learning in EDM310. It shows that he is having to learn how to use the Internet for his benefit. He is able to find resources about his class and is able to learn on his own. He also gets to explore what others have learned about the same topic, and he creates a blog about all that he has learned so that others can observe what he has done.

At the very end of the movie, the question was, "Why does the networked student even need a teacher?" There are a few answers to this. Some of the answers consisted of the teacher is there to help them build the network and to encourage the student to take advantages of the many opportunities out there, be a guidance for the student just incase they get stuck at some points, to teach the student how to decipher good and bad sources from the Internet, and to teach them to be organized. There were more answers to the question, but these are a few of the answers. As a future teacher, I will need all of these qualities and more to be a successful teacher in the 21st century. I am eager to graduate and get started in education and be the best teacher I can be in the 21st century.

The 7th graders PLE was encouraging in a way because I thought to myself if a seventh grader can do it I can do it. I think this is a good thing for her. She was able to keep up with what is going on in classes and she had a her own personal stuff all on one page. Hopefully, once I get my PLN started, it will be as helpful to me as her PLE was to her.

Blog Post 6

Randy Pausch

Wow! This video was great! I was not looking forward to watching it because it was so long, but I thoroughly enjoyed it! There were so many things that Dr. Pausch said that really made me want to know more. When he talked about there are different ways to say something to someone, this really stuck to me. Multiple times I have had teachers say things that were very discouraging just because of the way they said it. As a future teacher, I need to be cautious of how I approach a student, and how I will have to try to keep my students encouraged and interested in what they are doing.

I plan on being a math teacher. There are a number of students who do not like math. I think one of the important things that I took from this video was "to make sure people are having fun while they are learning something hard." I know that my favorite math classes are the ones where I enjoy the teacher and what we do in the class. I know as a teacher, I will have to figure out a way to make my math class fun and interesting while I teach a difficult subject.

Another thing I really enjoyed was when he was talking about his coach was being tough on him one day at his football practice. When the assistant coach told him "When nobody tells you you are doing wrong, they've given up on you," I thought this was so true. Not only do I want to teach, I want to coach as well. But this statement can be applied to the classroom. If I go in thinking that a student is hopeless and is never going to get it, and I begin to give up on him, that student will never accomplish the goal for the class. I think I learned that I need to have different teaching methods for different students, and that I never give up on a student.

Another quote that stuck out to me was, "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." I had never thought about that, and it is a completely true statement. If we did not have learning moments from something we did not succeed at or did not get, we would never learn or know better the next time the situation arises. I think that Dr. Pausch hit the nail on the head with this statement about experience.

This video had a lot of great points. I would recommend this video to others to watch and hope someone learns as much as I did from the video even if the person wasn't going into the teaching field, there is something to learn from this video for everyone.

C4K for February 2012

I was assigned Moses from Mrs. Bark's class in Auckland, New Zealand. I found it amazing that these kids have been doing this blogging stuff for so long. I was able to see all of the work Moses had posted on the internet. Although he did not have any new post for 2012, I was able to look at all his work from 2011. I thought it was awesome that I was able to look at his work while I am in America, and he is in New Zealand. I think it is a great thing that the kids are learning about this at such a young age. Moses' Blog

Lauren's video on measurement was great. The main point of my comment was that I thought it was a great thing that she was learning while hang fun. I think this is important for kids. If kids think learning is fun, they will not dread going to school and being bored. I thought this was a great video.

My second child I was assigned to comment on was Taylor. She had lots of new post on her blog. I commented on a post she did about the Super Bowl. I encouraged her by telling her how great of a writer she is. The first thing I saw when I looked at her blog was a picture of her holding her hands together as a heart for Valentines Day. Taylor's blog was very good and interesting. Taylor's Blog

The third child I was assigned to was Hana. She had many post. From what I could tell, she has been doing this a long time. I left her a comment on a post she wrote about sportsmanship and teamwork. I personally enjoyed this because I was an athlete all the way through high school and I currently coach. She had a good definition of what she thought sportsmanship and teamwork is. Hana's Blog

My last child that I commented on for the month of February, was very interesting. It was chapter one of a story. It reminded me of the story of Cinderella. I think it was suppose to. There were many stories posted by the child. I was not able to find out what the child's name is. This is a link to the blog.

Podcast Project 8