I found that most of the different things that we worked on helped with the vision of what my class can be and the fun I can have with the students. To encourage them through the use of this technology will allow them to succeed in their careers.
The amount of technology that is out in the real world will only increase so our responsibilities as educators is to make sure our students thrive in our class room by giving them every opportunity to excel.
Before beginning this class, I was aware of the technology available to assist the teacher in and out of the instruction time. So ready to excite my students with all of this technological education.
I do plan on maintaining a blog for the benefit of the students and parents, for information as well as for instruction. I hope that all of this information and technology is available in all schools for the benefit of the students and their futures.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Thing #23
plcmcl2-about.blogspot.com/
This is a website I searched in Google for in reference to 23 Things. Helene Blowers, Public Services Technology Director for the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (PLCMC), set up 23 Things as a program for the staff. 23 Things is a loose interpretation of the 43Things website, which allowed you to set and track personal goals and 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year, an article by Stephen Abram. The 23 Things in our 3040 class, was taken from someone's idea and work.
I will use the Creative Commons and as well as the copyright videos in my classes so the students can see that it is only fair to give credit where credit is due.
This is a website I searched in Google for in reference to 23 Things. Helene Blowers, Public Services Technology Director for the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (PLCMC), set up 23 Things as a program for the staff. 23 Things is a loose interpretation of the 43Things website, which allowed you to set and track personal goals and 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year, an article by Stephen Abram. The 23 Things in our 3040 class, was taken from someone's idea and work.
I will use the Creative Commons and as well as the copyright videos in my classes so the students can see that it is only fair to give credit where credit is due.
Thing #22
My binders titles are 1) Persuasive Writing, 2) Research Paper and 3) Poetry in the 20th century
The one I am sharing is the poetry in the 20th century
http://www.livebinders.com/play/present?id=367714
This is a neat website and will be useful to the students for portfolio projects as well as research papers. Then they can save their work instead of having to print it. In case they get into a subject and change their mind about one of the sources, then it is just a matter of adding the new one and not printing a lot of new stuff. Working on a research paper, they can look at it all on line and then have the binder so the teacher can look at it to see where the search information came from.
I think for the teacher this will be great to keep documents and project ideas and such. It will consume less space than the hardbound binders and reduce research time for projects and information. Keeping up with tests from year to year and handouts, will make it so much easier.
The one I am sharing is the poetry in the 20th century
http://www.livebinders.com/play/present?id=367714
This is a neat website and will be useful to the students for portfolio projects as well as research papers. Then they can save their work instead of having to print it. In case they get into a subject and change their mind about one of the sources, then it is just a matter of adding the new one and not printing a lot of new stuff. Working on a research paper, they can look at it all on line and then have the binder so the teacher can look at it to see where the search information came from.
I think for the teacher this will be great to keep documents and project ideas and such. It will consume less space than the hardbound binders and reduce research time for projects and information. Keeping up with tests from year to year and handouts, will make it so much easier.
Thing #21
Animoto is awesome. I am going to look into this for use in the classroom for projects for students. I never knew anything like this was out there and this is so cool. The endless possibilities are staggering of how to use this within an English III class on research or literature. The students will have a great time just putting stuff together. So neat.
http://animoto.com/play/oxs1xGsbbVXUU1i9eI7sIA
http://animoto.com/play/oxs1xGsbbVXUU1i9eI7sIA
Thing # 20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3npBv0Hv-4M
This is such a great motivation video for me as a teacher. This is why I want to teach. I think that youtube offers so much in the way of visual aids that we are fortunate in this day and time to have it around. This is not something that was around for me as a student in high school and I see that it can make a total difference in the learning levels of all students. Visual aids can be used to motivate the students.
This is such a great motivation video for me as a teacher. This is why I want to teach. I think that youtube offers so much in the way of visual aids that we are fortunate in this day and time to have it around. This is not something that was around for me as a student in high school and I see that it can make a total difference in the learning levels of all students. Visual aids can be used to motivate the students.
Thing #19
I just recently became a member of TeacherPop. I became a Twitter member in January or February of this year, 2012 for my 3040 EDUC Technologies class. I have been a Facebook member since February 2009. Facebook keeps me in touch with my friends and reconnects us with old friends. I joined Facebook in 2009 to get in touch with our classmates for a 25 year class reunion. Facebook was how we communicated, since we are all so busy and spread out across the nation. Personally I think on an individual basis it is great.
I think I will use the social sites to remind students and parents about homework, tests and extracurricular activities.
I think I will use the social sites to remind students and parents about homework, tests and extracurricular activities.
Thing #18
Here is my twitter tag: @ataylor9
Social networking sites are a means of keeping up with what is going on. They can be used for good and bad. The kids don't mind putting their whole life story for everyone to read. Some people put every little thing they do, "I sneezed in Chem class today", "I am going to the store" and being "tagged" or "poked" are just a few of the hazardous (silly) aspects to deal with.
As educators they can relay ethical information to students and parents such as reminders about homework or parent-teacher conferences, but should not be used as a one-on-one basis for privacy issues. They can keep the educator in contact with other educators and keep an open mode of communication.
As an administrative tool, they can be used to observe acts of cyber bullying or even in-school antics of upcoming pranks. I do not think that these should used between the teacher and student, but between teacher and parents.
I think in class as a learning tool, they could be useful, but you would have to have some pretty upstanding students that you know that you could trust with the privilege. Potential for positive school wide or extra-curricular activities could be a benefit to using them.
Social networking sites are a means of keeping up with what is going on. They can be used for good and bad. The kids don't mind putting their whole life story for everyone to read. Some people put every little thing they do, "I sneezed in Chem class today", "I am going to the store" and being "tagged" or "poked" are just a few of the hazardous (silly) aspects to deal with.
As educators they can relay ethical information to students and parents such as reminders about homework or parent-teacher conferences, but should not be used as a one-on-one basis for privacy issues. They can keep the educator in contact with other educators and keep an open mode of communication.
As an administrative tool, they can be used to observe acts of cyber bullying or even in-school antics of upcoming pranks. I do not think that these should used between the teacher and student, but between teacher and parents.
I think in class as a learning tool, they could be useful, but you would have to have some pretty upstanding students that you know that you could trust with the privilege. Potential for positive school wide or extra-curricular activities could be a benefit to using them.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Thing #17
The bookmarking tools are inventive for the use of the teacher. I think that being able to use these to network with other teachers about topics can keep the classroom learning environment "fresh" and alive. If you do the same old thing, the students are going to get bored. This can be beneficial to the students as well. It will give the students more outlets for research and collaboration projects. I can see this as a good organizational tool for the teacher as well to keep up with what is taught from year to year and keep good ideas from getting lost in the shuffle.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Thing #16
I chose to use Netvibes to do my start page. So much time and creative information can be shown on that start page. I think these types of pages will be great for individual presentations in English in secondary schools. The different ways to show the creative side of the student will help those who feel like they are not creative, like me. I think once I set up my classroom I will use this as a way to do my start page.
The online calendar 30 boxes is useful and seems to be easy to add information to it. The fact that there are "to do" lists that the students can use to let me know where they are in the progress of their projects. I like looking at calendars to see where I am and where I need to be, to help me keep up, I believe these will be great sources for the students and teachers alike.
I like the Ta da list of online lists as it seems easier and I love the thought of Jott personally but I don't think it would be feasible for students. I would say that if I was going to use a "to do" list I would stick with the calendar because it has both the "to do" and calendar apps. Instead of doing an additional app for a list.
The backpack program is awesome, using all of the above listed items together on one site, it is great.
All of the products available for better quality production of the students work are really good, I just hope that where I teach we will have a fraction of that available to us. I love the 30 boxes calendar and lists site, I feel it will be useful at home and school.
The online calendar 30 boxes is useful and seems to be easy to add information to it. The fact that there are "to do" lists that the students can use to let me know where they are in the progress of their projects. I like looking at calendars to see where I am and where I need to be, to help me keep up, I believe these will be great sources for the students and teachers alike.
I like the Ta da list of online lists as it seems easier and I love the thought of Jott personally but I don't think it would be feasible for students. I would say that if I was going to use a "to do" list I would stick with the calendar because it has both the "to do" and calendar apps. Instead of doing an additional app for a list.
The backpack program is awesome, using all of the above listed items together on one site, it is great.
All of the products available for better quality production of the students work are really good, I just hope that where I teach we will have a fraction of that available to us. I love the 30 boxes calendar and lists site, I feel it will be useful at home and school.
Thing 15
The wiki's are interesting and I am sure I will be able to use them in group presentations and projects. I think it is great that they can add and change their formatting and ideas.
I do think there would have to be rules about changing another student's work though. I could see there being problems with some students about wanting to control the tone of the whole project. Team work would be needed to have this used as a successful learning tool.
Here is one I set up for my son's benefit.
Things to do for senior year and college
I do think there would have to be rules about changing another student's work though. I could see there being problems with some students about wanting to control the tone of the whole project. Team work would be needed to have this used as a successful learning tool.
Here is one I set up for my son's benefit.
Things to do for senior year and college
Monday, April 2, 2012
Thing 14
These tools will be useful to the student in several classes, because it allows the teacher to illustrate visually, what is needed on a project. Students comprehend things differently, so the use of the flow charts and mind maps will allow the visual concept and clarification they might need.
I went into the Gliffy website and it was pretty good for flowcharts.
I did not care for the Bubbl.us as it was not easily accessible. Although it might be okay for the student, I feel like it was difficult at first use to be able to decipher the language. I find as a future teacher it might be a little time consuming, if you use mind maps very often.
I did however like the easy access use of mindmeister. Easy to use and work with. If a teacher is using very many mind mapping activities, this would be my first choice. I especially like the brainstorming and to-do-list templates.
I love lists and I will incorporate to do lists in my instruction period through power points and transparencies.
I went into the Gliffy website and it was pretty good for flowcharts.
I did not care for the Bubbl.us as it was not easily accessible. Although it might be okay for the student, I feel like it was difficult at first use to be able to decipher the language. I find as a future teacher it might be a little time consuming, if you use mind maps very often.
I did however like the easy access use of mindmeister. Easy to use and work with. If a teacher is using very many mind mapping activities, this would be my first choice. I especially like the brainstorming and to-do-list templates.
I love lists and I will incorporate to do lists in my instruction period through power points and transparencies.
Thing 13
Zoho Writer is a pretty unique website. Being given the opportunity to use so many great sources in which to have access will allow the user a much broader accessibility to documents and projects. Just the software space on you computer alone is worth using it. Using it in English projects, will allow the students that can, access to be able change group projects and presentations as they need. Since I am planning on using a blog within my class the use with a blog with be helpful.
Google Docs: This is pretty cool software, as far as English projects, it can be helpful with the students to create projects by having the never ending internet sources for creativity points available to the students and groups. They can all do a search for particular topic or idea within their subject so as to save time with research gathering.
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1hN1b5mF7dIzdSM1ttBKKjH3bhkAWMxljstiUVaVHrr0/edit
Google Docs: This is pretty cool software, as far as English projects, it can be helpful with the students to create projects by having the never ending internet sources for creativity points available to the students and groups. They can all do a search for particular topic or idea within their subject so as to save time with research gathering.
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1hN1b5mF7dIzdSM1ttBKKjH3bhkAWMxljstiUVaVHrr0/edit
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