Monday, February 28, 2011

Journal 4 It's Time To Trust Teachers with the Internet: A Conversation with Meg Ormiston


Schaffhauser, Dian. (2010). It's time to trust teachers with the internet: a conversation with meg ormiston. Classroom Technology | Q&A, Retrieved from http://thejournal.com/articles/2010/12/01/its-time-to-trust-teachers-with-the-internet-a-conversation-with-meg-ormiston.aspx?sc_lang=en

Journal 4
It's Time To Trust Teachers with the Internet: A Conversation with Meg Ormiston

It's Time To Trust Teachers with the Internet: A Conversation with Meg Ormiston addresses the most common fears so many parents and teachers have with Internet use. Pornography, viruses, gore and even writings can be viewable without even meaning too. Meg Ormiston has the solution for these issues as she opens the doors for social networking and communication via the World Wide Web. With the constant and never ending budget cuts, YouTube can serve as a free user-friendly way to access rich and inspirational learning materials through video feeds. Yes, there are many inappropriate videos on the site, but by teaching students how to steer clear of unwanted information, it better prepares them for their future Internet encounters.
Question #2 What is a site that exemplifies the web based communication between teacher-student, teacher-parent, student-parent, student-student?
Blogspot.com! This software in which I have learned to navigate helps teachers, students and parents communicate via the web. A blog is personal site and online log sorted in chronological order with the most recent entry at the top of the page. Each entry is dated and stamped and then electronically sorted. This feature of the blog keeps the site organized and user friendly. Sidebars border each members page or at the bottom where older entries are archived by year, month or even week. Once clicking on these links you are instantly brought to specific posts for certain time periods.
Question #2 How can we insure students wont use sites like facebook when they should be doing school work? There are always ways to cheat the system. Each teachers computer will have the ability to monitor each students work by accessing what is on their computer at any point in time through the main (central) computer.

Journal 2: Join the Flock & Enhance Your Twitter Experience


Ferguson, Hadley, & Miller, Shannon. (2010). Join the flock & enhance your twitter experience. Retrieved from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/20100607?pg=14&pm=2&fs=1#pg16

Journal #2
Join the Flock
In Join the Flock by Hadley Ferguson you dive into the ever so popular social network, Twitter. This site is a networking community where you build virtual relationships through status updates, tagging, blogging, commenting and following. By engaging in social networks such as twitter, students and teachers can post assignments, comment on postings and tag certain people to view specific work and/or anything pertaining to the classroom. Hadley Ferguson begins her article by explaining to her readers her lack of web based knowledge prior to opening her twitter account. She then goes into exemplifying that these social communities are user friendly and hardly require any sort of technological knowledge.
"Enhance Your Twitter Experience," by Shannon McClintock Miller is similar to Join the Flock. The difference between the two is one (join the flock) discusses the features of twitter, while the other (enhance your twitter experience) focuses on how the site benefits educators world wide.
Question #1 What are some ways students can ask questions to particular people, say for a group project? By tagging certain users in a post, those specific people will instantly see what your question or comment may be. Twitter can be useful as it lets you post discussion topics to only a select group of people.
Question # 2 How do you keep from straying outside of the classroom blog, say when inside the classroom and surfing the web is prohibited? That is where the teacher comes in. They can monitor a students actions on the central data base just like they can in a blog.

Journal 1: Do Web 2.0 Right



Light, Daniel. (2011). Do web 2.0 right. Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/digital-edition-february-march-2011.aspx

Journal 1: "Do Web 2.0 Right," by Daniel Light is all about specifics; classroom blogs, wiki, intended audience and where these web based tools can be accessed. The commons, the learning lab, iste cafĂ© and iste u are a few scenarios Daniel Light suggests. In his writings, Light sheds light on the ability for wiki to produce the final product for articles, subjects and topics via the world wide web. In his writing he makes note of the availability of information that is not necessarily appropriate for students. The social practices around web 2.0 are paramount to making these tools part of a rich and learning community, and educators must consciously control access to that community.  He later goes on and advertises specific apps that can make your journey through the world wide web even more simple; Google form, world wiki and gflash are some of the many applications that make life on the internet that much more simple!
Question #1 What is an example of an app that can benefit both teachers and students? Gflast! It allows teachers and students to easily create a set of digital flashcards. Saving time and trees all in one! Who would have thought!
Question #2 What about other places throughout the world? Are we behind or ahead in the tech world? In Lights article he speaks of New Zealand and notes, “in several schools we visited, student learning portrayed leadership development, technology, independence and self regulation gave students voice" So although we are learning and adapting quickly other countries are doing the same. Of course, there are many places that are way behind us and also some ahead of us such as Japan.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Technology Self-Assessment (Classroom 2.0)




           
1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

    Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:
d. model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.
 

Edu2.0 is a free web-based education site with comprehensive features for teachers, students and parents. Anyone can teach and/or learn using the system, whether it's at school, at home, or on the move. This is similar to cougar courses and moodle, but it seems more user friendly and can be used in preschool, elementary, middle and high schools (public or private), and provides a comprehensive learning management system for administrators, teachers, students and parents. You can even network schools into a single district to facilitate the sharing of classes and resources! This site can be accessed by not only teachers, but kids, parents and any other people who want to be involved! It is also Free!! Homeschooling and teacher training are also possible, as this site can be used in and outside of the classroom. I think being able to access your work from school at home is extremely important because it helps kids; adults and teachers become more technologically savvy. I like how there is a class catalog, news and calendar to keep everyone updated. I think this will benefit me most because it will keep me on task and give me a way to communicate with my students parents and my peers.

100 Things That Make Me HAPPYYYY



1.     Between two ferns
2.     Zack gilifinakis
3.     The beach
4.     My kitty Addy
5.     Soccer
6.     Riding horses
7.     Learning!
8.     Mammoth
9.     Snow
10.  Snowboarding
11.  Vacation
12.  Traveling
13.  Teaching
14.  Kids
15.  My family
16.  My boyfriend
17.  My friends
18.  Santa Barbara
19.  Southern California
20.  San fransisco
21.  Warm weather
22.  Ugg boots
23.  Shopping
24.  Boots
25.  Swimming
26.  Surfing
27.  Hawaii
28.  Twilight
29.  Gossip girl
30.  Nikita
31.  Watching movies
32.  Cotton candy
33.  Jewelry
34.  Snowcones
35.  Mermaids
36.  Trampolines
37.  Sour candy
38.  Skittles
39.  Dreamcatchers
40.  Working
41.  School
42.  Margaritas
43.  Red wine
44.  Red robins
45.  Sushi
46.  El torrito
47.  Happy hour
48.  Bright colors
49.  Sunsets
50.  Sun rises (don’t see many of those!)
51.  Working out
52.  Cooking
53.  Clean houses
54.  Jacuzzis
55.  Hot showers
56.  Redbox
57.  Surfboarders
58.  Money
59.  Halloween
60.  Christmas
61.  Spring break
62.  Summer break
63.  Hiking
64.  Running
65.  Card tricks
66.  First class
67.  Hair cuts
68.  Manicures
69.  Pedicures
70.  Math
71.  Creative writing
72.  Jeffry
73.  Thursdays after 8
74.  Weekends
75.  Days off
76.  Facebook
77.  Celeb gossip
78.  The office
79.  Comedies
80.  Smiles
81.  Facials
82.  Massages
83.  Thift shopping
84.  Swap meets
85.  Garage sales
86.  Vintage
87.  Mexican food
88.  Moms secret recipies
89.  My daddy
90.  Talking on the phone
91.  iphone
92.  whole foods
93.  trader joes
94.  henrys
95.  Lulu
96.  Karens cooking
97.  Pictures
98.  Tea
99.  Nikki!
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST ED422!!!! :-p