My CyberSafety Collaborative Site

Working collaboratively my group and me created a cyber saftey website using the program Google sites. We addressed many online issues and offered tips to both students and educators. (NETS-T 4 & 5)

Crossword

Using Microsoft Excel I created a crossword puzzle about math. (NETS-T 1,2,3)

Journal 7: My Personal Learning Network NETS-T 4,5

My Personal Learning Network or PLN is important because it allows me to collaborate with other educators and continue learning about emerging theories in education. A PLN is a collection of social media networks in which you can connect with people who share similar interests and collaborate with one another about ideas, educational resources, and helpful on line links. It is therefore very important as a classroom teacher to establish a PLN as it connects you to others around the world and allows you to stay up to date with emerging technological advances and educational practices.

Twitter is a great addition to a professional PLN. Many people see this site as a gossip and social media site but many people use this site for educational purposes. Twitter offers insight to new teachers and gives advice and feedback to educators worldwide. This site can be used as a collaborative tool. On my twitter page, I only follow my fellow classmates and use their posts in order to fulfill requirements for my education classes. Classmates can collaborate on shared interests. I have used this site to listen in on educational chats that have to do with math since I am planning on being a math teacher. These online chat sessions in which educators world wide meet to communicate about a specific topic during a specific time period in this virtual reality. I participated in @mathchat on twitter on May 2nd. The topic of this chat was “how do we get students to dig deeper?”  During this chat I witnessed educators come up with ways to keep kids from saying “I’m finished.” Educators believe that all people including students have more math intuition then they realize. I got a couple great ideas from the chat that is similar to what we have done in class. Blogs with top tips for teaching math is a great idea to getting students to dig deeper. The chat was hard to follow. There were so many tweets at such a rapid pace however, I did come out of the chat feeling inspired and motivated to push social media on educators and proving its benefits as an educational tool.

Derogative

Diigo is another great tool for educators! It organizes your online material and resources and saves you from having to search creditable information. The site allows you to bookmark pages and sites and then uses key words to tag specific information or topics of discussion. Through these tags, educators are able to find other sites and sources that pertain to information that other educators have already tagged as useful and valuable. In my Diigo account I selected my online material by looking for fellow ed422 tags. From there I was able to explore other Diigo pages of my fellow classmates and use their information to build my own account. I was even able to use Diigo to research my chat for my PLN!

By becoming a member of Classroom 2.0 I was able to link up with educators that were interested in my same depth of study. Classroom 2.0 is a social media site for educators that are interested in web 2.0. The site provides articles; videos, live chats and blogs that pertain to the subject you wish to teach. This site allows you to create your own blog and follow fellow educators. I found the shared experiences were very beneficial to me as I used them to experience first hand what I need to do in order to successfully incorporate technology in my classroom.

iMovie PSA (Software Proficiency)

Using iMovie I created a public service announcement for California State University San Marcos. To do this I had to use the software to edit video clips, add music and add researched information about the school. (NETS-T 1-5)

Standards for Teachers

 

 I used the digital tool Inspiration 9.0 to structure and outline the artifacts that I have created that support the NETS Standards for Teachers. Inspiration 9.0 is great tool for mapping, outlining, writing, and brainstorming ideas and concepts. It effectively communicates ideas clearly and demonstrates understanding and knowledge.This artifact is a graphic organizer that I used to demonstrate how the projects in this class meet the NETS-T standards for teachers.

Journal 10

Journal 10: Helping Students Express Their Passion

Mann, Michelle. "Helping Students Express Their Passion." Learning and Leading. N.p., March/April 2011. Web. 13 Apr 2011. http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/.

This article focuses on AYV, Adobe Youth Voices which is a global education program sponsored by the Adobe Foundation. The main focus of this site is to teach teeenagers how to properly use digital media through sharing ideas on social issues that they are interested in. the goal of this educational program is to spark dialouge for change around the world by attracting the energy and interests of the younger minds in todays world. by doing this, the foundation is able to influence and mold the young minds in a positive way. Educators and policy makers are finding a similar problem throughout the world when trying to fufill these goals. Figuring out how to improve the quality of secondary education has been Adobe Youth Voices main issue that they seek to improve. A lot of public discussion focuses on student and teacher importance, as AYV has come to the conclusion that young adults are driven by technology. This is the foundations key to attracting youth. By basing their global education program off new digital age technology, Adobe is able to work closely with educators and their community to come up with ways to empower and motivate students using technology. One of the ways Adobe Youth Voices is trying to achieve this is by assisting educators in using this new digital world in their teachings. This shows educators how to teach kids in ways they want to learn.

Do you think that certain methods of technology can help motivate and inspire student learning?

Yes! By giving students options and letting them dive into subjects they like, then they actually want to learn and they will want to become actively engaged inside the classroom and in their own communities.

Do you feel that the right applications of technology can help inspire students?

Who else benefits from AYV? Educators, parents and those interested in their surrounding communites. By encouraging these types of media based collaborative learning, AYV is helping all parties interested develop lesson plans and unique methods of instruction to get people involved and better understand the world.

Journal 9

Journal 9 "Teaching Green” Waters, J. (2011). Teaching green. THE Journal , Retrieved from http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/1105/journal_201104/#/12

John J. Water is a freelance writer who focuses on teaching green through the wealth of online resources. Classroom earth is a site that was created by the National Education Foundation in partnership with The Weather Channel. The sites purpose is to push environmental awareness and education in high school classrooms across the nation. A walk in the woods is the second site and is aimed at a younger grade level(grades3-5) and at schools in more urban areas such as San Francisco. Students in large cities rarely have the chance to experience the outdoors. This site gives these students a chance to do so, through virtual walks in the woods. The next site is Environmental Education for Kids(EEK!). This site is an electronic magazine for students in grades 4 to 8. It is also directed towards teachers and can have lots of useful information and tools that can be used inside and out of the classroom. The fourth site is called Ecological Footprint Quiz and is an online quiz that gets kids thinking about their ecological and carbon footprint. This is a great way to have kids understand how nature is affected by what they do on a day to day basis. The fifth site called PowerUp is for both parents and teachers and provides lesson plans and different tools to promote environmental education. The US Environmental Protection Agency Teaching Center site is the final site Waters talks about. This site is aimed towards teachers, as it offers a wide variety of lesson plans and classroom activities that are based on the environment.

Which site do you see most beneficial in the classroom and why?

I believe that the Ecological Footprint Quiz is very beneficial because it gives students a chance to better understand the big picture of global warming and how their day to day ways of life impact our earth.

Do you think environmental issues will become a largely incorporated topic of discussion inside the classroom as time goes on? I personally haven’t been environmentally educated up until recently. We were never taught about the environment and ones footprint. All I knew was throw away your trash and that was about it! Now a day’s websites such as the ones Waters discussed educate students in a simple, understandable way. With the constant increase in internet ability, I can see Environmental studies becoming a subject just like math or science!

Journal 8

Journal 8: "Should Schools Be Held Responsible for Cyber bullying?"

Bogacz, R, & Gordillo, M. (2011, March/April). Point/counterpoint: Should Schools be Held Responsible for Cyber bullying?. Learning & Leading , 38(6), Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/issues/Point_Counterpoint_Should_Schools_Be_Held_Responsible_for_Cyberbullying.aspx

this site presents different views in an argument as Renee Bogacz argues that schools play a huge part in the direction cyber bulling goes. Bogacz has been a teacher for over twenty years and believes that educators and parents must work together to protect students. By playing an active part in the discontinuation of cyber bulling, we can witness its dimishment as we move forward as a culture.

Bogacz’s theory is challenged by Miguel Gómez Gordillo, an IT director for the Ascoiaión para el Desarollo Educativo (which manages K-12 schools in Guatemala). He argues that schools cannot be held responsible for cyber bulling. Instead Gomez believes that parents and society are to blame. He links the number of cyber bulling cases to lack of parental love in weak home environments. His solution is to establish a close knit communication family while simultaneously developing a plan for these families. He believes a healthy family will solve everything!

Whose argument do you support and why? I believe teachers and administrators are responsible for ending cyber bullying but it is equally the parent’s responsibility to keep their kids from being bullied. Educators must prevent bullying before it happens while parents must monitor it at home. No one person is to blame for cyber bullying.

Do you have any personal experience with cyber bullying? If so, please explain. When I was in junior high girls would bully me from my school through AIM instant messenger. This was put to an end when my mother saw what they wrote me on the computer. She is both a parent and a teacher (high school teacher) and quickly took matters to the principal. Unfortunately it only made things worse which is why I believe it needs to be stopped before it happens!

Journal 6

Journal 6

Warlick, D. (2009). Grow your personal learning network. Learning & Leading With Technology (36)6, Retrieved from http://istelearning.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Grow-Your-PLN.pdf

The article Grow Your Personal Learning Network (PLN) explained different types of PLNs and how they function based off member involvement.  With increasing technology our PLN is no longer restricted to our actual location. We can now access information and communicate with people across the globe. PLNs are key in order to communicate and improve the world of teaching through the use of the Internet. There are three main types of PLNs. The first is a traditional network called personally maintained synchronous connections. This network allows you to conversate and discuss questions with fellow educators throughout the world. the second PLN allows you to conversate and propose questions to multiple people or groups at once and time is not an issue. No longer are people restricted by work and time zones, these responses can come whenever it is convenient to those answering questions or participating in discussions. The third and final type of PLN is dynamically maintained asynchronous connections. This type of PLN uses a RSS aggregator that will bring information to us, rather than us having to search for information. Twitter is a great addition PLNs as it gives personal incite to other educators methods of instruction.
Warlick pointed out that one weakness of PLNs may be that we choose to only involve ourselves in networks that are similar to our own views, what can I do to make sure that my views are not stunted by my PLN?  By becoming aware of other views you can better understand their points and although you may not agree, there may be certain ideas you can get from others and build off of. As educators it is key that we set a good example for our students by exemplifying the importance of forming beliefs based off all different takes on certain situations.

How influential will my PLN be as I begin to teach in the classroom? Experience is key so in the beginning I will have to base my work off my PLN so it is essential to follow my own advice and build a PLN based off all perspectives and points of view. Never be close minded to new things! This new age of digital learning promotes growth in all aspects of teaching.

Classroom Newsletter

NETS I-III This is my classroom newsletter which I created via Microsoft word

ALL ABOUT MUAH

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.

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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 café 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.

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

Introduction Letter

My name is Chelsea Houldin, I am a Taurus born in 1989. I love sunshine, the beach and everything else that comes with living coastal in southern California!  I have been all over for schooling thus far. I started at Paul Ecke Central for elementary, then Ada Harris then Oak Crest then Digueno and then Highschool! After graduating from La Costa Canyon High School in 2007, I ventured to Santa Barbara where I attended the local community college for three years. From there I transferred to the University of California Riverside for Fall 2010 quarter as a liberal studies major. UCR was to say the least, not for me. I applied to Cal State San Marcos mid quarter in hopes of returning home and pursuing my goal of becoming a teacher. CSUSM has been wonderful so far. The only problem is my UCR courses didn’t transfer and I am facing quite a setback in regards to graduating in a reasonable time frame. I am taking on six classes, many of which are upper division. Fortunately the majority of the material I am studying is familiar to me with the acceptation of this technology course. You could say I am technologically retarded. Microsoft word and face book are a no brainer! I am also fairly comfortable with excel and power points but anything on the web is scary to me. I am familiar with these sites but that’s about it. This class will definitely be my most challenging but I know becoming technologically savvy is absolutely necessary to succeed in today’s work world!  CSUSM is known for producing a huge majority of the surrounding school districts faculty. My mother was my math teacher for three years in high school and my step father was my principal during the same time. They are both huge supporters of this college and have explained to me the benefits of getting your degree in the same area you wish to teach. The connections you make in and outside the classroom are very important. I can already see the differences in CSUSM then from UCR. The program is as the mission statement says “commited to student-centered education, diversity, collaboration, professionalism and shared governance.”