Project 8 Book trailer

Blog Post 6

After watching Dr. Strange and Anthony Capps' conversation, we were asked the question, "What did you learn?" I found the conversations very valuable.It was very nice to hear it from someone that has been in our shoes as a student and now a new teacher. Anthony seemed very interested in the Project Based Learning, and did a very good job explaining how he does some of his projects. I really enjoyed hearing some of his experiences in his classroom, which is nice. I love projects, but wasn't sure about the PBL, hearing it from Anthony, made it seem a little more bearable and fun. I love what Anthony says about using technology. Children are like little sponges and will take in everything they can. It amazes me to see children as young as 2 years old playing on an IPad, and work it very well at that. As technology grows it will be an essential tool that everyone will have to know, so we should incorporate using technology as much as possible in our classrooms. It will be a huge tool to help children prepare for the future. The Anthony-Strange Conversation for new teachers had many great points. The Points that really stood out to me were: 1)Work hard 2) You can make it fun if you let it 3)Be creative 4)Respond to unplanned events 5) Be flexible in lesson plans Anthony gave some really great advise for new coming teachers. He explained some of his personal experiences and projects but leaves a little room for you to take it and add your own personal lesson plans and thoughts.

Project 7

My Sentence Is.. My Passion Is..

Project #3 Presentation

Blog Post 5

Personal Learning Networks (PLN) are a  tool in all fields especially in the education field. PLN is a great way to communicate with coworkers or people in the same field. Twitter is a great PLN, as you find things that interest you, you will start and follow people with the same interest. When you have a problem it is very convenient to get on one of the PLN sites and ask fellow colleagues for their options and help.I now realize why Dr. Strange requires all his students to learn to blog, have twitter, and include links in our blog. On Blogger I can find many people that I share the same interest with that could help me or get their opinion. Blogger and Twitter are two great sites to connect with people all over the world. It is really interesting to see how many people share information all over the world on these sites. These sites have a chain affect to them, when you find something that interest you, as you look at that page, it will lead you to more interesting sites. This is a picture that shows all the PLN such as:Blogger, Skype, Gmail, talk, Youtube,.ect.

Michael Fawcett does a great job explaining to us the importance in creating your own PLN in his video. He explains that a PLN is a great tool to communicate around the world. He had a student that wanted to know an exact time for an event, instead of emailing NASA or writing a letter he was able to send a tweet and get a response that was accurate from NASA in minutes. Twitter, Facebook, and many more PLNs are great ways to keep parents informed on events, due dates, and homework for their children. It is amazing to know that Michael Fawcett was sitting on the beach, while listening to a workshop going on across the world. With PLN teachers will be able to communicate with educators worldwide. It is very interesting to know that children in Alabama can connect with children around the world, that is important so they can be educated on the different cultures and races. With these resources learning will be more understood because they can have fun and communicate for themselves. I never knew having a twitter could lead me across the world.This picture has children standing around a world holding hands, it shows that all children can connect having a PLN.

Project 15 Testing out search engines

Bing is a very popular site, it is one of the fastest growing search engines today. It was launched in 2009 by Microsoft as the newer version of Microsoft Live. In 2012 ALexa reported them as 26th most visited websites worldwide. It is a very easy website to use and get any information that you are looking for.

Ask.com is one of the first searched engines formally known as Ask Jeeves. Ask was started in 1996 based on the idea of answering everyday questions in a common langauge. When using this site you can ask a general question and it will pick the key words that need to be searched.

Yahoo was also one of the first search engines started in 1994, was basically started to be a phone book of websites and later became a search engine. In 2009 it was rated the 2nd largest search engine on the web. Alexa reports yahoo is the 4th most visited website globally.

duckduckgo.com founded in sseptember 2008 by Gabriel Weinberg. Duckduckgo.com backs itself by respecting users privacy. This website compiles it's results by using many sourses,including; Yahoo, WolframAlpha, and Bing.

Yandex.com launched in 2010, very popular worldwide because it allows you to search in; english, french, german, as well in other languages. Its is basically a copycat of the russian search engine Yandex.ru.

Blekko.com released November 1,2010. Known as the slash tag engine which allows you to easily create custom searches. There is currently no way to submitt your website to Blekko.com, they find your website from other search engines and add you to there site.

Scrubtheweb.com started in 1996. scrubthewebs claim to fame is that they rank all index pages individually not by views, with all pages given an equal chance to be ranked highly in a Scrub the web search.

WolframAlpha offically launched May 18, 2009. It is a service that answers by directly computing the answer instead of giving you a list of websites. With this website you can ask a real life question with out it pulling up many documents, it will aswer your question like a human would answer it.

Blog Post 4 Asking better questions in the classroom

After sitting down and thinking about this blog post, I have learned that children learn and remember questions that were asked in the classroom. After watching,"Asking better qustions in the classroom", by Joanne Chesley I learned the correct way to be effective with questions. If you ask " Is your name John?" they child can answer "yes" and that be it. If you ask the question, "What is your whole name?" the child will have to give you an explanation about his or her name and you can go into depth asking qustions this way. Using this method will be more effective because the children can join in and help one another out, which will lead to everyone getting involved and feeling important. By using this method compared to the close ended qustions, the children are forced to pay attention because if they get called on they will not want to be embarrassed. By usng close ended questions the child has a 50 percent chance of getting the answer right, and the other children did not learn anything because there will be no explanation added.

\ By using this method of teaching it will engage every student in the classroom to be confident with their answers. Some children are very smart but not confident in what they have to say, using this method will push them to answer qustions. If the students see how easy and fun it is, they will continue to excell in the classroom. The test scores, confidence levels, and question levels will all be higher, because everyone is learning.

Blog Post 3

In the two videos and slideshow, I learned that you can help correct someones paper by a compliment. When someone corrects my paper I always get very nervous because I do not want them to say, "all of this is wrong." With the three basic steps; Compliments, sugestion, correction, peer reviewing will be a lot less stressful and fun. Writing Peer Review Top 10 Mistakes showed that everyone once in their life has been guilty of reveiewing a paper and doing it the wrong way. From watchng the video, I now know that I can compliment on the good things and suggest that they try something different with the things that need help. When having someone review your work can be very nerve racking, but the best way to deal with it is not take it all to heart and let the reviewer try and help you with some new ideas. The best way to review someones work is, treat them like I would wanted to be treated.

Two children talking it over about schoolwork