Blog Post 10

Ms. Cassidy's First Grade

                                                           

 Ms. Cassidy blew my mind with the amount of technology she uses in her classroom but what really shocked me was how creative she was in integrating technology. She did not just introduce the usual boring blogs but also taught about how to use wikis as well as bring something kids see as fun, the Nintendo DS, into the classroom. I think that the best idea that Ms. Cassidy taught in these videos was that students are never to young to start learning technology. The students in her classroom are so far ahead of even some college students and could probably do better than some of us. Ms. Cassidy also adds morals into technology, for example, the blog post etiquette that her students have already learned by using kind words and constructive criticism to help other students learn more about the subject or show them how to work the blog sites better by leaving tips. One interesting question I thought was raised in the student questions at the end was about the originality of the students work. Cassidy's answer was very helpful to me because I never understood how to avoid plagiarism in blogs until she discussed her method of asking the students the same information just altered some for a new and inventive answer of their own. One of the main problems I would face in adding more technology in the classroom would be the difference in socioeconomic statuses among students and the parents allowing their kids to be on the internet as well as their names, pictures, and school work. As a teacher, I would try to encourage parents to sign forms allowing me to put their child's work online as well as show their progress and show the parents how easy it would be to access their student's work and grade. I would also try to keep technology fees to a minimum for all students to encourage parents to pay which is very hard to do even in Baldwin county where technology is everywhere.

C4K October

10/9/14 Project #6#5  C4K Dear everyone, Today I’m writing about my blogging challenge #2. I think kids should be able to pick if they want to go to Spanish or not because some people have only had one year of Spanish. And we should be able to pick when they want to go to class so we can be ready to learn and I think we should be able to read when ever we want and where we want and who we are with I also think we should able to listen to music when we are reading cause I know for me it helps me to read and to be focused. And I think we should be able to sit were we want because I think that’s fair for everyone who doesn’t talk to there friends during class. I think we should also be able to pick what we want top learn because then we will want to learn. we should be able to use electronics in every class. What is your favorite class. And what do you think about this? And what can you do about this? What do you have fro questions about this? Do you think we can make this work?
Response- Lexi, I am a student at the University of South Alabama and I agree with all that you are saying. Unfortunately, we aren't able to make some of those decisions but, luckily it will get better when you get in college because it is much more laid back. Good luck with class and Spanish Class. 


10/19/14 Project#6 C4K#6 At school I like recess.
 Response-Hi Ethan, I am a student at the University of South Alabama. When I was in school, I loved recess, it was a time to be loud and relieve some stress.

10/26/14 Project #6 C4K#7 Our literacy class is learning how to read maps and a saying for NESW N stands for North,E stands for East,S stands for South and W stands for West. The saying for this is Never Eat Soggy Weet-bix.
Response-Hi, Toma. My name is Paige and I am a student at the University of South Alabama. Reading a map is very important, I use a map daily to get me from one place to another. There are many acronyms for North South Eat West. Some that I learned were:N-never, E-eat, S-sour, W-worms or N-never, E-eat, S-sour ,W-watermelon These silly little rhymes will really help you learn North South East West. Have a great week.

Project 12 Smartboard

Project 9 Group 10

Project 6 C4K 4

Marc Prensky talks in his blog about how children are scared to ask the wrong question. He says "children are scared to get in front of people and speak or be recorded." I was unable to respond because it was a video and did not have a comment button. My comment would be, that it is very true that children should learn how to speak in large crowds and be able to be recorded and feel comfortable.

Blog 7

For this blog we watched how kindergarten and first graders us their iPads in class. Mrs. Tuck the teacher explained Popplet the app that the children use to make a web with pictures on the story they have read. After they are finished with their Popplet, she screenshots a picture of it so they can have it to refer to. Mrs. Tuck also records the students on the iPad when they read so they can go back and listen to it and see where they made mistakes. I think that technology is a great tool for all ages, especially children, because it will continue to grow rapidly. It is so amazing that children at the age of 5 are more technologically savvy than most adults. In two years, I hope to be in a school that uses the technology based system. Those teachers are really helping the students out by teaching all about how to work technology, and it will be great when all school systems teach in that way. The other part of the assignment was to list my strengths and weaknesses about technology and how I can get myself ready for it.

  Strengths
  I love to learn new things about technology.
  Technology amazes me on how it works.
  I use technology daily.
  I understand that children are fully capable of learning technology no matter the age.

  Weaknesses
 I should use technology more to keep me organized.
 I like to procrastinate.
 I like to bite off more than I can chew most of the time.
 My time management skills need major improvement .

 When thinking about being a teacher in the next two years is scary to me, just because I know that the styles of teaching will constantly be changing. When having my own classroom, I will have to stay on my game and continue to learn everyday about different teaching styles and all different ways to use technology in my classroom. When teaching I want to impact my children, so that in 10 years when they are walking across the stage they can think back on my class and how it help them along their path.

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

blog post 2

1) The central message if this video is that you can not always just take notes and learn. Everyone is a different learner, some may be able to study notes that are given and make a good grade, where others, have to actually be involved to learn it. The author makes the case at the end of the video by showing did not learn anything out of it. Everyone took notes as if the final was going to be on paper but, they were asked to do something different that they never got to practice. Yes, i agree with the conclusion, because you can see the students did not learn anything. 2)Roberts thinks teaching in the 21st century means the teacher is no longer the main source educator, the main source is electronic sources. Thesis: Teacher is no longer the primary source of information. Evidence: Students find more of their information from outside sources such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Yahoo, instead of the old fashioned way of a physical copy of a book. Argument: Students are no longer limited to what they can learn from a human being they are learning from but can tap into resources where people are professionals in each and every field known where the best advice can be filtered through with the click of a button. I feel that it allows some students to get away with not having to actually learn some material but allows other students untapped potential into what they can learn about by using this technology. This will effect my as an educator by having to stay up to date with technology so that I may not limit any students chance to grow in knowledge to a new level but also keeps me on my toes with students looking for an easy way out. 3)In the movie , The Networked Student, it shows all the way to use technology. "Why does a student even need a teacher?" it explains that a teacher is there to help find the right resources, information, and teach the student more than one way to find information. Some parents are not up to date on all the new technology, where a teacher has to be to educate the student for the future. The movie shows, that as an educator, we will give them the correct an up to date resources to continue in the future. 4)The thesis of Davis's video is, teachers do not have to know everything anymore. The teacher can supply the student with information and reliable websites, and the student will take it from there and explore. I think the idea seems a little extreme, it is hard to believe that the students will all learn without discipline. All children are different, with different ambitions some more than others. I would be a little nervous that some students would explore and take it to the extreme while others are not so fond of the idea and do not take much interest in it. 5) Who is ahead in the race? I think, that children are ahead in the race because they have been introduced to technology at such a young age for free. As a college student I did not use technology a good bit until I got into college and was completely lost. On average, 8 out of 10 children of all ages will be in buggies at the store playing on some type of technology device. 6) Yes, Flipping the classroom is new to me. I believe this approach can be extremely useful to me as long as all students are equipped with some way of watching the videos. Flipping the classroom is an easy way to cut down lecture time in the class and use more time solving problems which is a big problem currently in math which causes some students not to understand and give up without the teacher's help and encouragement. 7)One thing I can use is that everyone in the classroom can help another student learn not just the teacher. The class is a team and we are all working together to become smarter and better students. This approach also links the athletes who usually do not shine in the classroom and since of comfort with what they are doing and how to become a better learner through others.

what about EDM310? blog post 1

outline What have I heard about EDM310
What are my fears about EDM310
Compare and contrast EMD310 to other classes I have taken
What will be the most difficult thing about EDM310
The best way to address the most difficult thing
Questions about this course
When I first registered for EDM310 I had no idea what it was. I didn't do much research on the class and figured i would just see what it was all about on the first day. The closer to the time school was starting I began to panic so I asked a friend, he said it was a computer class that wasn't difficult, he also is very computer savvy unlike myself. He told me if I just stay on top of the work, I would be fine. I fear that I will procrastinate and not stay up to date on my work. I am a full time student and I work 30 hours a week so I have to be very careful with my time. With so much going on at this point in my life I feel like I have no time to procrastinate, because if I do there will not be a very good turn out with my grades. Other college courses I have taken in the past, was on paper with only a little amount online, unlike this course it is all online.This class you are your own guide as far as keeping up with your work and the due dates. Other teachers I have had in the past will have of work for you to do in the class, where in this it is done outside of class. EDM310 is a very fast paced course from day one, so I will have to stay on top of my work and not slack,where as some courses they will speed up towards the end.The most difficult thing for me in EDM310 will be to remember to keep up with all the due dates and work. I am very busy with work and my other classes so remembering to do my work will be a struggle but it will also keep me organized. I very thankful for taking this class, because it will really teach you time management skills. As far as questions, I do not have any at this time, but if I do I will make sure to ask them at the beginning or end of each class time. As the semester goes on, I am sure I will have questions but for now there are not any I can think of.

practice blog post

outline outline Introduction outline Why do I want to be an educator
What does an educator do in his or her practice
What are my passions
Hi, my name is Paige Odom, I am from Mobile, AL. I graduated from Baker High School in 2011. I love being outdoors or watching sports. I attended Jefferson Davis Community College in Brewton, AL. After my first two years of college on a softball scholarship, I decided to attended South because both my aunt and uncle received their PhD. from South. I am one of five kids, me being the oldest, and five years old being the youngest. I entered the education field because I love children, watching them progress, and helping children. Something about cute little 3ft humans with bright bows with a book bag that weighs them down warms my heart. I love interacting with children, learning from them while they learn from me. Seeing how a child learns is so fascinating to me, they are like a sponge and every little thing you do or say they take it all in. From Monday to Friday of the same week they can learn so many things and do not even realize it, and that is what amazes me. Everyone is raised differently, from financial issues to single parents everyone is different. Children do not understand why maybe their parents do not have the extra money for new shoes or why their mother is not around, but I want to be the teacher that they will not have to think of any of that. In my class I want to treat everyone fairly, we will all have the same dreams and that is to be smarter than the day before. In the 21st century, teachers have to understand that everyone's family is different. Yes, I will be there to be an educator, but I will also be there if they feel threated, need anything, and someone to listen. Many teachers come to class because that is their job, I want to come for a purpose and that is to help children to not only become smarter but become prepared for life.

I am a good listener and always willing to help others when they need something or just a shoulder to lean on. I like to spend time talking to my family and enjoying the outdoors instead of being at work with rude customers. I need to improve on the facial expressions I give others when I do not agree, I may not say anything but my looks say it all.

My test post title

This is my first post. I clicked the HTML button which I should always do in edm310 I am now a blogger.