Michael Wesch : Toward a New Future of Whatever

This is another interesting video by Michael Wesch. The ideas presented in this video relate closely to my personal life because I feel like that is the generation I am growing up in or I grew up in. We surely but slowly living our lives in front on the television and web cams. While it is helping us connect to one another but at what cost. From my college experiences you can see that no one cares what the person next to them is dong with their life. People come into the classroom have a seat and wait for the professor to enter they take notes and they live there is little to no interaction between other students. The vibe in some of my classes are hey I don't know you, you don't know me and we don't know each other so let me just listen to my Ipod and don't say anything to me. Me as a future educator I feel like I will have to find a different way to connect with my students than the way my teachers connected with me. If I don't we may have another lost generation on our hands. Watch this video for yourself at http://is.gd/3WVVZ.

Posting Work on the Web

It is important for students to post their own work on blogs and also for teachers to post their own students work on blogs because, you never know who may run across your work. For example the choir from PS 22 had the song writer to run across their work on the Internet and they got to perform the song in Madison Square Garden. I'm sure without the work being posted on the net they may have never gotten that opportunity or at least would not have been recognized so quickly. Check out the video at http://is.gd/3WVnqb the children singing sound amazing and you can tell from watching they enjoy singing the song.

Another example of you never may know who will see your work is the Dear Kaia blog http://is.gd/3WSsn some students seen her blog and decided to read her stories on a web cam and communicate with her. I'm sure when they posted her on the net they probably had no intentions of someone contacting them back. Even myself left a comment to Kaia and her father.

Comments for kids is another great example of why you should post your work to your blog. Through comments for kids me and my classroom communicated with other student outside of America. It felt like we had the chance to visit a foreign country with out having to leave our seats. The students sung our class a song and or class sung one back to them even though we were a little shy about it. You can check out the school website here at http://www.ptengland.school.nz/.

Another great example of posting your blogs to the Internet is you get to share your own ideas with others and you may never know what others may think until they see your work. For example my co-workers say they were playing around on google and ran across my professional blog and they said from reading my professional blog if they were a principle they would hire me just from reading what they saw on the Internet. Just from reading my professional blog they seen how I really feel about teaching and thought that I would make a excellent teacher one day.

Check out my blog at http://rosecpb.blogspot.com/

Project 11 Presentation

E-Books or Paper Books

ACCESS

ACCESS stands for Alabama Connecting Classroom, Educators, and Students Statewide. This program started in 2006. It offers advance diploma course, dual enrollment courses, remediation courses, advanced placement courses, and other courses that the school may not offered. The program is distant learning and the teacher who is teaching the course specializes it that subject. I never heard of this program before this class even though I graduated in 05 but I ask my sister and they don't have it at our high school. I think it is a pretty good program overall.

ALEX

ALEX is a website that was built for students and teachers. When you first go to the web site it has eight different categories you can choose from. It has a course of study so you can know what your students need to be learning. You can choose from different lesson plans that may help you out. It has web links for students, teachers, and administrators. It has this link for Alabama Connecting Classroom, Educators and Students Statewide (ACCESS), which is distant learning for students in school. This is a really cool website which i think any teacher could find helpful.

I think when I finally begin teaching my own classroom that ALEX would be very helpful. Especially when it comes to lesson plans and things for the students to do on the computer. I can really see ALEX helping me plan out my next day no matter what grade level I am teaching.