Goodbye for now until we meet again. I am sure I will cross paths with most of you next semester if you have a elementary education major like myself. I will continue to keep in contact with you, because now you are in my PLN, which I hope will keep expanding outside of this classroom. So this isn't really a goodbye its more like a see you later.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Until We Meet Again
Goodbye for now until we meet again. I am sure I will cross paths with most of you next semester if you have a elementary education major like myself. I will continue to keep in contact with you, because now you are in my PLN, which I hope will keep expanding outside of this classroom. So this isn't really a goodbye its more like a see you later.
PLN
My personal learning network is not as big as I would like it to be and its partly my fault mostly because I haven't been putting toward the effort I should and could have. Right now at this moment I would probably say the only people in my PLN is my classmates, my professor Dr. Strange, and Mr. Chamberlain and a few others who have left comments on my blog. I think having a PLN is a great idea especially if you need new ideas for your class or maybe if you just need someone to bounce ideas off of. In the months to come I should have more time on my hand and I hope to expand my PLN then.
My podcast
If you want to listen to my podcast listen here. Its about useful internet sites for elementary teachers.
Comments for Kids Summary
Comments for kids was a fun project to do. I think the idea for comments for kids were excellent. I could see that the students really love getting there blogs commented on, and sometimes the kids teachers would return the favor and leave a comment on my blog. I know the kids were excited to get a comment on their blogs because even me a 22 year old in college still gets excited when I log in and see I have a new comment on my blog. Comments for kids is a great project and I am glad my class participated in it.
Things I Have Learned While In EDM 310
I have learned and explored so many new things while I have been in this class such as blogs, wikis, presentations, Google Docs,Google spreadsheets, Picasa, podcasts, videocasts, YouTube, PLNs, Twitter, other teachers and students outside of my region, comments4kids, iTunes, iTunesU, accessibility issues and the use of html tag modifiers, who I am as a professional, Google forms, data bases, Google Earth, Delicious, ACCESS, ALEX, Foliotek, the future of schools, and my "intellectual trail". A lot of these tools will be useful to me as a school teacher thing like blogs, twitter, Google Docs, and my PLN I could see me using on a daily basis. I think I learned more in this class than I ever could have imagined. I think everything I learned will be useful to me in someway whether realize I am using the technique or not. The thing that excited me in this class was using Skype. I found it exciting talking to a class all the way in New Zealand and getting to know people personally without ever actually meeting them in person. The only time I was bored in class was when sometimes you would over explain things and go over the same things we may have already discussed over and over sometimes. I wouldn't take away anything from the course. I still don't think I am technology literate, I think I still have a long way to go before I can call myself technology literate. Between now and the time I graduate I plan on keeping myself up to date with technology by to continuing to use it and trying to establish me a strong PLN.
7 Brilliant and Stupid Things Teachers Do with Technology & New Classroom Rules
The two most important things I seen in the article 7 Stupid Mistakes Teachers Make With Technology were not backing up data and thinking technology in schools will go away. Both of these are stupid mistakes teachers can make with technology. By not backing up your data in to separate places you are only making you job harder on yourself when the data is lost. The other mistake of thinking technology will not be with education for a while to come is a stupid mistake. Technology and education are both here to stay so for the educator who think that technology will not be with education for long I'm sorry to stay but you don't need to be a educator anymore.
The two most important things I seen in the article 7 Brilliant Things Teachers Do With Technology were use the kids’ own devices to teach them and empower kids with technology. Let kids use their own devices to teach them if they like listing to their Ipods and watching videos on their laptops, make podcast and classroom videos for them to listen to and watch on their Ipods and laptops. If they are going to be using technology they might as well be learning while using it. Empower kids with technology should become a objective in the classroom there are so many games and brilliant ideas yo can find on he web to empower your students so use them to yours and theirs benefit.
The two most important things I seen from the blog post of New Classroom Rules were, bring required materials, including your laptop and cell phone every day, and talk only when permitted, text at all other times. I think that maybe one that these will be real classroom rules. Now days everyone has access to a laptop or cell phone and sooner or later you may look into your classroom syllabus and this rule will be in there. Talk only when permitted, text at all other times would be a fun classroom rule but I think we would have a hard time monitoring it.
The two most important things I seen in the article 7 Brilliant Things Teachers Do With Technology were use the kids’ own devices to teach them and empower kids with technology. Let kids use their own devices to teach them if they like listing to their Ipods and watching videos on their laptops, make podcast and classroom videos for them to listen to and watch on their Ipods and laptops. If they are going to be using technology they might as well be learning while using it. Empower kids with technology should become a objective in the classroom there are so many games and brilliant ideas yo can find on he web to empower your students so use them to yours and theirs benefit.
The two most important things I seen from the blog post of New Classroom Rules were, bring required materials, including your laptop and cell phone every day, and talk only when permitted, text at all other times. I think that maybe one that these will be real classroom rules. Now days everyone has access to a laptop or cell phone and sooner or later you may look into your classroom syllabus and this rule will be in there. Talk only when permitted, text at all other times would be a fun classroom rule but I think we would have a hard time monitoring it.
At the Teacher's Desk
At the teacher's desk is a great website for teachers. Visiting sites like this one can give you your own ideas of something you may want to start in your classroom. This site is about teachers from around the world sharing there ideas and proj
ects going on in and outside their classroom with other teachers. I think a collaborative blog such as this one is a great idea, and if teachers have one i am pretty sure that student probably have one also. The blogs seem to b kept up to date with a new post about every two week sometimes more sometimes less. This is a important website because it is keeping you aware of whats going on in different regions of the world.
ects going on in and outside their classroom with other teachers. I think a collaborative blog such as this one is a great idea, and if teachers have one i am pretty sure that student probably have one also. The blogs seem to b kept up to date with a new post about every two week sometimes more sometimes less. This is a important website because it is keeping you aware of whats going on in different regions of the world.
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