project #15

This is my children's story I did for my future kids!

AA #4

  


In the post "Sketchy Portraits: 8th Grade Identity and Pencils" Mr. Spencer compares an 8th grader to a pencil. This post helped me more than he will ever know because I am a nanny for four teenagers ranging in ages 15-12. One of them fits this post verbatim. He is searching for acceptance and approval all the time. One moment he is happy and like a child and the next he has the worst lash outs ever. As teachers we need to be able to respect thus change and be able to help them not fight with them during this time because that just makes everything worse. I have seen that first hand. I want my 14 year old to see me as his allie not the bad guy. In the other post "Just Teach Them To Solve for X" Mr. Spencer talks about the importance of teaching our kids about metaphors. We need to be able as teachers to turn on our kids mind and make them think. That is our job after all. The more we teach them about the world around them the better they will be. In the other post "He Just Likes the Class for the Pencils" he talks about the way teacher humiliate their kids to make them comply with what they want. This is not the way to handle discipline in the classroom. That just makes the child retaliate more and makes the learning environment even worse. In the last post "The Medium Shapes the Learning" he talks about when teachers approach a topic to make it fun but at the same time make it knowledgeable. We are reshaping education and teaching with all these new tools we have. We are given agreat oppertunity we just have to find the medium with all of these new things.

Blog # 13

I'm glad I got a chance to Explore a site I have herd so much about ALEX. I was told by a fellow student in one of my other education classes that it was a good website and had some wonderful tools. the one she used was the lesson plans get get ideas for our TAP project in EPY 355. One thing I have found interesting was the fact you could look at other podcast that other teachers have done. I went to the Podcast area of ALEX and look at Podcast that teachers have done for different subjects. I picked history. Then you hit enter and it takes you to a long list of Podcast. The one that caught my eye was the one on Christmas around the world since we are getting ready for the season. It was done by a second grade class in Vestavia. This was a very neat idea I will look into incorporating into my classroom. There was also a virtual tour of the battle ship. Just really neat ideas

One other neat feature this site has to offer is the Course of study spot. It comes up with all subjects and you pick the main title like Arts education. Then a list of topics came up and I picked the one for dance an the grade was K and it poped right up with Lesson plans and what they should learn. They also give you the choice of picking a level which I went back and did because I did not do it before which made the lesson plans a lot more specific and a lot better. So that is something you must not forget to do. This site makes teaching a lot easier and is well worth the visit. It is a great way for teachers in Alabama to share their work and be able to be connected to on another.

The ACCESS is a program I have dealt with personally. The high school I graduated from has an ACCESS lab and classes. My Bother was one of the first students to get to do this new program at my old high school. He would go to the lab and the teacher would be broadcast on a screen in the lab for the class. If not on the screen then he cloud pull up lectures online and all of his assignments were web based much like this class. He really enjoyed this class because it gave him the chance to learn from a different teacher in the state and not be forced to stay within the confines of our staff at Citronelle. He learned the hard way you could not get behind because if you did it was hard to catch up. This is a wonderful program and the website was very nice to and talked a lot about the new way teaching is going on.

My Smart Board Project

My Progress!

I decided to do a multimedia Product. I am going to write my own short children's story. The story is about a lion who befriends a monkey. At first they are an odd pare and fight all the time because they are so different but you will have to wait till the to find out if they stay friends or not. I have pieced out just a few picture for my story and I am going to get a friend to help me draw a few pictures. I have also written part of my story out already and plan to finish it tonight. I will be working alone due to the nature of it being a real big issue working with someone else. I plan on doing everything except getting some help on my drawings. I plan on doing everything other than that.

Summary of Google Docs form

I did my form on How much money we spend as college students eating out in a week. and her are my results:

12 responses
Summary
Sample Question 1:
How many times a week do you eat out?

1 time a week 2 17%
2 times a week 2 17%
3 or more 7 58%

Sample Question 2:How many days a week do you eat at home or at the Market?

Once 1 9%
twice 3 27%
Three or more 6 55%
Other 1 9%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.

Question 3:
Do you live on Campus or at home?

Home 10 83%
Campus 1 8%
Grove 1 8%
other 0 0%

Question 4:Do You Have a Budget for food?

Yes 5 42%
No 5 42%

Question 5:If No would you like to have one?

Yes 4 33%
No 4 33%

Question 6:If you live on campus do you have a meal plan?

Yes 1 11%
No 8 89%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.

Question 7:
If you live Off campus do you feel it is easier to eat out or cook at home?

At home 3 25%
Going out 7 58%

Question 8:How many times a month do you go to the store?

1 to 2 4 33%
3 to 4 5 42%
more 3 25%

Question 9:Do you like to cook?

yes 8 73%
no 3 27%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.

Question 10:
Do you think you spend a lot of money when you go ut to eat?

yes 8 67%
no 3 25%

Question 11:Do you think you eat healthy?

yes 3 27%
no 8 73%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.

Bolg # 12

I have noticed that we have not looked at ways to use music in our classrooms. I have found a video on how to do this. I want you to watch the video called Integrating Music In the Classroom.


1.I want you to tell me how you would use this skill in your classroom.
2. I want you to tell me how you think this will help your students.

When I watched this video one thing popped into my head how to use this in my classroom. I thought of the colors or I could even used them for math. There are so many other ways you could use music in the classroom they even said in the movie that music goes in patterns and that we learn in patterns so playing music while the kids are doing activities in the class could also be another option. It will help the kids retain more information we give them. One of my teachers did this when I was in school and I know it made me retain more of what I did and I think this will work with elementary students.

Teach Some One Project #14

I was thinking of all the things I could do for this project and the one thing I thought about was how to lace and tie a shoe. I work in my church nursery every Sunday so I tie a lot of shoes in a year. I decided to teach how to tie a shoe because it is a useful skill. There are just a few simple step and here they are


1: You take your string and pull it through the bottom hole. Pull it even so the strings match.
2. then you pull it straight through either hole on the side and make sure your string is still even.
3. Then you criss cross your strings all the way till you get to the slot on the tong.
4. when you get there you criss cross the sting through that slot.Then till you get to the top.
5. After that is done you pull your strings tight.
6.You tie the knot in the string
7. Make a bunny ear and run the bunny around the tree and through the hole.
8. You have a perfectly tied shoe. You can double not the strings if you wish.

Blog # 11

I loved the way Mrs. Cassidy's story started out.  She was given a challenge and went with it.  She has tough first graders how to do things that I am now learning at 21 years old.  She built her technology filled classroom from the ground up.  Those kids get to learn things that will help them in the future.  I do believe the kids were talking about our EDM class. Mrs.Cassidy even states that some of our students have commented on her students blog. Not only that but she talk about another 1st grade class in Gaston AL.   I loved in the video how the one student reminded the viewer that nice comments go along way and not nice comments hurt peoples feelings and make it much harder to want to blog.  I know I got a very negative comment when I first started and it made we not want to blog anymore, but thanks to some of my wonderful classmates that are great and supportive I have pressed on.  I think to a six year old having some one taking time out of there day to read there blogs is so cool to them. I think Mrs. Cassidy's ideas are great ones.  The one I plan to use in my class is the video the students seemed to have a great time doing them and it is a fun and creative way for my Students to express themselves.  One thing I might run into with this is the fact that I would still have to ask permission from the parents and the fact I would have to make a lesson based on the information.  Another thing is I would have to take time out to teach my students how to use the cameras.  These problems can be solved by sending home letters and just taking the time out of my day to explain things to my students.  I think Mrs. Cassidy has a good point when she says that we will have to learn new things every year to stay on top of the new teaching techniques.

C4T # 3

I was given Mr.Bedell's blog to comment on.  He has a very interesting blog and I enjoyed reading it.  My first comment was on a post about short stories.  I very much agree with what Mr. Bedell's says when he talks about when he says that Apple's new Mac store is just a way for them to make more money.  They really do not care about what affect  it has on education.  They are just out for themselves.  I also mentioned that I loved my PC and that even though I have noticed in this class that we use Apples a lot they are not better than my PC as I have heard from many people and Mr. Bedell's post.   He also talked about a fun and creative way to do stories was with video.  I loved this idea it brings back the creativity that we take from our kids, and at the same time it lets them have lots of fun.  They get to use what we teach them plus a wonderful and life long experience they will take with them.  I loved reading Mr. Bedell's blogs they were very helpful and have given me very good ideas and a wonderful insight to a new world.

C4K Summary #'s 3-7

I have had the privilege of reading some very cool student blogs.  As teachers we never actually stop to think that our kids might like some of the same things we like.  These kids are so talented and have worked really hard on their blogs.  One of my students was Daniel C.  his blog was through his math class.  They had done an activity with apples in there math class and he was assigned to write about the assignment.  I loved the idea and I think I will use it with my kids.  Daniel seemed to enjoy the activity.  One of my other students was Kristian B.  She wrote about her trying something new. Her mom made her take a Dance class and she said she enjoyed it.  I told her trying something new was always a good thing.  Keeps us on our toes. Another of my students was Aaron.  He was from Australia! I was supper excited about getting to comment on some from another country.  Aaron had ans awesome blog and loves Harry Potter which proves even though he is a world away the kids there love some of the same things we do here.  He wrote on Parent teacher night at his school. He talked about what he thought his teachers would tell his parents which is something most kids do not think about.  He was very honest. The next blog that I had to do was a student named Kevin from California.  The blog I chose to comment on was one where he wanted people to visit his blog.  He seemed very enthusiastic.  He loves working on his blog and has changed it a lot since my visit.  My Last student was Jessica and she did her blog on Sir. Francis Drake.  I thought this was a very interesting blog b/c he is some one that gets past over a lot and she like Kevin has changed her blog since my last visit.  I enjoyed reading their blogs and look forward to reading more.