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.