Blog Post #10

I'm A Papermate, I'm A Ticonderoga


I studied this picture for a while and didn't realized what point Mr. Spencer was trying to get at. Well the saying under the first guy says,"I'm a Papermate, I cost less, but I break all the time." This says to me that the papermate pencil is a little less expensive that the other but it breaks all the time. So you would have to buy more pencils and you would have to spend more money to buy more pencils. When on the other hand for the Ticonderoga Pencil, you can buy one and would last longer. The price for one Ticonderoga pencil would be more that papermate but you wouldn't have to buy as many. I guess you could use this in a situation of teaching, when you have a choice to go the cheaper way and have to do it more times, or go the long way and last a long time.


Why were your kids playing games?

In this blog post by Mr. John T. Spencer, he is showing a conversation about a principal and a teacher talking about a game that he/she has played in the classroom. The principal has decided that no more games should be played at school. They say that he/she should be doing school work like algorithmic worksheets and Jonestown Intervention worksheets. Then the teacher changed the whole thing around with a game that creates an algorithm factory and integrate it into our Conflict-Oriented Reading and Writing Project (a.k.a. The Factory Game). This means that we as teachers can use things that bore children and turn them around to a fun project or game so they can learn the subject better. We don't always have to make boring projects or worksheets for the kids, we can make learning a fun thing with the kids to inspire them to learn more.


Don't teach your kids this stuff, please?

In Mr. McLeods blog, he argued that technology shouldn't be allowed in classrooms. The thing was is that there wasn't much of a argument from me, because I agree with him. I never used technology in the classroom to learn and we were never allowed phones and other technological items. The people that have created technology for kids didn't use it. How do I know that? Well if they hadn't of created it it would have never been created? Here's a link to Mr. Mcleods accomplishments.

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Blog Post #9

Mr. McClung's World

On Mr. McClung's blog post "What I Learned This Year (2011-2012)", he starts off saying that he hasn't learned much this year as he has the last couple years as a teachers. He said that he has learned to main this year though and has named them, "You Gotta Dance With Who You Came to the Dance With" and "Challenge Yourself." In "You Gotta Dance With Who You Came to the Dance With," he explains that through his 2 years as an educator he has realized that he has never worried about what his peers thought of him as a teacher. He has always worried whether or not the kids were having a good time learning. He explained how the approval of fellow colleagues have put stress on him. He said that it has never done anything positive for him, but making sure that taken care of and enjoying class has done wonders for him. He said that he should always remember who he really worked for and wouldn't want to stray down the wrong path. This has really made me think about how I should start and finish my career as a teacher and how I should try and help the students rather than make a big name for myself in front of my peers. On his second post I read "What I Learned This Year (2010-2011)", he talks about keeping his students attention rather than the administration. If we give our administration too much attention we would leave our students out of the picture. Here's one quote from the article, "Our decision making process should always be student centered and not centered around pleasing adults." Another moral lesson in this post is that we cannot allow others to stifle your own excitement and joy that you experience in teaching or any other facet of life for that matter and how the teaching landscape is full of individuals that once had a fire and excitement for the profession but somewhere along the way they joined the darkside. He continues on to talk about a similar topic to the last two sentences about how we need to be ourselves in front of the students and to not go to the "darkside." We shouldn't fall into the typical stereotype of teachers. One topic he talked about was to never touch the keyboard. Which can be summed up to never do the work for them. Often times when we are teaching a task to a student and they are having difficulties completing the particular task, it is very easy to take over and basically do the work for them...because we can always do it better. However, the major issue with this is that if we do the work for the students then they will never fully master the skills. No matter how difficult it may be we must resist the urge to take control of the keyboard.

Blog Post #8

Richard Miller

In this 1st video, Richard Miller is showing us how he has used technology to create a book that his students use for there education. I believe he said that it cost 3 dollars to buy it off the internet. He is trying to show me and others as future teachers that we will have to use to technology no matter what grade we are teaching. I believe that he is preparing the elementary and younger grades that wouldn't be known for having technology, that we will be using it also even though we wouldn't think that it would be needed for our grade.
In our near future as educators, Ipads will replace books in the classroom. Ipads will stop the use of paper and save a lot of trees and the wildlife living in them. This technology will completely change the way children learn, through their resources for learning. This may or may not have a impact on the ecosystem and wildlife. I believe if I explain to them how we are saving paper and other resources, it will show them a care for others around them and the things that no one ever thinks about.
In the 2nd video, he goes over a way of showing news, videos and all other sorts of multimedia that is known throughout the nation/world. It is a page that shows market prices and presidential speeches all on the same thing. I think that before long the world will have to get its news from technology. This would remove the need for newspaper and TV.

Carly Pugh's Blog #12

Well in Carly's blog, she writes a lot on how she wants her children to be creative and use creativity to do her work for her class. The only real way that you can accomplish creativity is through technology for your resources. Richard has showed the same want for technology in the classroom.

EDM310 Is Different

In this blog post, we are to discuss ideas of videos we would like to create or participate in creating. I have a couple of ideas that I would like to create or participate in creating. One of them is creating educational videos on how to use certain technology, such as "SmartBoard for Dummies." I would make this an instructional video on how to use the smartboard and the FAQ's for this project and answer them. The other would be a basic outline on different things to put in your future or current classroom that would help them class to be a better learning and social environment.

Learning to Change, Change to Learn

Well this video title pretty much explains itself. As teachers we must learn to change from our old teachings and use the new technology we have now a days and use it to change the way we learn. All the arguments in this video is trying to persuade new and old teachers to use the technology out there and use it change the whole way of teaching the children. Technology will be used to change the teacher to the helper, which helps them to learn by themselves.

Discovery Education Web 20.11

For the first of the 3 of 5 topics, we were to find a social network for teachers. I look through the site and immediately found Emodo.com. On Emodo, it is pretty much like facebook, your schedule, groups of people like you with ideas, calenders, and even badges that your students have earned. It's kind of like Sakai for our school where teachers can post test, assignments, and quiz's where kids can see them and communicate with teacher through the web. You can create a teacher or student account for this site also.

For the second of the three, I made a poll its here. .

For the third one, I chose the video tool Animoto.com, there are tons and tons of special features/ features that is available. A couple features which are simple is the app thats available for both andriod and apple products, and has HD Resolution. Then there is the pro features. Unlimited videos. Highest resolution. Exclusive styles. Twice the music library. Commercial license. Custom branding options. Call-to-action features. Then the best part of this site is the fact that you can edit and fix videos with there "video engine" tool.

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Richard Byrne's "A Quick Guide To Whiteboard Interactive"

In Richard's blogpost, "A Quick Guide to Using Interactive Whiteboards", he tells us tips and starts others on using whiteboard interactive. It's a piece of technology that some teachers in the U.S. are already using. In the first part of the blog he explains the different tools there is on the white board, such as the pen/eraser, selection tool, text box, and then shapes. These are the basics of whiteboard interactive. The question I asked Mr. Byrne was, "What are some different things we can do on Whiteboard Interactive, than the ones you have posted here, or is this the only thing you can do on there?"


Richard Byrne's "StatWorld - Interactive Maps of Development Data"

In Richard's post, he tells us of StatSilks StatWorld, where you can find more than 400 world maps of data on topics in economics, education, health, environment, the digital divide, and much more. You can explore the maps by selecting a data set and then a display format. You can also choose to display the data for all countries or only the countries that you wish to compare. You can use this technology to compare the data sets of multiple categories. This technology would be great for classes in world geography and etc. The question I asked Mr. Byrne's was "What grade would you say is appropriate for this site?"

Blog Post #7

Randy Pausch Last Lecture

In the video, Randy talked about different lessons and techniques that he has learned throughout his career in academics. He revolved his whole career around something that he had dreamed about since he was a child. These things have helped him learn those techniques and lessons. There one one technique he spoke about that I feel would be the most important and that is the "Fundamentals." The reason why these are so important is because it gives the children or whoever you are teaching the baseline to revolve around and to add what they have learned too. Without these there would be no backbone to work off of.

There were some lessons he learned in his career and one of the was that when you are doing something bad or wrong and no one helps you or yells at you to correct it then they don't care about you. This really spoke out to me and my future as a teacher. If I am so careless to where I do not correct or teach these children through trial and error techniques and showing them its ok to be wrong sometimes, but you have to correct them. This would show the kids that I cared and tried to put them on the best route to a successful life and career. Another lesson was there are good and bad ways to say certain things. It's all according to how you say is how it influences the child. You can tell a child no in a way that will still encourage them. Last lesson I have wrote down is "Wait, and people will surprise you."If we are having trouble with kids or people we need to be patient and the problem will surprise you. Another important thing to keep in mind for teachers is being a good role model and being the leader of the group. For example, an army won't fight to well without their captain. The room will be a crazy room if there is no leadership or role model for them to rely on. Another thing that he said was to teach the children by letting them learn things indirectly, such as kids at football don't just learn how to play football, but they learn about teamwork and discipline. We as teachers can use this technique by using group work, and showing them teamwork, leadership, and social skills.
Through this whole video I have learned a lot to use with teaching and even life, but there was two things that really stuck and hit me. One was having something to bring to the table. This meant to me that I need to have something to teach something that the kids have never heard before and things that interest them to carry on with their future education. The second thing, but the best was a quote to use when telling them about their work. It went like this, "This is good, but I know you can do better." This probably wouldn't effect some kids, but in future events or work it will make them want to do their job or school work better and help to be more successful in life.

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