PLN

For my PLN network I have started a twitter account and am following some of the people Dr. Strange suggested. I wasn't to fond of the idea of twitter but it os starting to grow on me. Sometimes people will post a blog or a website on twitter and some of them are things to learn from. Since I am a secondary math education major I am using a few websites I have found as part of my PLN. I am nowhere at the point I want to be, but it is a working progress and in the future I hope to have many resources through my PLN.

Week 7

This is How We Dream

In part one Dr. Miller began talking about incremental changes into today's reading and writing. Writing used to be done by pen and paper now a person can use other information and copy and paste and it saves tons of time. Research is available everywhere due to the use of laptops and wireless, instead of only being able to research inside of a library. Collaboration is another incremental change.

In part two Dr. Miller talked about sharing ideas over the web through itunes u. He talks about a classroom that not only uses word processing but all digital multimedia. He uses youtube and blogs as a form of publication. I think this would be a great classroom to be in. He wants information to be shared all over the globe.

The Networked Student

This would be a great way to learn. The idea of connectivism is for a person to develop a PLN and to share ideas through the PLN. This makes the classroom very student active. This seems as if it is a very progressive classroom and the student decides what he wants to learn. I don't think i would want to teach in a classroom like this.

Toward A new Future of Whatever

Michael Wesch says media shapes our conversations. He says television is a major creation of our culture. We are a coherent culture these days. Michael Wesch showed a picture of one of his classrooms and an American Idol auditions and compared each other. He said people feel they are insignificant because they feel there are others out the exactly like me and you have to be on T.V. to be significant. I think people do not realize how important they are. I think a lot of people think the world would be the same without me, but I think that is the wrong attitude. Wesch talks about the the progression of the word whatever. I thought this was an interesting video.

Comments for Kids Week 7

Jordan a student in Mrs. Kolbert's class is getting ready for the science fair and wants his classmates to choose a topic and post them in a comment.

Here is a link to Jordan's blog. Jordan

Technology and Itunes

Dr. Alice Christie

I personally enjoyed the section on educational technology. Today all students know how to use technology and to become an effective teacher one must learn technology. Dr. Alice has many different links on her website that one can follow to learn a little about that subject.

I particularly liked the photography section. This makes learning more fun for the student because it is not just a lecture class, but a hands on class. I am a visual learner and I think mist people are. If I can put a picture with a subject and am more likely to remember it.

ITunes University

I personally enjoy itunes university. It is free to download a podcast, and if I miss a class I can download a lecture and won't fall behind. Even if I don't miss a class I can still download and refresh my mind. This is an introduction to itunes u CLICK HERE

Being in secondary education I think this will be very useful to me as a teacher. I can put my lectures up for my class to listen to maybe just to refresh their memory, and I won't have to re-teach everything to someone who missed class. They can just listen to the podcast and then come to me if they don't understand.

IPOds in Learning

This is a link I found that tells you how ipods can be used for learning. IPOD in Education The two main ways it talks about is audio books and podcasting. I had never thought about an audio book, but I used to listen to books on tape all the time when I was younger. Now they are just on an ipod.

Podcasting is probably the most used form of education on an ipod. This is probably the most effective way of teaching these days because students today are lazy and don't want to go to class so now they can just download the lecture onto their ipod. Some people download them just to gain more knowledge not just to pass a class.

Week 6 Comments For Kids

These students are very creative. I thought it was cool that other classmates could leave a compliment and give a few ideas about what they could do better in their writing. I wish my classes diid this when I was in school. I think doing this and getting feed back from other students helps all the students improve in their writing

Mrs. She, Wikipedia, and Mr. McClung

Mrs. She's Class

These kids are awesome. I can't wait to follow their work this year.

Wikipedia Scanners

I also was always told never to use wikipedia as a source because anyone can edit a page. This information is great to know that I can find who has edited the page of if they are a credible source. It is funny that these sources that edited the page use it as advertisement or try to make it sound when they refer to themselves. Maybe this new scanner will help eliminate the amount of edits and the sources will become more reliable.

What Ive Learned This Year by Mr. McClung

Mr McClung hit the nail on the head. I especially enjoyed two quotes from his post. The first is "Our job as teachers is to simply pick them up after they fail, dust them off, and encourage them to try again." We as teachers need to be encouragers not the big bad teacher. The second quote is "In order to build the respect that we all seek in a student teacher relationship, it is important to take interest their the lives of our students." We need to listen to our students because we may be the only person who does.

My Family and Interests

Benefits for Podcasting in the Classroom

Now I realize how important podcasting is. After watching this video it gave me a different perspective on podcasting. I thought podcasting was boring, but Mr. Dell made it fun for the students.
By watching this video I earned many benefits I had never thought about. The first was it can be used for students that miss school due to an illness. Probably the most important benefit is that it made learning fun for the students, and when children are having fun that makes the learning experience all the better. Another important benefit I never thought about is that parents can listen do what they children are learning in the classroom. Parent involvemet is so important to a students learning success.