tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38235620499096488072024-03-13T09:49:53.328-05:00Allison Sells EDM ClassblogAllison Sellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00256605737083197553noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823562049909648807.post-64722934881902814782014-05-06T22:21:00.000-05:002014-05-06T22:21:29.399-05:00My PLNI created a PLN with Symbaloo and it has grown immensely this semester. Previously I had all of my PLN and all of my personal contacts on one Symbaloo page. I have made so many great connections this semester and have found so many new apps that my page has overflowed. I now have a full Symbaloo page just for my PLN which I suspect is going to have to be categorized further and split into two pages. I love my PLN. I don't think I could function without it. With a Symbaloo page, I can access my PLN from any computer or device anytime. Every important url that I need to access is just a click away. I have different types of resources grouped together and most are color coded. Each tile comes with a label either pre-generated with a logo or with text that I specify to identify the resource. My PLN is one of the best organizational tools that I have ever had. I have way too many resources to list them here so I have included a screen shot to display them.<br />
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<br />Allison Sellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00256605737083197553noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823562049909648807.post-6361800336215978892014-04-29T22:41:00.000-05:002014-04-29T22:44:06.374-05:00C4T Assigned Part 3 Weeks 13 & 14 Shelly Terrell "Teacher Reboot Camp"The teacher assigned to me by Dr. Strange is is Shelly Terrell and her blog is <a href="http://shellyterrell.com/">Teacher Reboot Camp</a>.<br />
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Shelly Terrell has many things to offer on her site other than her blog post. The image above was taken from a tab on her web page labled resources. On her page you can click on any of the titles and be taken to that resource. Each provides countless invaluable resources for teachers. she has so much to offer I encourage all to <a href="http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/resources/">check it out</a>.<br />
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This week Ms. Terrell tells us how to ""gamify" our classrooms. She says that since people enjoy plsying video games and while playing they learn to build, collaborate, problem-solve, explore, discover, and achieve goals. What if learning were more like a video game? Our students could be deamed heros or champions of the classroom. She shares a presentation by Paul Magloine, Unlocking Learner Motivation in the Age of the Digital Native, in which he highlights the ways in which games motivate and engage students.<br />
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She suggests that you don't have to gamify your curriculum all at once but do it in small steps. Start by using points and badges instead of grades when assessing. Also send your students on learning missions instead of homework, nookwook, and worksheets.<br />
After the slide presentation Ms. Terrell provides links to many teachers who have gamified their classrooms and offer free tips and resources.<br />
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Allison Sellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00256605737083197553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823562049909648807.post-76725733207500573212014-04-29T21:49:00.001-05:002014-04-29T21:49:11.215-05:00C4T Revolving Part 3 Weeks 13 & 14<div class="MsoNormal">
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The teacher for my comment this week was Scott McLeod. His
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In this post Mr. Mcloed presented a 60 second video rapidly
flashing screen casts of apps that are available for teachers. I could tell
that there were some interesting apps in the video but they went by to fast to
gather any information about them. The video was a parody used to represent the
way in which many apps are presented at seminars. Mr. McLeod made this post to
illustrate that this is wrong way to do it. He suggests that what conference
leaders should do is to choose one app or perhaps just a couple of good apps
that have proven positive student outcomes and to address these apps thoroughly.
I agree with Mr. McLeod. I believe that too many apps can be overwhelming. Also,
apps become redundant and I am really interested in learning about the best of
the apps of each category that consistently have good results and reviews. I
hope that his video will have an impact on the way apps are presented at
conferences in the future.<br />
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This week I was assigned to read Lisa Thumann's blog, <a href="http://thumannresources.com/">Thumann Resources</a> .</div>
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Lisa Thurman wrote in her blog about an attendance problem that
she is experiencing at the UnConferences that she has helped to produce. Over
the years attendance has been declining. Greater percentages of people who have
pre-registered are not showing up. Her biggest concern is with the waste of
food that is incurred when venders plan for a large crowd and then only half of
them show up. She feels like the money that is wasted on food could go to more
worthy cause. She is searching for a solution and eliciting responses of ideas
from her readers. I feel that people should be required to pay a registration
fee that would be refundable or exchangeable for food vouchers upon their
arrival to the conference. If someone has a financial commitment they will be
more likely to follow through. This may mean that less people register but they
will be able to more accurately predict the number that will attend thus reducing
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week in EDM510 your assignment is to interview a current MCPS student in a
class from your specialty area. Your interview should be based on the use of
technology in his or her class. You may include information about their recent
experiences with PBL. It is up to you to create your own questions for the
student but you should focus on their experiences, likes, dislikes…… You may
include the student’s teacher in the interview as well. It is up to you. Make a
video and upload to either Vimeo or YouTube then post to your blog. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Allison Sellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00256605737083197553noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823562049909648807.post-64044358555663593732014-04-26T15:32:00.000-05:002014-05-08T08:54:20.955-05:00C4T My Choice Weeks 13-15<div class="MsoNormal">
From the blog of Mr. Derrick Willard: <a href="http://pdsblogs.org/derrickwillardblog/">Tearing Down Walls</a></div>
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I have been constantly searching
through the archives of post by Mr. Willard. I came across a post from Dec 17,
2012. The post was titled Well Said and it included a quote which Mr. Willard
says describes as what he is trying to do in his classroom and through his
blog. “The world is where we learn; school is where we meet. Those who try to
capture learning within school walls are doomed to the past”- Grant Lichtman.
Thus the name of his blog, Tearing Down Walls. I think this quote should serve
as a reminder to teachers of what our classrooms should be like and that we owe
it to our students to make sure that they are globally connected.</div>
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On April 18, 2014 Derrick
Willard made his first post about his observations in schools in China. In this
post he addressed public boarding schools. Many families in China choose to
have their children attend boarding schools during the school week because
commuting in their big cities of 10 million plus people is very difficult. The
students wore uniforms and the classrooms looked very similar to those found in
the U.S. The students he observed were engaged in a “well rehearsed” English
lesson. The teacher asked questions and the students enthusiasticly answer in
unison. The lessons were taught from a workbook that had a cassette tape to go
with it. The students followed the lessons in order and did worksheets that
went along with them. After class all the students went outside for group
exercise. The principle of the school said that they must teach to the test,
the National Higher Education Entrance Examination. He was enthusiastic about
daily exercise and the fact that the students had electives on Friday. Mr.
Willard was impressed by the impressive academic complex that housed
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18pt;">My comment for Mr. Willard: ”I
have to say that I was disappointed but not shocked by your observations. I had
hoped to see great innovations coming from the schools in China. I was not
surprised to hear you tell of what sounds like strict, traditional rigor. From
what I understand about the Chinese, their society prides itself on discipline,
tradition, and honor. I look forward to hearing about the other three types of
schools. Thanks for sharing.”</span><br />
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On April 26, 2014 Mr. Willard
continued his review of schools in China. The school he visited was a large
private boarding school with approximately 4000 students attending. He said
that although the school was much larger than the public boarding school he
reviewed last week, the classes had about half the number of students than that
of the public school. He observed that instead of being slaved to Gaokao prep
(college entrance exams), this private “school seeks to master traditional
education and institute reforms-moving from more passive learning to more
active learning, respecting personalities of students in order to motivate them
better, encouraging more creativity, and social responsibility.” He commented
that this school seemed very similar to his private school here in the U.S. He
is not saying private schools in China are better than the public schools. He
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I had a lot of questions to ask Mr. Willard about
this post. First of all I wanted to know if the judgment that public schools were
better than private schools was based on someone’s opinion, test scores or
something entirely different? I was also curious as to why Chinese parents
would pay to send their children to private schools if the public schools were
better. Are the ideals of the Chinese people changing? I am also curious to
know, is college performance by students coming from private and public school backgrounds
being tracked? Is one type of student more likely to attend college and also
can it be determined which student is the higher achiever based on college
performance? Mr. Willard has been so gracious with his correspondence and
replies to my questions. I am looking forward to hearing his reply.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This week in EDM510 we have been assigned to watch videos
from selected teachers and to think about what these teachers have taught us
about teaching. I believe that one of the best ways to learn to do something is
by learning through the experiences of someone who has mastered the skill. I
love to listen to what experienced teachers have to share about what they do in
their classrooms, what has not worked and what has proven to be successful strategies.
All of the videos that Dr. Strange assigned this week have given me additional
knowledge that I can carry forward in my future role as a teacher. I have inculded a link for each video and my comment about what new things I have learned from each one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">By sharing their work, the student also takes on the role as a teacher not just a student which makes them empowered.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">You must create an essential question that "hooks the students". This question should drive their desire to investigate and learn about the concept.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">It is important for the teacher to conduct, with the student, a review of their work so that both the teacher and the student can see if the students really understands the material. Through explaining what they know to the teacher they will also better understand the material.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Writing down pre-conceptions about a topic before the project begins is a great way for the students to see what others are thinking then to reflect upon how different their understanding is after the project is finished. This is an excellent way for students to perceive how much they have learned.</span></span></li>
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<li>Combining classes that can merge together to do PBL gives the students more time to do better work and learn more about all of the subjects through one project.</li>
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<li>Multiple teachers revolving around a single classroom offers more hepl for each student and helps to stimulate a deeper level of thought.</li>
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This video only reconfirmed what I have already learned about PBl. The main points this video made were:<br />
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<li>PBL gives a student self empowerment because they feel that they have some control over their learning process.</li>
<li>PBL allows a student to question their world and learn more about the world around them.</li>
<li>PBL integrates curriculum.</li>
<li>PBL helps develope public speaking skills.</li>
<li>PBL teaches 21st Century skills.</li>
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England School in New Zealand. Justus wrote a short post about his Fiafia
performance. I commented that he had written a great descriptive writing. I
could tell from his writing that he had stage fright and I told him that I too
had stage freight when I had to perform in front of a large group. I asked him
how he got past it and told him that I tried to not see the crowd and pretend
that I was the only one there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Comment 2: Glennes is a Year 4 student at the Pt
England School in New Zealand. Glennes told the story about how Maui slowed
down the sun. She wrote her story down and also created a Vocaroo so that a
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enjoyed hearing you tell the story about how Maui slowed down the sun. I had
never heard this tale before and you did a good job explaining it. I'm sure
glad that the sun slowed down because I think the days go by too fast now. I
can't imagine trying to get everything done that we have to do in a day if the
day went by any faster. Great job on your story and keep up the good work.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Comment 3: Lukis is a Year 8 student at the Pt
England School in New Zealand. Lukis wrote a post about the adventures that he
and his friends had at the Swim-a Rama. He and his friends liked to go down the
hydro slide the most and they like to form chains and go down even though they
are not supposed to. I commented that the Swim –a-Rama sounded like a lot of
fun and that I would like to go down the slide. I asked him if he got to go
there very often. I also suggested that
he should follow the rules so that he would not be asked to leave. I told him
to keep up the good work and be careful at the pool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My comment for Lukis: "Hi Lukis, my name is Allison and I am a student at the
University of South Alabama in the United States. Wow, the Swim-a-Rama sounds
like a lot of fun. I really enjoyed reading about all of the fun things that
you can do there. I wish I could go down the slide too. This sounds like a
great place to go all year but especially during the summer when it is hot. Do
you get to go very often? Try to follow the rules so you don't lose your band
because it would be really sad if they would not let you come back. Keep up the
good writing and be careful at the pool."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Comment 1: Lani is a Year 5 student at the Pt England
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My comment for Lani: "Hi Lani, my name is Allison and I am a student at the
University of South Alabama in the United States. I am going to be a science
teacher so I really love your Vimeo on the life cycle of the butterfly. Your
graphics were really interesting. I have never made a Vimeo before so I did not
know that you could do that. It was a little difficult to hear your voice over
because of all of the people talking in the background. I listened to it
several times and was able to here you explain the life cycle. You did a good job.
Keep up the good work."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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University of South Alabama in the United States. This game is so much fun. I
think this is the most fun I have ever had while plotting points. At first I
did not know what the number that popped up meant but after a few tries I
figured out it was telling me how far away I was from the robber. I finally got
it in seven tries. I think it is great that you know how to but a link on your
blog. I just learned how to do that this year and I am in college but you
already know how. You should be very proud of yourself. Keep up the great work!"<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Year Two at the Pt. England School. She and her class observed a camping trip
that the Year Four and Year Five students were on. She made a video about what
she saw and her teacher, Mrs. She, posted it to the Little Voices blog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My commnet for Danielle: "Hi Danielle, my name is Allison and I am a student at the
University of South Alabama in the United States. I loved watching your video
and listening to you talk about your trip to the campout. Hopefully one day you
will get to go and be one of the big kids eating yummy food and going to the
pool. Do you know how to swim? I have a little girl who is 5 years old. She is
very afraid of the water. I hope this summer she can learn how to swim and not
be afraid anymore. Keep up the great work on your blog. I will be watching for
more stories that you do over the next few years."</span>Allison Sellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00256605737083197553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823562049909648807.post-24126885044364806202014-04-15T19:43:00.001-05:002014-04-15T19:43:04.080-05:00Blog Post #8 What have I learned from this Assignment?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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an audio recording of Dr. John Strange and Anthony Capps in which they further
discussed Project Based Learning and answered some of the many questions that
my class had presented over the course of the semester. I was really glad to
hear that BPL had not always gone smoothly for Anthony. I know that this must
sound terrible from an outsider’s perspective but up until this conversation the
concept seemed so easy for Anthony that his success made me question my ability
as a teacher to be able to successfully implement PBL because of my own insecurities.
After listening to this audio I found that much of what Anthony has done has
been through trial and error and has not always gone as smoothly as he had
anticipated. Luckily for me and the other EDM students, we are able to learn
from Anthony some things that we should anticipate and therefore be better
prepared when we take on the challenge of PBL in our own classrooms. Thank you
Anthony and Dr. Strange!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Always base a project on an engaging question
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on and allow each student to choose the aspect that is the most interesting to
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beginning. Master one tool at a time and make sure you don’t just teach the
tool but you must also master using it yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to focus on one aspect at a time. Get the students involved in the development and
before long they will be leading the PBL.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Administrations should take the initiative to
implement PBL by training groups of teachers who can take a leadership role and
then help other teachers in the process. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The students love to show off their work to an
audience. The audience can consist of many different types such as stuffed
animals, other classrooms, parents, faculty, or city leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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grading procedures for projects. Parents may be accustomed to their children
always getting A’s and they need to understand the criteria on which their
projects will be graded. Parent teacher meetings held before the start of a
project and an open line of communication will help facilitate a happy
relationship between you and the parents.</span></div>
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on her blog that was titled Active Learning with Mobile Devices. This webinar
focused on getting students moving and engaged with the use of mobile devices.
Ms Terrell says that by using mobile devices the kids are active and it helps
with classroom management because when kids are still they get stressed, their
moods change, and their minds wander. She suggests many different activities
that the students can do with their mobile devices. They can mingle with other
students by partnering up and doing an activity and then switching to a
different partner. They can go on scavenger hunts and compile digital audio and
video scrapbooks. They can search for answers around the classroom by using QR
scanners and scanning codes placed by the teacher. Many of these activities can
be performed without internet connection if the apps are downloaded ahead of
time. She made a comment that I will always try to remember. The comment was to
never use the word n=homework but to use the word “challenge” instead. She said
that homework has a negative connotation but kids like a challenge so assign
challenges for the students to do at home with their mobile devices that they
can bring in and share the next day with the class. Since the students are
already glued to their mobile devices they enjoy using them to complete their
challenges. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">The post that I read was Fostering Meaningful Peer Collaboration with Digital Tools posted on Jan 15, 2014. In this post she included a quote, Ït is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed" -Napoleon Hill. This quote is the essence behind peer collaboration. Using digital tools id the way that students today prefer to communicate. Using digital tools for student collaboration will help to encourage students to share and enhance their learning experience. She shared a list of Google tools and apps that she suggested that teachers should use. The list included:</span></strong></div>
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Participants can share videos, images, links, & and more. They can edit
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to 10 can collaborate through voice and video. They can screen share and
create/edit documents, presentations, audio, and so much more. If you
choose, record the meeting. When you end the broadcast, the video
automatically goes to your Youtube channel. Students will love the fun
features, such as making themselves into a meme or dressing themselves in
virtual hats, ties, crowns, and other accessories. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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free, create documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and forms. Integrate
apps and scripts that allow you to do so much more like grade with a
rubric, add voice feedback, draw, or calculate grades quickly.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif;">This was the first time that I had been able to leave a comment for Ms. Shelly so my comment was: "</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.7pt;">Hi Shelly, my name is
Allison Sells and I am taking EDM510, a graduate level educational media class,
at the University of South Alabama. I have read many of your post and watch a
webinar that you participated in dealing with using digital tools to
communicate with your students and to enhance the classroom. In this class I have
been required to blog weekly and to connect globally with other students. I
have been reading your blog for the last weeks and I have posted a summary of
what I have read to </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9D%3C/span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.7pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="color: #1a1a1a;">http://sellselizabethedm310.blogspot.com/”</span></span></a><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.7pt;"> We have also
participated in many collaborative projects with class members. The tool that
we use the most is Google Drive. I have found it very easy to use and very
effective in allowing a group to add to and edit a project. Our professor is
also able to see who did what parts of the project. We had one group meeting on
Google Hangouts. This was a trial and error attempt that was only somewhat successful
for the whole group and we have not really had time to do it again. Thank you
so much for sharing all of your ideas. I have gained so much great information
that I will take with me into my own classroom after graduation."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Blog post form March 21, 2014
titled, “China Reflections”. His focus was on how the Chinese view American
education and why they seek to emulate the way we do things. He quotes Yong</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Zhao<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">at the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white;"> </span>SAIS<span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">Annual Conference as saying,
"What the Chinese find valuable in American education is a decentralized,
autonomous system that does not have standards, uses multiple criteria for
judging the value of talent, and celebrates individual differences".
He makes another quote from</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">Zhao,</span><span style="background-color: white;">
"However, what the Chinese enthusiastically embrace is just what Americans
have been as enthusiastically trying to get rid of. Over the past few decades,
America has been on a journey to centralize its education system, standardize
its curriculum, and impose uniform practices...As the Common Core standards movement
accomplished its goal, America will have lost what the Chinese envy and
admire". <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">My Comment for Mr.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Williard</span>: “I am hopeful
that the public school system will wake up before too much damage is done. As a
graduate student in the college of education, I have been fortunate to have
classes such as EDM510. This class emphasizes Project Based Learning that
encourages students to think and allows them to express themselves. My
secondary education class has taught me to respect individual learning styles and
to create assignments that allow students to make choices on assignments based
on how they learn best. Yes, all of these assignments that we are to prepare
for our students are based on a common core curriculum. At least it is still up
to the teachers to decide how they are going to teach the common core. I am not
a teacher yet so I do not understand another way to do things. I think that as
long as there are innovative teachers that blog and share ideas with the rest
of us then we can learn to be better learning facilitators. If school
administrators will allow us the freedom to break out of the mold and not
“teach to the test” our students will do better. The educators in each state
have the ability to bring about reform. Unfortunately this will only come about
after there are negative effects from adopting common core. Teachers must never
cease to try to make change happen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I am anxiously waiting to
hear about the schools in China that you observed.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I had hoped that Mr. Willard
would post more of his experiences from China but he has yet to do so. My next
three comments are based on much older posts that I sought out and felt had
relevance to our class and future teaching experience.</span><u1:p></u1:p></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">This blog post from February
16, 2013 was titled, “The Job is Not the Work”. In this post he talks
about the art of teaching and that is so much more than the tasks of making
lesson plans, setting up bulletin boards, grading papers….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">My Comment: “I commented
before on a post you wrote about relationships and I agree with you that
building relationships is an art that a good teacher must learn to do. I also
believe that if you love what you are doing and you build good relationships
with your students, then teaching is definitely not the work. Thank goodness
that common core only tells us what to teach and stays out of how we teach it,
still allowing a teacher to be an artist”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">This blog post from Jan 28,
2013 is simply about why to blog. He refers to a post by Alan Levine called
“Blogging as Pointless, Incessant Barking”. In this blog he states that he
doesn’t because he is a writer or trying to build a brand but simply blogs for
himself. He uses his blog for him. He calls it “an inherently selfish venture-
a means for reflection on my practice and clarifying my thinking”. He
also considers his blog as a digital portfolio for himself. I think that
blogging for reflection is a wonderful way of self evaluation. Sharing your
thoughts about something that you feel is important is a great way to thoroughly
analyze what something means to you and how it can affect your life as well as
giving others the opportunity to learn. During this semester I have had the
opportunity to read several blogs written form this perspective and I feel that
they are very personal and I have gained a lot from them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">This comment was on a post
made on March 14, 2013 but I felt it was appropriately related to this week’’s
blog assignment. The post was titled “Flickr as a collaborative classroom
space.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Flickr</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">is a space where students working on a
project individually or collaborative can post and share images. Mr. Willard’s
class was doing a project on analyzing urban design. The students compiled
pictures that they made from a scavenger hunt of their community all onto their</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>flickr</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">site. Mr Willard then brought in a
local urban planner to speak with them about their project. He was easily able
to see all of the pictures and issues that they were looking at.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">My comment to Mr. Willard was
“This week in EDM510 we were given an assignment to find additional sources of
technology that we have not already discussed that we feel will be useful in
use classrooms. I think that<span style="background-color: white;"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Flickr</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is a wonderful way to collaborate and
allow students to share a collection of images from a class project. I also
like that you brought in a professional from the community that works everyday
with the topic that your class was discussing. Bringing in outsiders makes a
topic real and more<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>relatable<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for
students and really helps them to make a connection to the work that they are
doing.</span></div>
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Allison Sellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00256605737083197553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823562049909648807.post-9376377110571787252014-04-10T13:10:00.002-05:002014-04-10T13:10:48.064-05:00Blog Post #7: 21st Century Learning Tools<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JQbRbSrYskU/U0bWclrA_DI/AAAAAAAACjw/cWdf7YWwwOs/s1600/21st+century.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="quote about 21st century learners" title="Source:www.educatorstechnology.com" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JQbRbSrYskU/U0bWclrA_DI/AAAAAAAACjw/cWdf7YWwwOs/s320/21st+century.jpg" /></a></div>
Blog Post #7: 21st century Learning Tools
This week our class was given the challenge of searching on our own to find 21st Century learning and communication tools that we have not already discussed in our EDM510 class. I thought this was going to be a challenging assignment due to the fact that we have already been introduced to a vast number of invaluable tools that we can use as future teachers. I began my search by looking at the blogs of tech savvy teachers that I have been introduced to through this class or have found on my own since class began. I think did a simple Google search for great technology to use in the science classroom. Between these two methods of searching I found more technology than I could imagine I could ever use. I had to narrow the list down to three tools so I chose the ones that I think will be of immediate use to me as soon as I start teaching.
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The tool that I think will be the most helpful for me to merge my classroom daily with technology is <a href="http://www.collaborizeclassroom.com/features">Collaborize Classroom</a>. Collaborize Classroom provides a free site that is safe and password protected for your learning community. It provides space for streamline conversations, debates, poles, student opinions and arguments, and even allows a teacher to post practice test. A teacher can make attachments of pictures, documents, PDFs, and videos. I think this will be a perfect place to share lecture videos for my flipped classroom. It even has a place to manage grading, track activity, and to build online portfolios for students work. There is topic library that gives access to a vast and growing collection of teacher-designed lesson plans. A teacher can create new lessons and assignments here and share them with other educators. In just one click a teachers can download peer reviewed topic-based lessons. I believe this tool can provide me with everything I need to create a flipped classroom.
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The second tool that I am happy to have found is <a href="http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/">PBS Learning Media</a>. This sites provides materials for all subject areas and grade levels. On the site you will choose a grade level then subject. Next you can choose from thousands of resources such as videos, interactive, documents, images, audio, lesson plans, media gallery and even self-paced lesson plans. With this resource I can find materials to use in class or to put on my Collaborize Classroom site for students and parents to view at home.
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The last tool that I believe will be very helpful for communication with students and parents is <a href="https://www.remind101.com/">Remind101</a>. Remind101 providers a safe place for teachers to text message students and/or parents for free. Messages are sent via an Android or iOS app without ever having to share phone numbers. Individual messages are not sent and replies are not allowed. Remind101 keeps a digital log of all messages sent which can never be edited or deleted. A teacher can schedule text messages to be sent at a later time. This messaging system will be great to send quick reminders about field trips, homework, tests, schedule changes, forms to turn in, or just simply fun facts or motivational messages. Allison Sellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00256605737083197553noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823562049909648807.post-87406734745661622462014-04-09T19:51:00.000-05:002014-04-09T19:51:16.290-05:00Project ALEX<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666154;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ALEX is short for the Alabama Learning Exchange. Alex is a free site where Alabama teachers can find Alabama Courses of Study Content Standards, lesson plans, and other helpful resouces. This week our assignment was to explore and upload two content standards from grade levels of our choice and also the core standards for technology education. Our next task was to create a personal workspace. The last assignment was to access lesson plans for our content area and grade level of our choice, create bookmarks for the lesson plans that we might want to use in the future and then upload two of these plans to our websites. I have included six pdf files under the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/edm510rubricprojects/alex-assignment">ALEX assignmnent</a>.</span></span>Allison Sellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00256605737083197553noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823562049909648807.post-88172009125425496092014-04-08T23:09:00.000-05:002014-04-09T20:19:55.785-05:00C4K Summary Weeks 9-12<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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hat. You did a good job on your video and it was great to hear that you had a
fun weekend. It is very smart to wear a hat to the beach so you don't get too
hot or get a sunburn. I live very close to the Gulf of Mexico and I love to go
to the beach. Do you make sand castles? My daughter and I love to dig deep
holes in the sand and let them fill up with water so we can sit in them. That
helps to keep us cool."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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drink water. I told her that giraffes were my favorite animal and that we go to
see them in zoos. I also told her that I do not drink enough water and then I asked
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University of South Alabama in the United States. think that you did a great
job on your video and your drawing. I hope that you had fun making it. I
remember loving to curl up in big chairs when I was little. What other things
do you like to do at your Nana's?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about several games that they played. She tries hard to be really descriptive
but I could only really understand the details about one of the games, the
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the University of South Alabama in the USA. I loved reading your report about
going to the college to play sports. I would have loved to have gotten to do
that when I was your age. Playing sports has always been one of my favorite
things to do. I think that the chain chiggy game sounds fun but it seems like
it could even be a little scary if the chain got really long. I think I would
want to be at the front. You must be really fast to have not gotten tagged.
Good for you! Keep up the good writing it was very descriptive and interesting."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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at the Pt England School in New Zealand. She and her class have been taking
swimming lessons at the local aquatic center for the last two weeks. These
lessons are very important to the students because several people in their
community have drowned because they did not know how to swim. Her group has
been learning to do the freestyle stroke. She seems to really injoy it but she
says that sometimes it makes her really tired.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at the University of South Alabama in the USA. I am studying to be a teacher
and I have been learning to blog this semester. I really enjoyed reading your
post about swimming lessons. I think it wonderful that you get to take lessons
with your class at school. That must be a lot of fun. I know that swimming
always makes me very hungry and I want to eat right after I am done. Does
swimming make you hungry? I was really scared of the water when I was little
and my parents had to force me to take lessons and it was really scary. I think
it would have been much better if I had all of my friends around for support.
Have you ever been afraid to do the things that your instructor tells you to
do? Do you and your friends help each other if you get scared or are having a
hard time learning to do something? I finally learned to swim and I am so glad
that I did but I still prefer to just float around on my back. Thanks for
sharing your experience with me and keep up the good work!"</span><br />
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point teaching someone to multiply a number with a decimal by a one digit
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Rebekah, my name is Allison and I am a student in EDM510 at the University of
South Alabama in the USA. I am studying to be a teacher and I have been
learning to blog this semester. I really enjoyed your presentation. You did a
very good job teaching your audience how to multiply a number that has a
decimal. Your problem was presented in very clear steps that were easy to
follow. That is very important when you are trying to teach someone how to do
math. Have you ever thought about becoming a teacher? I think that you could be
a really good teacher if you like doing stuff like this. Keep up the great
work!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is a 6<sup>th</sup> year student at the Pt England School in New Zealand. She
has been blogging since year four. In her post she created a grid map to get
from Hansel and Gretal’s house to the candy cottage. She included many
different types of terrain, a key and a cardinal direction on her map to
illustrate what her class has been learning in geography.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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following her map to the Candy Cottage. It was a lot of fun reading and
following her directions. I can tell that she learned a lot in school about
geography and cardinal directions. I told her that it is very helpful to be
able to give these kinds of directions when you are trying to help someone get
to a certain location. I asked if she had ever tried to tell someone how to get
to her house be telling them to turn North, South, East or West? If not, that
might be a fun thing to try next time. Keep up all of the great work!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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is a 6<sup>th</sup> year student at the Pt England School in New Zealand. She
has been blogging since year four. Her post was a short book review on a book
titled “Mr. Stink”. At the time of her review she had only read 1 and ½ paged
but she really liked what she read and rated the book a 10 out of 10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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comment to Marilyn was: “Hi Marilyn, my name is Allison and I am a student in
EDM510 at the University of South Alabama in the USA. I am studying to be a
teacher and I have been learning to blog this semester. When I read the title of your book, “Mr.
Stink”, I thought it sounded very interesting and I thought that I might like
to read it too. I would love to hear more about it when you are finished
reading the whole story. What is your favorite book that you have ever read?
When I was your age, mine was “Misty of Chincoteague”. This book is about two
kids who raise money digging clams so that they can buy a wild pony that has
been captured in the pony roundup. My nest favorite would have to be
Charlotte’s Web. Have you ever read either of these books? If you have not, I
highly recommend them. Enjoy your reading and keep sharing your stories with
the world!” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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is a 6<sup>th</sup> year student at the Pi England School in New Zealand. His
post was a descriptive story about two friends trip to the beach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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comment to Damian was: “Hello Damien, my name is Allison and I am a student in
EDM510 at the University of South Alabama in the USA. I am studying to be a teacher
and I have been learning to blog this semester. I enjoyed reading your story
about the beach. You gave a lot of good details and I could really picture that
I was there with Miguel and Katy. I have heard that the beaches near to where
you live are very pretty. I live in the Southern United States and we go to the
beaches on the Gulf of Mexico. I love to swim in the salt water but we have a
lot of jelly fish. It hurts really badly when they sting and I always get out
of the water when I see one. Have you ever been stung by a jelly fish? I hope
you will keep writing these descriptive stories on your blog. Keep up the great
work.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mrs. Sharon Davison's blog is called, <a href="http://kindergartenlife.wordpress.com/">KindergartenLife</a>.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In this blog Mrs. Davison is tells us about how she uses Google Hangouts, AirServer and the SMARTboard to bring an audience into her
classroom to enhance their learning to read experience.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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classroom. It is important that students of this age learn what is available to
them. Even more important is being able to connect them to a global community
of learners. When I was in school all we had was our teacher in the classroom.
Now teachers are able to connect with other teachers and join classrooms across
the globe to enhance the learning experience for their students. Children are
curious explorers and I believe they learn so much more when they can share it
with new groups of people. I think that she is doing a great job preparing her young students
for their future as global learners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thinking-March 12” on his blog page:<a href="http://blog.web20classroom.org/">Blogging About the Web 2.0 Connected Classroom</a></span></div>
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Anderson has added a new section to his blog which he describes as “<i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">My goal is to write about and share a few
things each week that have me pondering, or are pushing the boundaries of my
thinking.</span></i>” He borrowed this idea from his friend, , who was a high
school principal that blogged about things that were, on his mind, weekly to
his staff. This week he included comments about the methods people use when
using Twitter, good or bad. He commented on a Jeff Gordan video and how
students could critically analyze it to draw conclusions about viral marketing or
even the physics behind the moves in the video. The comments he made about the
Maker Movement were the most interesting to me. This involves 3-D technology
where kids can be problem solvers and learn valuable skills while making
something.<a href="http://www.makered.org/">”Maker
Ed’s</a> </span>mission is to create more opportunities for all young people to develop
confidence, creativity, and spark an interest in science, technology,
engineering, math, the arts, and learning as a whole through making”. This
technology will be great to use in any STEM program. Up until recently it has
been used in afterschool and club based programs but is now being integrated
into the mainstream and the General Ed classrooms. Click for more information on creating your
own <a href="http://makerspace.com/">"Maker Space".</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This comment was on Steven Anderson’s blog post <a href="http://blog.web20classroom.org/2014/03/things-that-have-me-thinking-march-12.html">“ThingsThat Have Me Thinking-March 28”.</a></span>
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blog post is the second installment of “Things That Have Me Thinking”. As a
mother of two teenagers and a future secondary science teacher, I was really
excited to read his thought about the book,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.danah.org/itscomplicated/">It’s Complicated</a>.
This book by Danah Boyd focuses on teens and their use of social networks. The
book is important to teachers because it will help them to better understand
the world that they live in, how they communicate, and what is important to
them in order to be able to reach out to them and teach them better. The book
is available in PDF form for free on her site and I think that all teachers
would benefit from reading it.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Another
thought that he shared that was interesting to me was about Edcamp USDOE. Edcamp
is an independently organized professional development day for teachers in
which the participants that are there decide on the topics for discussion that
will benefit them the most. There is no charge for this seminar but due to
limited seating a teacher must get a lottery ticket and hope that they win a
seat. This sounds it is going to be a very informative meeting between teachers
and policy makers about the direction education is going in our country. More
information and lottery tickets can be obtained here:<a href="http://www.edcamp.org/">Edcamp</a>.</span><br />
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week the blog I read was about printing a QR code for AudioBoo recording. The
blog <a href="http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2014/04/02/print-a-qr-code-for-an-audioboo-recording/">Moving at the Speed of Creativity</a> written by Wesley Preyer, Ph.D. AudioBoo is a site where teachers or students can create an unlimited number of 3 minute recording for free. AudioBoo has integrated QR codes into their site so that the user can print them out to give chosen people access to view their video. All the user has to do is click on their video, click QR code at the bottom, and then “print this” at the top. The code will include the title of the video and a shortened url, for those who do not have a scanner, printed just below the code. AudioBoo is also available as an app for iOS and Android tablet. This app looks like it will be very useful in our classrooms.</span>
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responsibilities is to educate the Mobile County faculty, students, parents and
citizens about the resources available by the AVL. My first step would be to
present this presentation to the media specialist and teachers at each school
in the county during a professional development day. I would suggest that the media
specialist would take time to present my presentation to the students during their computer lab time. If this is not possible, the teachers themselves could present the presentation
during class time. My next step would be to provide the teachers with a handout for parents that would be sent home with each student. I would also like to
email a copy of the presentation to each parent and encourage them to watch it
so that they can assist their children with the resource when they are at home.
I would also circulate flyers to Senior citizen centers, medical clinics, and
libraries. I would set up a day at the local library when I could do a
community presentation of my project. Before this class assignment I did not know
that the AVL existed. I would like to make sure that everyone knows that this
resource is available and how to use it. I don’t think that just presenting at
school to teachers and students is enough to get the students to use it at home.
I believe students will fall back on the search engine that is already easily
available on their home computer.</span><br />
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Allison Sellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00256605737083197553noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823562049909648807.post-76035066194090200422014-03-25T20:26:00.000-05:002014-03-25T20:26:00.433-05:00Blog Post #6 Randy Pausch's Last Lecture<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo">Randy Pausch's Last Lecture</a> is the most inspirational video I have ever watched. It is definitely one that can move you to tears more than one time. There is so much that everyone can learn from the way that Dr Pausch lived his life. As teachers there is also a lot that we need to learn. Through his entire lecture he leaves us tips on how to be better teachers even if that was not his intentions.<br />
Dr Pausch talked about reflection. He wanted his students to visually see where they were falling short and to think about these things. He wanted them to analyze and critique themselves and he felt that through self evaluation that they could readily commit to the changes that would make them better. He also talked about not setting a bar for your students. By setting a "bar" or cap for your expectations, your students have a limited goal to reach and few will be challenged to go as far as they are possibly capable of going. He also encouraged freedom of creativity so it was his practice to challenge his students to come up with their own projects with almost no set rules or limits to their creations.<br />
Dr Pausch believed that having fun was very important. He said that he had fun his entire life and planned to have fun each of his last days. I think that he accompished this. He was teaching until his last days. He was doing what he loved to do and it was fun. He made a point that students need to have fun. They need to feel a sense of excitement and they need to see people excited about what they are doing. In many of his Virtual Reality classes he left the door open for anyone who was interested in the student's projects to come and watch. He involved the audience in the presentations and the feeling of excitement in the room was compared to that of a football pep rally. He believed that the best way to teach someone was to make them think they were learning something else. "Fake them out" is the way he put it. If they are doing something they enjoy doing and having fun then they will be able to learn the hard stuff without realizing it.<br />
I think Dr Strange may have been faking us out a little with this assignment. He asked us to pay attention to Dr Pausch's teaching techniques but I think he wanted us to get the bigger message to push ourselves and to never give up. Dr Pausch had many inspirational statements that he made that I think should be posted at the beginning of every high school or college handbook. I will include a list of what I feel are his rules to live by. I always want to be able to have these close at hand. I can't believe that I had never heard of Randy pausch before taking an educational media class. I think as teachers we owe it to our students to share his inspiration with them. If you have not watched this video, please take the time, by doing so you will add some meaningful content to your life.<br />
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Asking the right questions is an essential element to being an effective teacher. The right kinds of questions, asked in the right way and with the proper timing encourage different thought processes leading the students to a better understanding of the material they are to learn. How do we ask the right question? Let's start with things that we should not do. After we finish a lecture we should not ask the students if they understand. Either only a few will answer or the majority of them are going to answer yes just because it is what they think yiu want to hear. Getting a yes answer to this question does not get a teacher off the hook of responsibility by assuming that the students know the material just because they say that they understand. If we must ask a yes/no question then it should be followed up by a "why" question. We should not ask the questions at the end of a lecture. It is better to present open ended thought provoking questions at the beginning or early part of a lecture encourages deeper thought throughout the lecture. Don't be predictable in your method of questioning. Vary the way you call on students to answer questions and always pause after asking the question to give the entire room a chance to come up with an asnswer of their own before you pick someone. One method some teachers use is to ask the question then wait until everyone in the room signals that they know the right answer before choosing someone. Another thing to avoid is leading questions. Leading questions give up too much information trying to direct a student to and answer. When asking questions a teacher should always listen attentatively to a students answers so they know they are important. A teacher should also provide feedback as to what parts of the question was right or wrong. </div>
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changed since I was in school? EVERYTHING has changed. At least, there exist
the possibilities and opportunities for things to change. Of course this is directly
related to the training a teacher has and her willingness to break out of the
box and take on the challenge. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> I went to primary and
secondary school in the 1970’s and 1980’s. I came back to college in January of
2010. I had a lot of catching up to do in this new world of technology that I
was now swimming in. I was capable of running my retail POS program at work. I
could surf the net but did not realize that there was any tool other than
Internet Explorer to do this with. I was a rookie at social sites such as
MySpace and Facebook. I realized that if I was going to be a teacher in today’s
classroom that I had a lot to learn and that I was going to have to change my
views of what teaching is. I could not have a vision of my future as a teacher
based on any of my previous classroom experiences.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> When I was in school
nearly every class that I can remember was 100% lecture based. The only regular
deviation from this was my science classes that included labs. This is probably
one of the reasons that science was always my favorite subject and the reason
why I have chosen it for my teaching career. Before I learned anything about
PBL, I described science classes as fun to teach and participate in because the
kids get to go to labs and put their hand on something tangible that ties
together visually what they have been learning. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If all classes were
like this I think failure rates would greatly improve. Now I’ll take you back
to my classroom experience in all classes but science lab. Teachers wrote on blackboard
with chalk. Rarely did you see a dry erase board and a Smartboard was not even
a notion. We had no computers in the classroom. I do remember a computer lab
but that was essentially to learn the basics of DOS. Windows did not exist.
Teachers lectured. They might occasional borrow a DVD player from the library
to show a movie. They even had to borrow overhead projectors to use
transparencies to enhance their lectures. We thought transparencies were
high-tech. We wrote a lot of term papers, did a lot of oral presentations with
posters for visual aids and took a lot of tests based on lecture material. I
only remember I collaborative project in which I was teamed up with one other
student to present a research paper. We did use music to enhance our presentation
and we passed around photos for the students to look at.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Teachers today have
so many tools at their disposal to make teaching better. iCurio, Discovery Ed,
Brain Pop, youtube, technology based interactive games plus endless other
choices help to make the learning experience interesting. PBL is another step
up to make it even better. With PBL your resources are only as limited as your
imagination. PBL takes the chore out of learning core standards. Students get
to explore, use their imaginations, have fun with technology that they already
love to use and in the end learn without even realize that they are learning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> I had the opportunity
to talk to a seasoned teacher today about PBL and I asked her if she was using
it in her classroom. She told me that they did projects but only after teaching
the standards and only as a way for the students to show what they had learned.
I asked her why she did not use them to teach the standards instead of only at
the end. She told me that PBL would never work as a means for teaching
standards because different students learn in different ways and that there
would be no way for them all to be able to learn what they needed to know from
PBL. My question is how do we get teachers on board with PBL? I wanted to convince
her that PBL does work but I just didn’t know how. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This teacher has a 97% proficiency rating and
is considered an innovative teacher. My other question is; how can all
teachers, in all schools take advantage of all of these great teaching tools
and implement them into using PBL if the basic implements are not provided in
his or her classroom by the school system. Inequality in what is available to
our teachers and students seems to be a major problem for us as teachers to
move forward and use all of this wonderful information and skills that we are
learning her in the EDM 510 class.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is great that
Anthony has so many resources that he can use and that he has wonderful
administrators that allow him the freedom to use his talents to conduct his
classroom by using PBL. This brings me to my next question: are all
administrators ready for teachers to use PBL? Are they going to give their teachers
the freedom that Anthony has? How does a teacher go about creating this kind of
change in her school and the way traditionalist think?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> I tried to use ALEX
to find appropriate standards for writing this essay. I do not feel that I ever
found anything satisfactory. I could go to courses of study, choose Language
Arts, then choose grade 12 and scan for standards or lessons. I found
information on writing essays but not essays for blogs. The only thing that I
found that gave any instruction on writing a blog was a link to </span><a href="http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1160/blog_info.pdf" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
readwritethink.org</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. All that it contained was a brief and basic blogging
information sheet about what a student could do with a blog and proper blog etiquette.
It definitely does not contain appropriate standards for writing and essay for
a blog.</span><br />
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to follow is Mr. Derrick Willard whom is, as quoted from his blog, <u><a href= "http://pdsblogs.org/derrickwillardblog/">Tearing Down Walls</a></u>, “the Assistant Head of School for Academic Affairs and a
science teacher at Providence Day School in Charlotte, NC. He has been integrating
social media applications as instructional tools for the last five years, as
well as piloting classes employing iPad2 tablets for the last three years”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The
first post that I read, from Feb 08, 2014, was about how using a little Idea
paint can change the whole perspective of a classroom. One of his teachers used
the paint to cover two of his four walls making them white boards where the students
can share ideas. The teacher describes the result as “Teaching from what would
typically be considered the back or side of the room shifts the sense of
student and teacher space. The boundary or line of demarcation between the two
kinds of space blurs. The walls feel more collaborative as a result giving the
students added willingness to write in a space that hasn’t been claimed or
identified as teacher (or teacher permission requisite) space. Unlike the
whiteboards on the opposite walls of the room, these writing surfaces seem less
confined given that take up the entire wall. Instead of being bound in frames
and placed at the traditional front of the room, the white walls provide a more
inviting writing surface that students have already used to write up whatever
they might like to share with a classroom audience. The fixed quality of the
white walls lends a special sort of credibility to whatever happens to be
written there. Students seem more willing to share their ideas on the board and
more willing to respond to one another’s writing on the wall next to some
earlier comment or idea.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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commented that I thought it gave the students freedom of expression as a graffiti
artist has on the city walls and that now the classroom was their canvas. The walls can be used like a Facebook wall for
science or whatever subject that the teacher is teaching. Students are already
communicating daily in that manner so it should be easier for them to feel
comfortable writing on the class walls.</span><i><span style="color: #888888; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I commented that I think that
the 1:1 program that he is initiating in his school is a great program for
developing digital literacy and global citizenship and that I would love to see
our school system in South Alabama implement a similar program but, unfortunately,
we are only just breaking into the digital scene. I told him that this year
many of our schools have initiated a program where the students can bring their
own devices to class and use them on the “my own devices” internet for in class
work. But not all of the students have devices and some may not even have
internet service at home. I also told him that I have big plans as a teacher to
create a blog for my students where I can post lessons, class projects and
informative videos and I would also like the students to be able to share what
they are doing with the rest of the world. I wanted to know how they used
technology like before implementing the 1:1 program. I asked if he survey the
students to see who had internet access at home and did he provide computer lab
time for students before or after school? I let him know that there are so many
things I want to do but right now limited resources seems to pose the biggest
problem. I told him that I would love to hear his thoughts and know the steps that
he took to get to where he is now. Me Willard replied back and told me that he
had a mentor from Canada when he was in college that he has still never met and
that he wanted to help me in any way that he could. We have had additional
correspondence about the EDM510 class and he is very interested in what we are
doing. I believe he will be an asset to our program in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2013, Mr. Willard writes about the importance of establishing good
relationships between students and teachers. He is reminding new teachers that
the first day of school and into the first two weeks is the time to build trust
and let the students know that you really care about them because “students
don’t care what you know until they know that you care”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My comment was: “I completely
agree with you about the importance of building relationships between students
and teachers. I think that a teacher’s job encompasses so much more that just
relaying information to students. Students need mentors and confidants that
they can confide in and trust. Some students may even lack someone like this at
home and a teacher is an adult that can fill that role. A teacher must be someone who loves kids, not
just conveying knowledge to others. I
just finished an assignment for another education class in which we had to
write first day of school lesson plans. My entire first day revolved around
getting to know my students and letting them get to know me as well as letting
them know what I expect of them. I also let my students know that I am willing
to work hard for them if they are willing to also put in the effort. I want my
students to see our class as a team of learners so they do not feel intimidated
and so they are motivated to do their best.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Mr.
Willard’s post was about his upcoming trip to China aimed at strengthening
their New Oasis program which they are a partner with China. The vision of the New
Oasis Company is “a world of learning, a place where society is empowered to
change international education, study abroad and cultural exchange for the
better”.</span><br />
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commented that I was excited to have a connection with him and was looking
forward to hearing about what he learns. He was particularly interested in
writing about the differences that he observes between Chinese and American
Education. I think that this is a fascinating subject and cannot wait to see
what he has to say about the differences and to see if there is anything that
he feels we should be doing more like China.</span></div>Allison Sellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00256605737083197553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823562049909648807.post-10850028010674812782014-03-09T13:23:00.000-05:002014-03-13T22:00:04.044-05:00C4T Revolving #'s 1-4<div class="MsoNormal">
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tech into his P.E. classroom. The students can draw over a picture of the gym
or a plying field, whatever the coach puts up. This allows them to set up teams
and plays so that the players are clear about have a game is supposed to be set
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a degree in biology I am not familiar with teaching P.E. classes but the use of
this great tool might even make it clear to me what I should do if I was filling
in for you. Kids love using technology and will jump at the chance to “play” on
the Whiteboard. I think you have found the perfect way to incorporate
technology into your P.E. classroom. This is an effective, interactive visual
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This blog post was from <a href="http://2cents.onlearning.us/">Trails Optional</a> by Jen Deyenberg and was about a chatroom tool called <a href="http://todaysmeet.com/">Today’s Meet</a> which she used for backchanneling. Backchanneling is a “chatroom” where students can type in questions, concerns, or comments. The teacher sets up the room and
sets the time limit for it to be open. The chat was used for an open classroom
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I commented that this is my first semester in Education so I
am not very familiar with a lot of the terminology that teachers use. Before
reading your post, I had no idea what backchanneling was. I think that Today’s Meet
is a great tool. I think many kids are more comfortable typing what they think
than they are speaking vocally in front of a class. This tool may help to draw
some students into a classroom discussion than would be in a traditional
setting. I am curious as to whether this tool is used exclusively in classroom
discussions or can you use it as part of homework and continue your discussions
after school hours? If you do this, so all of your students have at home
internet access and if not how do you handle this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> This week I read a post in the blog, <a href="http://2cents.onlearning.us/">2 Cents Worth of seeking the Shababuku</a>, by David Warlick. The first thing that I was compelled to do was to find out what Shababuku meant. I found out that it is the practice of correcting another's false views and awakening that person to the truth. It is traditionally referrining to the truth of Buddhism but is apllied here as a generak concept to awaken knowledge about the value of using technology in the learning environment. The </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">blog post written on
Feb 20, 2014 was about a conference that Mr. Warlick was part of with the
American School of Bombay in their un-plugged event in Mumbai, India. The
conference was on using info-graphics and data visualization to expand the
learning environment of a student.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Hi
Mr. Warlick, my name is Allison Sells and I am a graduate student at the
University of South Alabama seeking an alternative masters in Education. I am enrolled in EDM510 and am to read and
comment on the blog of a teacher that has been assigned to me. I will be
summarizing my visits to your blog on my own blog by March 4th. Here is a link
to <a href="http://sellselizabethedm310.blogspot.com/">my blog</a>. First of all, I love your definition of
literacy. Literacy encompasses so much
more than reading and writing. It must also involve being able interpret your
environment whether it be audible or visual and use all of your skills to become
informed of what it is that you need to accomplish. I think it is fascinating
that you are able to be part of a global community of learners involved in
sharing what you have learned to create a better world for the students of
today and tomorrow. I believe that being and innovative teacher who is willing
to use the vast resources available via the Internet to expand the
opportunities that her students may have is critical in today’s world. Many
students may not have the opportunity to travel the world as you have done but
by being connected to your thought and the thoughts of others like you they get
to experience a global education. I am really looking forward to your future
post on the conference and hearing about things that you may have learned that
will be useful to teachers in their classrooms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mr. Warlick wrote a blog post in 2 Cents worth of Seeking the
Shakabuku that included ten tips for attending NCTIES conferences. While most
of his comments were aimed at being satirical and the blog was most amusing, he
did offer the good advice to come in comfortable clothes with a thirst for
knowledge and a desire to meet new people. I was driven to find out what NCTIES
stood for because I did not know what he was talking about. On their web page
it says that the NCTIES is a membership association for educators and educator
leaders engaged in advancing excellence in learning and teaching through the
effective use of technology. I would
like to become a part of this group and attend a conference in the future after
I become a teacher and can better put what I learn to use in my classroom. If I
could comment on his blog, I would have to thank him for his advice and I would
let him know that I would bring a huge bag for all the freebies at the exhibit
hall and I would be sure to wear my fuzzy horse slippers. I think he would
enjoy the humor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>Allison Sellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00256605737083197553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823562049909648807.post-26031835999770122942014-03-08T23:49:00.000-06:002014-03-08T23:49:22.855-06:00C4K #1, #2 & #3 Blog Post and Comment Summaries<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c0RWP-F-qCA/Uxv_ZHysbCI/AAAAAAAACeA/zGxPAnXOlmw/s1600/kidblog.jpg" image="kidblog logo" title=":http://classroomgameplan.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c0RWP-F-qCA/Uxv_ZHysbCI/AAAAAAAACeA/zGxPAnXOlmw/s320/kidblog.jpg" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jordan is in the 4<sup>th</sup> grade and he wrote a short
blog about his cousin’s birthday party at the Kids Zone. He played chasing with
his cousin which is the same as tag here in the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hi Jordan, my name is Allison and I am a college student at
the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama, USA. I am taking a media class and I am learning
how to blog just like you. This is a link to my blog <a href="http://sellselizabethedm310.blogspot.com/">http://sellselizabethedm310.blogspot.com/</a>. Please feel free to visit and comment if you
would like to. It looks like you are already doing a great job on your blog. I
think that it is great that you and your classmates get to have a blog of your
own. I am studying to become a teacher and I would love for my class to have a
blog just like yours does. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From your story, I can tell you had a lot of fun at your
cousin’s birthday party. Here in the U.S. kids play tag and the one who has to
catch the other kids is “it”. I always hated being “it”, just like you. I think
that it is funny that children in the U.S. and in Ireland play the same game
but it is called by a different name. Football is a very popular game here in
the U.S. Do you play football in Ireland? What are some of your favorite games
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Keep up all of the great work that you are doing on your
blog and in your class. I look forward to reading more of your work in the
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John is in Mrs. Rueter’s class 5/6 grade. He is a competitive
skier and wrote his blog about his training and racing schedule. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I told him that I am from the Gulf Coast and I don’t know
anything about skiing and that if it even starts to snow here that they close
the schools and the whole town shuts down. I wanted to know if in a ski race he
is racing against a clock or is he actually racing against another skier? Also,
I wanted to know if he is on one ski or two. I told him that ski racing sounds
really fun and dangerous and I wanted to know how fast he actually went. I told him that hopefully one day if he keeps
practicing we will be watching him in the future Winter Olympics and to keep up
the good work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Giselle is in Mrs. Gelde’s 4<sup>th</sup> grade class Her blog was about her birthstone. She made an
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I told her that the peridot is one of my favorite
birthstones because lime green is my favorite color and that I liked it a lot
better than my birthstone which is purple. I told her that I really liked her
Tellagami and I had never heard of that before so she taught me about something new. I told her
that am going to have fun making Tellagamies of my own and may even put one on
my blog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimtom is in Mrs. Miller’s 3<sup>rd</sup> block 10<sup>th</sup>
grade class. His blog was comparing text to film. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I let Jimtom know that I am taking the same media class that
his teacher took and that I am learning how to blog just like he is. I told him that think blogging is a really
cool way to do an assignment for class. I commented that I wished that the
questions were written in the blog along with the answers so that I would understand
more clearly what he was answering but that I think I figured it out. I told
him that I also like film a lot but that I often find that books are better
because they give you so much more detail. Movies have to cut out a lot of
stuff so that they are not too long. I suggested that I the best thing to do is
to read the book and then watch the movie because then you have all the details
and still get to experience all the action. Sometimes this can be a letdown
because the book can be so much better than the movie and it makes the movie
seem to be no good at all. I encouraged him to keep up the good blogging.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tevin writes about being a football player and about
clowning around in class and getting in trouble. He really wants to do better
and get his grades up. I commented that I admired his determination and drive
and that if he wants something bad enough that he can do it. I gave him some
suggestions about how to use music to help him study because he says that music
pushes him to work harder. I think that if he keeps blogging about what he is
thinking and feeling that it will help him get on track and his grades will
come up. I shared this with him and told him to keep up the good work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tristan is a student in Mrs. Long’s 10<sup>th</sup> grade
class. Tristan’s blog post is about the positive and negative effects of marijuana
and whether or not it should be legalized. He seems to have done some research
on the subject and has some very mature opinions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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interested in what he had to say. He made a lot of good points for and against
marijuana. I asked him if he knew that if marijuana was legal the U.S.
government could not only save all of the money that they spend fighting to get
it off the street but they could also tax it just like they do cigarettes and
make a small fortune. I agreed with him that it has a therapeutic function and
that it does a lot of good for the people who need it. I also said that it is
also probably a lot safer than a lot of prescription drugs that are on the
market and are legally prescribed and abused every day but unfortunately there
are many people in this world who will abuse just about anything and that makes
it hard for the government to make it legal. I also said that I think that one
day it will be legal across the U.S. for medical purposes. He did not give his opinion
so I asked him if he thought it should be legal or not. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and is in the 7<sup>th</sup> grade. She wrote a blog post that was an argumentative
writing on Athens versus Sparta and she chose Sparta as her champion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that it is great that her teacher has set up a blog for her class. I told her
that it is really cool that she is learning to write an argumentative paper and
that they are always my favorite ones to do because I love trying to convince
someone that I am right. I hoped that she had fun while writing this one and
that it’s pretty awesome to have fun while learning something! Lastly, I told
her to keep up the great work!<o:p></o:p></span></div>Allison Sellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00256605737083197553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823562049909648807.post-32362729621186295822014-03-08T14:44:00.000-06:002014-03-14T13:05:33.310-05:00C4T Semester assigned:"Teacher Reboot Camp" Ms Shelly Terrell, comments 1-4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My teacher to follow is Shelly Terrell. In the first post
that I read from Feb 7, 2014, Ms Terrell shared 20+ Web tool and Apps that
encourage learning by students through drawing and coloring. These tools are
designed for students of various ages and teachers can choose the ones that
will be appropriate for the age of the students that they are teaching. Ms.
Terrell offered valuable resources that I know I will be happy to have in the
future when I have my own classroom. I have subscribed to her newsletter and
plan to follow her as long as she is blogging. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This post, from Feb 11, 2014, was about encouraging your
students to commit random acts of kindness. Throughout the post Ms Terrell
provided a vast number of technical links for creating and sharing kindness.
These links included: <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;"> </span><a href="http://www.noomii.com/advent-calendar-2012/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #990000; line-height: 115%;">an online Acts of Kindness advent calendar</span></a>,
<a href="http://wallwisher.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #990000; line-height: 115%;">Padlet</span></a><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;"> or </span><a href="http://linoit.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #cc0033; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">LinoIt</span></a> for a sticky
wall, <span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><a href="http://popplet.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #cc0033; line-height: 115%;">Popplet</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;"> for
brainstorming ideas, </span></span><a href="http://buncee.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #990000; line-height: 115%;">Buncee</span></a><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://smore.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #cc0033; line-height: 115%;">Smore</span></a><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.biteslide.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #990000; line-height: 115%;">Biteslide</span></a><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.glogster.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #990000; line-height: 115%;">Glogster</span></a><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;">, or </span><a href="https://www.blendspace.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #990000; line-height: 115%;">Blendspace</span></a><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;"> for
creating posters, Garage Band or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #990000; line-height: 115%;">Audacity</span></a> for creating poscasts, <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;"> and </span><a href="http://storybird.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #990000; line-height: 115%;">Storybird</span></a><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;">, </span><a href="http://www.zooburst.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #cc0033; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">Zooburst</span></a><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;">, </span><a href="http://fotobabble.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #990000; line-height: 115%;">Fotobabble</span></a><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;">, or </span><a href="http://littlebirdtales.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #990000; line-height: 115%;">Little Bird Tales</span></a><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;"> for creating digital stories. I have used some of these tools before, but
most were new to me. I am creating great new additions to my PLN from many of
the tools that she has shared.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This post, from Feb
17, 2014, is about teaching with Instagram.
Ms Terrell gives good instructions on how to set up an Instagram account for
your class and to make it private so that only students, parents and yourself
can see it. With Instagram you can post homework assignments, help students to
visualize what they read, showoff a student’s work, share classroom memories
and engage parents. A teacher can share with all the followers or one student
directly. Students can even turn in picture or video assignments for you to see
immediately. Ms Terrell shared many different creative projects for students to
do with instagram and included links to many other resources and ideas for
Instagram. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Instagram is very
simple to use and many students are already using it. My question for Ms
Terrell would be, what should do you do if a student does not have a smart
phone that gives him/her the ability to participate in Instagram lessons. This
social media tool is fantastic but students are limited by the availability of
devices. I would like to know how she would handle this.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this blog on March
02, 2014, Ms Terrell is participating in an ITDI webinar called <a href="http://itdipro.adobeconnect.com/p9tg9nlbyv6/">“Sharing the
Narratives of Our Lives: Meaningful Learning with Mobile Devices”</a> which
addresses the importance of using mobile devices to communicate with students. She
asks, “why mobile devices”? The answer is simple; technology is evolving and
nearly all students have a mobile device with them at all times allowing
teachers to communicate with a lot of students very quickly. Many apps that
students use on a daily basis have become mobile-based only. Teachers need to
engage their students in the way that the students want to be engaged. Mobile
devices bridge the gap between students and teachers by creating a learning
environment similar to what students are already doing outside of school
therefore enhancing learning and making it connected. Through apps such as Vine,
Snapchat, Meme, Instagram and many more students continually feed themselves
bite-sized bits of information. Ms Terrell shared a quote by John Holt which
stated that “Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product
of the activity of learners”. She suggests that we ask ourselves every day, “What
did my students do in class today?” She states that students learn better by
moving around and interacting with the world than they do by reading text books
and we should not spend our time “teaching to the test”. By using mobile
devices, we will be able to better connect and our students will be better
learners because of it. Ms. Terrell has published a book called <a href="http://the-round.com/labs/learning-to-go/">Learning to Go</a> that is a great source for lesson plans for teachers who want to incorporate mobile devices into their teaching.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I think that using
mobile devices will be a great way to connect with students but it comes with
complications. There are so many apps available that the students use and they
are evolving at a rapid rate. I have been able to witness this first hand by
keeping up with my teenage daughter's social interactions. Just when I think I
know what app she is using to communicate with, most often it changes to
something different. Apps are trendy and many become very popular and then are
short lived. I believe that a teacher need to stay “in the loop” with what the
kids are doing but it will be very tedious to keep up with the trends and use
them in our teaching practices. We will need to stick with time tested apps and
then require that our students follow us on them if this is going to work. I
love the idea of being able to send small bits of important information out to
my students 24 hours a day and look forward to making this part of my lesson plans.</span></span></div>Allison Sellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00256605737083197553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823562049909648807.post-39843896139490744512014-02-25T23:35:00.000-06:002014-02-26T12:10:42.287-06:00Blogpost #3 Khan Academy: the Pros and Khans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As a non-traditional student returning to college after 20
years, I definitely needed extra help in math and chemistry. I found this help
through Khan Academy and after having completed four years as an undergraduate,
I have had the chance to develop a close relationship with it. Khan Academy is a
website comprised of over 2400 videos offering instruction in math, chemistry,
physics, biology, finance and the humanities. A student can watch a tutorial
video on their subject of interest or they can participate in practice
problems. The practice problems feature offers 3 hints to the student and then
if the student is still unable to generate the correct answer it will show the
student how the problem should be solved. The site is very easy to use and best
of all it is free. Even with the thousands of positive comments that have been
left on the Khan Academy site it is not without its flaws and criticisms which
I will explore but first let’s take a look at the site itself.</div>
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After logging into Khan Academy and setting up a free
account, the student is greeted by name and the home page “The World of Math”. This
application allows the student to take a short math placement quiz so that the
site can start math lessons at the proper skill level for that student. If math
is not what is desired, then a simple search can be typed to find the topic of
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I personally used Khan Academy extensively for help in
chemistry. After searching Chemistry, I was given a choice of topics to choose
from. After choosing one of the topics, a detailed list of videos was provided
from which I chose the exact topic that I needed help with. I could also have chosen
to type in a specific topic at the search prompt and my selections would have
been narrowed down to that topic only. For
chemistry I limited my selection to video tutorials which, for the most part,
were very helpful. I loved the fact that I could back a video up and re-watch a
segment over and over until I got everything down on paper. I did have a
problem with the spectrometry segment of Organic Chemistry because the videos approached
the subject differently than the teacher and their focus was on a different perspective
than my teacher thus leading me down a different path which was not very beneficial.
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Khan Academy’s evaluation as a successful form of instruction
as viewed in the media is controversial.
The main discontent that is construed by teachers is the fact that it
lacks conceptual content. This fact is true but I do not believe that it is the
intent of Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, to provide anything more than
tutorials and practice problems to help a student. The structure of Khan
Academy is to walk a student through basic skills in a stepwise fashion, each
skill building on the one that came before. Khan Academy is based on basic
procedure. It does not have the intention of replacing the classroom teacher
but it can be an effective aid for a struggling student. It may provide a
slightly different way of explaining a subject or skill that some students may
relate to and find better success with than they did from the instruction
provided by their teacher. Sometimes a different explanation of something is
all that it takes for a student to get that “ah ha” moment and finally understand
what a teacher is trying to convey. A teacher can use Khan Academy as a supplemental
instruction tool to bring a student who is lagging behind up to class level
without wasting valuable class time. Assignments can be made for homework and
the parents can follow along and assist the student to ensure that he or she is
successful. Khan Academy can also be used with ambitious students to allow them
to move ahead. Challenging assignments can be made for those students and they
can work at their own pace which can prevent boredom they may find in a normal
classroom setting.</div>
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A criticism that has been made of Khan Academy, by Karim Kai
Ani, in <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/khan-academy-the-hype-and-the-reality/2012/07/23/gJQAuw4J3W_blog.html" target="blank">The Washington Post: ”Khan Academy: The Hype and the reality”</a>, is that Sal Khan has stated that
before he makes a video he often does not know what he is going to say. He is
compared to an unprepared teacher and would be fired if he was in a classroom
setting. It is my belief that the content of the videos is not based on what he
plans to say. What is relevant is that he knows the skill that he plans to
teach and is able to work through the concept clearly and in a stepwise manor. This
is comparable to a classroom teacher with a lesson plan. A teacher does not
have to know exactly what she is going to say. If she knows her subject then
the words will come just as Sal Khan is able to complete his task unscripted.</div>
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For the most part, the instructional videos are correctly
presented but there has been documentation of incorrect instruction. This is a
continued concern of Karim Kai Ani and others. As with any information obtained
on the internet, unless it is from a peer reviewed scholarly journal, it is
always best to proceed with some amount of caution. Teachers should always view
videos for accuracy, before using them to supplement their own instruction. A teacher
should also encourage their students to seek out multiple sources of information.
Mr. Ani has an instructional site of his
own called <a href="http://www.mathalicious.com/" target="_blank">Mathalicious</a> but it cost 185.00 per teacher per year. Unfortunately,
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Khan Academy does not herald itself as the fix all for
mathematics or other subjects that it represents. Unfortunately it has been
presented in the media as something similar to “the outsider that rides in to
save the town”, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-keith-devlin/khan-academy-good-bad-or-_b_1345925.html" target="blank">The Huffington Post "Khan Academy: Good, Bad, or Ugly"</a>. Khan Academy is not changing
the rules but adding to the multimedia experience in education. Thousands of
users have been helped to increase their knowledge and understanding in
multiple subject areas. This knowledge may not have been afforded to these
users by any other means. It is my opinion that the successes that have occured due
to Khan Academy have far outweighed the failures that it is criticized for.
Khan Academy deserves a place in education now and in the future. They have
already proven that they can learn from their mistakes and make corrections to
instruction that have been brought to their attention to be wrong. With support from
teachers this site is destined to become an even more valuable resource in the
future.</div>
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References:</div>
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-keith-devlin/khan-academy-good-bad-or-_b_1345925.html" target="blank">The Huffington Post "Khan Academy: Good, Bad, or Ugly"</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/khan-academy-the-hype-and-the-reality/2012/07/23/gJQAuw4J3W_blog.html" target="blank">The Washington Post: ”Khan Academy: The Hype and the reality”</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/" target="blank">Wired: “How Khan Academy is changing the Rules of Education”</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.commonsensemedia.org/website-reviews/khan-academy" target="blank">Common Sense Media</a></div>
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</div>Allison Sellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00256605737083197553noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823562049909648807.post-14132207338666623572014-02-18T12:32:00.000-06:002014-02-18T12:46:24.501-06:00Blogpost #2 Search Engines<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As always, this week’s assignment on search engines was a major eye opener for me. Before doing this research I was a devoted Google user. I had tried other search engines that invaded my computer, always to with the same results, disappointment and frustration. I now feel like I am armed with a multitude of new friends to help me find exactly what I may be looking for and to direct my future students in the most effective and safe manner as they conduct their own searches.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.icurio.com/" target="_blank" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gwjphXad_oE/UwOiSBc8kRI/AAAAAAAABcA/Cs5po0SL72s/s320/icurio.jpg" /></a></div>
</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b> Icurio</b> is a search engine designed specifically for teachers and students. This site allows teachers to access standard based lessons and activities organized by grade level to help them provide stimulating daily lesson plans. Icurio also is a safe and well organized way for students to search the web because all the material that is allowed for viewing has been filtered for age appropriate media. This site also provides a way for students and teachers to easily organize the material that that search in order to come back to it easily. The only downfall I found for icurio is the fact that one must have an access key to use it. This key would most often be provided by a school for use by their students and teachers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b>DMOZ</b> is a search engine that breaks content down into easy to search categories. The researcher can start with the selection, “Kids and Teens”, then move to a specific subject area. Each subject is broken down into even more specific components such as; Biology, Chemistry or Physics. Within each subject unit one can access content material, experiment, homework help and much more. This site is easy to use and no subscription is necessary. I feel like this would be a very useful for my students to use in the classroom and at home to enhance in class lectures. No subscription is required to access this tool. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Ixquick</b> is based in the Netherlands since 1999 and claims to have the highest privacy level and does not charge you for its service. It will not store your IP address, use cookies, or record your searches. It also claims to block NSA surveillance. It utilizes multiple search engines while at the same time being encrypted to protect your privacy. I have never done any work on the internet that I would want to hide but if I ever do I will definitely use this one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Carrot2</b> organizes search results into topics. This seach engine is very well organized and I was able to easily access lesson plans, worksheets, activities, and test questions. The topics are clearly presents and allows a teacher to quickly find what he or she is looking for and there is no required subscription. </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sweetsearch.com/" target="_blank" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WcbyvU6qwt4/UwOk29QxPxI/AAAAAAAABcc/qrR7ai9vgfM/s320/sweetsearch.gif" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SweetSearch</b> has many useful features. This tool will only search sites that have been reviewed by research experts and education professionals to insure that all content is appropriate for students. There are topic specific search engines contained within the main link and they organize material by subject matter and grade level. It also includes a site that provides a daily feed of interesting , valuable and fun information with students in mind. It includes: today in history, web guides, comics, words of the day, poem of the day, and much more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b>Wolfram Alpha</b> is a search engine best used for numbers and computations. It provides valuable help for subjects such as Algebra, Trig and Calculus. It provides a scientific calculator that has advanced functions such as plotting and graphing. This site would be great for math teachers and for students struggling with homework problems.
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Scholar</span></b> is wonderful for research papers.
Dr Strange said not to include Google but this is not just your basic Google
search. This search engines limits material to peer reviewed articles form
scholarly journals. From this search, a student can be assured that the
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