Project 15

C4K #8 & 9

#8: I was assigned to the blog Wellington 4.0, this is a school in England. I was not assigned to a particular student it was a post for the entire class. It was titled " Spelling Strategies".

This was a post about different spelling strategies that the teachers came up with to help the students learn their spelling words. Some of the ways were to write on windows, float letters in water, and using rainbow colors. I think these are great ideas and unique ways to learn spelling words. I think this is something that I should remember and use in my future classroom.

#9: I was assigned to Logan, a student in Canada. Logan's post was very touching to me. He wrote about how his country should have a Remembrance Day for their soldiers. He talked about how they make sacrifices for their country and don't seem to be appreciated for what they do. He also said we need to remember those who have died when in service. I was really impressed by his post and was pleased to see that someone who is his age cared so much about these soldiers.

 

Watch this video "The iPad and Education", and write your response in your blog post.



   I thought that this was a very interesting video for future teachers to watch. It shows the useful tools that iPad has for students. The games looked really interesting and they were about math and all kinds of subjects. He also mentioned how it would be easier to bring the iPad to school, instead of kids toting around those big and heavy book bags. I think this would be a good assignment for next semesters class to respond to.

Project # 6 Google Docs Form/Questionare

 University of South Alabama's Parking Situation
  My survey was about the terrible parking at South Alabama. I chose this topic because I have many personal experiences with the issue of parking at South Alabama. I also chose this because I have heard a lot of other students complain about the parking. My survey turned out pretty well and I appreciate all the people who filled out my survey and answered the questions. 

Click here to view the results

  My overall results were that people do have serious problems with parking at South. The question that bothered me the most was the one I asked if you answered yes to the question about having to park in another zone besides the one you are assigned to due to parking, the ones that said yes had about 71% of them received tickets. This tells me that we need to do something about this problem , people should not be getting tickets when the only reason they are parked in the wrong spot is because there is no other spaces open. In the results you can see what suggestions people gave for ideas for changing parking at South Alabama.  One good idea that I liked was to not have zones at all. That could work. 
 Well I think this survey turned out really well and my results were pretty much what I thought they would be. This is an issue that needs to be resolved, and maybe these results can be helpful to making changes in South Alabama.

Blog Assignment #11

 

Ms. Cassidy's Classroom:
  I really enjoyed watching both videos about Ms. Cassidy's classroom. The students in her class seem to be know how to use computers very well. Her class seemed to love school and knew what they were learning. It just looked like a fun classroom. I really liked how Ms. Cassidy used Skype in her classroom. I remember in the video they were talking to a Geologist, she was telling them about rocks. It is so amazing that kids in a classroom can talk to actual experts about what they are learning. I am sure this is a fun way to learn and they might actually learn better that way by interacting with the experts. That is one aspect of Ms. Cassidy's class that I would like to have when I have my own classroom. I would love to have my class to be able to ask experts questions in class. Another thing that I liked about her classroom was that the kids had their own blogs where they could get comments from the teacher, their family, and students like us. They seemed to be very proud of their blog posts and really liked getting comments. They said this helped them to learn how to write better. I'm sure they did learn how to write better. Overall I loved this classroom and would love to have a class environment like Ms. Cassidy has.

Additional Assignment # 3

Changing Educational Paradigms: 
  I think the most important thing that Mr. Ken Robinson said was that we need to change the idea that there is just one answer for everything and that we need to teach not just linear or horizontal, we need to teach that there is multiple answers to everything. I also thought what he said about ADHD was important, we are giving kids medicine to make them dry out and calm down , but then they don't really learn , they are distracted because of video games, television, and iphones, who wouldn't be. To many people are giving kids who might not have ADHD medicine. I didn't really disagree with anything Mr. Robinson said I thought it was a very good presentation. This class EDM 310 is teaching us a lot of the things he said in the video, to learn in different ways and have multiple answers. Some of the other classes aren't like that but I think they are trying to change. As a teacher I can deal with these issues by being a more creative teacher. Try not to give the same old same old, have different types of activities to learn something instead of a lecture every day. I could have more hands-on learning . I thought this was a very good presentation and I really liked the animation. It was creative and kept my interest threw the whole presentation. If I did a presentation like this maybe I would be best at doing the narrating, I would love to be the artist but I cannot draw. If not the narrator I would be interested in being the designer. 

Blog Assignment # 10

The first post was interesting. I really liked the video by Mr. Brown. I understood what he was saying. He dropped out of school because his schooling was interfering with his education. That is so true today in Universities. We copy power points and memorize facts instead of truly learning and applying something to our lives. Professors don't get to know their students and don't allow lots of discussion on topics because the classes are so large. Students are not truly learning information they are just memorizing for a test.
I also agree with what Mr. Brown said about information is beginning to be worth less money. This is so because of the internet, it allows people who are not even high in society access information for free. Where as going to a university used to be the only way that you could get information, you had to pay for it.
This is another example of how more classes should be like EDM 310 and have more ways to communicate about information. We are able to interact with each other outside of class and pass information along and we are truly learning information for ourselves and being able to apply it.

Two questions that could change your life:
I thought this was a really good video, I liked the animation of it. I think those two questions are important to every one's lives. What is your sentence?, and Was I better today than yesterday. I want to strive to become better each day than the day before and be striving to make my sentence truly represent who I am. The sentence I hope I have is: "She was a positive influence on each of her students' lives and help guide them in the right direction in life and school."