I used teachhub.com to find an educational blog. The one that I found postd helpful ideas on how to best prepare for yours and your students' absences to try and make things easier for you the teacher. You can read my comment by clicking the link below:
TeachHub Blog
There were many ideas that I liked in this article including the common info sheet for the sub, creating different (and slightly harder assignments) for the absentee, and making the homework available to students a week in advance by posting it online (resonates with my tech in ed class) to make it easier for students to keep up.
I also liked that I saw content area from two of my classes reflected in the material of the blog. In classrooom management, we are all about installing procedures to make your life easier, and this was a large emphasis in this blog. Also, for tech in ed, it was suggested that homework be put up a week at a time so that students can keep up the best they can when they are gone.
I hope that my comment (it was the first one) encouraged the writer in the ideas that she was putting out. I commented on my status as a student and the overlap that I saw with classes that I am currently taking. I also commented about the ideas that I really liked. However, I think what contributed the most to a community of learners was my comment about other methods that we've learned about preventing headaches for teachers due to absences by using tech resources such as videos and the SMART board.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Week 10-NU Educators Panel
Here are some potential questions that I can ask the NU educators panel tomorrow in class:
1)Before entering the classroom, did you desire to integrate technology into your teaching? If so, are you as successful as you thought that you would be? Any unexpected challenges?
2)How much did student teaching prepare you for the classroom?
3)Are you ever intimidated by your student's knowledge of technology?
1)Before entering the classroom, did you desire to integrate technology into your teaching? If so, are you as successful as you thought that you would be? Any unexpected challenges?
2)How much did student teaching prepare you for the classroom?
3)Are you ever intimidated by your student's knowledge of technology?
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Assignment #3-Toolbox
For this assignment I chose to use Delicious to make my toolbox. The account was free and easy to set up. In fact, I wish that this was one of the first things that I had done so that I could have been saving websites throughout the semester to my account. Here is the link to my Delicious page:
My Delicious
So far, I haven't really done that much to organize my toolbox. However, the Delicious program makes it very easy to find things by allowing users to tag their websites. I can tag a website based on its content so I can quickly find sites relevant to the topic that I am looking for. Delicious also lists my top ten tags at the right side of the page. Some of my most popular tags are education, high school, science, and technology. So far, I've added sites that would be relevant to my future career. It's easiest to start by looking at websites that are most popular and have similar tags that you are looking for.
The toolbox will be a great way to save helpful webpages. These could be webpages that I am currently using for a unit or webpages that I come across that i could use in the future. This way, I will easily be able to access these webpages without the frustrating struggle of trying to relocate it when I need it. Delicious is helpful because you can find people who have similar tags as you so you can see there tags as they might have some helpful webpages that you haven't found yet. Other teachers can easily access my Delicious page to find resources that I have found helpful.
My Delicious
So far, I haven't really done that much to organize my toolbox. However, the Delicious program makes it very easy to find things by allowing users to tag their websites. I can tag a website based on its content so I can quickly find sites relevant to the topic that I am looking for. Delicious also lists my top ten tags at the right side of the page. Some of my most popular tags are education, high school, science, and technology. So far, I've added sites that would be relevant to my future career. It's easiest to start by looking at websites that are most popular and have similar tags that you are looking for.
The toolbox will be a great way to save helpful webpages. These could be webpages that I am currently using for a unit or webpages that I come across that i could use in the future. This way, I will easily be able to access these webpages without the frustrating struggle of trying to relocate it when I need it. Delicious is helpful because you can find people who have similar tags as you so you can see there tags as they might have some helpful webpages that you haven't found yet. Other teachers can easily access my Delicious page to find resources that I have found helpful.
Week 9-"Caught on Video"
There were a lot of really cool ideas of ways to incorporate videos into the classroom that Rob Spankle talked about in his blog "Caught on Video".
There were many ideas about how to turn many different aspects of the classroom and being a teacher into an approach that is more interactive. Some of the ideas that stuck out to me were 1) making video "newsletters" to send home that the kids help to make. Kids are more likely to make sure their parents see the video than hand them a typical newsletter. Record questions students have about a unit before it begins and later tape them answering the questions themselves after the unit has completed, 3) Film hooks outside of the classroom to relate lessons to the outside world and grab students attention, 4) make a video for a sub that will fill in to you where you can refer him/her to previous lesson videos, and 5)Record memories to make a class video at the end of the year.
These were just some of the many ideas that Spankle posted on his blog. When I read through all of them, my first thought was "Isn't this a little overkill? It's going to take so much time to do all of this." However, I don't think that Spnakle was trying to convince teachers that they should incorporate all of these ideas into their classroom, but show them that getting an easy to use and accessible video camera is a good investment because there are so many ways that you could use it. For many things, such as incorporating videos into lesson plans, it will take a lot of work initially, but from then on, it is set with maybe some minor tweaking in the future.
Overall, these ideas were very helpful in helping me to recognize the wide range of applications that a video camera could help to create in a classroom.
There were many ideas about how to turn many different aspects of the classroom and being a teacher into an approach that is more interactive. Some of the ideas that stuck out to me were 1) making video "newsletters" to send home that the kids help to make. Kids are more likely to make sure their parents see the video than hand them a typical newsletter. Record questions students have about a unit before it begins and later tape them answering the questions themselves after the unit has completed, 3) Film hooks outside of the classroom to relate lessons to the outside world and grab students attention, 4) make a video for a sub that will fill in to you where you can refer him/her to previous lesson videos, and 5)Record memories to make a class video at the end of the year.
These were just some of the many ideas that Spankle posted on his blog. When I read through all of them, my first thought was "Isn't this a little overkill? It's going to take so much time to do all of this." However, I don't think that Spnakle was trying to convince teachers that they should incorporate all of these ideas into their classroom, but show them that getting an easy to use and accessible video camera is a good investment because there are so many ways that you could use it. For many things, such as incorporating videos into lesson plans, it will take a lot of work initially, but from then on, it is set with maybe some minor tweaking in the future.
Overall, these ideas were very helpful in helping me to recognize the wide range of applications that a video camera could help to create in a classroom.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Week 8-Active Board
Here is a link to a cool website that aims to help teachers integrate the active board even more into their classrooms:
ActiveBoard
This website is helpful because it aims to help a variety of teachers to become more comfortable with integrating the ActiveBoard into more and more areas of their classroom.
There is an introduction and a review of some basic tools and techniques, but then the website splits off into links that take you to Activeboard material that relates to specific topical content. These included the arts, English and language arts, EAL, math, science, social studies, etc.
There were science resources that were available for grades K-12. This link provided resources of core curriculum that teachers can use to implement in their own classroom to save time and use creative content. It was the same concept of the SMART Board lessons that we looked up a few weeks ago.
ActiveBoard
This website is helpful because it aims to help a variety of teachers to become more comfortable with integrating the ActiveBoard into more and more areas of their classroom.
There is an introduction and a review of some basic tools and techniques, but then the website splits off into links that take you to Activeboard material that relates to specific topical content. These included the arts, English and language arts, EAL, math, science, social studies, etc.
There were science resources that were available for grades K-12. This link provided resources of core curriculum that teachers can use to implement in their own classroom to save time and use creative content. It was the same concept of the SMART Board lessons that we looked up a few weeks ago.
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