The Final Project

https://sites.google.com/site/thefinalinfotechproject/home

when i become a teacher video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmJVV-9H8uw

Webquest

https://sites.google.com/site/storieswiththealphabet/

webquest questions

1. The two best examples of the webquest are the Underground Railroad, and the Egyptian webquest.
 The unraveling the underground railroad was well put together, and would make learning the infromation for the students fun, with the way it almost put you in the tasks that it asked you
The ancient egypt webquest was pact ful of facts, which made it easy to not have to stray from the page to look up information.
2. The two webquests that seemed to be the worst, was the Where is my hero?, and We all scream for ice cream. Both of these were chosen beause that lact any reason of why we need to learn this
3. The best in my book mean that the person put forth the effort to there max ability, and used common sense. The worst by my definition means that there was a total lack of motivation, and effort.

Importance of Blogging

1) i enjoy blogging for this course because it is quick, easy, and something new from my other classes.
2) Keeping a blog can make you a more effective teacher in that you can always go and look back at your past lessons and responses from your students
3) I will probably not continue after the class is over with, but i will continue to blog on a more personal level.
4) Collective Intelligence- is really the easiest thing to see when keeping up with a blog, because you can see everybody's thoughts, views, and opinions. If somebody posts about a touchy subject, whether it deals with school, or just life in general, you can compare everybody's views to really see how people feel about the subject.

Wikipedia question

1. wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative,mulitlingual encyclopedia, and is also non-profit
2. i would think that wiki is pretty reliable because who would really spend that much time putting false facts in the pages.
3. the creators put their trust in really anybody who wants to put the info out there, and trust that it is correct
4. because of reports of child pornography
5. i think that abuse or vandalism would look like the "real" facts about the subject on the page, that way people wouldnt really catch it at first.
6. that statistics show that people trust other peoples word, or that that the users do not know that anybody can apply information
7.wiki is so successful because it is free, easy to use, and can answer just about any question the user wants to know.
8. if the creators accept advertising then eventually wiki would charge the users to look up info.
9. wikiscanner looks up everything and anything to validate the information that is being posted.

Webstite Evaluation

The people who have run this site are Anima Benett and Vincent Guinan.

The information on the web is given clearly but in a way that makes the site seem factual.

There are links that give a clear biography of the people that run the site

There is also contact information if you would like to email the runners

It is a ".com" site so you automatically know that anybody could have started the site.

I actually looked further into the information that was given on the site to make sure i completly understood what the site runners where trying to get across

TodaysMeet

Question 5

The most peaked would be Series 1 column 8
The least peaked would be Series 1 column 1
Series 1 column 4, 10, 12
Series 2 column 10, 12

Less Work=More Work

Educators face enormous challenges in preparing their students to be critical online readers. For the most part, the teaching of critical-thinking skills is not part of the regular curriculum, and printed text is still considered the mainstay of school reading. Moreover, many recent studies identify persistent barriers to integrating new technologies into instruction, including lack of training and help for teachers and insufficient access to functioning technology (Cuban, 2002; Zhao & Frank, 2003). My thoughts: Benefits from teaching with a more technological view i feel can and will ultimately make gets actually take the time to work and study. We all know how much students like to read out of text books and how much they love spending their parents hard earned cash to buy the 300 dollar books. If more school would buckle down on doing more computer web based assignments in and out of the class it would also help the students from using the excuse "the library is to far, or i dont have time to sit there all night" if the class had an web bases option such as a blog then the students could do everything from the comfort of their home if they so choose. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.google.com/imgres?q=teaching online&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1919&bih=902&tbm=isch&tbnid=IIiKOnqfifFY3M:&imgrefurl=http://k12onlineteachers.wordpress.com/&docid=Cpc1u9toFdrwnM&w=340&h=246&ei=ElGSTrqxDIiEsAKrgNHbAw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=216&vpy=176&dur=592&hovh=176&hovw=247&tx=136&ty=80&page=1&tbnh=169&tbnw=240&start=0&ndsp=33&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0

Education Weekly

Picture is worth a thousand words

People	Objects	Activities
Obama	American Flag	Big Wigs Smile
Coast Guard Scouts	Casual Dressed Big Wigs	Walking in a line
Random Asian	Concrete barriers	Scouts Taking watch
Coast Guard Admn	Navy Boat	Sleeves rolled up

When looking at this picture i see President Obama walking with other Gov. officials as well as the Admn of the Ship. The President and the officials he is waling with all seem very cheery and up beat with the smiles on their faces.

1.Does the President Feel Confedent that he is doing everything that he can to help the disaster?
2.Does everybody have a smile on their face?
3.Why are the presidents sleeves rolled up to show he is doing "work"?

Looking at this picture i notice for one, the president looks very uneasy. the pres. also looks as if his mind is going 1000 miles an hour. The Focous is also on him an not on the map of the Gulf.
1. What is the President thinking
2.Where is the President
3.Whats in the Background

People	Objects	Activities
The President	Digital Map of the Gulf	Worried, Stressed, Concerned
A citizen of the US	Highlights of Major effected areas on the map	Brainstorming
A leader

Board video project

Always has and Always will

Whether texting conventions are supported by organized spelling reformists or not, can they possibly solve the difficulty of spelling our troublesome language? David Crystal, the author of “Txtng: The Gr8 Db8,” told me in an e-mail message that “there’s nothing in texting to suggest spelling reform,” noting that texting relies heavily on abbreviations, which he sees as creative stylings, not systematic improvements. He added that there is very little that is new about most of the abbreviations and lexical shortenings that make texting so maddening to so many. In fact, he said, with the exception of a few recent coinages like LOL, “virtually all the commonly used ones can be found in English a century ago.” For example, bn (been), btwn (between) and wd (would) can all be found in a 1942 dictionary of abbreviations.


Thought:
After reading this i thought to myself the majority of people these days are just ignorant at the fact language changes constantly and will continue to do so for the rest of time. the fact that this passage says that bn and btwn can be found in the dictionary proves that this ignorance. people need to accept change. going with the flow of change is much easier than going against the flow.

Picassohead

The VARK test Showed me that i was a hands on ask question visual learner.

My learning style

after taking the learning test i found out that i am more of a hands on person who perfers to see,watch, listen and ask questions to be able to learn. i found this test to be very acurate, it got me down to the T.

Gaining Students attention

After reading more into what wordle and poll everywhere was, i noticed that the teachers that were using it were using it for a better reaction from their students. Using Wordle to help describe themselves and using Poll everywhere to allow the students imput on how they felt about a subject. Wordle talkes random words put into it and displays the words in a fun and colorful way. Poll everywhere takes a question and does exactly what the title of the site is called and makes a poll of the question.

As part of our introduction for exploring wikis as a learning tool and social media as tools for learning, I integrated a Poll Everywhere multiple choice poll asking students to vote on the form of social media or social networking they used most often.  I created a tab for each class period (5th and 7th) for student voting using LibGuides and integrated widgets for the polls into each page.   I gave students the option of either texting their responses, using the mobile phone voting feature, or for those who did not have cell phones, a web-based voting option.  An undercurrent of excitement and surprise pulsed throughout the lab as students looked at me in disbelief and asked, “Can we really use our cell phones to vote?”   I smiled with great pride when one student looked at me and said, “What kind of teacher are you?”  Not only did this activity engage students in conversation and participation in the learning activity, but it also set the tone for the semester that we would be creating learning experiences different from the typical mainstream classroom.

What this teacher did was 1 got the students excited about being able to use cellphones so they now think that teacher is cool. 2 because the students could use something that they were familure with, they were more involved. and 3 beause the students were not doing the same old boring things that they were used to, they were able try something new and really be excited about doing it.

History Repeats Itself (Scribbles in the past=Scribbles in the Future)

Are instant messaging and text messaging killing language? To hear what the popular media say, a handful of OMGs (oh my god) and smiley faces, along with a paucity of capital letters and punctuation marks, might be bringing English to its knees. Response:      Things Change with time, and most will agree that language is one of the things that change. From the time of Shakespeare till now, look at how much the english language has changed. we dont use thy, thee, and words like that anymore. does that mean that since that time till now the english language has been brought to its knees? No as said before things change with time. Iv also heard of history repeating itself, mostly commonly with war and disease, but what if it also meant with language? you look at greek symbols and old sanskrit it all looks like a bunch of scratches and shapes, but it was still a official written language and was read and written by people daily. Its 2011 and are language is changing. and time is money. so if it takes less time to type brb than it does be right back, that alone could save somebody a couple grand or so.....maybe.

What Kind of Teacher i Want to Be!

Should having people have to have a license to have children?

http://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/MjEwNjE2MTA4Nw/web

Mondays Poll

Click here to view my poll on child licenses.

Mondays Poll

http://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/MjEwNjE2MTA4Nw/web

World Could Change for Worse. 2012?

Simply put, we can’t keep preparing students for a world that doesn’t exist. We can’t keep ignoring the formidable cognitive skills they’re developing on their own. And above all, we must stop disparaging digital prowess just because some of us over 40 don’t happen to possess it. An institutional grudge match with the young can sabotage an entire culture. (LastHeffernan, VH. (2011, August 07). Education needs a digital-age upgrade. Retrieved from http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/education-needs-a-digital-age-upgrade/?hp

http://www.mayanpredictions.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Does-the-World-really-come-to-an-End-in-2012-300x122.jpg

Reaction:

Is technology really helping us? yes i understand that it is growing everyday, but i also fear that if we are not careful and rely on it with absolutely everything that we do in our lives that one day if something was to happen and we were reverted back to no power, no fuel, no iphones we might not be able to hold our own anymore. Teaching our children the importance of technology and how to use it is very important yes, but i just feel we need to be careful about how we do it.