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.