My two favorite Web 2.0 sites are are youtube.com and and delicious.com. While I have viewed youtube.com on several occassions I just recently found great usage for it in my classroom within the last year. I use the site to teach everything from science to simply embedding it in presentations during falculty meetings. This site is loaded with music, short clips, and tutorials that can be used for a variety of things in and out of the classroom. Its very simple to use because all you have to do is type in the subject or phrase your looking for, and it pulls up millions of things from cartoons to real life situations.
I am very new to delicious.com and this semester I found it to be a great tool for me to look for material for my class. The entire time I was creating my bookmarks I was thinking "where has this been all my life?" This site saves you a lot of time researching for things over and over again. There have been so many instances where I have found a fabulous site to use for school or even just personally and I am never able to find it again once I'm finished using it.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Week 4
My two favorite examples of multimedia from chapter six were interactive books/eBooks and wikis spaces. Interactive books and eBooks can be incorporated on many different levels in the classroom. This could help the teacher build up student confidence in reading books aloud during class because they can hear them online first. It helps with showing children to read with expression and also enhances the desire to read, because its more hands on in the manner of technology. Wiki spaces are great for students and teachers alike. These spaces create and open an online community of collaboration, ideas, and interest for students and teachers. Since students are able to modify areas of the wiki assignment skills are learned in technology and even social education in the way of teaching them to respect others.
Week 3
Examples of drill and practice software includes Super Kids Math Worksheet Creator, A Plus Math, and Chemistry Drill and Practice Tutorials. All of these sites could be used in the classroom to create worksheets for low achievers and/or to allow high achieving students to challenge themselves even more.
Tutorial Software like www.lynda.com and www.educate-me.net/ are sites that the teacher could use to help assist him or her in teaching the students. Sometimes we create lessons that doesn't work to our benefit and we have to take the next step and find other resources to help assist us. For instance with lynda.com you can view a tutorial on photography which could help you in a lesson of season changes.
Prezi.com is the perfect example of simulation software. When you first enter the program they automatically prompt you to complete the simulation to show you how to maneuver through the system. I found prezi to be extremely interactive and could use this in my classroom instead of power point presentations. Students could easily create a summary about Little Red Riding Hood. The presentation could include major points from the story and they can even insert other versions of the story in their presentations.
Examples of instructional game software includes carrotsticks.com and kidscollege.com are both sites that help enhance students knowledge of math and reading skills by incorporating favorite sports. On kidscollege.com students are able to pick their favorite sport and then begin answering questions on skills their teacher has already covered. I use this as an incentive in my room during the week by letting kids work towards value points for computer time. They love computers and work very hard to gain the points for usage.
Problem solving software like emteachline.com dedicates its site to solving math equations. It takes you step by step to figure out problems after you have attempted to solve them yourself. I would use this in the classroom to allow students to solve math problems in their own way without forcing them to think one way. This would mimic "number talks" that are done with elementary students to figure out different math processes.
Tutorial Software like www.lynda.com and www.educate-me.net/ are sites that the teacher could use to help assist him or her in teaching the students. Sometimes we create lessons that doesn't work to our benefit and we have to take the next step and find other resources to help assist us. For instance with lynda.com you can view a tutorial on photography which could help you in a lesson of season changes.
Prezi.com is the perfect example of simulation software. When you first enter the program they automatically prompt you to complete the simulation to show you how to maneuver through the system. I found prezi to be extremely interactive and could use this in my classroom instead of power point presentations. Students could easily create a summary about Little Red Riding Hood. The presentation could include major points from the story and they can even insert other versions of the story in their presentations.
Examples of instructional game software includes carrotsticks.com and kidscollege.com are both sites that help enhance students knowledge of math and reading skills by incorporating favorite sports. On kidscollege.com students are able to pick their favorite sport and then begin answering questions on skills their teacher has already covered. I use this as an incentive in my room during the week by letting kids work towards value points for computer time. They love computers and work very hard to gain the points for usage.
Problem solving software like emteachline.com dedicates its site to solving math equations. It takes you step by step to figure out problems after you have attempted to solve them yourself. I would use this in the classroom to allow students to solve math problems in their own way without forcing them to think one way. This would mimic "number talks" that are done with elementary students to figure out different math processes.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Week 2
Three of the issues shaping technology discussed in the book was reflecting on the past, considering the present, and looking ahed to the future. Reflecting on the past shows where the field began and helps us to understnd where it is headed and why. Looking over changes in the field provides a foundation to build more useful structures for later modern education. Considering the present involves two factors which is available technology resources and perspectives on how to make use of them. Last but not least looking ahead to the future involves societal conditions changing rapidly.
Three things that we have learned from the past history of educational technology is the fact that no technology is a panacea for education, technically possible doesnt equal desirable, feasible, or inevitable, and computer literacy offers a limited intergration rationale. Having technolgy resources has taught us that having the most up to date material doesn't give us a quick fix. Beginning with more realistic expectations gives us more success in teaching and learning. Technology is limited to what it is needed for. Parents want their children exposed to technology because they think that it will prepare them for the work place, but the truth is that there must be a need for application in our current system of education.
Three things that we have learned from the past history of educational technology is the fact that no technology is a panacea for education, technically possible doesnt equal desirable, feasible, or inevitable, and computer literacy offers a limited intergration rationale. Having technolgy resources has taught us that having the most up to date material doesn't give us a quick fix. Beginning with more realistic expectations gives us more success in teaching and learning. Technology is limited to what it is needed for. Parents want their children exposed to technology because they think that it will prepare them for the work place, but the truth is that there must be a need for application in our current system of education.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Introduction/Week 1
Hello!
My name is Candice A. Morris and I live here in the Birmingham area. I have a beautiful four year old son named Kameron. I currently work in the Birmingham City School System where I have been for the last three years. This is my first year teaching both a fourth and fifth grade reading class, as I am use to teaching a self contained fifth grade class.
This is my first time attempting an online class, but so far so good! I plan to finish my master's at the end of this year and then later pursue the area of education administration.
I don't really know if I'm particularly into technology the way the rest of the world is these days, but I do enjoy the technology provided to me at my new school. We have equipment that blows me away like the Promethean Board. This board is full of interactive play for the students to be apart of the lessons, gives me countless hours of enhancers for lessons, and seems to be the way of the world right now.
I enjoy writing poetry and have even submitted two pieces to be published a few years ago! I look forward to learning about technology and how to use it in education during this course, and I'm sure I'll learn that I am waaay behind the times still ;-)
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My name is Candice A. Morris and I live here in the Birmingham area. I have a beautiful four year old son named Kameron. I currently work in the Birmingham City School System where I have been for the last three years. This is my first year teaching both a fourth and fifth grade reading class, as I am use to teaching a self contained fifth grade class.
This is my first time attempting an online class, but so far so good! I plan to finish my master's at the end of this year and then later pursue the area of education administration.
I don't really know if I'm particularly into technology the way the rest of the world is these days, but I do enjoy the technology provided to me at my new school. We have equipment that blows me away like the Promethean Board. This board is full of interactive play for the students to be apart of the lessons, gives me countless hours of enhancers for lessons, and seems to be the way of the world right now.
I enjoy writing poetry and have even submitted two pieces to be published a few years ago! I look forward to learning about technology and how to use it in education during this course, and I'm sure I'll learn that I am waaay behind the times still ;-)
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