Monday, September 20, 2010
Flip Video!
When I become a elementary school teacher and have my own class room, I will assign a oral presentation some time throughout the year. I think it would be a great idea to you a flip video to record there presentations. The students would know what they need to work on. It would also help the teacher when they were grading.
What is a Wiki?
"A wiki is a database of pages which visitors can edit live."
The building blocks of wikis are the "comments" from visitors.
You can generally edit a page in real time, search the wiki's content, and view updates since your last visit. In a "moderated wiki," wiki owners review comments before addition to the main body of a topic. Additional features can include calendar sharing, live AV conferencing, RSS feeds and more.
http://www.wiki.com/whatiswiki.htm
Wiki's would be very useful in a classroom. Wiki's helping kids be creative expecially, the students that don't talk a lot. Also, it is great for students and teachers to swap ideas with each other about projects. Some pro's about Wiki is that it for the most part gives a good summary of information for the students. Students can post comments about what they learned. Some con's about Wiki is that any one can post information on there and it may not always be true.
The building blocks of wikis are the "comments" from visitors.
You can generally edit a page in real time, search the wiki's content, and view updates since your last visit. In a "moderated wiki," wiki owners review comments before addition to the main body of a topic. Additional features can include calendar sharing, live AV conferencing, RSS feeds and more.
http://www.wiki.com/whatiswiki.htm
Wiki's would be very useful in a classroom. Wiki's helping kids be creative expecially, the students that don't talk a lot. Also, it is great for students and teachers to swap ideas with each other about projects. Some pro's about Wiki is that it for the most part gives a good summary of information for the students. Students can post comments about what they learned. Some con's about Wiki is that any one can post information on there and it may not always be true.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Questions on pgs 51, 53, 57, 58.
Pg. 51
1. Mia's problem is she isan't sure she has enough backround knowledge to develop a more meaningful project.
2. The evidence is that the students are making disparaging comments about people from other nationalities.
3. The relative advantage is that it is hard for students to demean people who look and talk different from you when you've worked with them and gotten to know them.
4. She is so impressed with the method she is going to try it in her own classroom.
Pg. 53
1.I think Mia should have all the students evalute the rubric really good when you assign the report and she should tell them that she is going to take grade according to that rubric.
2.What they learned after the project? Would they ever want to travel there in the future? Would they like to do this same activity with another country?
Pg. 57
1. Mia would have to arrange the Computer Lab.
2.Mia would have to tell her students that they can not give there partners any personal information.They can only give there name and what they like to do. Not there home address or anything there parents would not want them to tell.
3. The students can do handout or other excerices. Or they could read and study for a project.
pg. 58
1.Next time Mia could make them proof read there parper better. She could also go over common mistakes.
2.Mia could have all there students do a survey about the project. She could make sure that a few of the students aren't slacking or something in that sort.
3.I would say it is not a good idea because it take time away from the kids when they get to learn about there culture. Also it doesn't make it there project when someone else finishes it.
1. Mia's problem is she isan't sure she has enough backround knowledge to develop a more meaningful project.
2. The evidence is that the students are making disparaging comments about people from other nationalities.
3. The relative advantage is that it is hard for students to demean people who look and talk different from you when you've worked with them and gotten to know them.
4. She is so impressed with the method she is going to try it in her own classroom.
Pg. 53
1.I think Mia should have all the students evalute the rubric really good when you assign the report and she should tell them that she is going to take grade according to that rubric.
2.What they learned after the project? Would they ever want to travel there in the future? Would they like to do this same activity with another country?
Pg. 57
1. Mia would have to arrange the Computer Lab.
2.Mia would have to tell her students that they can not give there partners any personal information.They can only give there name and what they like to do. Not there home address or anything there parents would not want them to tell.
3. The students can do handout or other excerices. Or they could read and study for a project.
pg. 58
1.Next time Mia could make them proof read there parper better. She could also go over common mistakes.
2.Mia could have all there students do a survey about the project. She could make sure that a few of the students aren't slacking or something in that sort.
3.I would say it is not a good idea because it take time away from the kids when they get to learn about there culture. Also it doesn't make it there project when someone else finishes it.
Monday, September 13, 2010
What is a blog?
A blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent post at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.(http://www.problogger.net/) Blogs would be great to use in elementary class rooms for many reasons such as: having students keep a jounal, helping them with typing, and teachers can have their students do assignments. There are both pros and cons about Blogging. Some pros are, you can express how you feel daily without wrighting it down and, it's easy way to keep track. It helps students to learn how to use a computer and, helps them to learn how to type. It is also a nice technique that it saves automatically on http://www.blogger.com/. Some cons are, students using blogging for a bad causes and, posting things that young children do not need to be reading. Also, some people are not good with computers and , they don't want to be so, blogging wouldn't be a good hobby for them.
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