Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
ISTE/NETS for digital storytelling
This is a link to a website that I found for lesson plans. Its based on my science major, and looked pretty interesting. The class will get to use the internet and another program, Microsoft Worldwide Telescope (WWT) to look at the stars and different constellations. This should take about five days to finish the project. During the project students will observe the stars on the internet and the WWT website. In the project the students can look at the size and shape, its brightness, color and mass. At the end of this project the students will make a WWT tour telling the information that they found out about the stars and then share their tour with other class members. I think that this type of project would fit into 1c. of the ISTE/NETS.
How does digital story-telling support learning in schools? This is the link to my concept map for digital story-telling.
"What does digital storytelling offer education? The answer is a "great deal", if we do two things: focus on the story first and the digital medium later; and use digital storytelling to enhance students' skills in critical thinking. Ohler, J. 2005. The World of Digital Storytelling. Retrieved from: http://www.jasonohler.com/pdfs/digitalStorytellingArticle1-2006.pdf
How does digital story-telling support learning in schools? This is the link to my concept map for digital story-telling.
"What does digital storytelling offer education? The answer is a "great deal", if we do two things: focus on the story first and the digital medium later; and use digital storytelling to enhance students' skills in critical thinking. Ohler, J. 2005. The World of Digital Storytelling. Retrieved from: http://www.jasonohler.com/pdfs/digitalStorytellingArticle1-2006.pdf
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
the world of art
Quote:
In the digital age, art skills are not just good for the soul, but they provide, in the words of Elliot Eisner (1988), "access to cultural capital" and ultimately, access to employment.
Response:
I have always been one of those people that thought art in schools is important. I really like how this article gives another perspective of how art can be used in class rooms. Its great to be able to have the technology to have kids do digital stories in the class or to have them use the computers to make new forms of art. I think that we should give children every possible tool to learn with, and digital media and art are on top of that list. Computers are not going away, if anything they are getting better and better everyday. And kids are going to need to know how to use it, because this i believe is where the jobs are going to be.
Link:
http://www.squidoo.com/learndigitalpainting
Citations:
Ohler, J. (2000). Art becomes the next r.Educational Leadership, 58(2), 16-19.
Hamby, G. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.squidoo.com/learndigitalpainting
In the digital age, art skills are not just good for the soul, but they provide, in the words of Elliot Eisner (1988), "access to cultural capital" and ultimately, access to employment.
Response:
I have always been one of those people that thought art in schools is important. I really like how this article gives another perspective of how art can be used in class rooms. Its great to be able to have the technology to have kids do digital stories in the class or to have them use the computers to make new forms of art. I think that we should give children every possible tool to learn with, and digital media and art are on top of that list. Computers are not going away, if anything they are getting better and better everyday. And kids are going to need to know how to use it, because this i believe is where the jobs are going to be.
Link:
http://www.squidoo.com/learndigitalpainting
Citations:
Ohler, J. (2000). Art becomes the next r.Educational Leadership, 58(2), 16-19.
Hamby, G. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.squidoo.com/learndigitalpainting
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
To Change or not To Change??
Quote:
“Our present aim is to raise awareness of the problems caused by the irregularity of English spelling. We DO NOT support solutions.”(Shea, 2010).
Reaction:
After reading the article I have mixed feelings. I think that there could be things done to improve spelling scores for students. There have been suggestions that the spelling of certain words be changed so they are spelled more like they sound. My question for that would be, when do you start this if it were to ever happen? How do you tell people that the way they have been spelling words is no longer the way to spell them. Some suggest that text lingo will help with the spelling reform. That it will help people to recognize that the spelling of words need to be easier. I'm not sure that I agree that people sending texts will help to reform anything, I may totally be wrong and sometime in my teaching career I may see a change in spelling.
Related Link:
http://englishspellingproblems.blogspot.com/2010/05/who-decides-how-we-spell.html
Reference:
Shea, A. (2010, january 22). The keyboard solution. The New York Times Magazine.
“Our present aim is to raise awareness of the problems caused by the irregularity of English spelling. We DO NOT support solutions.”(Shea, 2010).
Reaction:
After reading the article I have mixed feelings. I think that there could be things done to improve spelling scores for students. There have been suggestions that the spelling of certain words be changed so they are spelled more like they sound. My question for that would be, when do you start this if it were to ever happen? How do you tell people that the way they have been spelling words is no longer the way to spell them. Some suggest that text lingo will help with the spelling reform. That it will help people to recognize that the spelling of words need to be easier. I'm not sure that I agree that people sending texts will help to reform anything, I may totally be wrong and sometime in my teaching career I may see a change in spelling.
Related Link:
http://englishspellingproblems.blogspot.com/2010/05/who-decides-how-we-spell.html
Reference:
Shea, A. (2010, january 22). The keyboard solution. The New York Times Magazine.
My husbands comic
I went home from class today and was telling my husband about the comic that we made today in class. I showed him the one that Shana and I made and he laughed at it, which is the point so that was good. So he wanted to make his own, and this is what he made. I hope everyone gets it.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Learning style test
After taking the learning style test, it says that my highest way of learning is aural, meaning that I learn better from hearing things in a lecture situation . Also I had a high score in kinesthetic meaning that I learn well after doing things over and over. I was surprised to see that visual was my lowest score. I've never really thought about how I prefer to learn but I don't really like to use graphs or charts. Its not that I don't like them, I just seem to not use them. I love to read and try new things and that is where my scores are higher.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Facilitate and inspire students learning and creativity
Wordle (a text analysis tool) that compiles the answers or thoughts of someone. What we used it for in class was to post everyones answers from our question that we ask on Poll Everywhere, whis is an audience respose tool. We had to come up with a question that we wanted to know about the other students in the class.
Using Wordle and Poll Everwhere in my class.
From what we have done so far in class and what I have read online about using wordle and poll everywhere, I am really looking forward to using it in a classroom. I think that they are going to be great tools to help the kids learn and get to know one another. But more importantly help me to understand how the kids learn and what interests them adn helps them learning. I plan to teach science, I think that its going to be great for when we do experiments to post the answers.
I think that these tools will engage the students and allow them to become more creative and inspired when doing their work, answering questions and turning in homework.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Quote:
"In thinking about the effects of new communication media on language, we need to distinguish between "may fly" language (here today, gone tomorrow) and changes that are more substantial."(Baron, 2009)
Reaction:
After reading the article, I was kinda surprised. I figured that with all the texts messages and emails that people send and receive, that there would be more misuses of spelling and grammar. The studies that are in the article about how many college students actually spell out words instead of using lingo or shortened words is interesting. I thought for sure that it would be a lot higher because they are always in a hurry to get stuff done and not wanting to type out the entire word. I have a young son and he texts all the time, and there are several times when he will text me and I don't know what he is saying with some of the abbreviations.
Reference:
Baron, N(2009). Are digital media changing language?. Educational Leadership,66(6), 42-46.
Related Source:
link
Since the article was talking about how things such as sending texts and Facebook was changing how we use language and words, I thought it would be good to see what I could find on the subject.
"In thinking about the effects of new communication media on language, we need to distinguish between "may fly" language (here today, gone tomorrow) and changes that are more substantial."(Baron, 2009)
Reaction:
After reading the article, I was kinda surprised. I figured that with all the texts messages and emails that people send and receive, that there would be more misuses of spelling and grammar. The studies that are in the article about how many college students actually spell out words instead of using lingo or shortened words is interesting. I thought for sure that it would be a lot higher because they are always in a hurry to get stuff done and not wanting to type out the entire word. I have a young son and he texts all the time, and there are several times when he will text me and I don't know what he is saying with some of the abbreviations.
Reference:
Baron, N(2009). Are digital media changing language?. Educational Leadership,66(6), 42-46.
Related Source:
link
Since the article was talking about how things such as sending texts and Facebook was changing how we use language and words, I thought it would be good to see what I could find on the subject.
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