tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48092580613919489322024-03-18T21:45:26.814-05:00Brooke Ladnier's EDM310 Class BlogBrooke Ladnierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06061945798188011356noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809258061391948932.post-17585897899585780122012-05-07T00:02:00.000-05:002012-05-07T00:45:15.982-05:00Blog Post # 14-Final Reflection Video<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JNGi0esKLow" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Brooke Ladnierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06061945798188011356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809258061391948932.post-81804770397901279032012-05-06T23:53:00.000-05:002012-05-07T00:01:59.995-05:00Project 13 & 15 collaborationFor projects 13 and 15, we basically used Skype. We used email and texting to discuss when we would meet to record and we used skype to discuss all of our lesson that we were going to do on the smartboard. The biggest issue that we had was figuring out our meeting times. That's always an issue, especially when you have 4 college students working on a project, two of which are Mom's. We figured it out though and we got our project done. We all worked around each others schedule. Skype was easier than using chat or something like that because we could see each other's faces and let's face it, sometimes talking is better than chatting!Skype was a lifesaver!
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During the course of this semester I have learned many things that have to do with technology. I never knew that there were so many websites that I could visit that would allow me to retrieve information. Google has become my new best friend. On some of my projects that I worked on during the semester required group work. Skype was a big help for this because we could meet online without actually having to go to class. I have heard that google hangout was pretty cool, but I never tried using it. I guess I will have to do that soon. I used symbaloo to create my own PLN, which is a personal learning network. The one I posted above is what I have so far. I am sure that I will add to it over the years. I use all of these things to help me learn in some way or another. Of course I mentioned skype, but twitter has helped a lot as well and so has facebook. These are both easy ways to communicate with other students or teachers and get advice from them. I hope to be able to update it every year as I learn more about things. </div>Brooke Ladnierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06061945798188011356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809258061391948932.post-91427541879589834802012-04-24T12:04:00.000-05:002012-04-24T12:04:38.610-05:00Blog Post 13<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I first read this assignment, I was not happy at all. I didn't think that there was any way that I could get by without using my cell phone, watching television, or using my computer or iPod(especially for facebook) for 24 hours. I didn't like the fact that this was an assignment. I didn't know how long I would make it either. I have a boyfriend who I don't get to communicate much with except by text messaging throughout the day because he has a full time job as well as children that he has with him every day. I also have a 3 year old that my mother keeps for me while I am at school. I didn't like the fact that I wouldn't be able to stay in touch with her throughout the day to see how their day was going. On the first day I made it a few hours before I gave in and returned a text. There is just no way that I could look at my phone and see that I had a text message and not return it. It was hard for me. So I started over. On the second day I did make it a little farther because I was home all day that day, but my son likes to watch television at night, so I gave in and watched a little bit of tv with him before he went to bed. My third and final day was so hard. I had made it so far the second day so I had to struggle through this last day. It really made me realize how dependent I am on technology. I am sad to say that I didn't make it through my final day either. I had to use my computer to check to see if some emails had come through because I had recently filled out some job applications. I was ashamed to find that I was so dependent on technology to get me through my day. I don't know what I would do if something happened to where we didn't have this readily available to us every day. I guess I would find other things to take time off of my hands. I think that when students arrive in my classroom they will sneak to use their cell phones(just like I have done numerous times). I think they will feel like I did these past three days. It's hard to not have the freedom that you want. I was used to using my phone, computer, and iPod on almost an hourly basis, and for me not to be able to do it felt awful. I think that I will be able to identify with my students more so now that I have done this exercise than I would have before.Brooke Ladnierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06061945798188011356noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809258061391948932.post-1747192189345963502012-04-24T11:50:00.000-05:002012-04-24T11:51:03.188-05:00C4T for 4/29<b><a href="http://www.brianbennett.org/blog/ugly-learning/"><span style="color: cyan;">Ugly Learning by Brian Bennett</span></a></b><br />
<b>This post was about how Mr. Bennett was speaking on behalf of new teachers. He stated that we did not need to judge our teaching on our students grades. He says that we are stuck in a day in age where students want to be "pretty". Messy is bad in other words. Mistakes aren't good. He said that we needed to embrace the fact that learning is caused by mistakes. I agreed with him. We learn by trial and error. If we never make mistakes then we can never learn anything and we need to apply this with our students as well as our teaching. Making mistakes in our teaching can only make us more experienced teachers in the long run. </b><br />
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<b>This post was about how Mr. Bennet believes that to create an effective study guide we should allow for room for error. He gives a few steps to creating an effective study guide. He doesn't think that a teacher should give a grade for the study guide, but that it should be praised for being completed. He also thought that students shouldn't be given study guides to memorize that had facts, but one that encouraged analytical and critical thinking skills. I agreed with this because there have been numerous times when I have had a test and was given a study guide and I just memorized the whole thing. I never had to actually think about what I was writing, so once I got into college I was blown away at the fact that I wasn't going to be spoon fed anymore. I also love how he encourages mistakes. Mistakes are what help children learn, and when they make mistakes and they aren't totally blasted for it, then it teaches them to learn from their mistakes instead of thinking that the world over because they messed up one time. </b><br />
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<b><br /></b><br />Brooke Ladnierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06061945798188011356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809258061391948932.post-52949662254581523842012-04-22T18:34:00.002-05:002012-04-22T18:34:41.033-05:00Blog Post #12One of the assignments that I think we should have been assigned to do this semester is to<br />
1) watch the video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9YwCeGpeI0" style="color: cyan; font-weight: bold;">"The Importance of Writing Skills: Online Tools to Encourage Success"</a>,<br />
2)give your opinion of the video, as well as what you learned about the video.<br />
3)to explain the purpose of this video<br />
4)do you think that this video will be useful to you as a teacher.<br />
The purpose in watching this video is to show students how blogging can increase your writing skills as well as show students how much they actually need to know how to write. As a future English teacher, I think that writing is very important for someone to know how to do. I have proofread numerous papers on college levels for my fellow classmates and I have been surprised at their quality, or lack thereof, of writing. It is sad to me that grown adults don't know how to write. I am in no way trying to sound arrogant, but it is easy for me to write papers, but I try to find sympathy for students who can't write as easily as I can.<br />
In this video he states that blogging can greatly improve your writing skills. Using it in the classroom is a great way to do that. He encourages teachers to give it a try. He also talked about something called student interactives, which is a website(read, write, think) where students can go and it gives them things to use to help them work on their writing skills. One of the examples he used was the bubble tool for writing. This is where you group ideas that are similar in bubbles and this helps you construct each paragraph. He also talked about a note taking skills tutorial.<br />
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This helps students take good notes so that they can organize them into a paper at a later date if needed to. It shows them how to outline things, which is helpful while writing a paper. There are many tools that are available on this link. His last example was a "model bank", which was a website with interactive versions of of successful writing in common High School and Middle School formats. I think this is an excellent source of help for students. It gives an example of the paper, and then off to the side it gives examples of what is going on in different areas of the paragraph or essay. This is great, because many students don't know how to put a just a paragraph in chronological order, much less a whole essay.<br />
This video was great. I was very interested in it, of course, because I am a writer. I enjoy writing down information for others to read. Writing papers isn't a big deal to me. I thought that this was a very informative video to show students what the benefits are of blogging, as well as what it means to write well and it gave some successful tools to use for students who aren't good at writing papers.<br />
<br />Brooke Ladnierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06061945798188011356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809258061391948932.post-84438299062882509372012-04-22T18:08:00.001-05:002012-04-22T18:08:06.386-05:00Creativity and Curiosity: My Thoughts-special post 12A<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am a firm believer that schools in the United States do destroy(or inhibit) the development of curiosity and/or creativity in students. Students are taught to learn things by memorizing them and normally when they are taught this way, they usually don't remember the things they are taught. Many students are taught that mistakes are bad. Some mistakes can be bad, but only if you don't learn from them. Schools destroy the development of curiosity by not having teachers that are interested in actually teaching the children. Many students have questions for the teachers, but don't ask because they know that the teacher won't answer them. This mindset is what destroys the curiosity and creativity of many students. I think that a curriculum can be developed that will increase the curiosity of students. One of the things that I would suggest doing is having each student in the class to write down a list of things that interest them at the beginning of the year. Divide students that have things in common up into groups and allow them to work on a project together. I would also try to set the lesson plan up around one item of interest per week at least. That way students would think for themselves and be creative in their projects. They could pretty much do their own things without having much guidance besides their own brains. The curiosity and creativity would both be triggered with this type of lesson plan. A teacher's actions can definitely determine the creativity and curiosity of students. If a teacher doesn't encourage curiosity, then the students won't be creative. It's as simple as that. Students need to be molded, and many teachers aren't interested in that. I think that how a teacher responds to the student will determine how creative/curious students are. If they have a negative reaction, then chances are, that student won't ask anymore questions for fear of looking like an idiot when the teacher isn't encouraging or enthusiastic about their question. So if teachers are more active in the students learning skills, active in their questions, and resilient in answering them, then the students will more than likely have an increase in creativity and curiosity. What would help me be more creative or curious really just depends on the subject. If I am interested in something, then I look up facts and read as many articles on that subject as I can. It's borderline obsessive. So it really has to be something that interests me. Teachers and schools have a major role in this because if they don't encourage my creativity or give me something to be curious about, then I will never learn anything.Brooke Ladnierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06061945798188011356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809258061391948932.post-62037670353947236052012-04-22T17:36:00.000-05:002012-04-22T17:36:16.270-05:00Progress Report on Final ProjectOur group has skyped and discussed about our final project once already and we are planning on meeting to discuss the rest of it this next week after we record our project #15. We have had great teamwork and once we got everyone's schedule worked out, it seemed like everyone pretty much wanted to work together to make sure that this is a good project. Our group members are well coordinated and we seem to have a good bit of communication. We either email one another or text each other a few times a week just to touch base and see where we stand. We have had 3 or 4 group meetings so far.Brooke Ladnierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06061945798188011356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809258061391948932.post-64967167058626240612012-04-19T12:01:00.000-05:002012-04-19T12:01:23.219-05:00C4K for April<b><a href="http://natalieg600.edublogs.org/2012/03/30/global-connections-%E2%80%93-spread-the-word/"><span style="color: cyan;">Natalie's Blog-Global Connections</span></a></b><br />
Natalie's blog post was about how she is trying to get people to translate the Bible into 223 languages that are spoken in The Dominican Republic of the Congo. She seemed very passionate about this and even posted a video that explained what was going on there. There were many women who were raped and their husbands had to leave them because the situation was too dangerous for them to stay with their wives and children. She stated that the Bible can bring healing to so many people, especially those that have experienced warfare. I then told her that I attend a church here in Grand Bay and we take part in mission trips to Guatemala and El Salvador and I had been on 5 mission trips myself. I told her that I understood her passion to bring God's word to people around the world. In the video it stated that the church was being blamed for some of the problems there in the Congo and for some reason someone had said that Christians were killing people there. I asked her if she knew any more details about that part of the video and why they were being blamed.<br />
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This post was mainly about a white tail buck. He just said that he hunted white tail buck with his family and friends and that it was native to Vermont and New England. I told him that I was a hunter myself and that I had killed a few deer in my lifetime. I asked him how many deer he had ever killed as well as if he had ever killed buck and how big it was if so. I also encouraged him to keep blogging. I told him that this was a great way to learn things about people.<br />
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This post was about a boy named Joe who liked to wakeboard, ride motorcycles and go to a town called Atiamuri. He is from New Zealand. He described this as his favorite place in the world to go. I told him that i had ridden motorcycles before and that it seems like I would really like this place called Atiamuri. He also said that he plays rugby and I asked him if he was interested in any other sports. I told him that we had a group here at our university who played rugby and I would like to watch the sport, but I had never found the time to do it.<br />
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This blog post was by a little boy named Tucker. He described in a sentence how he liked playing with his Mom and Dad. They like to play the games Checkers and Connect 4. I told him how when I was little I loved to play those games and that playing games with my parents was a lot of fun for me. I told him that our favorite games were Trouble and Chutes and Ladders. I then asked him if he had ever played those games before and if he hadn't then he should try them because they are a lot of fun. I also encouraged him about his blogging. I told him that it was great that as a first grader that he was already interested in blogging online and told him to keep up the good work. This was a sweet blog post for me. I enjoyed reading it I think because he is so young and there is an innocence about his writing because of that.<br />
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<b>This video is amazing. I am having a difficult enough time learning to do blog posts as a 24 year old and these 1st graders are doing it with ease. This video was about how Ms. Cassidy is teaching her students how to skype, blog, use wikis, and using Nintendo DS for learning purposes(just for the record, I thought that DS's were only used for fun!) They all know how to get on their class website and pull up useful information that can help them learn new things. They also skype with other classes as well as experts. The video showed them skyping with a Geologist and she was teaching them about rocks. Who better to teach your children about a certain subject than an expert in that field of study? I think this is great, because there are many students who won't have the means necessary to buy computers or DS's, so they will be able to learn how to use them properly at school. I wish I would have had a teacher to teach </b><b>me these things when I was in Elementary or High School. </b><br />
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<b>Ms. Cassidy seems like the teacher that I should model my classroom and teaching methods after. She is so refreshing. She uses many different methods to teach her students and they are all something that I would be fond of using in my own classroom. Her students will be very well prepared for the future and will definitely know how to use technology at a young age. She uses technology to help her students learn and to problem solve, but she also does it in a fun way. This is what makes a good teacher. It was great that she took advantage of the fact that her school allowed computers to be installed there. She really dug in and taught her students how to blog. This shows that anything is possible. Nobody ever thought that 1st graders could blog, but they are doing it. </b><br />
<b>One of the things that I would like to use in my classroom is skype. I am planning on being a High School English teacher and I think that this would be a wonderful tool to help them learn. Especially with summer reading lists, or reading that we do throughout the year. I would like to try to set up a question and answer session with the author of the book. This would inspire the students to read so they would know what questions to ask the author during the skype interview. It would also be fun to set up a type of game of some sort with spelling words. Using skype to connect with another classroom that is using the same words and compete with them, almost like a spelling bee. I also like how they use the wiki's. I thought this was very interesting. I have never heard of anyone doing this. I know that there are such things as online forums where people can post their own opinion, but this is different. In the video above it showed them learning what a "tradition" was by reading the posts of others about traditions in their own families. What a great way for students to learn about something! Some of the benefits that I would earn would be to allow my students to learn about different people from different areas of the world. It also would make learning fun for the students and this would make my job much easier than just standing up there giving them lesson after lesson(that they will forget by tomorrow). This video excites me and gives me courage to do what I want to do, and that is to educate. </b>Brooke Ladnierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06061945798188011356noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809258061391948932.post-71695479500562058272012-04-09T01:09:00.002-05:002012-04-09T01:18:35.843-05:00Blog Post #10<b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0fJKvdjQgs&feature=youtu.be"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Do You Teach or Do You Educate?</span></a></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To Teach(v): (1)To show or explain how to do something. (2) Encourage someone to accept a fact or principle. (3) To give information about or instruction in. (4) Cause someone to learn or understand something. (5) Induce by example or punishment to do or not to do something. These are all definitions of a teacher in this video. It doesn't seem so bad to be a teacher when you look at these different definitions, until you read what it means to educate someone.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To Educate: illuminate, enlighten, inspire, empower. One who gives intellectual, moral and social instruction. A mentor is an experienced and trusted adviser. A guide is a person who advises and shows. These are all things that an educator would do. If I had to choose, I would much rather be an educator. To teach is to pour information into someone. To educate is to give them the power learn something themselves by encouragement. Children need educators not teachers. They have enough people in their lives that tell them what to do and order them around. It is time that we have become educators and give them the power to do it themselves. Guide them through their schooling. Show them what they should do and let them step out on their own and do it themselves. Inspire them to get out of their comfort zone and reach into places that they wouldn't normally go. These are things that an educator should do. I for one would much rather be an educator than a teacher. The video ends with this quote, "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the killing of a vessel." -Socrates. We should kindle their flames, killing the vessel(the student) will bring nothing but crushed self esteem in the end, and failure as far as academics go. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I intend to show my students how to do things, but let them make their own decisions about how to do it. There are so many teachers out there, and we need more educators. Children need examples because many don't have an example at home to watch. I want to be more than just an ordinary teacher. An ordinary teacher pours facts into a child's brain, expects them to remember it for a test, and then never remember it again. Once that student is out of their classroom, it isn't their problem anymore. I want to make learning fun, create a fun environment for my students and empower them to learn things for themselves. I want to be the educator that is remembered for making an impact and for showing them that they can do anything that they put their mind to, if they just try. </span><br />
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<a href="http://pencilintegration.blogspot.com/2010/07/dont-let-them-take-pencils-home.html"><b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tom Johnson's Don't Let Them Take The Pencils Home</span></b></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In this blog post, Mr. Johnson wrote about a confrontation that he had with his supervisor. He wanted to allow his students to take home pencils and paper. She was not for this idea at all. He had all of his parents sign waivers to allow the children to bring the pencils home with them, and she still was not allowing it. She had come up with so many different reasons as to why they couldn't bring the pencils home, until finally the real reason came out and that was because she was worried about low test scores. Apparently, students who use pencils at home have lower standardized testing scores. She was extremely rude about the subject matter at hand and would not listen to his side of the story. She made the point about how the students would just use the pencils to play hangman, which she referred to as a "sick and twisted game". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My first point is that the students were given "a drill-and-kill bubble test" as Mr. Johnson put it. I took drill-and-kill to mean the students had facts drilled into their heads and then they had to take a standardized bubble-in-the-answer test. Not all students are good at taking standardized tests, and most students who memorize facts forget them by the time the test rolls around. So who is really being short handed here? The students are. The research that she was speaking about was obviously not a relevant point to bring up to support her argument. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The second issue I had with this was something that was brought up in a comment. The commenter said "why not keep them from bringing books home because they could be used as a stopper to fix a wobbly table". I agree with this 100%. If you are worried about hangman being played, then just leave books out totally, because they could be used for something other than reading. For Gertrude, the supervisor, to use the argument that the pencils could be used to play hangman is absurd. Even if they are using them to play hangman, they are using their brains in a creative way. This leads me to my third point.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Is this post really about keeping children from taking pencils home, or is it representative of the fact that so many "educators" tend to worry more about testing scores than the students actually learning something because they want to learn. I can recall countless times of memorizing facts in High School that I couldn't remember today, even if my life was in jeopardy. There is a difference in learning something and memorizing something. This supervisor was more worried about testing scores than actually worrying about whether the students were learning or not. This is the problem with the education system today. Who cares about testing scores? If they are learning new things, then that is great, but a test doesn't prove if they have learned something or not. A test proves if they have memorized something, and most of the time when they have something memorized, it is forgotten about a week later. </span><br />
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This blog post was really great. I enjoyed reading it. It was about how much he has learned so far as a teacher. He names a few different things that he has learned such as; how to read the crowd, be flexible, communicate, be reasonable, don't be afraid of technology listen to your students and never stop learning. Reading the crowd was about how he was so concerned of what his superiors thought of him that he lost touch with his crowd that he was teaching, which were his students. He noted that we as teachers need to start making our lesson plans more student oriented instead of making it more about something that will make us look good to our superiors.<br />
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He stated in the Be Flexible portion that "No lesson is ever perfect, the one you teach and the one you plan are always different". I loved this quote. I am the world's worst at wanting to have something planned out. When things don't go the way that I want it to then I get aggravated really quickly. I have taken a speech class before and I always practice really hard, but my speech never turns out exactly how I want it to. I can only imagine that this is the same way in a classroom. Students have questions, situations arise, and things will happen that will delay your lesson or cause it to go off on rabbit trails. Being flexible is all part of being a teacher.<br />
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Communication was the next portion of the blog post. He put this portion in the blog because he said that he knows drama does happen in the work place. The best way to get rid of this drama is to talk it out. Communicating with your colleagues also helps you form relationships with them and you never know when you can seek out some advice from an older more seasoned teacher.<br />
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The next part was about being reasonable. As a teacher we set high expectations for our students. He said that sometimes we set them too high and then get upset when they can't reach the goals we set for them. It is hard being a student. We need to think back to when we were in school and remember how big of a deal it was to do homework or complete our classwork on time. When teachers set goals that aren't reasonable, then it makes it tougher on the child.<br />
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Don't be afraid of technology was a good part of this blog. I was glad that he added it in there. Technology should be our friend and we can't expect to just understand it the first time we try it. We learn by making mistakes. He also mentioned that we should listen to our students. He quoted one of his students who said "I know my teacher cares about me when he listens to me". This is sad because so many students don't have teachers who care to listen to them or their problems. Some of them don't have anyone at home that can listen to them either so it helps to have a teacher who can listen.<br />
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The last thing he said was to never stop learning. This is self explanatory! You are never to old to learn something!<br />
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<b><a href="http://attheteachersdesk.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-i-learned-this-year_15.html"><span style="color: cyan;">At The Teacher's Desk: What I've Learned This Year (2010-2011)</span></a></b><br />
The first portion of this reflection for the school year was about how you should know who your boss is. He states how easy it is to lose track of who you are supposed to be pleasing. It is good to try to please your boss, but your students should be a top priority as well. "Our decision making process should always be student centered and not centered around pleasing adults" was a quote that he used in his post. The students should be our primary focus. The next segment was entitled, Don't expect others to be as excited about change as you are. This was mainly about how he is very optimistic about new ideas, but other people aren't. They don't seem encouraged by new ideas and often try to ruin his excitement about them. He just sends out a word of caution and states that we don't need to let negative people ruin the newness of an idea for us.<br />
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Don't be afraid to be an outsider. This was an eye opening paragraph. The main point was don't focus on seeking approval from other teachers. Be there for your students. He stated that he ate lunch with his students and goofed off with them. He isn't afraid of being immature or an outsider. I have always wondered where that line is that you have to keep from crossing, you know, the friend or teacher line. It's' very thin. If you become too much like their friend, then you have to worry about them running all over you, but he seems to have found a happy medium and has learned a lot from his students. He doesn't care about what the other teachers think of him. In his eyes, a good teacher is one who can spend time with his students without teaching.<br />
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Don't touch the keyboard!!! This is one of my BIGGEST problems. This philosophy was taught to him by one of the other teachers in the building. When she used to work at another job and was training someone this was the phrase they used. In other words, don't take the project out of their hands and begin to do it on your own. When you are teaching someone something, and take it over, then they aren't learning anything because they are just watching you do it instead of doing it themselves and learning from their mistakes. I tend to get impatient and frustrated and have the mentality of "I can do it better". It is hard for me to take a step back and watch someone else do it.<br />
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Don't get comfortable was great to read as well. It's easy to get comfortable in day to day activities. Even in your profession. As a teacher he felt that he was getting comfortable and settling into a routine, which in his words, is not necessarily a good thing. When you settle into a routine, things can quickly becoming boring. So he started doing other activities to keep his daily routine different than the day before.<br />
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After reading these posts it has really encouraged me. I have always looked forward to being a teacher, but I always think about what will happen if I don't do a good job or if I mess up. I now know that I can learn from my mistakes. I also don't want to get caught up in trying to please people. I want to do what is right and what is expected of me as a teacher, but I want to be more concerned about teaching my students and being there for them. I don't want to be the average teacher that goes in a classroom and teaches a boring lesson, I want to be the one who makes learning fun and brings creative ideas into the classroom. I learned a lot from reading his blog posts!Brooke Ladnierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06061945798188011356noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809258061391948932.post-47956164693890162182012-03-30T10:36:00.003-05:002012-03-30T20:58:53.621-05:00Project # 14(part 1)<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lAqFqbhb9A8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Brooke Ladnierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06061945798188011356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809258061391948932.post-35478273600122610652012-03-29T23:39:00.001-05:002012-03-29T23:41:36.121-05:00C4T 3/25<a href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3012403908117088906&postID=2088725534147358562&page=1&token=1332555408007"><b><span style="color: cyan;">Building A Classroom Library</span></b></a><br />
This post was about how Mr. John Mikulski filled out a survey about his classroom library. He wrote about how he had a classroom library of about 150 books. He teaches Middle School Language Arts and he seemed to think that most of his students were interested in the trilogy books that were popular right now. He named "The Hunger Games" as one of the more popular ones that his students gravitated towards. He finds most of his books at yard sales. I thought this was a great way to save money. Having books in your classroom that are used is a great idea. I know that none of my English teachers had books that we could take out of the classroom and read when I was in school. I guess they didn't care enough about the reading. I think some teacher are there just to teach and they don't care about getting students interested in learning. I hope to be the kind of teacher that encourages my students to enjoy reading and to use it as a way to escape every day stresses. To read more about his Classroom Library visit the link above. It is very informative!<br />
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<b>"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem".</b> This blog post was amazing. It talked about how students in his school wore blue clothing to support the victims of bullying. They made the local news and each signed an anti-bullying petition that was inspired by Dr. Phil. They then showed a video that they had made where students talked about how they had seen the bullying going on, but did nothing about it. Each student was videoed standing there with blue tape on their mouth while a voice in the background stated how another student was bullied and how they did nothing about it. For such a short film, it was moving. Bullying is a major problem in our schools today and its getting worse. The video ended by quoting "<b>If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem". </b>That statement says it all. There was another video where different students stated different parts of an Anti-Bullying Pledge. I wrote in my comment that I was extremely proud of these students and that they never know how many lives they are saving by taking this pledge and signing this petition. Bullying is a problem and I am so glad that they removed themselves from the problem and became part of the solution!<br />
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This post was a bit confusing. I can only guess that the girl who wrote the post was a bit young or from somewhere where her primary language was not English. Her teacher had posted something about the Titanic and the class was supposed to figure out the names of what the teacher posted. Amber figured them out and asked if they would be learning about the names. I asked her if she liked the story of the Titanic and told her it was very interesting to learn about and that I hoped she had a great time with this assignment.<br />
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This video was about using multimedia to write. I had a hard time following him at first because it seemed like he wasn't clear on some of what he was trying to point out. He mentioned that we are now confronting a new type of material. We used to not have so much technology at our fingertips, but now we do and it is always changing. We can see so many things on the internet and see how much energy is put into it. He mentioned that there are people out there that know that our ideas don't belong to us individually but belong to us as a culture and that we as educators need to be in the business of sharing ideas freely.<br />
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We can produce alternative versions and distribute that information globally in different ways that may be able to be understood by others in an easier way. We need to get behind the ideas and look at them alternatively. We place limits and restrictions on ourselves. Society doesn't do this, we do it to ourselves. He is describing and educational system that he knows is hard to put together, but he thinks that one day students will be able to write using this type of educational system. Students will compose with digital composing material one day without the use of books. He and his colleague are learning how to use these things.<br />
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He thinks that we need to start producing compositions that are beautiful, compelling and pay attention to the auditory detail of the experience. This is something that he says is necessary if we are to argue for the humanities. Within 3 months this publication on youtube got 9,000 views. This is a way to push ideas into our culture. We need this type of composition. He can't imagine doing it himself, but there are people composing with the web itself. They don't use images or the alphabet. Teachers are needed to teach this visual literacy and many teachers aren't ready for this yet. This technology allows us to articulate our dreams and to share them with others. The problem with the humanities is that we can't make our work physical. This technology will change that.<br />
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This is something that I am definitely interested in with me being a teacher. I am also an English major so I am excited that someone has taken an interest in writing and taken an interest in making it concrete. This is something that can take off and make learning so much easier for students. Many students aren't gifted in the area of writing and I think that this would make it much easier for them. It puts it in a way that makes it easier for them to understand and easier for them to gather their thoughts.<br />
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<a href="http://pughcarlyedm310.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post-12.html"><b>Blog Post 12 By Carly Pugh</b></a><br />
Carly's blog post was about writing while using multimedia. I thought it was genius actually. This is definitely a way for a person to write using their talents in a different way other than just putting words on a page. Carly made a playlist of things that interest her using youtube videos. It was a great way for her to use her mind in a creative way. We need more teachers like this who will allow students to search out their creativity and use it in ways that interest them. I would much rather sit down and write words on a page, but some students aren't able to write as easily as that. I would much rather sit down and read a book, but for others, reading doesn't come as easily as it does for me. This is something that I am looking forward to being able to do with my students one day hopefully.<br />
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<a href="http://gallery.me.com/jstrange#101120"><b>The Chipper Series </b></a><br />
The Chipper Series was about procrastination. Something that I am really bad about doing. I have had to make myself complete one assignment a day in this class just so that I won't let it add up the last day of the week. Chipper also wanted to be taught so she didn't have to learn. She thought that just because she was paying for her education that he was supposed to just be taught things and not have to do things herself. Next, Chipper drops out of school. She has this great idea that she can't tell Dr. Strange. Her secret is that she opens a timeline pilot school. Students determine how long they want to stay in school. This may sound like a good idea to some students, but in the end I think that it would be a disaster. She then brings in one of her students and they won't give her student a pilot license because she hasn't spent enough time in the classroom. She only spent about a month in the simulator and they said that she needed to spend actual time flying a plane. Then the FAA shuts the timeline down. She has now gotten a degree online and is planning on being a teacher. She asks Dr. Strange if he knows of anywhere that she can apply. He gives her the name of a principal and the principal fires Chipper. Chipper then tells Dr. Strange that she was fired and is now a waitress. Chipper has had another job change. She was fired once again and says she's not too discouraged, she just doesn't understand why she got fired. Now she is a nanny. Next Chipper is a garbage collector, but then has a change of heart. She decides that she has a whole new perspective on life and she has decided she is going to go back to school. This video was a good way to show how many students, including myself, procrastinate with their education. I have done so myself and am now having to go back to school as a 24 year old single mother. Things like this are hard to swallow, but sometimes you have to go through the bad things to get to the good things in life.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqhMRj-Ne38&feature=player_embedded"><b>EDM 310 for Dummies </b></a><br />
This video was about how EDM310 can drive you crazy, but it also shows us how different things can make EDM310 so much easier. The ladies in the video then go on to talk about how they are learning so much in the classroom and following different English teachers. The blog posts are getting easier for them and they are learning how to do things. They were so happy to get their hands on the "book" EDM310 for Dummies. All of these things that they have learned have helped them in their academic journey here at South. I would like to create some videos about how much my computer skills have improved since I started taking this class. I was really stressed out at the beginning of the class, but once things got going, I decided that I liked the class. It is just very demanding as far as time.<br />
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This video started out by saying that education was ranked so low in the IQ intensity list. It was below coal mining. Kids are stimulated more outside of school than they are inside of school. Email, instant messaging, social networking and text messaging are banned from schools, when technology is what is stimulates the brains of these children. It is about relationship, community, and how the children are living in a different community. An online social networking community.<br />
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The very things that our students need are banned from their schools. Students learn at home, at libraries, at home, at museums and it is our responsibility to provide them with the best teachers for them. We have a "classroom system" when we need a "community system". Education doesn't have what it needs these days. They aren't interested in what they are learning because the teachers are banning them from being creative. Standardized testing doesn't make things better because economically speaking, these students will be doing work that calls on their artistic ability, understanding concepts, multilingual and multicultural abilities. Not on something that they should give a right or wrong answer to. I love this video. It was very inspiring. It made me think about what kind of teacher I want to be one day when I finally graduate.<br />
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Web 2.0 is interactive, there is something there that you can do or create. It is collaborative. Other people can contribute to the things that you create. This is a very significant and positive factor for education. it leads to higher education, critical thinking skills, new capabilities, alternative learning environments, extending learning beyond a school room, and finally it creates lifelong learning skills for students.<br />
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On the website I thought that the tool that created this presentation wast the Animoto. This was a tool that can be used to animate yourself into a video. It is a nice price because you can choose to pay 30.00 a year or 5.00 a month. That way if you don't want to pay for an extra month because you don't feel that you need it anymore, you can just not spend the money. Paying monthly to me seems a little more ideal.<br />
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The tool that I had never used before was the slide share tool. I thought this was neat because it is something you can use to share presentation, slide shows and professional videos. There is even a way that you can share them privately so that you don't have to publish something that you don't want others seeing. I thought this was great.<br />
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The Networked Student by Wendy Drexler was a very neat video to watch. It was about a student who has to attend an American Psychology class 3 days a week and attend online 2 days a week. Throughout the video it speaks about what he does online and how he learns. He actually looks up other scholarly articles about psychology and writes his own opinions on it on the internet. He understands that what he reads on the internet is mainly the opinion of others. He also is able to get in touch with some of the top university professors in the world from Cambridge, Berkley and other colleges and get their opinion on American Psychology.<br />
I think that this is such a good thing for a college student to be able to do. It is similar to EDM310 in many ways. Dr. Strange is here to guide us, show us how to use the internet properly, help us if we have any problems, give us his opinion on certain issues, and teach us how to do things such as; write a quality blog post, post pictures on our blog, as well as many other things. This is why the networked student needs a teacher. We cannot do it on our own. We need someone that is here to help us and guide us throughout the process or we will never get through classes like this.Brooke Ladnierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06061945798188011356noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809258061391948932.post-57566251283563336722012-03-06T21:27:00.002-06:002012-03-06T21:29:09.112-06:00C4T post 2<a href="http://shawncornally.com/wordpress/">Think Thank Thunk: Standardized Testing Doodles</a><br />
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In this post Shawn wrote about how he believes that students are graded on what they don't know not what they do know. He believes this isn't the right way to grade students and that they should be graded on things they have been taught. <span style="color: magenta;"><b>"</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><b>I have to get schools to stop grading what kids don’t have, and start recording what they do have." This was his quote. He also wrote that he believed in project based learning. I responded by telling him that I agree with this 100%. Students learn by helping each other. I am learning this as an adult in college because I didn't have much project based learning in High School.</b><b>"</b></span></span>Brooke Ladnierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06061945798188011356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809258061391948932.post-82257118275434952712012-03-04T22:55:00.001-06:002012-03-04T22:56:12.697-06:00Blog Post 6<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo"><b>Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams</b></a><br />
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Randy Pausch begins his video by telling the audience that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He had many childhood dreams he wanted to achieve, I'm sure, but he mentioned a few which were; being in zero gravity, playing in the National Football League, authoring an article in the World Book Dictionary, being Captain Kirk, being a guy that won big stuffed animals in the amusement park, and being an imagineer with Disney. We learn throughout the video that he accomplishes almost all of these goals! He met Captain Kirk and became a Virtual Reality Specialist and helped design rides like Aladdin and Pirates of the Caribbean.<br />
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Randy Pausch not only wanted to help himself achieve his goals, he wanted to help others achieve their goals as well. He helped many students achieve goals in life. He even helped one student who wanted to be a part of writing the next script for the Star Wars movie. Even though he had to reduce some of his goals to something easier or more fallible to achieve, he never gave up. This is something that we as future educators can learn from him. <br />
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We should never give up! There will be times when we have students who find it difficult to learn. We will have days where we don't want to come back and teach the same group of students day after day because they don't want to learn, but it is our job as educators, to make it a fun environment for them. Dr. Pausch did this. He created a class called building virtual worlds for a class of about 50 students. The class completed certain projects and it helped many of them learn how to do things while they were having fun. It is hard to be a teacher and teach students who don't seem to want to learn. I want to strive to be more like Dr. Pausch and actually look for ways of not only achieving my own childhood dreams, but allowing my students to look back and search out their dreams and help them accomplish them. <br />
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Randy Pausch never gave up. He knew he only had 3-6 months to live. This inspired me so much. There is a country song that came out when I was in High School entitled "Live Like You Were Dying" by Tim McGraw, it is very similar to what Dr. Pausch did. The song is about the Dad, who is dying, telling his son to live each day as if it were his last and to accomplish his dreams . Dr. Pausch had to live like he was dying because he was. Why should we wait until we are dying though, to actually live? It is okay to let loose and still be a child sometimes. It's okay to still dream big and want big things for your life. We have been taught from a young age that we have to do certain things or be certain things when we get older or we will never be anyone or make any money. I want to be the type of teacher that can encourage my students to live their life as if each day may be their last. I don't want to squash their dreams, I just want to take them and mold them into something better! I want to be an encouragement and Dr. Pausch's video truly showed me that it is important to be this type of educator.Brooke Ladnierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06061945798188011356noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809258061391948932.post-29400882365464820782012-03-04T21:43:00.000-06:002012-03-04T21:43:29.801-06:00C4K Summary for February<a href="http://kidblog.org/MrsRippsClass/jordanripp/holiday-here-i-come/#comment-4830">Jordan's Holiday Here I Come</a><br />
Jordan wrote about how he just got a new teacher in his class, but the teacher has to meet with them on skype because she is in Canada. She gave them a blog challenge, which was to write about where is somewhere that they would really like to go. Jordan wrote that he would like to go to Hawaii and visit all of the islands with his family, that way once he got older he could know which island he would rather visit if he ever returned. He wanted to know if it was always warm in Hawaii or cold there sometimes too. I wrote back and encouraged him about his blog post challenge and said that it was great. I also told him I would like to go to the mountains when it snowed because it rarely snowed here in Alabama and I asked him if it snowed a lot where he was from.<br />
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<a href="http://kidblog.org/2011-12Class/ethan840/ethans-facts-about-columbus-by-christopher-lee/#comments">Ethans Facts about Columbus</a><br />
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Ethan wrote about Christopher Columbus's trip to the new world. He provided many facts for the reader and I found them very interesting. He wrote about how Christopher Columbus didn't kill the Native Americans, but many diseases did. He also wrote about how Isabella knew that he was a good explorer so she allowed him to search out the New World. I commented back and told him that I was actually learning about this in my History class that I was taking this semester. I told him that I found it interesting that they were in the New World but didn't know that they were there already. I also asked him what his favorite part of the story of Columbus's trip to the New World was.<br />
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<a href="http://mravery.edublogs.org/2012/02/13/mos/comment-page-1/#comment-3116">Our Science Adventure by Mr. Avery's class</a><br />
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Mr. Avery wrote about how his class visited The Boston Museum of Science to learn about volcanoes and earthquakes. They watched a movie in the Imax theater about the Ring of Fire which is a ring of underwater volcanoes in the Pacific. He posted numerous pictures and some videos of the children in the museum. I wrote on his blog and told him that we have a similar museum here in Mobile called the Exploreum and that I have visited it on numerous occasions. I liked this post because I got to actually see pictures of what the children were doing.Brooke Ladnierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06061945798188011356noreply@blogger.com2