Friday, September 26, 2014
Blog Post #6
I have learned that being a teacher is very difficult. While teaching you have to make sure that you have hooks and projects that keep your kids interested. When you become a Teacher it is more than just a 7:30am to 3pm job. It is very possible to end up working sixteen hour days, even when that means you are not on the clock. There are many ways to keep that from happening. I learned of a really good search engine for your students, which is iCurio. I believe that if students use this, it would stop them from using different search engines that actually bring up inappropriate things they should not see. I also learned that using DiscoveryEd is really good to use, since most students learn now days by listening and watching. I always liked visuals growing up in school and still do today. Teaching is a very rewarding field to be in. Teachers should learn to be flexible and good with change for their schedules. Students always like when they get to use technology for different things during their classes. I do not think students should get to use it everyday though, it should be for learning and as a privilege. I learned that us future teachers should not stress when things are not perfect. Perfection is never going to happen. When planning out the next school year lessons, we should think in this order: State regulations to go over, year plans, month plans, week plans, and then do the daily lesson plans. When you want to see where your students are after you finish for the day quiz them and see if they took in most of what you said, and where you need to start off the next day.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Blog Post 5
PLN's what are they? How can they help me as a Teacher?
Before reading about the personal learning network, I had never heard of them. I believe that these will help me be able to put all my websites together, which I can make that my homepage. I think who ever invented this had an awesome idea. I am actually disappointed I did not know about this until I read about it and watched videos of people explaining their use of one. On my personal learning network I can put any social media networks, search engines, and even use it for storing information I have found that I need to go back and look at.
I have decided that I am going to use Symbaloo for mine. I think that it would be a good fit for me, and I can set it as my homepage for my internet. I am all about learning new things that will be very helpful, to make things easier and quicker for you to find things. I believe doing this I will not be looking everywhere for my websites that I normally use for things.
Before reading about the personal learning network, I had never heard of them. I believe that these will help me be able to put all my websites together, which I can make that my homepage. I think who ever invented this had an awesome idea. I am actually disappointed I did not know about this until I read about it and watched videos of people explaining their use of one. On my personal learning network I can put any social media networks, search engines, and even use it for storing information I have found that I need to go back and look at.
I have decided that I am going to use Symbaloo for mine. I think that it would be a good fit for me, and I can set it as my homepage for my internet. I am all about learning new things that will be very helpful, to make things easier and quicker for you to find things. I believe doing this I will not be looking everywhere for my websites that I normally use for things.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
8 Search Engines
1. Wolfram
I saw where you can generate any math problems, which is good if you are a teacher or a student. This one even lets you search to compare and contrast things. I saw where I clicked random, and it compared home health in the US vs. Uk. I think it is awesome that just in a couple clicks I can find out things like that. 2.Dog Pile
This website is really good to use when you need to find any pictures or videos. I could see my self using this website a lot with all the pictures I post on my blog posts.
3.ERIC
This website is used to find any collection of articles and online materials that are provided for you. This website is very easy to navigate, and I know if I need to find a certain article it would be a good place to look for it.
4.iSeek
I like how this website is targeted for students, teachers, caregivers and administrators. That means that basically anything I need as an educator I can search here on this website for it. Things that are targeted to my major pull me to want to use them more than any of the other search engines.
5.Socialmention
This is where you can find out anything that is trending through the web. I saw news articles, and I also saw things that had been posted on different forms of social media.
6.Topsy
This is a social media site. This helps you find anything on Twitter or any other social media source that you may need to find people or things that have been posted. I think this website would help me find people that I have the same interest with. When people post something on twitter it is mainly about what they like or about their jobs. It may be that I find someone who can help with what I may be trying to teach to my class one day.
7.Boardreader
This search engine has it all. On this one I can search for Movies, News, Press Release, Articles, Projects, and Topics. I feel like this one is the one that has a more broad range of things you can search. This would probably be one of the ones I would use the most.
8.ixquick
This is the worlds most private search engine. On this website you can find picture sources and places to watch videos. I think that if you do not want everyone to know what websites you have been going to, then it would be an awesome website engine to use for anything.
I saw where you can generate any math problems, which is good if you are a teacher or a student. This one even lets you search to compare and contrast things. I saw where I clicked random, and it compared home health in the US vs. Uk. I think it is awesome that just in a couple clicks I can find out things like that. 2.Dog Pile
This website is really good to use when you need to find any pictures or videos. I could see my self using this website a lot with all the pictures I post on my blog posts.
3.ERIC
This website is used to find any collection of articles and online materials that are provided for you. This website is very easy to navigate, and I know if I need to find a certain article it would be a good place to look for it.
4.iSeek
I like how this website is targeted for students, teachers, caregivers and administrators. That means that basically anything I need as an educator I can search here on this website for it. Things that are targeted to my major pull me to want to use them more than any of the other search engines.
5.Socialmention
This is where you can find out anything that is trending through the web. I saw news articles, and I also saw things that had been posted on different forms of social media.
6.Topsy
This is a social media site. This helps you find anything on Twitter or any other social media source that you may need to find people or things that have been posted. I think this website would help me find people that I have the same interest with. When people post something on twitter it is mainly about what they like or about their jobs. It may be that I find someone who can help with what I may be trying to teach to my class one day.
7.Boardreader
This search engine has it all. On this one I can search for Movies, News, Press Release, Articles, Projects, and Topics. I feel like this one is the one that has a more broad range of things you can search. This would probably be one of the ones I would use the most.
8.ixquick
This is the worlds most private search engine. On this website you can find picture sources and places to watch videos. I think that if you do not want everyone to know what websites you have been going to, then it would be an awesome website engine to use for anything.
Monday, September 15, 2014
Blog Post #4 What questions do we ask? How do we ask?
Three Ways to Better ask questions in the classroom
I have read this article a couple of times and it just hits me hard. As a teacher you have so many things running through your head about questions your students may have, questions you did not expect, and just how you will explain everything to them that you would like them to know. This article is the one that explains to you there are teachers who have already went through the same thing you will go through and this is their advice to you. I believe that if you plan ahead with a list of questions to maybe help you and your students.When you are answering questions with your students, you also may want them to work for their answer. It is their responsibility to find the correct answer, make their brains get to turning do not just give them the answers. If there happens to be good questions that you may could use later in discussion or that you might could use year after year, keep those in a notebook and pull them out when needed. Also, I believe that hearing the questions not only once but in different ways with everything explained will be really good for when they are tested on the material.
Open Ended Questions
This video explains how you want to ask open ended questions. When you ask questions you want to make the student actually think harder than they normally would. If you do not ask open ended questions you will end up with one word answers, which is not good at all when it comes to discussion. The students will need to know the material for the rest of their life most of time so it will be used again. Teachers there is many ways to do this. For Example start with these: In what ways, For what reasons, and Describe in detail. These are awesome question starters, because it will get their brain to rolling and thinking harder. I will be teaching History and one question that I may ask would be, In what ways has the Declaration of Independence shaped our country into what it is today? That question can be answered with a lot of different answers, and a lot of good answers at that. People think history is not an important subject matter, I believe that if people like me would show students how important it is they would enjoy it more. History is what has shaped our country since people were coming to America.
Monday, September 8, 2014
How can you provide meaningful feedback to your peers?
Writing Peer Reviews Top !0 Mistakes
This video is very entertaining with the children and their nicknames. It is the nicknames of the children that help us understand that a peer review can be done in so many different ways. In this video it always went back to something that was positive, that is why I think when you have a negative comment about someones work, you should always make a way to bring it to be a positive. When you are giving a peer or classmate feedback on their work, you should always think how would I want them to correct my mistakes. By watching this video it has opened my mind and shown me ways to be able to cut out a lot of my mistakes that I have made that way they will not happen in the future.
Peer Editing with Perfection Tutorial
As I watched this tutorial, it taught me that you need to correct your peers so that it does not happen again, and to help them understand why it is wrong. It showed me that you need to be more tactful when giving a review, because you can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar. When you are giving the review you do not want to sound like too picky, and that you point out everything of their work. This will help me as a teacher in my future classroom, so I will understand when and how to correct my students. It will be my responsibility to make sure my students understand to peer edit their work and maybe catch their mistakes before their work is turned in for grades. I believe no matter who paper you are editing you should always start with the positive things, and then also make the negative a good thing. For Example: a student may be doing really good with detail on a test, but has the wrong date. You could say, "Bo you did really good describing everything that lead to the event and why it happened, but next time make sure you have correct date because dates are a big thing in History".
This video is very entertaining with the children and their nicknames. It is the nicknames of the children that help us understand that a peer review can be done in so many different ways. In this video it always went back to something that was positive, that is why I think when you have a negative comment about someones work, you should always make a way to bring it to be a positive. When you are giving a peer or classmate feedback on their work, you should always think how would I want them to correct my mistakes. By watching this video it has opened my mind and shown me ways to be able to cut out a lot of my mistakes that I have made that way they will not happen in the future.
Peer Editing with Perfection Tutorial
As I watched this tutorial, it taught me that you need to correct your peers so that it does not happen again, and to help them understand why it is wrong. It showed me that you need to be more tactful when giving a review, because you can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar. When you are giving the review you do not want to sound like too picky, and that you point out everything of their work. This will help me as a teacher in my future classroom, so I will understand when and how to correct my students. It will be my responsibility to make sure my students understand to peer edit their work and maybe catch their mistakes before their work is turned in for grades. I believe no matter who paper you are editing you should always start with the positive things, and then also make the negative a good thing. For Example: a student may be doing really good with detail on a test, but has the wrong date. You could say, "Bo you did really good describing everything that lead to the event and why it happened, but next time make sure you have correct date because dates are a big thing in History".
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