Blog #6

I choose Mrs. Nixon's 5th grade class at Stonegate Elementary in California. The information presented on the main page has a tool bar on the side has many options for her students and parents such as calendars, grades and links to projects and instructions. There is also links to personal information about the teacher her self, 5th grade in general, and different teams/clubs the students can join. Her website is very informative and easy to use for both students and parents.

I envision myself using technology in the classroom very often and involving it in both my students work and my lessons on a day to day basis. Like shown in the Sandbox presentation, I believe Smartboard every day. It is very helpful when presenting lessons, involving the students by letting them write on the board to solve problems or fill in the blank questions. I will also have homework assignments online that will be submitted to me electronically and graded electronically as well for the students and parents to see, as well as in-class assignments.

On the Wiki assignment, I learned how to have a group of my fellow students all post and edit on one website. I also learned how easy it was for all of us to collaborate and post our work to this wiki website at one time. What I liked about it was how simple it was for all of us to use the website just by accepting everyone to edit the page and become administrators. What I didn't like was the set up of the Wiki page, it was very plain and kind of out dated looking. Next time I would like to spicy up the page and make it look nicer and more organized. In my future career I could use this site for my students to collaborate on a project just as we did.

Blog #5

 a Web 2.0 is very useful in the classroom in so many ways, it is easy to integrate video into shared projects and presentations, podcasts, online quizzes, blogging, etc. There is so many way this technology could teach children in a modern way that will keep them interested. For example: like what we used in class; Wiki. Wiki is easy for sharing and collaborating in groups not only with students but between the class and the teachers. If everyone has a computer handy, either at school and/or at home, they will have the tools they need to use Web 2.0 tools and Wiki.

The website I chose was Diigo, Diigo is a website that allows you to bookmark, tags, personal library, highlights, sticky notes, outliner, groups, and archive webpages. This would be a great tool to use on a high school level for research and research projects, college to obviously, but definitely higher level students because of all the different tools available. I believe to get the full use of the website you need to be able to comprehend the accessories.

The website itself is very well put together and easy to maneuver. The main idea of the website is to collect, annotate, organize, and share data with yourself and your peers. This is very helpful in the business world as well if a lot of data is on your hands. I would personally use this for research papers or large projects. This would be so useful in the classroom for teachers to see what the students are doing on their projects and to keep their information all in one place.

From the concept mapping project I learned how to organize information in a professional and well-kept way, presenting it in a way thats easy on the eyes. I like how the information is put into smaller categories so you can get the information across easily and functionally. What I don't like is how time consuming it is. It would be a lot easier to put on a power point or a word document, but not as pretty!

Blog #4

SP.PK12.DH.2.4a: Produce written communication, including identifying parts of sentences, combining words to make sentences, and combining sentences to make paragraphs with the support of sign and/or voice.

Content Complexity Rating: N/A  |  Date Adopted or Revised: 02/14

http://www.cpalms.org/Public/PreviewResourceStudentTutorial/Preview/126646

In this basketball-themed interactive tutorial, you'll learn what separates clauses from sentences, and you'll learn about four different sentence types: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. 

My tool I am using is an Educational Game, I will use this tool to interact with the students and get them involved and interested in sentences. This is also a good tool for deaf students because it is a hands-on activity that you do not need to use hearing for, that hearing kids just like them can use.

In my educational career, I have used the internet and search engines such as Google to do research and other school related projects. Online I've used Prezi and Google Slides to do projects with large groups so we could all work on such projects. For pleasure I use a lot of Google and Siri, most of the time to do with random questions or music. Referring to the podcast, I have seen a lot of Tedtalks in psychology and some of my education classes last semester, they are a good way to show real life examples to students and give them a good grasp on the topic.

From my assignment I learned how many tools I can use to complete lessons and get the children involved in learning, through websites and activities it should be fairly easy. The ELA standards are more than I thought they would be, it surprised me all the little details teachers must pay attention to while teaching so they complete these standards. CPALMS really helped to guide teachers to different ways accomplishing the standards is possible.

Blog #3

           Because of my specific future career in Deaf Education, the ELA standards could be a little bit more difficult than for other teachers teaching my grade level. I am planning on teach elementary around 5th grade so I believe that teaching most of the core subjects such as math, science, and social studies should not be difficult for me to reach those technological standards. What I might have trouble with is the Standard 10 and Text Structure because of the difference in language between English and ASL.
           Since my students will be visual and hands-on learners I'd like to incorporate a Smartboard and class computers to give them a good hands on experience with technology and use the Smartboard to make lessons more vivid and fun. Students could also use the Smartboard to help me with problems and such up on the screen. On the computers we would use educational online websites assigned by the school and teach them about internet safety, around 5th grade is the age students start receiving their own personal laptops and should learn these safety parameters.
           From the Newsletter, I learned many things; I learned how to do page boarders, text boxes, how to manage columns, and how to use the mail merging tool in WS. I liked how easy it was to create mass letters with the mail merging tool and I know I will definitely use that in my future career sending notes and such home to parents informing them about class activities and schedules. I did not like how temperamental the columns themselves were on the page, effecting everything around it. Next time I will be more familiar with where everything is located and I can easily access those tools during my assignments.