Notes from class:
First we viewed Sharon' s web page. There are countless resources available there:http://homepage.mac.com/seilts/Menu5.html
Second life: http://secondlife.com/
Moves and Mugs
Links to virtual reality websites
Discussion of "gaming" visit the PBS website and search for the Video Game Revolution
How can we use this as motivation for our students to learn? Studies have shown that lessons taught through gaming (games in general) increase retention.
University of Wisconsin in Madison James Gee search for virtual reality.
Creating my own website is NOT HARD! I cannot believe it! So happy right now!!!!!
I am very sorry that my notes for this week are so brief... we have spent much of the class time working on our websites!
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Monday, April 16, 2007
Reflection for the week
Last week in class we began the somewhat-overwhelming-even-when-watered-down-by- Google process of building a website. I am really excited about learning how to do this for both professional and personal reasons. Professionally, I plan on building a classroom website where we can create a classroom newsletter, students can log on and add to it..... etc. I think it would be really great for the students to build their technology muscles. Personally, I am going to attempt to build a web page for my family. As I have shared in previous messages, my family (especially the girls) are all very close knit. We all email each other about once a week, but it would be fantastic to have a page so we do not loose our previous entries and emails. I am really looking forward to learning how to create these web pages- even if the task is a bit daunting!!!
Reflection for the week
Last week in class we began the somewhat-overwhelming-even-when-watered-down-by- Google process of building a website. I am really excited about learning how to do this for both professional and personal reasons. Professionally, I plan on building a classroom website where we can create a classroom newsletter, students can log on and add to it..... etc. I think it would be really great for the students to build their technology muscles. Personally, I am going to attempt to build a web page for my family. As I have shared in previous messages, my family (especially the girls) are all very close knit. We all email each other about once a week, but it would be fantastic to have a page so we do not loose our previous entries and emails. I am really looking forward to learning how to create these web pages- even if the task is a bit daunting!!!
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Notes from class 4/10
tonight and next week we will talk about building a website
The first website we go to:
http://www.4teachers.org/
you can post an online calender, design the layout of your classroom, take home notes, create rub ricks or use a rubric that is already created, create worksheets.
we went into Trackstar- and learned about the amazing resource that exists. Tracks are strings of websites linked together by an author on a particular topic.
Rubistar is the coolest thing EVER on the 4teachers website. I was able to create a wonderful rubric in minutes. WONDERFUL!!
Below is the number for the rubric that will be used to grade our websites that we will be creating next week.
399252
The next number is the track number for the track that I created for all of the resources that we have gained through this class on the 4teacher trackstar website.
316098
Begin web page building:
ahhhhhH!!!!!! Netscape 7.2
the Gmail/Google website is much more user friendly.... we will be creating websites over the next two weeks.
The first website we go to:
http://www.4teachers.org/
you can post an online calender, design the layout of your classroom, take home notes, create rub ricks or use a rubric that is already created, create worksheets.
we went into Trackstar- and learned about the amazing resource that exists. Tracks are strings of websites linked together by an author on a particular topic.
Rubistar is the coolest thing EVER on the 4teachers website. I was able to create a wonderful rubric in minutes. WONDERFUL!!
Below is the number for the rubric that will be used to grade our websites that we will be creating next week.
399252
The next number is the track number for the track that I created for all of the resources that we have gained through this class on the 4teacher trackstar website.
316098
Begin web page building:
ahhhhhH!!!!!! Netscape 7.2
the Gmail/Google website is much more user friendly.... we will be creating websites over the next two weeks.
Reflection for the week
This week we were assigned to design a graphic organizer- one of my favorite teaching tools. The organizers are wonderful because they help students visualize, conceptualize and organize. However, they are especially great for teaching students who are deaf. Generally, deaf and hard of hearing students benefit from instruction that has "visual anchors", or something visual to attach the manual or auditory language stimuli. A perfect concrete visual anchor is a graphic organizer. The design of my organizer is based on one that I use to help students that have difficulty writing an organized and on-topic paragraph. It is simple and relatively easy to use for both the student and the teacher. Most importantly, I have found that it helps the student become a more independent writer.
When I began my research about how I would design my graphic organizer I went online and found that there are many software programs that will create them for you- for a price. The organizers that I could find that were free did not compare to their more expensive, more visually-stimulating counterparts. After seeing all of the amazing possibilities with this software, I am considering a purchase for my classroom.
When I began my research about how I would design my graphic organizer I went online and found that there are many software programs that will create them for you- for a price. The organizers that I could find that were free did not compare to their more expensive, more visually-stimulating counterparts. After seeing all of the amazing possibilities with this software, I am considering a purchase for my classroom.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Notes from class 4/2
In previous classes we have discussed disability specific software, this class we cover more global software that supports specific curriculums- math, science, social studies, reading.
Other groups found:
Reading
Read 180
Lexile- reading range as in Vygotski's Zone of Proximal Development
Math
www.mathdrill.com
Montebello school district is being sued because students were not accurately prepared for post secondary transition into the adult world. www.metnew.com/articles/2006/educ121306.htm
Science:
www.kidsdiscovery.com
at this site you can build your own volcano and study plate techtonics
free software
fctd.info
Other groups found:
Reading
Read 180
Lexile- reading range as in Vygotski's Zone of Proximal Development
Math
www.mathdrill.com
Montebello school district is being sued because students were not accurately prepared for post secondary transition into the adult world. www.metnew.com/articles/2006/educ121306.htm
Science:
www.kidsdiscovery.com
at this site you can build your own volcano and study plate techtonics
free software
fctd.info
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Reflection from last class
With last week being spring break for San Jose State remembering and commenting on the last class has left me a bit confused. I completed my lesson that Incorporated more technology into my curriculum. The lesson was a smashing success (if I do say so myself). Once I gave the students the idea behind the assignment and got them started, they took off running. All of the students participated and are learning how to work together. The assignment required the student to reflect on what they learned during a unit on the Civil War. The group developed ideas using a spider chart, with each student required to contribute. Once the spider chart was complete and everyone felt that it accurately represented what we had covered during the unit we went to the second phase of the assignment, which involved transferring our ideas to a power point presentation. Students took turns typing in what was written on the spider chart to different slides while the other students looked on. I was very impressed with how they helped each other. Other students when on line and attached images to the slides. The whole group needed to agree if they wanted to include an image.
My role in the lesson started out as teacher- setting them up with the spider chart and the power point- but later became facilitator. Whenever I felt that one student was zoning out or not being included I would say, "ask___(name)______ about what they think about_________" or "__(name)_______, what do you think about______________", which would get the student involved in the project again. The final step was to print out all of the slides (there were over 30!) and arrange them on a huge piece of butcher paper. The students came up with how they wanted to display their slides and worked together to put them on the paper. The finished project looks fantastic. I am still trying to figure out where to put it up in my room because it is HUGE!
I think the more I incorporate technology in to my teaching, the easier it will become. I openly admit I was daunted by this assignment, but was very impressed with my student's motivation and involvement- and with the projects outcome. I took pictures of the students working- I will try to remember to bring them to class.
My role in the lesson started out as teacher- setting them up with the spider chart and the power point- but later became facilitator. Whenever I felt that one student was zoning out or not being included I would say, "ask___(name)______ about what they think about_________" or "__(name)_______, what do you think about______________", which would get the student involved in the project again. The final step was to print out all of the slides (there were over 30!) and arrange them on a huge piece of butcher paper. The students came up with how they wanted to display their slides and worked together to put them on the paper. The finished project looks fantastic. I am still trying to figure out where to put it up in my room because it is HUGE!
I think the more I incorporate technology in to my teaching, the easier it will become. I openly admit I was daunted by this assignment, but was very impressed with my student's motivation and involvement- and with the projects outcome. I took pictures of the students working- I will try to remember to bring them to class.
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