doing!

For the internet saftey doing portion I spoke with my sister (she's 14 years old) O asked her what she knew and it surprised me how much she knows. So I was able to tellher about what to look out for on the internet to stay safe, not to give out thier information and to not talk to strangers and I told her about a few of the cases that i watched and read about. I think that it was very valuable!

Internet Saftey Reading

I chose to read the Article titled "Tangled in the Web". the article was written by this mother in the church and how she got addicted to playing online chess and how it negativly influenced her life and how she was able to come back out of that addiction and live her life again.

I learned that this can happen to everyone the author of the story recounted how she was normal and not addicted to the internet and I learned how quickly that kind of thing can effect you life without you even realizing it or making the choice to le it effect you. I also learned that through the help and strength of others internet addictaions can be overcom. Another thing I learned is that it doesn't have to be pornographic websites and other bad sites to get addicted and make it a problem in your life, she just got addited to playing chess which is a very normal activity.

Because I've learned these thign I'll talk to my future children or students and let them know that there are things on the internet that can start out as good things to help learn, or to have fun but things not in moderation always turn to the bad side of things. I think we could talk about all the things they would rather be doing then playing games on the internet (i.e. playing on the playground, camping, reading, etc.) then I would have them post a bumber sticker that has what they would rather be doing by the computer so when they saw the bumper sticker it would remind them the other more fun things they could be doing.

I think that I will be more careful about playing online games and when I'm home with my family I'll encourage my sisters not to play games and I will try to get them to do other things with me that don' involve playing games on the computer.

Other Technology Projects

What I learned from someone else's technology project. I just looked at one of the projects that had beed posed in the student work section and I found out about teh prethmian boards and one of the things that you can use with the boards and the Activote system which seems to be a very effective system that can be used (like i clickers but for elementary school) I learned how he was able to check for understndind while he taught a lesson on Pronouns. I think that that would have been very helpful to see their understnading so quickly and be able to adjust the lesson accordingly.

Measuring Temperature

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I think that one idea I have for a technology assignment is to introduce the hard to undestand vocabulary in my shared reading book to the students using a PowerPoint presentation with the words and the pictures.

The shared reading is about an aquarium so I think I will take some of the different animals in the aquarium to talk about what they are before we read teh book, so things like Minnows and Guppies and Snappers. The only really way you can describe these on a surface level (just so they can understand what is going on in the context of the book) is to give them a visual image, It also helps if they can see the words that they are learning so they can identify them when they come a crossed them in the reading.

Classroom inventory

While doing the Classroom Inventory I was able to learn that the teachers in the school have the access to a bunch of technology that is not used as much as I thought it would be. I learned that most of the technology in the classroom is basic, but when the students go to computer lab there are many programs and games that they can use.

I also learned that a lot of lessons don't need technology. I'm in first grade and there are lots of things that they could use technology but i don't think that it actually improves their learning. I think that there are still lessons that can be improved with technology but I realized that less lessons then I expected are improved by technology.

Underground Railroad

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For this assignment I will be using a standard from the Utah 5th Grade Social Studies core curriculum. In this project I will be able to help students come to a deep knowledge of the Underground railroad, and what the conditions were for those traveling on the underground railroad.

The Pedagogy that i will be using in this lesson is that in the information they will see on each of the information bubbles that pop up will make it seem like they are actuallyy part of teh trail, I'm going to try to reinact the problems they will be facing, the condions they are living in and the feelings of being scared and alone and lost.

The technology that I will use is Google Earth, this is a very effective method to use for this unit because the students will be able to see the distance that will be traveled, on the tour I will be able to guide their learning through information that they will be more likely to remember as they go though this experience. This will make the learning very personal, relevant and fun to learn about the underground rail road.

Location	Activity	Google earth content
Big dipper and north star	Draw a pathway between the big dipper and the north star	Read the Fugitive Slave bill of 1850 Overview of information about the underground railroad and why it was important for slaves to be able to find the north star
Bucktown, Maryland	Find out which states were free states and which states are slave states Information about Harriett Tubman and how she was able to help the slaves	Write a journal entry on if you would have been willing to be a part of the underground railroad, even though it was dangerous
Wilmington, DE	Use the measuring tool to find out how long they had walked from Bucktown MD-Wilmington DE	Picture of a lantern "signaling safe place to rest" more information on how the legistics of the system worked.
Philadelphia PA	Measure from Wilmington MD- Philadephia, PA Read excerpts from Uncle Tom's Cabin	Pictures of reward sign for slaves
Rochester NY	MEasure from Philadelphia PA-Rochester NY	Read about Fredrick Douglass Picture of another reward sign for slaves
Lake Erie	Measure from Rochester, NY-Lake Earie then Measure how wide lake erie is and how far you have to swim to get acrossed	Picture of lake erie with ice chunks floating

Canada

Add up all the miles you had traveled and figure out how many miles you would have walked then divide it by 60 days (it usually only took them 2 months) to find the amount of miles you would have to travel every day

Free slaves breaking out of chains, Picture of canada info about how many slaves made it though the underground railroad

Falling for Rapunzel

As you can see in our wonderful storyboard, we are going to tell the tale of "Falling for Rapunzel." We did amazing work on the claymation!

The content for our lesson is the following first grade standard:
Standard 1 Oral Language-Students develop language for the purpose of effectively communicating through listening, speaking, viewing, and presenting.

Objective 2 Develop language through viewing media and presenting.
b. Use a variety of formats (e.g., show and tell, drama, sharing of books and personal writings, choral readings, informational reports, retelling experiences and stories in sequence) in presenting with various forms of media.

The pedagogy we are using is a combination Fractured Fairytale and Poetry Interpretation taken from the book "Falling For Rapunzel" by Leah Wilcox. This is good fit for the content we are teaching because it helps the students develop lanugage in a very fun way.

The technology we are using is PhotoStory. We will be using it to put together our images and the language used in the book. This technology works wonderfully with our content and pedagogy because it really enables us to do more than just read a book or create a book, we can use media/technology to really make this creation come alive!Stay tuned for the finished product. PhotoStory and "Falling For Rapunzel," here we come!

Story Board

The content of my Science lesson is hereditary traits, the difference between inherited and learned traits.

In order to teach this lesson effectively the class would explore what they thought using the Kidspiration program and then as a class we would discuss and even experiment with the things they are unsure about (like the rolling of the tongue)

Kidspiration helps the kids to explore their thoughts on the content and helps to lead them to understand which of the 2 categories the traits fit into. This is a useful tool to help teach it in a way the students will remember it and teach it affectively.

Tech Savy Teacher

Genetics and Technology in the Fifth-Grade Classroom

This week while I was observing the fifth-grade classrooms, I noticed Mrs. Baker using technology in the classroom. To learn more about it, we are sitting down in an interview together.

Principal Owen: What were you teaching in your classroom this week?

Mrs. Baker: We were talking about hereditary traits. We were able to use Kidsperation to classify different qualities as either environmental or hereditary. The technology we used was able to help me to be able to clearly assses how well I had taught the differences. We we were also able to use the technology to correct mistakes and make adjustments to what they missed and go over the information as a class. The technology was also very helpful for the students, they were forced to make a clear descision about all of the objects in the middle, it helped them stay on task and learn the matierial better.

(Screen capture of Kidsperation before students separated into categories)


(Screen capture from Kidsperation while students were in the middle of the activity)

Principal Owen: The kids looked like they were really engrossed in the activity!

(A students intently working on the activity)

Mrs. Baker: They were! The technology engaged all the students in a subject that some of them would otherwise not have liked. And once the kids saw the picture of the tongue roll, they all wondered who in the class could or could not roll their tongue. We used Excel to collect data from a class poll. It was really great to be able to use Excel in order to inhance their math skills in collecting data and figuring out ways to display it.

(A few students showing their ability to roll their tongue)

(Screen capture from Excel after taking data from the class)

Principal Owen: That’s great! But which science standard does this fulfill?

Mrs. Baker: Well, it is actually based on Fifth-grade science core curriculum, standard 5! So we combined fun with learning with the curriculum!

TPCK

TPCK is a very useful way to categorize all of the types of things we learn. T-Technological knowledge, P-Pedagogical knowledge and C-Content knowledge. This is a good tool to help evaluate your teaching and see where you could improve and what more you can learn.

I really liked the temperature probe I had fun exploring making different letters and shapes by manipulating the probe between rubbing it in between your hands and the cold water. I think that this will be very helpful in my future classroom because it will make it very easy to record teh temperature of different objects very accuratly and will make kids more familure with the technology and more excited about learning.

RSS Is a really cool function that seems to be showing up everywhere! It is really cool how you can have thing feed right to a blog or to a reader and it brings you the information instead of going to find that information. Its cool that you can have it all on one spot. I think that I could use this in my classroom by setting up a blog that has information coming to it on a daily basis we could check the wether report, the Nasa picture of the day, and even a book review of the day to allow children to learn more everyday with out much work on my part. I think that I will be able to use WEB 2.0 to help keep my students connected and help connect my studnet to other resources.

I Love Technology! I have my own computer and am very quick at picking things up that have to do with technology. I have a cell phone, an ipod, I buy music online. I am able to use Final Cut Pro, as well as the basic Microsoft programs. I am a TA so I use Excel to make formulas and calculate grades. I am a frequent user of YouTube and am a member of Facebook.