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As a FCCLA Sponsor, Yearbook Advisor, Senior Class Sponsor, Mom, Wife, Teacher, and all other obligations that come with those roles, I experience the worst bulk of these roles in the month of February. By this I mean that most of these organizations that I am involved in have some event that happens this month.
To begin with I start in the middle of January getting the FCCLA students ready for the county fair that is held the first week in February. This means hours after sc…
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I recently read this article on Poll Everywhere: Tap into those Mobile Phones at <http://www.teach42.com/> This article was about setting up a poll on the computer and having your student's text message into the survey. To set it up there is a website you can go to and create and account. The first group of…
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I recently read this article Alert! Employees Abuse the Internet at <http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=466&doc_id=140801&>
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I was finally able to get the Video Cast to upload and it seems to work! Here is the final product.
http://hyperfileshare.com/d/519154b2
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I created my 1st screen cast in Windows Media Encoder. My screencast is explaining how to create an animal fact sheet in Microsoft Word. I decided to do this, because I will be able to use it in the future with my third grade students. I hope you enjoy it!
My screencast link:
The link to my screencast on the Inte…
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This is by far the coolest thing I've done on the internet...
I created my video podcast for my 8th grade math class. Those students are currently working on an assignment where they have to design their "dream bedroom" and create a scale drawing along with a written description of thier dream room. Unfortunately, being that my students are vitrual learners, I don't have the opportunity to work with them on a daily basis. I created this video podcast to show them examples of how to app…
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I LOVE the idea of screen casts! It took some preparation and rehearsal, but I think that the uses for screen casts are many. It is a great way of creating a tutorial without having to be somewhere. Students could view them and create them. It would also be a great tool for educators to show one another when asked "how did you do that?" I am very excited about this new too…
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I created a videocast in Camtasia about Tiering and how I use tiering in the classroom. I found Camtasia more difficult to use than Windows Movie Maker. When I create another movie or video, I will once again use Windows unless I can figure out Camtasia before that time. I totally created my presentation by accident and could not tell you how I did it. When I tried to get it to create the presentation, the help file told me to choose a command, then it would not work once I did try and choose…
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As I was getting back in the swing of things from Thanksgiving break, I could not help but think how wonderful it would be to take my students on a field trip. I began pondering this thought, and ran into many road blocks along the way... not enough time to plan before Christmas break, not enough funding from the school, and lastly transportation and cost of getting there. With all of these thoughts in mind, I immediately decided that a field trip was just not in the plan for this school year…
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While taking EDU 595, I have become aware of so many additional “tech tools” that the rest of the world is using. It is amazing how when you are immersed in a topic, how many more connections you make. Blogs about television programs have caught my ear. RSS feeds on numerous websites have caught my eye. Candidates running for President of the United States debating while using YouTube have got my attention. I did not know tha…
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When creating my screencast, I took several things into consideration. The most important being the fact that I had NEVER created something like this before. Therefore, I wanted to do something that I felt would be simple, yet helpful to some people. I chose to create my screencast on how to open an e-mail account. This was something that I felt I could thoroughly explain to someone who was not as familiar with the internet.
I used the program Camtasia. This program was very simple…
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I did my screencast on a webquest. Next week in my fourth grade science class we are going to do a webquest project. Before I give my students their project I decided to do a walk through on how they are supposed to complete the webquest project.
Download WebQuest WalkThrough.wmv
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I decided to read a journal about MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and their launch of a new website called Highlights for High School. In the article…
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I chose to use Windows Media Encoder to create my screencast. I also joined Teachertube and uploaded my screencast onto it. The direct url is here. I chose to complete my screencast as a tutorial for my students to actively engage them in progress monitoring. I am required to progress monitor in reading and math 2 times monthly, and in order to get my students more invested I figured I would directly engage t…
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For this week’s blog entry, I chose to find more resources online that would enhance the content in my classroom. This week, I found a site from Verizon called Thinkfinity. This is yet another amazing website with so many resources for educators to utilize in the classroom! The focu…
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I used Windows Media Encoder to do my screencast this week. I chose to do a step by step tutorial for logging onto the website that accompanies our Spanish textbook. I chose to do this because I plan to post a link for this on my website to show the students how to access the textbook website. I had some trouble when trying to do a screencast with the entire window because I have a widescreen computer monitor and the entire window would not show up on playback. Therefore I decided to just do…
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Cross-post with my 'Pair-a-Dimes for your Thoughts' blog.
We are influenced by so many things in our lives. Identifying what has a significant influence on us can be difficult. Here are two things that I believe can be categorized as most influential... and they both happened Monday.
1. Fifteen year old Kristine wrote a very influential blog post…
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This week I found an article that involves schools and technology, but focuses more on how we can use school resources at home via technology. 'Checking Out' Library Books from Home includes information about a school district in Texas that has an electronic library system for "checking out" books from the school library. The days of your children coming home only to say "I forgot my library book at school, and I need it…
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While I was online this week looking for an article of interest to write about on my blog I came across this lesson plan. Thought I'd share since we talked about using wiki's in the classroom a few weeks ago. This is for an middle/high school English class...
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techlp/techlp054.shtml
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I downloaded the program Windows Media Encoder like the book suggested. I found the program userfriendly and simple to use. It took me a few times to make my screencast without messing up! When we creating the podcast it was easy for me because it was only my voice. However, with the screencast I was talking, typing, and moving the mouse around all at once! It was a little more challenging, but I…
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I recently read an article on clickers in the classroom at http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604803 I personally have never even heard of clickers in the classroom until this past summer. I was taking Intro to Technology and our professor brought them to class. He pu…
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I read an article titled: MFPs: A Bundle of Possibilities.This article was about an upcoming software program with powerful hardware that will allow educators many options when using printers and/or copy machines. A lot of schools and businesses are trying to become “paperless” industries, but that might be a little too far fetched for most people to do. Th…
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Recently I read a journal called “Project targets new teachers’ tech use”, by eSchool News staff. This journal is about a new study that Indiana University School of Education is embarking on. This $3.1 million study focuses on how current and emerging technologies are being used most effectively in classrooms, and how best to prepare new teachers to use these tools. In order to complete this study Indiana University i…
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I am a student at St. John's University in the education program and one of my professor is asking us to plan a class trip for our potential/future students. I'm just curious as to your opinions about planning a museum trip. What are the dos and don'ts of planning a class trip and what should be done to ensure that everyone safely returns and the trip is a success.
Thanks,
Shilini
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For this week's assignment, I subscribed to two podcasts, the first is a course at Penn State University. The course is IST 110 (Information Science, and Technology ). This podcast offers 4 great podcasts about topics covered in our course EDU 595.
Continue"This course is all about the challenges associated with engaging with the eWorld. We are going to focus quite a bit of energy on the conc
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Here it is my first podcast. I had a difficult time determining what to podcast about, but since our school uses edline, and I thought I would create a podcast of an introduction of myself to post on edline so the parents can hear an introduction about me. I used Audacity…
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I subscribed and listened to a couple different podcasts located at http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_genres.php?pod_genre_id=7. Some of the podcasts that I listened to were called Grammar Girl, dansmathcast, learn HTML, and nature podcast. My favorite podcast out of these ones is Grammar Girl. On…
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Ok...I thought of a way that I would use podcasting in the elementary school!!! I recorded a favorite book! Using free sound effects from online I read the book along with them...very tricky and required help from my fantastic family. But, I think this would be a good group project. Students could write their own stories, add sound effects, record it, publish it, and share it with the world!!! I am a little more…
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I would like to start off my saying that after this week I am really interested and motivated to use podcasts! Prior to this week I have searched online and tried to find good podcasts to listen to, but was somewhat unsuccessful. However, after reading our text book I decided to download and use I Tunes. I have used I Tunes on my school computer to play cds in my class, but never realized the larg…
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I read an article on the Technology infused English classroom. This is important to me because I teach English. The article is from 2005 however, it includes the vision for the future classroom and it is quite good. This article outlines the minimum code for a technology infused English classroom. It then presents a series of scenarios in which teachers and students utilise technology to enhance the learning process. Finally, Westside Elementary School in Hood River, Oregon and Tahatai Coast…
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I enjoyed browsing David Warlick's site this week. I commented on his blog about teaching back in times. He is continually amazed at the invaluable resources there are on the Internet for teachers. It is certainly a wonderful time for teachers. Visit his site and my comment!
Thanks,
Jen
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This week was my first experiences with podcasting. I must be honest and say that podcasting is not my favorite tech tool. However, I am impressed with the possibilities that it has for both personal uses and as well as educational.
Podcasting takes some time to get used to in order to find the most appropriate and most interesting for an indiv…
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I read an article this week called "Distance learning becoming part of school life" on the CNN website (http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/03/03/distance.education.ap/index.htm
As members of this class we are all participating in "distance learning" and so I thought this article would be an appropriate topic for discussion.
It is amazing that we can take an entire 3 credit course over the comput…
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I have subscribed to multiple podcasts over the past month or so. I actually got in to the podcasts after a recent update to the software for my Zune mp3 player. I bought my Zune last year when they first came out. Recently they updated the device and also their marketplace software. As part of the update, they began offering podcasts, much like iTunes does.
After spending come time perusing the different options, I subscribed to about 5 different…
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I found it extremely difficult to figure out a topic to create my podcast on; however, I figured it would be most appropriate to discuss something that would be useful within my own classroom!
I used the program Audacity, and found it to be EXTREMELY easy to use. I loved it. I honestly think that I would use it more often to do things of this nature for my classroom. The only think that was remotely difficult was exporting the file to an mp3; although, after I searched t…
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I used Audacity to create my podcast. It was very easy to download and user friendly. I also downloaded the mp3 installer so after I finished creating my podcast I could export it into an mp3. My podcast is an introduction to fourth grade for students and parents. It basically discusses the expectations, rules, and curriculum in my classroom. Click the link below to listen to it.
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When deciding on a podcast to follow, I found it difficult to decide. There were so many different podcasts to choose from, and covered almost every area of interest! I used the website www.podcastalley.com and chose to follow The Brain Food podcast. I found many positives and negatives in this podcast.
This podcast was dedicated to the areas of mathematics and science combined. The host, Kyle Butler, would speak of the weekly topic. These topi…
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Above is the link to the Pod Cast I created. The Cast consists of an opening for the Novel "The Red Badge of Courage". I discuss what will be done on the first day of class, from the Prompt topic we will be completing upon the completion of the Novel to creating our own working definiation of Courage during classtime. I discuss taking notes during the novel and what we will be discussing during the…
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I chose Ed Young Ministries Podcast. I watch him on Sunday when I can because he has a unique way of describing things that are relevant to life in general. During the week, I received several daily podcasts which were enlightening. I would typically get to listen to one per week however, since I have this podcast, I am able to listen to the daily message. By doing this, I am able to get the entire message instead of one portion that is delivered on Sunday. Attached is the feed for the podcas…
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Below is a link to my first podcast. I chose to test my first podcast out by using something related to my classroom. I decided to create my first podcast about the events in my classroom. I thought this would be helpful for both parents and the students. I summarized what we would be learning about in each subject for the week. I also said reminders about tests, homework, and assignments that are due. Also, I reminded students when we have each special(art, music, gym,etc.) so they will be p…
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