tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46574276478860276542024-03-04T21:36:22.114-08:00Amanda Weller's EDM310 BlogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16030301569806473256noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657427647886027654.post-68025438816915774422013-12-06T13:20:00.000-08:002013-12-06T13:20:22.035-08:00Blog Post #16<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.celebquote.com/11798" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4OK1aJwv9jyEj9hjrzah_sAmkjTdlozFiSiAqxVlntDK9Hu4T44SQPMG_69QJxOtXbIAPe2iQFiW6GykDxnJHihcGS11TwfWgdVF0WRWV1veUUcSURjgAumBCqZcW-9a5AxOoGTugkbMq/s1600/winston-churchill-quotes-13.png" height="200" width="200" /></span></a><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first day of EDM 310 I never thought I would end up here. This is it. The journey through EDM 310 has been long and very meaningful. Although, I don't think the journey is over, I think the journey just began. I have learned so much throughout EDM 310 that I plan to use in my future first grade class. The tools that I plan to use in my future classroom are the use of the SMARTboard, Blogger, and Twitter. I do plan to use other sources of technology but these are the main three. The SMARTboard allows you to do many things, such as: search for information, animate objects, and many more. Blogger is probably the most useful sources of technology that I have ever used. EDM 310 introduced me to blogger and all of the wonderful sources that is has to offer. I believe that blogger is a wonderful and creative way to submit and complete assignments. I also think its easier if a student has a question because the student can look back and look at the class blog. Twitter is a great way of communication. The students can communicate via twitter for class instructions, questions, and other information regarding assignments. I think that all of these tools are wonderful sources to use within the classroom. Throughout my years of teaching I hope to find more sources to add to my tools of teaching.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I want my future first grade classroom to be an exciting learning atmosphere. I want my students to have fun and remember what they learn, so they can take what they have learned from my class to second grade. For instance, learning math in first grade can be a bit challenging. However, there are so many ways that teachers can teach this to emphasize students in the learning process. I believe that adding technology will help students. Allowing students to use MAC's, PC's, iPad, or even the SMARTboard could help trigger their learning process. Every young child loves to play and be involved in games. I will definitely use online learning activities for my students to complete regarding the math lessons. The students can learn from these online learning activities and be able to complete their assignments. I want my students to love learning and know that learning can be creative. Creating a warm, creative learning environment is what I am going to do for my classroom. I want my students to feel comfortable and welcomed while they are in my class. Wanting the best for your students is very important, and as being a teacher I believe that every teacher should strive to reach this goal. I plan to help all of my students succeed on to the next grade level. If they have any questions I want each and every one of my students to be able to ask me without feeling embarrassed. </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">I will be sure to introduce to the class all of the sources of technology</span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> that can help them be better learners. I will definitely encourage my students to work together and help one another. I want them to understand the importance of working as a team. "</span><i style="line-height: 20px;">No one gets left behind." </i><span style="line-height: 20px;">Is a motto that I want to follow in my class. I want my students to help one another and be there for each other. I also plan to keep all of the parents updated on their child and what is going on in the classroom. I will have a blog set up just for the parents so I can post weekly newsletters, let them know what we are doing that week, and upcoming events. I want my students</span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> to be successful learners and I will do whatever I have to so they achieve that goal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In conclusion, my views of technology have changed in a positive way thanks to EDM 310. I was given a wonderful opportunity to work with new technology tools and methods of teaching. Without EDM 310 I would of never got the experience of working with Blogger, Podcast, iMovie, and iBook. I know that I do not know everything there is about technology, but I hope to learn more in my career of teaching.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This video gave us a quick look at the benefits of using Assistive technologies in the classroom for children with sensory impairments, and a motivational tool for teachers to use assistive technologies in their classroom. We plan to give all students with sensory impairments the ability to identify, explore, investigate, question, discover, observe, engage, and interact with their environment with assistive technologies. Learning needs to be personal so we plan to incorporate text to speech and speech to text devices, iphones, ipads, ipods, screen magnifiers, and sensory aids into our future classrooms. It’s finally time to take the plunge, step up, and be surprised. Don’t give up on the kids that you can enlighten. It’s their future. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM6GtXOi9iY&list=PL1LmVhEG4FCgFuPbEo-bqRibtoAFky9DB&index=1&feature=plpp_video">The Mountbatten - Assistive Technology for the Blind </a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Immediate feedback is vital to the struggling learner. Using the Mountbatten braille writer allows for both audio and textile. As the student brailles the machine produces the braille by announcing what is being brailled. This machine is very advanced. It can save files, transfer files and receive files from/to computers. This device is also great for mainstreaming the classroom working with teachers and students that do not know braille. As the student brailles text the memic converts it into print and then displays it onto a screen. This is a feature that will allow for the blind to be included into the curriculum receiving feedback from the teacher and participating in peer group projects. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk31xOMGSWM&list=PL1LmVhEG4FCg3ckSeV9Wq3r7Fp0Ee7Nvq&feature=plcp">Teaching Math to the Blind</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In this video, Professor Art Karshmer, explains the techniques of teaching math to the blind. Mr. Karshmer attended the University of San Fransisco of Management, which was formerly School of business and Professional Studies. He is a pioneer in the use of technology and computer-based systems to teach mathematics to the blind. For the most part, blind students are effectively barred from the study of all the core or "stem" sciences which rely on math as their root language. Using computers and computer-based devices, Professor Karshmer has created a system which translates the two dimensional realities of mathematical problems into the otherwise single dimensionality of braille to allow a blind student to impress those realities into their visual cortex through touch and electronic feedback. This video is a wonderful source for blind students and so forth. We would definitely recommend this video to parents, teachers, students, and etc..</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvEe91GJOqA&list=PL1LmVhEG4FCgFuPbEo-bqRibtoAFky9DB&index=3&feature=plpp_video">iPad Usage for the Blind</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">In this video, Wesley Majerus, shows us how blind people use an iPad. Wesley Majerus is a Access Specialist for the National Federation for the Blind. By watching this video we have learned how actively engaged apple products have become. Its neat to see all of the features that apple products have to offer. Apple provides a voice feedback to show you what is going on and what you're doing. Wesley demonstrates in his video how to use iBooks. The kindle and other sources do not offer the same features that Apple does. The voice activation is very neat and leads you right to what you need. The source is very applicable for blind people. For each individual tap that you click, the voice activation tells you what tab you're on. We found this video to be very neat and a wonderful source! </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSDSnto5OGg&feature=share&list=PL1LmVhEG4FCgFuPbEo-bqRibtoAFky9DB&index=3">Teaching Mom What Her Deaf/Blind Child Is Learning On the iPad</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In this entertaining video, a teacher gives a student’s mom a lesson in voiceover on the iPad. The parent’s child is deaf and blind and she learns the things that her child does while using the iPad.The teacher explains to the parent what a voice over is. She gives the mom a step by step tutorial of how to use voice over. As we can see from the video iPads can be very useful to teachers and their students who may be deaf or blind. The iPad has a great feature integrated Voiceover software(“Apple iPad, iPod, iPhone”). The software allows the information shown on the display to be read aloud to help students. The gestures that are used on the integrated touch screens were designed to allow a blind person to navigate the screen or select menu items and write text(“Apple iPad, iPod, iPhone”). The iPad has several useful apps for deaf and blind students. A great app is Verbal Victor. This communication app allows people to communicate with their students or children who are developing their language skills or who have language impairments(Hooda). Another great app is iASL. iASL stands for i American Sign Language. This app will translate sentences up to five words into the American Sign Language(“Apps for the deaf and hearing impaired”). This is a great app because it allows for the teacher and peers to communicate effectively with the student. Since it is a app it can be on the classroom iPads and the student can communicate with everyone and not feel left out or misunderstood.
A valuable tool for teachers and students is the Braille Lite. This tool is a note taker and it allows students to type their notes in class using a specialized keyboard(“Out of Sight”). On the front there is a Braille display that allows the students to check what they have typed. It also has an optional speech function that reads the text aloud(‘Out of Sight”). The Braille Lite can also be connected to a PC to print notes on a standard printer in a large font, or on an embosser in Braille(“Out of Sight”). The teacher can also use this tool to translate handouts and other papers into Braille.This assistive technology tool is great for teachers and students. Technology has become such a major element in our schools today. It is great that the technology is made useful to all students. The assistive technology tools are especially wonderful and useful to teachers that have students who may be deaf or blind. These tools and the tools that were mentioned above allow the students and teachers to communicate effectively. They also provide independence for the student, because the student can use these assistive technologies for things that they might had to rely on the teacher for in the past. The use of technology in the classroom is empowering and it provides a great way for all students to learn and excel! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> In Free Resources from the Net for Every Learner, a Blog by Paul Hami, there are many assistive technologies and resources listed for not only educators, but parents and children as well. We had a couple of favorites that we felt would help us in our Elementary Classrooms in the future, such as MyScript Calculator- a free app for both Android and iOS devices from VisionObjects. It offers a “handwriting calculator”. Another assistive technology we felt will benefit us is SlideTalk. This is a service where you upload either sets of images, or complete PowerPoint presentations. Once uploaded, SlideTalk adds narration via high quality text to speech that can be customized for pronunciation, reading rate, voice timbre and more. There are at least 17 languages available, and multiple voices are available for most languages. You can even change voices or languages within a presentation. Once a video is produced, it is automatically published to Youtube.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Assistive Technology Blog gives so many assistive technologies that will be useful to all of us as educators. It is too difficult to list them all, so to name a few: Adobe Presenter 9, IPEVO Interactive Whiteboard System, Co:Writer App for IOS from Don Johnston, Inc, Adobe Connect, MimioTeach Interactive Whiteboard, Windows Surface RT, Belkin Tablet Stage, iReadWrite, and Evernote. All of these assistive technologies are geared toward different uses, but are equally beneficial in the classroom. The following is a brief explanation of a few of our favorites we found on the Assistive Technology Blog:</span><br />
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<a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/1uHOlchVepqfJZUN1j-0AgHu7mcXpwDRpRXQdKKCrdJXaNLShSviHtX7ht_IrCSnvsG_sPwVzeMUSYYTSwVRtAqC8Jxt3ygYNfNIufc-iFfma4GyCAvYCaQb7Q" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><img border="0" height="100px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/1uHOlchVepqfJZUN1j-0AgHu7mcXpwDRpRXQdKKCrdJXaNLShSviHtX7ht_IrCSnvsG_sPwVzeMUSYYTSwVRtAqC8Jxt3ygYNfNIufc-iFfma4GyCAvYCaQb7Q" width="128px;" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The IPEVO Interactive Whiteboard System is a cost effective way to turn any whiteboard or flat surface into an interactive whiteboard. The IPEVO Interactive Whiteboard System works with both Windows and Macintosh computers and the system is comprised of a small camera, stylus and supplied Annotator software. Teacher will need to also have access to a LCD projector for the classroom to use this solution</span><br />
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<a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/uCe-w0xriSDuPImwmQpvoAOa7hOKFVO9ZLzt5_5LYsR3haJHVjHdOQSpkg3LKz08qgjHMwk0TFT_ftElkfYKxGr8Pt7X2dcASsPAOwYo2Rvbg3YJxQSjkvAO0Q" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><img border="0" height="106px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/uCe-w0xriSDuPImwmQpvoAOa7hOKFVO9ZLzt5_5LYsR3haJHVjHdOQSpkg3LKz08qgjHMwk0TFT_ftElkfYKxGr8Pt7X2dcASsPAOwYo2Rvbg3YJxQSjkvAO0Q" width="138px;" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Co:Writer for IOS comes complete with a large library of built-in Topic Dictionaries. You can customize Co:Writer for IOS by determining the base number of words that Co:Writer should access which would depend on the students vocabulary and grade level. You can also set the Text to Speech feature to read letters, words, or sentences and set the rate of the speech. You currently can utilize five different fonts and change the size of the text and utilize a high contrast feature, black background white text. While Co:Writer makes it easy to get your ideas down on the iPad-it also gives you lots of options when it comes time for sharing your ideas. You can send the text to iMessage, Facebook, Twitter or Email. Better yet you can save it to your Dropbox or Google Drive account for easy access at home or in school. You can also copy. paste and print the text directly from the app. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> iReadWrite is a well designed app that works as advertised. It provides students with text-to-speech , word prediction and vocabulary support. iReadWrite does not require an internet connection to utilize the program which is ideal for students who may be in schools with poor web connectivity. </span><br />
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<a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/7Dx3haVn9q6ocREqHJKdZ6K-wrFIvIDGADWcyc7pNYSMMhJY2y6GitsNxPnVaHl7Eqi_PROdvUxGIDQzoeQCPm3RCWYuclAslVYgpffln3SieztHkfGVcrmj8g" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><img border="0" height="93px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/7Dx3haVn9q6ocREqHJKdZ6K-wrFIvIDGADWcyc7pNYSMMhJY2y6GitsNxPnVaHl7Eqi_PROdvUxGIDQzoeQCPm3RCWYuclAslVYgpffln3SieztHkfGVcrmj8g" width="93px;" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Belkin wanted to extend the reach of capabilities and help teachers get the most out of their iPad investment. With this in mind Belkin has just released the Belkin Tablet Stage which turns your iPad into a document camera and presentation system.
</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16030301569806473256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657427647886027654.post-40015461087493210152013-11-21T12:42:00.001-08:002013-11-21T12:42:10.928-08:00Project #2 Final Report on PLN<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">First, what is a PLN? A PLN, Personal Learning Network, is an informal learning network that involves people a learner can interact with and gain knowledge. A PLN allows you to make a connection with other people with similar intent that some type of learning will take place because of that connection. You can also use a PLN to call upon for help, consultation, and collaboration. At the very beginning of this semester we had to give a summary on our progress for developing our first PLN. I used <a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/">Symbaloo</a> to create my very own Personal Learning Network. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">A Symbaloo is one example of a PLN. It's a method you can use to have quick access to the resources, people, and tools that you use the most. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">When using a Symbaloo, you are able to create your own icons which will take you to where ever you set them up to go. It took me a while to learn how to use Symbaloo, but once I figured it out I <b>LOVED</b> it! I have began to use Symbaloo for all of my resources that I use all the time.</span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16030301569806473256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657427647886027654.post-60265192577116961152013-11-20T10:01:00.002-08:002013-11-20T10:30:10.155-08:00Blog Post #14<div style="text-align: center;">
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Love her books!</div>
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<b>Mem Fox<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i>My Side of the Mtn</i>.</div>
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<b>Jean C. George<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Non fiction</div>
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<b>Gail Gibbons<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Good website</div>
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<b>Dan Gutman<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Coretta Scott King Award</div>
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Among others</div>
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<b>Virginia Hamilton<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Bridge to Terabithia</div>
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<b>Katherine Paterson<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Because of Winn-Dixie</div>
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<b>Gary Paulsen<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Picture books for older kids</div>
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<b>Patricia Polacco<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Holes, Sideways Stories</div>
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<b>Louis Sachar<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Stinky Cheese man</div>
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<b>Jon Scieszka<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Maniac McGee</div>
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<b>Jerry Spinelli<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Good website</div>
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<b>Audrey Wood<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Picture books:</div>
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Kissing Hand, etc.</div>
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<b>Audrey Penn<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>After selecting an author with your partner, please email the above list to <a href="mailto:Amandaweller22@gmail.com">Amandaweller22@gmail.com</a></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oral Presentation
Guidelines<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Reserving Your Author:</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You and your
partner may reserve your author before and after your class at the end of November. Have several choices in mind in case someone
else reserves your first choice. There
will be a “Children’s Author Choice” reservation sheet at the sign-in counter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Elements to Include in Your Presentation:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can use a Prezi or create a Google Presentation</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://prezi.com/index/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Click here for more information on how to create a Prezi</span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I would suggest you watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efM1RjNxvnI">How to use Prezi </a>if you have never used Prezi</span></li>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Slide One</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">:
Share picture of the author and the most interesting biographical information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Slide Two</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">: <a href="http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal">Newberry</a> and/or <a href="http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal">Caldecott Awards</a>: Include a picture of the book cover(s) with
award emblem or show the actual book(s).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Slide Three</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">: Visit the author’s website: Show information for teachers, parents,
librarians and/or kids. If the author’s
website has a video of the author reading or talking, play no more than 30
seconds of that video. If there’s no
video on the author’s website, try to find another site that might have
it. Example: <a href="http://readwritethink.org/">ReadWriteThink.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Slide Four</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">: Tell
something unique or interesting about the author’s books. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Are
there recurring characters in his/her books?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Are
there recurring themes?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What
genre(s) does the author prefer?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Any
other interesting facts you would like to share<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Practice your presentation </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">to ensure that it does not exceed
four minutes and that each partner has equal presentation time. Points will be deducted for exceeding the time
limit. See the oral presentation rubric for
expectations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Rubric:</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Name:_____________________________ Date:_________________________<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" class="MsoNormalTable">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"></td>
<td colspan="3" style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Children’s
Author Oral Presentation</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"></td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"></td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">0</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Total</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Biographical
information and Awards<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Weight = 3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Author information is minimal,
uninteresting with no mention of awards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Author information has few details
and presentation is not particularly interesting. Gives only titles of award-winning books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Student presents information about
the author. Shows examples of
award-winning books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Student highlights most interesting
information about the author. Shows
examples of award-winning books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">/12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Author’s
website, books, audience and genre<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Weight = 3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Student presents minimal
information. Does not elaborate or
explain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Student seems uncomfortable with
the information and fails to motivate the audience to know more about the
author. No book list.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Student explains and elaborates. However,
explanation could have been more motivating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Includes list of books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Student explains and elaborates in
a way that motivates audience to know more about the author. Includes list of well-known books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">/12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grammar<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Weight = 3</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Student's presentation has three
or more grammatical errors.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Presentation has two or more grammatical
errors.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Presentation has only one
grammatical error.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Presentation has no grammatical
errors.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">/12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Eye
Contact<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Weight = 3</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Student reads all of report with
no eye contact.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Student occasionally uses eye
contact, but still reads most of report.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Student maintains eye contact most
of the time but frequently returns to notes.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Student maintains eye contact with
audience, seldom returning to notes.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">/12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elocution<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Weight = 3</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Student mumbles, incorrectly
pronounces terms, and speaks too quietly for students in the back of class to
hear.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Student's voice is low. Student
incorrectly pronounces terms. Audience members have difficulty hearing
presentation.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Student's voice is clear. Student
pronounces most words correctly. Most audience members can hear presentation.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Student uses a clear voice and
correct, precise pronunciation of terms so that all audience members can hear
presentation.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">/12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
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<tr>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"></td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"></td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"></td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"></td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Total
Points:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">/60<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
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</tbody></table>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Grade:</b> 7th Pt England School</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Date of Blog:</b> October 25, 2013</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In Cheyanne's blog she discussed her experience of her first day at Pt England School. Her first day didn't go as smooth as she wanted it to. Cheyanne and her brother were in class together but then they were separated. Cheyanne described how she was nervous and she was frightened because she didn't know anyone. Cheyanne also described how cross country was the first activity that she completed at school. She was not to fond of this activity, but she still completed the activity with other students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Date of Blog:</b> November 5, 2013</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In Heather's blog she talked about the most recent fads around the world. She introduced the rubber band bracelets and the silly band bracelets. Heather described a fad as being</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a thing that is popular for a year or so, and then it is not so popular. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My name is Amanda Weller and I am a student in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. Thank you for sharing the recent fads! It's crazy to think that fads around the world are constantly changing. When I was younger I had several rubber band bracelets! I never went anywhere without my colored bracelets. I can't wait to see the new fads for the upcoming years! Great post and thank you for sharing!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16030301569806473256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657427647886027654.post-46818620016383794092013-11-09T21:35:00.000-08:002013-12-05T12:28:37.500-08:00Last C4T<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;"><b>Title of Blog:</b> <a href="https://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/">The Tchers Voice</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;"><b>Name of Blog:</b> <a href="https://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/2013/11/05/coding-for-success/#comments">Coding for Success</a></span><br />
<b style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;">Date of Blog: </b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;">November 5, 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">In Elizabeth's blog S</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em;">he reviewed the importance of </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20.796875px;">technology</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em;"> and why it should be </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20.796875px;">incorporated</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em;"> into schools. She </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20.796875px;">discussed</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em;"> the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20.796875px;">topic</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em;"> and gave her </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20.796875px;">reasonings</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em;">. Computer science education week is attempting to raise the profile of computer science in education. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The program is open to students K-12 and teachers can easily get their classrooms involved with the activities.. Hour of Code also has school resources for after the program ends to continue computer science learning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My name is Amanda Weller and I am a student in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. I think that the Computer Science Education week should be mandatory. The use of technology within the classroom is important and is constantly changing. Technology can help push and strive learning. Teachers should want their students to be actively involved. Understanding the importance and the tools within technology I think should be required. Thank you for sharing!</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/2013/11/21/self-reflection-comes-in-threes/#comments" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1KRjxgMYPEnrmD4-aP4v_0ddTkZZbYucTnRBVpL2ANlObyvQwIlrqD-2O7JI_tPTQFNt-wRlXo3DBDlXed2RdX1hJgiL9fEx2ay5JuDfwJAXAiyh24agy368wszIVyizXRpCfVV1uxsLF/s1600/Sarah-Brown-Wessling_avatar.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;"><b>Name:</b> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sarah Brown Wessling</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;"><b>Author of Blog</b>: <a href="https://www.teachingchannel.org/">The Teachers Channel</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;"><b>Title of Blog:</b> <a href="https://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/">The Tchers Voice</a></span><br />
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<b style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;">Date of Blog: </b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;">November 21, 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="color: #333333; line-height: 21px;">Sarah's Blog: </b><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: #333333;">In Sarah's blog she discussed the importance of being a successful teacher and learner. At first she explained how stressed teachers feel and how theres not enough time to complete everything. Sarah made a note of how important it is to take a break when you feel rushed or stressed. Give yourself time to relax and rest in a quiet place. Sarah mentioned three things that make a successful teacher which are passion, empathy, and grit. For passion, sarah stated that great teachers are truly passionate about what they do. It isn't just a job, its their life work. For empathy, she stated that its incredibly important because on the other end of any lesson is a person, full of potential and complexity and humanity. We must always see the humanity in what we do and in who were doing it for. For grit, Sarah stated teaching is hard work. There has to be a tenacity in the day to day routine and a willingness to see past the routine and into the unique waiting to be realized. Sarah also mentioned three things that make a successful learner, which are intellectual risk-takers, gritty, and curious. For intellectual risk-takers, she mentioned</span><span style="background-color: white;"> a</span></span></span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">nyone who is a great learner must be willing to jump past what he or she is comfortable in knowing and be willing to try out new ideas and perspectives, no matter how uncomfortable they might be. For gritty, she stated that s</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">uccessful learners are just as gritty as strong teachers. They are willing to struggle through what they don’t understand until they “get it.” I often tell my students that if learning were easy then they’d only do what they already can, and would never get any better. Lastly, she stated that curious </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">learners have to be able to wonder, to be curious, to be open and not fixed.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">My name is Amanda Weller and I am a student in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama. I absolutely LOVED your blog post! Your post was very meaningful and touching. Although I am not teaching yet, I can't imagine what it feels like to be a teacher. I know I get behind or stressed about a lot of my classwork and taking a break for self-reflection is very important. Sometimes you have to slow down on what your doing a just breathe. I really liked how you distinguished the differences between three things that make a successful teacher and three things that make a successful learner.I would highly recommend any teacher to read your blog. Thank you for sharing! </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #20124d;">What can we learn from Sir Ken Robinson?</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>Sir Ken Robinson is an English author, speaker, and international advisor revolving education in the arts to government, education, and arts bodies. Mr. Robinson was a professor of Arts Education at the University of Warwick, he was congratulated on his services of education in 2003, and he was director of The Arts in Schools Project from 1985–1989. Robinson’s specializes in education, creativity, and innovation and frequently speaks at conferences about these topics. </i></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U">Changing Education Paradigms</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">By: Amanda Weller, Briann Smith, Heather Smith, and Lisa Smith</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">In the video, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_changing_education_paradigms.html" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Changing Education Paradigms</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Ken Robinson says that, “Every country on earth, at the moment, is reforming public education.” The first of many reasons is economics. People are attempting to work out the struggling question because we cant determine what the economy will look like in a few days. They're wondering how to educate their children to take place in the economics of the 21st century. </span></span></span><a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tedxvienna.at%2Fblog%2Fken-robinson-how-to-escape-educations-death-valley%2F&h=0&w=0&sz=1&tbnid=P8sMWhoaNpYeHM&tbnh=183&tbnw=275&zoom=1&docid=SIGcw6dp8OCCyM&hl=en&ei=uQ98UuDVB-GzsASx9oG4DQ&ved=0CAIQsCU"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKureLsFJ8zqjG5Ze5O_zbTo_3ZA12MdQCQa6IVdJ88eLEscah1o-8ADsbuI6cWZy83Hv84zV-np55DtNr6mRTT_aI9fUxoX7-sYz_9SJGvGKhMT0AMDR8V_Lc6OL9pGpz1W4slfvE3apI/s320/Sir-Ken-Robinson-Quote.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The second reason has to deal with cultural identity. Ken Robinson challenges the way children are being educated in his video. He talks about the way that we're educating our children. The system of education currently going on was designed for a different age. Mr. Robinson talks about how children are brought into ADHD because they're getting distracted by "boring stuff." He talks about how children are being medicated when teachers should be waking them up. Ken doesn't believe that students should be medicated. He believes that we should be changing education and doing away with standardized testing. Ken mentioned that standardized testing was designed for a different age. Children think differently than they did years ago. So many things have changed, but not education. The school system should constantly create creativity and acknowledge all kinds of learning.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_how_to_escape_education_s_death_valley.html">How to Escape Education’s Death Valley</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">By: Heather Smith, Amanda Weller, Briann Smith, and Lisa Smith</span><br />
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<a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/WSQywf2QbITxIyfJ-M3rsOwcvRQfdCuqhaEjnsFvqwErPRkssTU-bj1uSyDLjQ9HYd45m_heCdHikD0V1GOHkV29aC9vAv-iQsMh2bSYzWaWwXvBJWyKlj_zJA" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="279px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/WSQywf2QbITxIyfJ-M3rsOwcvRQfdCuqhaEjnsFvqwErPRkssTU-bj1uSyDLjQ9HYd45m_heCdHikD0V1GOHkV29aC9vAv-iQsMh2bSYzWaWwXvBJWyKlj_zJA" width="271px;" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Education under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is not based on diversity, it’s based on conformity. One of the effects of NCLB has been to narrow the focus onto the so-called STEM disciplines- such as Math and Science. Mr. Robinson was not saying that they are not important, just that “they are necessary but they’re not sufficient”. He believes a real education has to give equal access to the arts, humanities, and physical education. Mr. Robinson taught me that children prosper best with a broad curriculum that celebrates their various talents, not just a small range of talents. Take the arts, for instance, this is not just important because it improves children’s math scores, but it is important because it speaks to parts of children’s being that are otherwise untouched.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We create our lives through this restless process of imagining alternatives and possibilities, and what one of the roles of education is to awaken and develop these powers of creativity. Mr. Robinson has taught me that instead of developing creativity, instead we have a culture of standardization. It doesn’t have to be this way, though. He used the example of Finland and how well the students do in math, science, and reading. He said the reason that Finland’s system works is simple: they do </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NOT</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> obsess about “those” disciplines (math, science, reading)- they have a broad approach to education.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #980000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Devolve responsibility to the school level for getting the job done. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #980000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. Robinson said there is a big difference between going into a mode of command and control in education- this was probably the most influential part to me because if you think about it: it is teachers and students in a classroom, not a committee of legislature, it should be the teachers discretion to make the environment enriching and plausible!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The point Mr. Robinson was trying to make is very clear: education is not a mechanical system. It’s a human system. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IT’S ABOUT PEOPLE!!! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">People who do or do not want to learn. Is school boring? Is it irrelevant? Is it at odds with someone’s life outside of school? These are the reasons for drop-outs. These are the trends of America. There are conditions under which people thrive, and conditions under which they don’t. It’s that PLAIN and SIMPLE! He said that we are all organic creatures and the culture of the school is absolutely essential. Right beneath the surface are these seeds of possibility, waiting for the right conditions to come about, and with organic systems, if the conditions are right, life is inevitable. It happens all the time. You take an area, a school, a district, and change the conditions, give people a different sense of possibility, a different set of expectations, a broader range of opportunities, you cherish and value the relationships between teachers and learners, you offer people the discretion to be creative and to innovate what they do- and schools that were once bereft spring to</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> LIFE</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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</b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16030301569806473256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657427647886027654.post-82676323971229909132013-11-03T20:24:00.000-08:002013-11-03T20:24:40.740-08:00Blog Post #11<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b> In Mrs. Cassidy's video the
first grade class show how they are able to use all sorts of technology in the
classroom learning experience. Some of the technologies represented were blogs,
Skype, class web page, video media and several others. The technology used in
the classroom helps the students share their work, work collaboratively, and
learn new material. Mrs. Cassidy is a perfect example of a teacher who is
setting the bar high as an educator. I think it’s important and impressive to
see teachers push the use of technology in the classroom. Mrs. Cassidy’s video
inspires me to share the use of technology within my classroom and with other educators
like myself especially since I am learning so much about the importance of technology
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> In this video Dr. Strange and Cassidy discuss how she got
started with the involvement of technology within her teaching. Cassidy has come
a long way since she first began teaching. When she started she only had five
new computers. Cassidy had no idea what to do with these computers. Although,
she knew there was information to be found within the internet. Cassidy was
also granted money from the government to help support her. Since then she has
been using the technology for about ten years. Cassidy has created and
maintained a blog for an average of five years. Luckily, her school has a technology
coordinator to help keep the support of technology in the classroom. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> In this video Cassidy and Dr. Strange discussed how people
need to start taking advantage of technology. The first step, believed by
Cassidy, is to find something of interest to you. Why do something that you don’t
love? Everyone has an interest, but you must find it first. Cassidy believes
that people connect to things better when they can relate to them.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> In this video Dr. Strange allows the students to ask Cassidy
questions about her suggestions. The students asked Cassidy how she would go
about a problem if it was to occur. She answered with how the curriculum can
change and it does change according to the needs of the classroom.</b></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=first+graders&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=1x53UvGRCcSzyAGYw4CAAw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=600#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=LbuC7-4LL7Zv6M%3A%3BOK8EojO9KeAnUM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.lisle202.org%252Fpages%252Fuploaded_images%252Fclip_art_for_website.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.lisle202.org%252Fvnews%252Fdisplay.v%252FSEC%252FTate%252520Woods%25257CFirst%252520Grade%252520Page%25253E%25253EMs.%252520Miller%3B500%3B371" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1My6OdFBe92KS61pJ7fX0sDqkAKyI5wuBR31l-86jgOUSwAtZhakUgcW4FSVdcW3GgbTJFdZAv_1t_-2fQZU5J6IJwpN-uaFFfuFpcchsWzhjhp5yO9TXkYkU-T8qpQLc2_9cJduB6LEb/s1600/images.jpg" height="235" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> I am a firm believer in using technology in the classroom. I can't even imagine where I would be at today without my computer. I think within
time a lot of things will change. Technology is constantly changing and
improving. It can only get better from here. Technology has taught me and
helped me gain more knowledge than just a regular old school book. The internet
is a very easy and unique source. Even just by creating and using blogger has taught
me so much that I didn't know. I will definitely carry blogging over to my
classroom when I began teaching. </b></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16030301569806473256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657427647886027654.post-59910846564507553882013-10-31T13:17:00.000-07:002013-10-31T13:17:06.429-07:00Project #12<div style="text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16030301569806473256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657427647886027654.post-42342578264902383492013-10-29T11:08:00.002-07:002013-10-29T11:08:59.042-07:00C4Ks for October<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="background-color: #b45f06; font-size: x-large;"><i>OCTOBER C4Ks</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Student:</b> Brodie Pickle</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Grade:</b> 4th Grade (British) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Columbia, Canada</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Link to Class Blog:</b> <a class="in-cell-link" href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://kidblog.org/ThePickles/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_5V1RqDWuZ0H4DsojYrz4-SZaZGA" target="_blank">http://kidblog.org/ThePickles/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Link to Brodie's Blog:</b> <a href="http://kidblog.org/ThePickles/author/d22dd565-e0f4-4a31-a580-14a1b5574921/">http://kidblog.org/ThePickles/author/d22dd565-e0f4-4a31-a580-14a1b5574921/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Title of Blog:</b> <a href="http://kidblog.org/ThePickles/d22dd565-e0f4-4a31-a580-14a1b5574921/chap-1-5/#comments">Chap 1-5</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Date of Blog:</b> October 2, 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Brodie's Blog:</b> Brodie's blog discussed a story that he has started to read. His blog was only on chapters 1 through 5. In his blog Brodie voiced four of his opinions on the chapters that he has read so far. Brodie definitely stated the main character in the story, which is Melody. Melody is struggling in the first few chapters and Brodie can't wait to see what occurs in chapter 6.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 19.09090805053711px;">Hey Brodie,</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 19.09090805053711px;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 19.09090805053711px;">My name is Amanda Weller and I am a student in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama. I enjoyed reading and reviewing your blog about chap 1-5. I liked how you voiced your opinions on Melody. After reading your blog Melody seems like she plays a big role in the story. It sounds as if something big might happen at the end! Keep up the good work and I hope you enjoy the rest of the chapters! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Student:</b> Chloe</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Teacher:</b> Mrs. Schroeder</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Grade:</b> 4th Grade</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Link to Chloe's Blog:</b> </span><a href="http://kidblog.org/4EMrsSchroeder/author/bfb0fb63-1ce6-4c5d-a02f-2e5ac3e47091/">http://kidblog.org/4EMrsSchroeder/author/bfb0fb63-1ce6-4c5d-a02f-2e5ac3e47091/</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Title of Blog:</b> <a href="http://kidblog.org/4EMrsSchroeder/author/bfb0fb63-1ce6-4c5d-a02f-2e5ac3e47091/">This Week</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Date of Blog: </b>October 11, 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Chloe's Blog</b>: In Chloe's blog she discussed the activities that she encountered for the week of October 11, 2013. Chloe read Tonga's Reunion that week. She talked about a few of the main characters and some of her favorite parts. Another topic mentioned was material that Mrs. Schroeder was discussing in class. The class reviewed run on sentences that week and Mrs. Schroeder said that run on sentences were scary. Chloe also enjoyed walking through a nature trail with her friends. Chloe mentioned a few small statements about her mom. One statement was asking if her mom had work and the other was just stating that she loved her mom. Chloe's closing statement was that she would see Mrs. Schroeder Monday!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hey Chloe! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My name is Amanda Weller I am a student in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. Your week seemed to be very eventful and filled with activities! What nature trail did you get the opportunity to walk? I love going on walks with my friends and I think that a nature trail sounds like a great idea! I hope everything goes well for you the next few weeks! Thank you for sharing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pt. England School</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Class Blog: </b><a href="http://pessomerville.blogspot.co.nz/">Room 16 Mr Somerville</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Francis's Class Blog: </b><a href="http://pesfrancisp.blogspot.com/">Francis @ Pt England School</a><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Title of Blog:</b> <a href="http://pesfrancisp.blogspot.com/2013/10/grown-ups-2.html#comment-form">Grown Ups 2</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Date of Blog: </b>October 21, 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Francis's Blog: </b>In Francis's blog he talked about a new movie that he went to go see during his school break. The new movie was <a href="http://pesfrancisp.blogspot.com/2013/10/grown-ups-2.html#comment-form">Grown Ups 2</a>, starring Adam Sandler. Francis went to go see the movie with his mom and sister. According to his blog Francis really enjoyed the movie. Francis elaborated on how the director did a wonderful job and that the movie was hilarious. The movie involved a few action, drama, and romance scenes. Francis also listed a few details regarding Grown Ups 2. He described two tall men that starred in the movie. One of the men had short hair and the other only had hair on the side of his head. The tallest of the two men that Francis described was a cop and the other man was a shop employee. After the movie Francis returned home with his mom and sister to relax before he went to sleep. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hey Francis,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My name is Amanda Weller I am a student in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. Adam Sandler is one of my favorite actors as well! Have you ever seen the first Grown Ups? It's a wonderful movie! I have not watched the second Grown Ups, but I hope to soon. You made the movie sound very interesting! I really liked the details that you used to describe the two tall men. Good job Francis! Thank you for sharing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Title of Blog: </b><a href="http://osgapusgov.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/1481/">AP US Government or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the First Amendment</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Date of Blog: </b>October 20, 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Annarose's Blog:</b> In her blog she discussed the main importance of the first amendment Annarose talked about what she already knows about the first amendment and what she would like to know about the first amendment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My name is Amanda Weller and I am a student in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. Your blog was wonderful! Well described blog of the first amendment. I really liked how you broke each subject material down. Good job! I also really liked how you discussed what you already know about the first amendment and what this class has taught you so far. I hope throughout this online course that you become familiar with all of the aspects that the constitution has to offer. Thank you for sharing!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;"><b>Jerrid's Blog:</b> <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://educatech.wordpress.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy29UbLWJpo_LKIXNK6o26IC7DxXqDQ">Teaching as a Dynamic Activity</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;"><b>Name of Blog:</b> <a href="http://educatech.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/teacher-education-starts-in-kindergarten/">Teacher Education Starts in </a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://educatech.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/teacher-education-starts-in-kindergarten/">Kindergarten</a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;"><b>Link of Blog:</b> </span><a href="http://educatech.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/teacher-education-starts-in-kindergarten/">http://educatech.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/teacher-education-starts-in-kindergarten/</a><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;"><b>Date of Blog: </b>August 21,2013</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.796875px;"><i>Jerrid's blog was mainly about how teachers create all other professions. Jerrid mentioned that teachers even create their own profession. Some of the students that you're teaching now may become teachers. Jerrid's main focus in his blog was that teachers modify good effective teaching. Be sure that when you're teaching your setting a good example for our future educators.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hey Jerrid, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My name is Amanda Weller and I am a student in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. From past references, I would definitely say that its important as a teacher to give their students a positive vibe about teaching and learning. I don't think teachers realize how important it is to motivate learning. If students don't see motivation and positive influences it could lead them in a bad direction. You should want your students to taking something with them when they leave your class and this should be one. Thanks for sharing!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;"><b>Jerrid's Blog:</b> <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://educatech.wordpress.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy29UbLWJpo_LKIXNK6o26IC7DxXqDQ">Teaching as a Dynamic Activity</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;"><b>Name of Blog:</b> <a href="http://educatech.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/critical-curiosity/">Critical </a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://educatech.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/critical-curiosity/">Curiosity</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;"><b>Date of Blog: </b>August 1,2013</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><i>In Jerrid's blog he talks about his summer ed course that he recently taught and how some of the students were too quick to judge. Jerrid wanted to know what was wrong with this picture. He wanted to incorporate technology within his classroom and the students were not understanding why. Jerrid explained to his class the pros and cons of both sides. Jerrid explained that learning should be curious. Technology helps reinforce traditional teaching, create inequity in the classroom, and possibly help reduce the intellectual level within the class.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My name is Amanda Weller and I am a student in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. I definitely think that technology can be sometimes positive and negative at times. As of now, I am taught to incorporate technology in all of my teaching. I think its important as teachers that we pay attention and keep an open mind to new ideas for new resources. I think that without technology in the classroom students wont be engaged in learning. Most students don't pay attention to a boring lecture, so why not use technology? I know there are several good and bad situations with both, but the good is seen more. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thank you for sharing! </span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #ea9999; color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> More importantly, Randy reviews several important aspects of the classroom that some teachers just don't realize. Randy describes brick walls being everywhere in a classroom. Well, whats a brick wall? Randy defines a brick wall as a wall that blocks a student from learning. As a teacher this brick may be a bit frustrating at times. However, your goal should be to break that brick wall! Dont give up on your students Work with your students to give them the attention and proper resources that they need. I hope to be that teacher that pushes my students to never let go of their dreams and to never lose hope!</span></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> Lastly, Randy discussed what you would do if you get in tricky situation Sometimes you have to make due of the resources that you are given. Don't ever expect the perfect classroom or school. Its more important to be the teacher that makes the most of every situation for the students. Do more collaborative lessons! With this in mind you can make the classroom more inviting for the students Randy Pausch's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo">video</a> taught me to never give up on your students or the school. Also, help the children fulfill their dreams and make learning more enjoyable.</span></span></span></b><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #073763; color: #d0e0e3; font-size: x-large;">What can we learn about teaching and learning from these teachers?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chalk Talk is one way of having something visible in the classroom to allow students to have thoughts to fall back on when needed. You post a question that is deep enough to have the students collaborate on and then document the students thoughts by posting them on the board. This allows the students access to information so that if they have questions the teacher may revert them to the Chalk Talk for their answer. This also shows a visible outline of what the students are learning in the classroom and would be easy for an observer to pick up on.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #351c75; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Integrated thematic instruction</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #351c75; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Based on “real world” problems</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #351c75; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Students can really show they understand something </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #351c75; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>The application of knowledge is genuine</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #351c75; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Students have the ability to make decisions in their own</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #351c75; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Giving them a sense of power </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #351c75; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Allowing them to experience what adult’s experience everyday</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #351c75; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Learn to perform presentations.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #351c75; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Bringing in more resources to support each other</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #351c75; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Students given the ability to have conversations with other students</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #351c75; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Creating a more cohesive environment at school</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Even though I already knew the “basics” about PBL, the teachers and parents at Roosevelt Elementary have taught me so much more. Other than all of the information previously mentioned, I have learned that PBL is </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not just another traditional projec</span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">t. You do not simply give instructions and materials and have students make something to fulfill state standards. You give them tools and necessary information and “turn them loose” to research, discuss, facilitate, inquire, and interact. As a future teacher, I could only dream that I will be capable of incorporating PBL frequently into my classroom. I have realized </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">how important PBL can be</span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (when used correctly). Roosevelt Elementary is a prime example of a school and a community </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">coming together</span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in hopes of educating and pushing our youth to the highest peaks in order for them to achieve limitless opportunities. These high expectations are achieved through PBL and all it has to offer our future!</span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<b style="line-height: 1.4;"><i><span style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In traditional, blended, and "flipped" learning settings, BrainPOP supports individual, team, and whole-class learning. At school and in informal learning environments, our characters help introduce new topics and illustrate complex concepts. The </span><a href="http://www.brainpop.com/educators/community/blog/2012/08/moby-on-the-today-show/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mixer</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">™tool lets users tailor their assessments to meet all students' needs. A great fit for mobile learning and BYOD classrooms, BrainPOP’s educational </span><a href="http://www.brainpop.com/featured" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">apps</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> have been downloaded millions of times and lauded in countless reviews. </span></span></i></b><br />
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<b style="line-height: 1.4;"><i><span style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All of their resources are fully supported by </span><a href="http://www.brainpop.com/educators" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BrainPOP Educators</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, free teacher community. The content is mapped to the Common Core, aligned to academic standards, and searchable with our online </span><a href="http://www.brainpop.com/educators/state_standards/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Standards Tool</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. BrainPOP is easy to use, with no downloading, installation, or special hardware required. </span></span></i></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>This tool could be used in grades k-6. It is a great way for students to study while learning in the process. This site is very engaging and can be used in multiple subjects. It’s almost like a “one stop shop” in education. I chose BrainPop because I know that kids already enjoy playing games and with BrainPop, learning is made into a game. The site is fun and will keep the student engaged. The benefit that I have found in using BrainPop would be higher grades because students will study and learn the material while playing on this site. <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Name:</b> <a href="http://jennyluca.com/">Jenny Luca</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Jenny's Blog Link:</b> http://jennyluca.com/</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Name of Blog:</b> <a href="http://jennyluca.com/2013/09/20/schools-out-friday-268/">School's Out Friday</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Link of Blog:</b> <a href="http://jennyluca.com/2013/09/20/schools-out-friday-268/">http://jennyluca.com/2013/09/20/schools-out-friday-268/</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Date of Blog:</b> September 20, 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jenny posted a video to her blog so you could view the world from an eagle's perspective.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hey Jenny! My name is Amanda Weller and I am a student in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama. Your video was awesome! I have never experienced a video with such detail. Honestly, I have never even thought of what the world would look like from an eagles perspective. I actually watched the video a few times. This is one of the coolest videos I have ever seen and I will definitely present this to others! Thank you for sharing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Name:</b> <a href="http://jennyluca.com/">Jenny Luca</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Jenny's Blog Link:</b> <a href="http://jennyluca.com/">http://jennyluca.com/</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Name of Blog:</b> <a href="http://jennyluca.com/2013/10/03/gearing-up-chromebook-classroom-gafe-summit-presentation/">Gearing up: Chromebook Classroom- GAFE Summit Presentation</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Link of Blog: </b><a href="http://jennyluca.com/2013/10/03/gearing-up-chromebook-classroom-gafe-summit-presentation/">http://jennyluca.com/2013/10/03/gearing-up-chromebook-classroom-gafe-summit-presentation/</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Date of Blog:</b> October 3, 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this blog Jenny used a Google presentation to present topics about Chromebooks at the Google Apps for Education Conference in Melbourne. Her presentation covered all of the approaches that Google offers and why you may use this source in your school. After viewing her presentation Jenny wants you to have an idea of how Chromebooks works.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My name is Amanda Weller and I am a student in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama. I loved your presentation! I always use Google Chrome as my search engine, but I never knew all of the qualities Chromebooks has to offer. I really liked how you introduced in your presentation the qualities that Chromebooks has to offer for different computers. The Youtube videos that you inserted were very useful and helpful. Wonderful presentation! Thank you for sharing! </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16030301569806473256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657427647886027654.post-2828734748008121872013-10-06T22:02:00.000-07:002013-10-06T22:02:45.170-07:00Blog Post #7<h2 style="border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #4e004d; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px 0.5em; position: relative;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red;">1.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf3sYSukl7I&feature=c4-overview&list=UUBhoQHFgz0SbhN48mBipPlQ%E2%80%9D" style="color: #a13ab5; text-decoration: none;">Project Based Learning Part 1: Experiences of a 3rd Grade Teacher</a> </span></span></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">By: Heather Smith, Amanda Weller, Briann Smith, and Lisa Smith</span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xf3sYSukl7I" style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" width="560"></iframe><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>What Can We Learn From These Conversations with Anthony Capps? </b></span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Dr. Strange and Anthony Capps, a third grade teacher at Baldwin County Elementary School in Gulf Shores, Alabama, talk about Project Based Learning: How Anthony approaches being a PBL teacher, what it involves, how he gets ready for it, and what happens in his class as a result.<br /><br />Capps says that his ideas about PBL are constantly evolving, as are Dr. Strange’s. Many people tend to think that projects are what you do at the end of a lesson plan to show the students have learned what they are supposed to have learned, but the goal of PBL is not only a MEANS to show students have ACHIEVED what you need them to have ACHIEVED, but it is a MEANS to get them to LEARN what y</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">ou need them to LEARN. Get students excited and wanting to own their learning because they are creating something as they discover the knowledge. According to Capps, which I completely agree, the goal of a project: </span></span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red;">keeps students interested, </span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red;">involves the community, </span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red;">and most importantly is driven by content. </span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Capps has also taught me that when you are thinking about PBL, you should think: What project could I create that will give students the opportunity to need to know the content that I need them to know? In other words, in order to complete a project, the student has to know the content in which state requires them to know. </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">He gives an excellent example of PBL he used in his own class. He had his students use iCurio to research female or minority historical figures that demonstrated success in a military capacity even when this was uncommon. They then had to decide whether they agreed with or opposed the decision for women to serve in open combat. They used the information obtained to support their opinion. They then wrote letters to their congressman addressing their view and giving support by example. Capps stated he had 28 students in his class, but through student reflection and selection, they chose 8 to mail to the congressman. They had no trouble choosing because all the students were invested and felt they were all represented. This PBL project had the students excited and interested; was content driven because it met the writing, reading, and social studies state standards; and was directed toward the community because it addressed an issue in a public form to a public official. </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Capps has taught me that in order to efficiently approach and utilize PBL in the classroom, one must make sure that they create a project that will give students the opportunity to learn the content that they need them to know. I have also been taught that PBL is a democracy in grading and reflection. The key to PBL, actually the most crucial part of PBL, is to revise and reflect on the work done!</span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">2. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LTCjeN6Hzvs%E2%80%9D" style="color: #a13ab5; text-decoration: none;">Project Based Learning Part 2</a></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">By: Heather Smith, Amanda Weller, Briann Smith, and Lisa Smith </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LTCjeN6Hzvs" style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" width="560"></iframe><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Anthony Capps and Dr. Strange remain in collaboration in regards to Project Based Learning. Anthony shares pieces of his classroom with the viewer to give them an idea of what Project Base Learning consists of. The project in Mr. Capps class was to research the culture of Afghanistan. One parent in the military did not want their child studying about Afghanistan. Mr. Capp had to make accommodations for this student. The student was given a science project to do while the other students in the classroom focused on the Afghanistan project. The science project was a great asset to the classroom learning experience.</span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Student choice is a great aspect of Project Base Learning. Never limit your students with giving them exactly what you want them to do. Create an opportunity for them to go beyond what you want them to do. </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">When giving a project you must make sure that each part has meaning. It is like each part of the project feeds into the next part. The student gets rewarded by getting to advance to the next step of the project. By doing this order you give the student meaning to what they are set out to accomplish. I know that from experience if you are being respected as a student that your work will show it. This happens to be the same case with project base learning. You are given choices and it is up to you to complete them. If you do not do your part and are unwilling to buy into Project Base Learning then this type of learning experience may not work for those students. </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">By: Heather Smith, Amanda Weller, Briann Smith and Lisa Smith</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /></span><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YFPjVtUJ9Vk?list=UUBhoQHFgz0SbhN48mBipPlQ" style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" width="560"></iframe><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFPjVtUJ9Vk%E2%80%9D" style="color: #a13ab5; text-decoration: none;">iCurio Video</a> with Anthony Capps and Dr.strange was really interesting to watch and it included valuable information about the site iCurio. In the video Anthony Capp and Dr. Strange shared their thoughts about iCurio and how they both used the site in their classrooms. Mr. Capps is a third grade teacher at the Gulf Shores Elementary School. He often incorporates the site iCurio in his classroom. In his words iCurio is an online tool that serves many purposes. iCurio is a curated search engine for students. This means that it allows students to safely search websites,images, and videos on subjects that correlate with the Alabama College and Career Ready Standards and other state standards. The site also has a storage capacity for students and teachers. This aspect of iCurio allows students and teachers to store the content that they find valuable. This helps teachers and students to become more organized, especially in virtual organization. The students can create folders for different topics and videos and any other valuable information they find on the sites’ sources. This is excellent for the students because it is kid friendly and easy for them to use and they can practice using Virtual organization and saving folders on the web. This feature also has the ability to save and this allows the students to continue from where they left off. </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The iCuro site is also great for projects and research topics. It has many safe sources and websites that are made available for the students. The site has a directory that makes it simple and fast to find the information needed on a certain topic. In the directory, the students can find information on people, places, and events that are from all over the world. For instance if a student needed to complete a project on a female figure that contributed to the Civil Rights Movement, they could type into the directory,female figure and Civil Rights Movement. The criteria that they typed into the directory would bring up sources on people such as Rosa Parks and other women.The directory tool allows the students to get access to reliable information in the safety of the iCurio site. iCurio also provides a large number of videos, graphs, graphics and texts that students can use in their projects. Mr. Capps believes that iCurio is for any teachers that feel comfortable letting their students search the web. iCurio has information and sources for all grades , all the way through high school. iCurio is also a great source for all students because of its accessibility. iCurio has read aloud features that are available for deaf and blind students and for students that have a learning disability. This was a great video on explaining the features of iCurio. The information that was provided was really helpful. I learned about several features that I did not even know about. It was also nice to hear examples from a teacher that actually uses iCurio in the classroom and how his students use iCurio as well. The video proved to be very interesting and helpful.</span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">By: Heather Smith </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HUadLUEHY4I?list=UUBhoQHFgz0SbhN48mBipPlQ" style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" width="560"></iframe><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In Dr. Strange and Anthony Capp’s youtube video, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUadLUEHY4I&feature=c4-overview&list=UUBhoQHFgz0SbhN48mBipPlQ%E2%80%9D" style="color: #a13ab5; text-decoration: none;">Discovery Ed</a>, Capps talks about this tool that is made available to teachers (at least in Baldwin County) that contributes to his classroom in that it allows students to: retain more knowledge through visual learning, have extensive group conversations, learn from experts through video, and have illustrations to support the text they are using. Discovery Ed brings many educational resources to just one site. </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Dr. Strange adds that there has been research done that indicates people remember more of what they hear than what they have read. People remember far more than that when they see it. And even more shocking: people remember even more when they watch it in progress. He refers to students as “listener-watchers” because he says that students listen and watch far more than they read and write. The goal of a teacher is to convert people into not just consumers of products, but into users and producers of those products. </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I think that Dr. Strange and Anthony Capps both give great points on Discovery Ed, though they could be a little more in depth about what it actually is. So, I researched <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.discoveryeducation.com/%E2%80%9D" style="color: #a13ab5; text-decoration: none;">Discovery Education</a> myself, and this is what I came up with from their website: “Discovery Education transforms classrooms, empowers teachers and captivates students by leading the way in providing high quality, dynamic, digital content to school districts large and small, rural and suburban and everything in between.” “Discovery Education is committed to improving teaching and learning by transforming traditional classrooms into engaging digital learning environments. Discovery Education Techbook™, a series of dynamic all-digital textbooks in science, social studies, and math, brings learning alive.” “Engaging, standards-aligned rich media and interactive digital textbooks, coupled with professional development and assessment services, take students beyond the classroom.” “Discovery Education offers a breadth and depth of digital media content that is immersive, engaging and brings the world into the classroom to give every student a chance to experience fascinating people, places, and events. All content is aligned to state standards, can be aligned to custom curriculum, and supports classroom instruction regardless of the technology platform.” “Implementation of Discovery Education impacts the way an educator teaches, providing them the digital content and the professional development to transform classroom instruction into an immersive, experience that inspires a student's natural curiosity. Discovery Education impacts the way students learn, breaking down barriers and moving beyond static textbooks to a digital delivery they already embrace. However, accelerating student achievement is the ultimate result we all want to reach. Discovery Education has worked with school districts across all sizes and demographics and consistently delivers results.” </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">#6. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqqmq_hEPms%E2%80%9D" style="color: #a13ab5; text-decoration: none;">Don’t Teach Tech- Use It</a></span></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">By: Heather Smith</span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Xqqmq_hEPms" style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" width="560"></iframe><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><b style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: purple;">What Can We Learn From These Conversations with Anthony Capps? </span></b><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We are all considered students of technology because we are all constantly learning and shifting our technological thinking to new directions. Children are natural with technology- regardless if they come from low or high income areas- they enjoy using technology to improve their learning. In <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqqmq_hEPms%E2%80%9D" style="color: #a13ab5; text-decoration: none;">Don’t Teach Tech- Use It</a>, Anthony Capps and Dr. Strange talk about using Technology in the classroom. Capps says that teachers should NOT teach technology, they should NOT have technology on their list of things they need to get done a given day. Teachers should, however, scaffold technology when designing projects and assignments. How does Capps suggest implementing technology into projects/ assignments? </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /></span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Week One: Let students use ONE research tool, talk about the content and how technology either impeded or helped them.</span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Week Two: Couple that research tool with video tool. Now two skills are mastered.</span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Week Three: Have students do a research project that requires a movie component that combines the two skills- this is known as scaffolding. Students can now show they have mastered these two skills by sharing their work.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">There is tons of technology available but it is crucial to focus on ONLY ONE at a time, review it, and continue using it in the learning environment. </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>What are some benefits of using technology in the classroom?</b> </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /></span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Students can express themselves.</span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Students can create for free.</span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">There is not the demand to purchase more and more supplies.</span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">It’s clean, mess-free!</span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">It’s very shareable.</span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Gives students the tools they will be able to build on forever.</span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Gives students that ability to reflect on their mistakes in order to learn how to do something better for a more beneficial product in the future.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">To Sum Up What We Can Learn From Anthony Capps, NEVER teach technology! Introduce it smartly. Don’t worry about spending a great deal of time teaching students to use technology, this comes natural to them, instead give them the opportunity. Do not expect perfection, either. There are two critical things educators in the 21st Century should teach their students beyond the content: how to ask valuable questions AND problem-solving skills. If a teacher does a project themselves, before assigning it to students, then they understand why the student is asking a particular question and they can figure out the answer together using problem-solving.</span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">By: Lisa Smith </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nLne0iMZXJQ?feature=player_detailpage" style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" width="640"></iframe><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLne0iMZXJQ%E2%80%9D" style="color: #a13ab5; text-decoration: none;">Anthony- Strange Tips for Teachers Part 1</a> video is a very informative and helpful video for future and current teachers. Anthony Capps and Dr. Strange shared their thoughts as to what teachers starting out should know upfront to be the best teacher they can be for their students. Together they came up with 6 different ideas that would help assist new teachers and put them on the right path. </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">First, you have to be a constant learner. You must be willing to learn all the time no matter if you are at school or not. Never stop learning because it will result in failure. Teachers must be interested in learning themselves, this helps the teacher but, also it helps the students. Teachers must be able to model effective learning behaviors for their students. Students learn by examples, if the teacher is constantly trying to learn new things, then the students pick up on this. </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Second, teaching is hard work that is never ending but it is very rewarding. Just think about when we teach our students something and they are finally able to recall it. There is nothing that can beat that feeling of accomplishment for both the student and the teacher. It is hard work being a teacher and the work does not stop at the end of the day when school gets out, it continues on. Anthony said it best that, “teachers learn the craft of teaching in their free time.” An example of this includes reading books that provide valuable information that can help you in the classroom. Teaching involves hard work but, it can also be exciting and fulfilling. </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Third, be flexible. If you already have children of your own you should already be aware of this. You can plan all you want but hiccups are going to happen so be prepared for “plan b”. </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Fourth, start with a goal. If you start with a goal you will be able to see how much you have accomplished. It is important to remember if the lesson is not going as planned, figure out a way to still get what you need out of the process. We can’t do everything today but if we organize and prepare, it will run more smoothly. </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Fifth, engage 100% of your students, 100% of the time, in 100% of their projects. This will keep the students aware that you are aware of their progress and will also allow for any feedback needed from both the student and teacher. It is important to provide the students with an environment that makes them feel comfortable to engage with each other and to share their thoughts . In the lesson plans, include interesting content and content that the students care about. As a teacher it is crucial to think about different ways to get the whole class involved and most importantly engaged.</span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Last, we need to learn to reflect, revise, and share work with an audience. We must learn to not be afraid of the work we have done. We must also learn to take constructive criticism. All of these things will make us stronger teachers in the long run and help our students to succeed and achieve more in the classroom. </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">By: Amanda Weller</span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wB3uKpOKQwA" style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" width="560"></iframe><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In Anthony Capps last youtube video discussion, he talks about his thoughts on lesson plans. He described lesson plans as being four layers thick and with each layer meaning something different. However, each layer has its own unique importance. The first layer of lesson plans is described as the “year layer”. In the “year layer”, you discuss how the lesson plan fits into that year and you go over all the content standards. The second layer is the “unit layer”. In the “unit layer”, you have to ask yourself if the unit projects are segregated in a way that is meaningful? These activities need to spread out over a brief period of time. You can not expect your students to complete these activities in a day or so. Anthony mentioned that it usually takes up to 6-8 weeks for the provider of the lesson and the students to comprehend the given material. The third layer is all about separating the projects so they can be done weekly. The last layer is the “daily lesson plan”. This calls for how you will be delivering the lesson or material to your students. The goal is to make sure that the students are actively engaged in the lesson. These four unique components come together to form the lesson plan.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16030301569806473256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657427647886027654.post-67040008858602169812013-10-06T21:56:00.001-07:002013-10-06T21:56:12.952-07:00Project #13-Project Based Learning Plan #1<h2 style="border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #4e004d; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px 0.5em; position: relative;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Created By: Heather Smith, Amanda Weller, Briann Smith, and Lisa Smith</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />For: Project #13</span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Google Presentation of <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jyV7Myws-rYT6kqLgX7tIAYC-_HMgXBmJiVnYrQaqWg/edit?usp=sharing" style="color: #a13ab5; text-decoration: none;">PBL Lesson Plan </a></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">This lesson plan addresses the following common core standards:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">A:A3.1 - take responsibility for their actions</span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">C:C2.2 - learn how to use conflict management skills with peers and adults</span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">PS:A1.6 - distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate behavior</span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">PS:A2.3 - recognize, accept, respect and appreciate individual differences</span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">PS:A2.4 - recognize, accept and appreciate ethnic and cultural diversity</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">It is intended for students in grade level 2, even though it could be manipulated for all lower level grades. </span><br style="color: #4e004d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">It covers a period of three weeks.</span></span><br />
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<b>A PLN is a Personal Learning Network. Personal Learning Networks can be accessed anywhere and used by everyone. For my PLN, I used a program called Symbaloo. I really enjoyed creating my PLN project! </b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16030301569806473256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657427647886027654.post-34968327887412107932013-10-03T12:27:00.000-07:002013-10-03T12:27:29.325-07:00C4K Assignments for September<div class="comment-header" id="bc_0_0M" kind="m" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px;">
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">My C4K </span><span style="line-height: 20.98958396911621px;">Assignments</span><span style="line-height: 21px;"> for September</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.98958396911621px;">Class: <span style="color: #cc0000;">Jamie Lynn Martin</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.98958396911621px;"><b>Class Blog: </b></span></span><a href="http://kidblog.org/english4thblock/">http://kidblog.org/english4thblock/</a><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.98958396911621px;"><b>Title of Blog: <i><a href="http://kidblog.org/english4thblock/76c1913c-33e1-47bc-831e-11f91b27e6f1/140/#comments">"This I Believe"</a></i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.98958396911621px;"><b>Date of Blog: <span style="color: #cc0000;">August 30, 2013</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="line-height: 20.98958396911621px;">Tyler's blog discussed the automotive industry and its main purpose. In his blog he talked about how the world would not be where it is today without the automotive industry, which is true. Tyler also said that when he gets old enough he would like to work in the automotive industry. Tyler not only talked about his beliefs he also listed a few main points about the automotive industry. As in, he even mentioned that Henry Ford started the assembly line and helped kick off the automotive industry. Another key point he mentioned was that </span></span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nicholas Joseph Cugnot built the first automobile with a steam powered engine.</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Hello Tyler, </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">I really enjoyed getting the opportunity to read your blog. I would first like to say very creative and thoughtful post. I also believe that people would be lost without automobiles. In today’s society automobiles are the main source of transportation. However, if you live in a big city you may not have your own automobile and may use public transportation. The society has changed so much since the first automobile was created. Automobiles change all the time in size, shape, color, and effectiveness. Most people rely highly on automobiles to get to and from work. Without them most people could not get from point A to point B. Also, I think it’s very important that we have mechanics. Without mechanics our automobiles would not operate effectively. I know nothing about cars, so I have to rely on a mechanic. I think it’s a wonderful idea that you want to become a mechanic one day! Very nice post! </b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Class:</span></b><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Ms. Sandler Buenos Aires</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><b>Grade:<span style="color: #cc0000;"> 5th grade</span></b></span><b style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><b>Class Blog:<span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></b></span></span><a href="http://kidblog.org/PearTree/" style="line-height: 21px;">http://kidblog.org/PearTree/</a><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<b style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Title of Blog: <a href="http://kidblog.org/PearTree/33a5d1c0-3c5a-476c-aac1-e9621ab32a74/all-about-me-3/#comment-315"><i>"All About Me"</i></a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Date of Blog: <span style="color: #cc0000;">June 1, 2013</span></span></b></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 21px;">In Martu's blog the student introduced </span><span style="line-height: 20.98958396911621px;">herself</span><span style="line-height: 21px;">. Martu also gave her full name, </span></b></span><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 18px;">Martina. She listed her favorite food which is Pasta. She also listed a food that she dislikes, which was heart of palms. Martu is </span><span style="line-height: 17.98611068725586px;">excited</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> about the chance to meet people from all over the world.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></b></span></b><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Hello Martu! </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: white;">My name is Amanda Weller and I am a student at the University of South Alabama in EDM 310. It is very nice to meet you! I hope you enjoy blogging this year and I hope it is something that you carry with you. My favorite food is pasta as well! Great blog!</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Students Name:<span style="color: #cc0000;"> Neo</span></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Class: </span></b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ms. King </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><b>Grade:<span style="color: #cc0000;"> 7th Grade</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><b>Class Blog: <span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></b></span></span><a href="http://www.ptengland.school.nz/index.php?mid=6,16933">http://www.ptengland.school.nz/index.php?mid=6,16933</a></div>
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<b style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Title of Blog: <a href="http://pesneof.blogspot.com/2013/09/hexagon-learning.html"> "<i>Hexagon Learning"</i></a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Date of Blog: <span style="color: #cc0000;">September 18, 2013</span></span></b></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Neo actually posted a video </span><span style="line-height: 20.98958396911621px;">demonstrating</span><span style="line-height: 21px;"> hexagon learning. He created the video using <i>"Vimeo." </i>Each hexagon is connected to another hexagon that might have one thing that matches.</span></span></span></b></span></b><br />
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<b style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hey Neo! My name is Amanda Weller and I am a student in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama. Wonderful video discussing hexagon learning! In all of my years of learning I have never seen hexagon learning used to demonstrate matches. However, I really enjoyed your video demonstration! Your demonstration taught me several pieces of information that I did not know. Great blog post!</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;">Class: </b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mrs. Pernille Ripp Madison</span></span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Title of Blog: <i><a href="http://kidblog.org/MrsRippsClass/author/b088dc47-f364-4e2a-a8b0-ca952bb5c410/">"Out of My Mind"</a></i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Date of Blog: <span style="color: #cc0000;">September 27 2013</span></span></b></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: bold;">Morgan's Blog: </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>In Morgan's blog she talked about "</b></span></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Out of my Mind," a book they are about to start reading in class by </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Sharon Draper. Mrs. Ripp read to the class the back of the book and the front page, just so the students could get an overview of the story. So far, Morgan has already came across who the main character is. Morgan not only found out who the main character is, she also found out why she is the main character. The main character in the story is Melody. Melody has a photo graphic memory for pictures and videos. One unique thing that Morgan mentioned was that Melody is blind and she is in a wheel chair and she can not talk or write. Melody is also said to be one of the smartest kids in school! Morgan is very eager to begin reading this book.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 21px;"><b style="background-color: white;">Hello Morgan! My name is Amanda Weller and I am a student in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama. I have actually never got the chance to read the book Out of My Mind. However, the book sounds very interesting! The first page in the book provides valuable information! I really hope you enjoy the rest of the story! </b></span><br />
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