Monday, September 29, 2014

Blog Post #6

What I learned from these conversations with Anthony Capps?
By: Chelsea Powers

Project based learning

I learned a lot by watching the interviews that Dr. Strange and Anthony Capps had done. I was truly amazed at some of the things that Anthony had his third grade students doing. I do not remember doing any type of projects like this when I was this age. I also like how he associates real life situations in his curriculum. I also learned that everything does not always go as planned in the classroom when you are teaching. There are so many resources you can use as a teacher to help you in the classroom. I also learned how important it is to find something that engages students to learn the material. Anthony Capps seems like a very devoted, caring, teacher that loves teaching. We need more teachers like this in the classroom.

Sunday, September 28, 2014

C4K

Comment For Kids

C4K #1

Romandel
Romonadel is a 5th grade student in Pt England. Yesterday a group of people from the Revolution group came to Pt England to send a message about stop the bull which means stop the bully. We all had to stand up in 3 seconds and see if we all agree to stop the bully and we all stood up. Stop the bull.

Response:
Hi Romonadel! My name is Chelsea and I attend the University of South Alabama where I am studying to become a elementary teacher. I just wanted to comment on your blog and tell you how awesome I think it is.I am new to this whole e-learning thing so any suggestions would be great since it looks like you really know what you are doing :). I loved your "Stop the Bull" post. We have a lot of that in our schools too. I also seen where you would like to work for the SPCA. I think that is wonderful and I hope you can follow through with that.


C4K #2

Callum
Callum is a fifth grader from South Africa. In this post on her blog she described the life cycle of a frog. She used great pictures and explained each step of the cycle.

Response:
Hi Callum! My name is Chelsea and I attend the University of South Alabama where I am studying to become a elementary teacher. I just wanted to tell you that I enjoyed reading your blog and all of your post. Your post about the life cycle of frogs was great. Keep up the good work!! Can't wait to read more of your blog.


C4K #3

KaitlyP
Kaitlyn is in Ms. Greer's fifth grade class. On this particular blog post the students were assigned to do the 100 Word Challenge. The children in her class had to create a blog using 100 words. She stated in the assignment to be creative and have fun.

Response:
Hi KaitlynP! My name is Chelsea and I attend the University of South Alabama where I am studying to become a elementary teacher. I enjoyed reading your story! You have a great blog. Keep up the good work!!

Project #8

Book Trailer
By: Chelsea Powers


Goodnight Goon
By:Michael Rex

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Presentation Project #3

Presentation Project #3
By: Chelsea Powers

Blog Post #5

What are PLN's?
By: Chelsea Powers

PLN stands for Personal Learning Networks. I have never heard of PLN before in my whole life. It always seems to amaze me of how much information and technology Edm310 has taught me. As overwhelming as this class may seem all the information is so useful. PLN has became very useful to me for managing and organize all of my work that I do on a daily bases where it is all in one place. I started off by creating an account with Symbaloo. They then sent me a very informative video on how the site works (see link below). I am still working on my PLN and learning more and more about this tool everyday.

Tutorial Video

Personal Learning Network

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Project #15

Search Engines
By: Chelsea Powers

Search Engine

1. Bing
Bing is an Internet search engine powered by Microsoft. Using Bing is much like using other search engine., You can enter one or more keywords into the search field to find web pages that mention the keywords or phrase you have entered. On Bing, you can perform a keyword search for articles, images, videos, news, shopping websites, and more. You can also enter specific commands with your keywords into the search field to narrow your search results.

2.Ask
Ask.com is a question answering-focused web search engine.

3.Yahoo
Yahoo! is an Internet portal that incorporates a search engine and a directory of World Wide Web sites organized in a hierarchy of topic categories. As a directory, it provides both new and seasoned Web users the reassurance of a structured view of hundreds of thousands of Web sites and millions of Web pages. It also provides one of the best ways to search the Web for a given topic.

4.Kayak
Search one and done!! This website is a search engine that lets you search multiple discounted hotel rooms, airline flights, vacation getaways, and much more.

5.Dogpile
Each search engine has its own method of searching and each will return different results. Dogpile looks at all of them, decides which are most relevant to your search, eliminates duplicates and reveals them to you. At last, you get a list of results more complete than anywhere else on the Web.

6.Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, written collaboratively by the people who use it. It is a special type of website. Many people are constantly improving Wikipedia, making thousands of changes per hour

7.Wolframalpha
Wolfram is an engine for computing answers and providing knowledge. It works by using its vast store of expert-level knowledge and algorithms to automatically answer questions, do analysis, and generate reports

8.Youtube
Youtube is said to be the second largest search engine. If you don't know how to do something just Youtube it.

Resources: All the above

C4T #1

Comment for Teachers
By: Chelsea Powers

C4T #1
Hooda Math Blog

Michael Edlavitch is the creator of Hooda Math. This is a fun website that students can go and learn about math and play games. I explored his website and then realized my fourth grade son has his app on his Ipad. Here is the link to his website.You can also follow Hooda math on twitter. I hope you find it as much fun as we did!
Hoodamath


C4T #1 Reply
Hi Michael,
My name is Chelsea and I'm an elementary education major. I just wanted to comment on your blog and tell you what a great website you have. I have never been very well in math at all!! Your website makes learning math fun and easy. My fourth grader has the app on his Ipad and loves playing the math games. I will definitely start following Hooda Math on twitter. I cant wait to get new updates about Hooda math.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Blog Post #4

What questions do we ask? How do we ask?
By:Chelsea Powers

Raising Hands



What do we need to know about asking questions to be an effective teacher?

As teachers we have to quit assuming that they know everything. We are not made to know everything and that is why we have to find the right questions to ask. I believe the most effective type of questioning is Open Questioning. Open Questioning gives students the opportunity to engage with other students and differentiate their own opinions and thoughts. Through research I have found that there are four different categories for questioning in the classroom and I have listed them below.

The major types of questions fall into four categories:

Managerial: questions which keep the classroom operations moving;
Rhetorical: questions used to emphasize a point or to reinforce an idea or statement;
Closed: questions used to check retention or to focus thinking on a particular point; and
Open: questions used to promote discussion or student interaction

Resources:
Effective Classroom Questioning

Monday, September 8, 2014

Blog Post #3

How Can You Provide Meaningful Feedback to Your Peers?
By:Chelsea Powers
Second graders working together

Google Images


Three main components:

-Compliment the writer
-Make suggestions
-Provide corrections

Peer editing can be a very touchy subject. After all you are critiquing someone else's work and nobody likes to be wrong (right)? First, you do not want to offend the writer, so start off by complimenting the writers work. Next, with a positive attitude make suggestions on how they could change their work to make it better. Don't be a "Picky Patty". You have to be careful in how you do this because you do not want to offend the writer.

I use peer editing everyday at my job. Our company just turned into an ISO certified company. Through this difficult time my fellow co-workers were constantly revising and changing documentation to be compliant with ISO. Even though at sometime it was very hard to stay positive about changes with them, we evaluated the corrections as a team to make the right decision. In closing what I am trying to say about this is that peer editing is not just in the classroom it follows you through certain career paths that you choose in life.

Resources:
What is Peer Editing
"Picky Patty"

Monday, September 1, 2014

Blog Post #2

What Will Teaching in the 21st Century be Like??
By: Chelsea Powers

Teaching in the twenty first century
Photo Source: Google Images

Professor Dancelot

The video "Professor Dancelot" sends the message of not having adequate resources for teaching in the 21st century. Sitting in a classroom with a teacher and a power point presentation does not fulfill the teaching requirements that are needed for students to learn the material that is being taught. When it was time for students to take a test on the different dances they all were clueless. This is why it is so important for students to have the opportunity to learn hands on in a fun environment.

Teaching in the 21st century

What will be the roll of teachers in the 21st century? The author demonstrates the importance of
teachers and how they will teach their students. I use Google everyday. If I do not know something where else do you look but Google. It was not until I started taking EDM310 that there was so much more to Google besides just a search engine. Dr. Strange taught me how to utilize Google even outside the classroom. I believe the author of this video is teaching us as future teachers that we do not have to know everything in order to be a teacher, but utilize our skills and teach students to find the answer and use all the available resources.

Who's ahead in the learning race?

When technology comes into play i would have to say elementary children are definitely on top of the game. It is amazing to me of how quickly they catch on to things. I am most definitely on the lower end of learning when it comes to technology.

Flipping the classroom

I have not heard of "Flipping the classroom" until now. I think this is a great idea! This gives students an idea of what they will be learning the next day and prepare them for the material that they will be learning. I also believe this is a good example of No more "Burp Back Education".