Smart Board Group Project Part 2

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Smart Board Group Project Part 1

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Progress Report

I am in a group with Katie Carlee, and Jeffrey Dorsey. We plan to meet again this week.

C4K # 10

Today we are asked to look at Mrs. Yolis' classroom blog. We were asked to look at all her links,  explore and understand how she uses her blog, how she involves students and parents and so on. This is a great blog to view. Mrs. Yolis has many creative and educational aspects in her blog. To begin with, Mrs. Yolis is in her twenty fifth year of teaching, and she currently teaches the third grade. She has a very neat and interesting biography of herself. This is the link http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/p/meet-mrs-yollis.html. In it she mentions that she loves to travel in her spare time. Recently she has been to, Hawaii, Oregon, Alaska, Washington, Montana, and many other places. I love to travel also! In the biography you also learn that she taught English in Spain for three summers. I thought that was very cool. When you are done reading her biography, you can click on the link,   http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/p/meet-bloggers.html to meet the bloggers. This part of her blog shows the class of eleven girls and eleven boys. It also shares the favorite sports, and some hobbies of the class. There is a great picture of the class also. Another link she has is http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/p/learn-about-california.html. This link shares some interesting facts about California, where she teaches.  On Mrs. Yolis' ClustrMap, she has 75, 699 visitors from around the world sine January of 2010. To compare the EDM 310 class blog has 51,308 visitors from around the world since January of 2010. This is a very close comparison! Mrs. Yolis' class blog is also the first runner up of the 2010 EDUBLOG Awards, for Best Class Blog, the winner of the 2010 Life Time Achievement Award, and the First Runner Up to the Best Class Blog! This is a great blog for any teacher or student to view. I enjoyed it very much.

Blog assignment # 12

Today we are given the assignment to make a blog post assignment like  Dr. Strange would create for his students. As I have sat here and thought about what I could do, I am reminded of all the past post and projects we have done. I would say they have all been beneficial for me, but to say the least I have been challenged. One of the biggest issues for me is my organizational skills. We all know as college students, we lose track of time, instructions, and thoughts quite often. So I started browsing the internet for ways to better organize my stuff. I came across this website called, " Remember The Milk". It is a really neat organization tool that is free to use. It allows you to make assignments, rate the priority, and categorize the assignment. The Sight also allows you to share with contacts, access from your phone, collaborate,and manage task from anywhere! I believe this will be very beneficial to you as it is to me too. I hope you like it.


Instructions
  1.Go to: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/
2. Create a profile and browse around to get use to the site.
3.  Add some assignments from classes or even a grocery list if you like ( this is to help you organize your life!).
4. Use often!

Project # 14

Blog assignment # 11

Little Kid's ...Big Potential

This video shows how first graders use technology in the classroom. They use blogs, wikis, web pages and videos to learn. This is amazing to see. I especially loved the part about Alabama! The teachers name is Ms. Cassidy, and  she uses these technology resources to teach her class. In the first video he students were using blogs to post things such as Christmas pictures, as you watch the video you can see the progress one student makes in spelling because of her blog! I also really enjoyed the Skype interview. I will definitely use technology in my classroom. My favorite is the class blogs. Blogs are a great way for students to learn and share. Students learn important communication skills while using blogs. They do this by commenting and reading other educational post. I have also learned this in EDM! Blogs are also great for parents as well. Parents can keep up with their child's work and progress. As we learned in the video, blogs are great for learning writing techniques and spelling improvement. The biggest problem that would might occur is internet safety. This is easily fixed by being very careful not to give out personal information and teaching the class some important rules and guidelines. I can't wait to start teaching and using technology in my classroom.