Thursday, December 17, 2009

WEB 2.0 PRESENTATION, IN THE CLASSROOM AND OTHER COURSES

DABBLEBOARD AND SCRIBBLER




IN THE CLASSROOM---As our presentation mentioned, students can use both tools to do many projects in class and at home.
MATH Draw geometric figures from the basic triangle to parrellelograms. Next introduce the formulas to calculate area and perimeter. Students who are more artistic by nature will find math more fun. They will be excited to draw their own shapes.

OTHER COURSES We can use both tools with a partner to create a presentation for group assignments in EDUC PYSCH to describe our theory of how a child learns using the Piaget model and many other others described in our textbook. We can use this tool to draw our classroom design plan in CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Analyzing Student Data in a Spreadsheet

Data sheet one included the scores of student numbers 6-10. We can observe that the trend for almost all of the students was an increase in test scores as each consecutive test was taken.

The lowest test average of 141 was Queen while the highest score was 217 by Bella. We can also observe more details by looking at the class deviation scores.











Saturday, November 21, 2009

Awesome OTEN Convention

I attended OTEN September and somehow lost my post, so here it is again.

What a great opportunity to bounce from room to room and learn how to apply technology in the classroom. So many speakers, so little time. Here are some of my favorites:

Machelle Childers-Podcasting and using ipods in the classroom. Great student made videos.
Grant Huhn-Settting up a classroom website. Chatted about his W. Salem classes.
Matt Symond- GPS for kids. Great to see an MAT graduate with so much success !

I wish that the OTEN has lasted all day so that I could have attended more of the sessions. Looking forward to attending next year !

Friday, November 20, 2009

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Another favorite site....

Tokbox is an amazing video producing webite. Not only is it super user friendly but also it uses Adobe flash. I would like to introduce Tokbox to my third grade reading group. After they have read a book they could then do a book report on Tokbox. It would also be great to get other third grade readers from around the world to share their book reports with my students....... the possibilities are endless !

One of my favorite sites...

Delicious is a social bookmarking website. What a great idea ! With this site we have the ability to share our bookmarks with others as we tag them and save them to this central location. This means that friends and family can share their bookmarks and also reach them from any location !

Saturday, October 10, 2009

My favorite Web 2.0 Tools Part One

Wow ! I am impressed with the amount of information that is available. Web 2.o is a one stop internet service especially for those of us who are beginners. It provides a place to set up a basic email then expand to blogs and creating videos among many other projects.

As an educator this system is providing me unlimited abilities to create lesson plans and share up to date technology with my students. As I learn how to use these tools, I can teach my students while in the classroom. These skills will help them as they move on to middle school. Especially working in a Title One classroom, my students who don't have access to computers will have a new world to learn about. Time for lunch- more later.........