C4K Summary

I visited Mrs.Naugles 5th period Math class blog. In her blog she doesnt just speak about math and what shes doing in class she also spoke about going to the insectuarium and lucky charm projects. I enjoy the mathematic blogs the most but that only because I enjoy mathematics.

I also visited Pt. England class blog.
Each individual student has their own blog on this site. they use their blog to explain and show what they are learning as well as talking about their favorite or recent vacations. Some of them even talk abou their test scores and how they have improved from last year or how they plan on improving from now on for the next test.

I also went to Korero Pt England blog.
on this blog they have made a music video which showed sites of their town and alot of girls dancing. They also put up blog videos discussing the books that they have recently been reading in class. They would read a passage of the book and then they would speak on a podcast about what they liked.

Blog post #9

Mr. McClung wrote a blog post, What I've Learned This Year , to document his first year teaching. The things he talks about are very important and make me anxiuos as well. Like trying to impress the admistrative staff and not letting your students down. We must realize that we are only human and so are our students. We just need to try to mae the best lesson plan to our best ability and ask our students to just try their best as well. We should all set our goals high but have them be resonable and possible as well.

Children want and need to be heard.  McClung writes that as teachers we should never stop listening to our students. The number one thing that people want is for someone to listen to them. Everyone is to busy talking that no one listens to anyone anymore. Our students may not be being listened to at because their parents may be to busy with work and what not. So I feel that we as teachers should listen to our students as much as possible to show them good listening skills and that people do care about what you have to say. Also a good listener is a good friend.

In his blog he also speaks about how we need to not be scaredmof technology. I was never scared of it but now I am becoming more familar with more social networking sites and other educational online tools.Our children and students are going to expect us to be technology literate so we may as well start now. Thankfully I enjoy technoogy and everything it has to offer.

Blog Post #8

The universe is full of ideas that belong to no one.  I watched This is how we dream Part 1&2. These videos were about changing the way we view things on the internet. He talked about changing the way we learn things online. For instance he said peple view normal recorded, boring lectures. He wants to make them nice and add audioto pages.

They mad a black history segment recently and had multiple pages that had videos, informationa as well as audio to keep you interested and have a great information flow. I believe that producing and consuming multimedia is important for teachers because it can expand the amount of knowlegde we can retain as well as keep us entertained and the children happy.

I also watched EDM310 for dummies. I thought this video was really funny because I  know alot of people who actually get like this. I get mad but id never break my computer because then what are you going to do when you cool off. I do plan on making videos soon. Not for school though. For now im going to make kidney videos to try and show what im having to go through in hopes of bringing awareness and hopefully finding a donor for myself and others. When I start teaching in the classroom im sure ill make videos for the children to watch and film them as well for them to learn new things in different ways.

I watched the video Learn to change, change to learn. I think that this is a great way of talking about what we should start doing in ours schools. The children today are learning in more than one way. They are hands on. Hands on technologically and hands on in the museums and libraries. There are many ways a child can be educated, whey not do it in a way they want to? They will be more excited about learning and will expand their minds into different ways of larning new things.

The surprising thing about what motivates you and Power of time. were both good videos. One was about people who focuse on the past and regret. They are called past positive and past negative. some believe their lives are already fated but most of us are future oriented. We trust that when we make descisions about our future that it will work out.

The surprising truth about what motivates us is a great video. I love how they let people do whatever they wanted for 24 hours and they came out with new exciting things and fixed multiple problems. They just gave employees freedom and they expanded theyre minds and companies ideas and they didnt even have to be paid and extra incentive to do it. The incentive was to have autonmy. To be able to make their own choices and do the things they wanted to do the way they wanted to do them. FREEDOM.

Smartboard

the results of the presentation survey can be seen here.

Short Movie project #1

Project #10

MY PLN.
This is what I consider my personal Learning Network.  Throughout the semester I have started using more and more network realted sites and applications. I know use blogger.com to share what I have learned from other blogs and videos with other students. Not only so I share these videos and blogs with students but twith teachers and my family and friends as well.

I also use facebook, twitter and gmail to share information. Soon I will be using Skype . I love the tools I have learned from google such as presentaions and document sharing. I used to only use it for email. Im sur I will only expand the use of these tools I am currently using and come accross new exciting ones as well.

blog #7

I really enjoyed Randy Pausch's VIDEO :Last lecture and achieving childhood dreams. My favorite part about the video is when he talks about the brick wall. He says the brick walls come up o keep others out who dont want things enough to work hard for them. They are there to show you how much you want it. If the brick wall comes up its not to show you that you cant have what you want but to make you realize how much you need to work to get what you want. Others may not want it hard enough to work for it so they will be stopped at the wall while you work over it to reach your goal.

I have reached many brick walls in my life. Like him I have horrible health. Im not exactly dieing but my body could give out anyday with my health being the way that it is right now. When I was in Highschool I had to go on homeschool a few times so that I could continue working towrds my diploma. I had to be put on homeschool because I was hospitalized for a kidney transplant and then again when I was having kidney rejection episodes. I also had to take multiple semesters off of college so that I can go on dialysis to stay alive while waiting for a kidney transplant. I really really want to graduate college and have a masters in education. It is my dream to finish college. I am getting tired of how long it is taking and how many brick walls ive had to climb over to get where I am today. I will continue to climb over as many walls as I need to to get to my ultimate goal. I started last semester with my biggest wall so far. I am currently going to school full time with a 3 year old son and while being on dialysis for 5 hours a night. I am on my second semester of doing this and although it is a very hard struggle I am very satisfied with the progress I have made.

Brick walls are there to help us show our dedication. They are there to seperate us from the people who dont really want to achieve their childhood dreams. He talks about getting feedback, e says whenever you stop geting feedback it is time to worry because it means that people dont care enough anymore, He also mntioned showing gratitude and to not complain to just work harder.
Its not about how to achieve your dreams its about how to lead your life. If you lead your life in the right way the dreams will come to you.

Pausch died from pancreatic cancer at his family's home in Chesapeake, Virginia on July 25, 2008 at the age of 47. He is survived by his wife, Jai, and their three children, Dylan, Logan, and Chloe.^[

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I recently viewed and commented on Care Carrillo's Blog. On January 22nd 2011 she posted about parents and holding them more responsible for being late,not feeding children or not making sure they are doing their homework. The blog question was how could we give parents a grade.
 We would be grading the following categories:

1. A child should be at school on time, prepared to learn after a good night's sleep, and have eaten a meal.
2. A child should have the homework done and prepared for examinations.
3. There should be regular communication between the parent and teacher.
The children need to be fed breakfast and have a good nights rest as well as be to school on time. Children are getting in trouble for not being on time to school and its not their fault. Also many kids dont want to eat so you cant force them. Many kids have trouble sleeping or night terrors so its hard to grade parents when they cant do anything in their power to help against these things. Ever situation and child is different.

Also, parents mustwork and most parents havent been in school for years which makes it hard to help with homework sometimes. So I agree that parents should be "graded" ( even though there is no real way of grading) because they need be a good role model. Fell free to post on my blog.