Uber- The New Taxi

Uber is the city's new method of transportation. This has become so convenient in the past couple years. Although this is a good idea, this is a bad example of PowerPoint content. There is too much wording, but the pictures are great explainers of how the app works.

8 Things Uber Can Teach You from The App Business

7 Classroom Adaptions

I have heard of Bloom’s Technology before, but have always been unaware of the meaning. Since there are six different components that make up the pyramid, the support of student learning can be done in multiple ways. I would begin by making a PowerPoint slideshow of basic knowledge of the lesson I am teaching. This basic knowledge will be facts that the students already know from previous classes. Next, comes the understanding part. After they recall the basic concepts I will ensure they can explain in their own words, maybe some key terms or ideas. After understanding, comes applying this new concept. I will give a new situation with our newly learned material so the students can demonstrate their ability to apply. Students will then analyze and evaluate. This could be done by using a compare and contrast chart on PowerPoint. Lastly, the students will be given the correlating assignment and sent on their own to complete. To incorporate the PowerPoint I will put he directions on the last slide and allow them to have access to the PowerPoint for reference. Each slide of the PowerPoint presentation will encompass a different level in the Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Adaptive technologies are alternate technology software and devices created for those with disabilities. A disability can range from strict screen readers to someone being color blind or even dyslexic. Someone who can only read a screen, but needs to see a photograph could have the image translated into descriptive text. People that are colorblind could have the color altered for their own use. A dyslexic student may carry around a spell checker for daily use in the classroom. Another example is someone unable to use a clicker or mouse to use a joystick to navigate around the computer.

I can remember when I was in middle school I had a legally blind kid in my language arts class. During class when we would write, he was able to type everything on this device had had and it would read each word back to him when he was finished. All the students were so amazed by this adaptive technology. When I become a teacher and have the chance to use adaptive technologies I could see them as a distraction to other students, as well as a hassle to set up.

I thoroughly enjoyed the web page design assignment. Weebly was an easy way to create an organized website and still make it aesthetically pleasing. I liked that each page allowed me to organize it how I pleased and had pre set up layouts, which were very helpful. Next time I make a website I would play around with the layouts a little and visit the app store to see other options I could include! Attached is a picture and link to my website.

6 Productivity Post

I stumbled upon The Lyme School in New Hampshire. The class pages were divided into each grade (K through 8^th) and had references to the library, online search engines, computer lab, and elective classes. One thing I found interesting was the link from the 8^th grade square. There was a link to a virtual earthquake, which brought me to the page where I could explore different activities about measuring earthquakes. This site also had the option for viewing in Spanish, which I found very accommodating to a child whose parents may not speak English. After clicking on the teacher’s site I was brought to a calendar which the students could view to know what the homework is, or when their next day off is!

I cannot wait until I start planning lesson plans and incorporating different activities to keep my students engaged. Many teachers have their lesson plans in a large binder which they use to refer back to during lessons. When creating a week or month schedule I will definitely be utilizing the computer and Microsoft Office suite to keep my work available for change at all times. Just as the podcast mentions, planning is very time consuming the first year of teach, but having everything in digital form allows for revisions to be made for the next year. Diigo can be used while web browsing to not only bookmark the website, but attach little notes to easily organize each bookmark into the appropriate places for later use.

I found the Web Resource Evaluation assignment we recently completed to be very confusing at first. As I continued to use the Google site and become familiarized with it, the assignment got easier. I think this is a great tool for professionals and teachers to use for collaboration on a presentation for a specific topic. I was surprised by how unreliable some websites were. After making our checklist of different points, I realized how much goes into checking each website for reliability and ensuring it will be a good resource for future students.

5 Web 2.0 Food for Thought

Technology plays an important role in the education system. There is no way of getting around this integration. When I was going through the K-12 school system technology was being put into the curriculum. I never had a classroom twitter page, social networking sites, or wikis to interact with students. Teachers used Youtube videos to further address a topic we were learning about. I think web 2.0 tools that are helpful are blogs, wikis, twitter accounts for an older class, and Diigo to interact and converse about the topics researched. All of these sites are password protected which means they can fully be controlled and supervised by the teacher to ensure student safety. In order to use these web 2.0 tools, a few peripheral devices will be needed, which include any ports for external devices to be plugged in. While students are completing work on a network with a password, they will have a personal account folder, which serves as a storage space for their work.

I hope to teach second or third graders when I begin my teaching career. I think a fun and creative way to integrate a Web 2.0 tool would be to use Little Bird Tales. This is a digital story making website where kids can upload pictures to each page then record their voice to tell the story on each page. When the story is finished it can be sent to friends and family via email.Web 2.0 App

This would be a great tool to incorporate because it engages the young mind’s creativity while allowing the student to express him or herself. Having the ability to share the students work is a great way to show their families what we’ve been doing. Parents love to hear feedback and see the work of their child. Also, being able to share each students work to the entire classroom would give others ideas on how to make their story better the next time.

Personally, I found the concept map to be tedious and not very helpful. Although children enjoy graphics and designs I think these can be displayed a different way and still be appealing to younger students. The Webspiration application made the concept map easier to navigate through and keep thoughts and topics organized. I learned that there were different templates depending on what kind of topic the presenter was trying to present. This can be used for many different types of study guides and also for collaborative assignments.  

4 Is it reliable? Or not?

• ·      Standard MAFS.3.G.1.1 “Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals). Recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories. CPALMS 
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• ·      Fraction Naming: http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_104_g_2_t_1.html?open.instructions

• ·      This is an educational game for students to play. Allowing kids to use the computer will keep them engaged as well as learning the topic of geometry specifically.

• ·      I would use this tool in the classroom after I have taught the lesson of naming fractions. By allowing students to practice on their own, I am able to observe the classroom and see which students are having difficulty to help them one on one.

In my opinion, the Internet is a great place to do student research. Personally, Google is the first website I go to when assigned a research report or if my curiosity gets the best of me. The Internet is useful and convenient. Teaching students the A,B,C,D,T rule would be a great tool for them to have when beginning research. Also, posting links for them to follow is a good idea rather than having them venture on their own. Many sub links may lead to a porn cite or adult oriented content.

When I have done research for school I usually use Google. If I am skeptical about a site I try a different site to see if the information is the same. I know many sites containing .gov or .org are creditable and reliable. I can usually tell by reading the first couple of sentences in a website if it is biased or not. Lastly, I have found many site with grammatical errors which indicated they were not proofread before being posted which is a red flag.

I really enjoyed the Web Hunt assignment. I liked the NCES tool for teachers. I also was unaware of Google Scholar. Some tips and tools I learned from this assignment will definitely be remembered on my next research assignment.

1.  Find a presentation creating website for students to present with excluding Powerpoint and Prezi.

2. Find an educational website with games for students to learn their multiplication factors.