ILP Design - Edmodo

For this project I created an Edmodo class.

I sent out a poll to see what kind of music my students like because I would like to play music as they come into the classroom, but I want it to be music that they enjoy.

I also uploaded the story of the lion and the mouse that I made in my other learning project, both the prezi with pictures and a text version, that way the students can choose which version they want to read.

Following the reading I posted a quiz for them to complete and turn in.

I really enjoy Edmodo and will definitely use it with my classes in the future. I enjoy how easy it is to send out assignments and create folders for missing assignments and such and have it all in one place. The more I play around with it the more it excites me that I will be able to use it with my own students soon.

You can find my Edmodo page here. And the class code, if you wish to join is: whbqiu

ILP Design - The Lion and The Mouse (Prezi)

So for this project I decided to do something similar to what we did in class and created a Prezi to tell the story of the Lion and the Mouse. It's a common fable about how kindness is important and one kind act now can be returned in the future. I really like this story and I think that fables are a great way to teach students morals so I would personally want to include something like this into an actual lesson that I will teach in the future.
You can find this Prezi here.

Survey: Coffee Joints

https://fsu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_71g6zs7tusq7xVH

8 Tech Talk

I personally really like the AlwaysPrepped tool which allows teachers "to gather their students’ progress from multiple resources and then to numerically and visually analyze achievement. This helps teachers to better target instruction for their particular learners." I think this is great because you can create groups based on what you need to work on with them.

I think Oculus would be so fun to use in a classroom. You can take students on field trips that you couldn't feasibly go to. You could also set up simulations so they can learn about different history and science topics. For instance say you wanted to do a lesson on the Gettysburg Address and you wanted your students to experience Abe Lincoln talking, assuming there was video then, you could find a simulation of him speaking and put the students directly into the action.

The digital divide is the divide between those with readily access to computers and those without this access. I personally am on the side who does have access, although I wasn't always. In school if I had a project I had to work out extensions with my teachers so I could make sure that I had enough time to go to the library to do it. Now that I'm in college I have a computer that I can use and access to computers walking distance away for when mine is acting up.

I think the digital divide might create some of the problems that I had to work with in school because not everyone has access to a computer. Like, not being able to get an assignment in on time. I would try to remedy this by giving extensions to those who don't have access to computers and by allowing them extra time whenever they are free to come to my class to work on their assignments, whether that be before school, after school, or during lunch. The teachers who always did that were the best because it made me feel like they cared about me getting my work done they weren't just like "whatever guess you're going to fail" like some teachers I had.

I feel like another way I could help out the students who can't get to a computer by setting up days to go to the media center or computer lab and having the whole class work on the assignment there. I had a few teachers who did that in school and I feel like it worked really well.

Clever Color Combos

I really enjoy these color combos (and the pictures that they use for each set are great). I think they work really well and would be great schemes to follow when creating a PowerPoint.

10 Clever Color Combos That Will Make Your Audience Happy from Presentation Panda

6 Classroom Website Woes

On the web I found the website of one Mrs, Lauren Miller who is a second grade teacher at Butteville Elementary School in Edgewood, California. On this page you see a little bit about her and pictures of a few of her students and things they've done in class. She has links to resources I assume she uses in class like Renaissance Learning and Go Noodle. It's a fairly simple website with not much on it.

I plan to use technology in all aspects of my classroom. For instance aside from having a class site and twitter. I plan to use technology to write my lesson plans and keep track of them. I plan to use it to track student's grades, to time assignments, and to take notes on my student's behaviors. I want my classroom to be very technologically based.

I really enjoyed working on the web evaluation assignment because it taught me what to look for when I look for websites as I plan my lessons. It taught me that not all websites are great even if they may look like they are, you have to dig a little deeper. Also, it taught me that more goes into is it a reliable sight other than authorship. 

3 Tech Talk and Newsletters

I've already had a tad bit of experience with planning out graphics for my classroom having been working with children for a few years, but I'm so excited to be able to make videos with them and find new graphics and images to teach them the same thing. I feel like having different ways of giving them the same information will help them to remember it so my classroom is going to have a lot of that, as well as just a lot of charts because I feel like breaking down the information in lists is an easy way to remember it.

Making my newsletter I learned a lot of different things. The biggest thing that I think I learned was how to do the columns. I've always wondered how teachers did that so playing around with it and figuring out how to go from one column to two and then back to one was so great.

Another thing I learned making my newsletter is that it was how to add in hyperlinks and I think that just comes in handy so much especially if you plan to have a technology based classroom like I do. This way I can email out a weekly newsletter and have the parents be able to email me or click on links to find the pictures and posts of anything and everything we do in the classroom.

2 Retweet That: Microsoft, Copyright and Twitter

Like most of us I've typically used Microsoft Word for writing papers and doing assignments. However I've also used it to write lesson plans and flyers for the childcare center that I was "working" for at my school. It was one of my classes, and I loved it.

I've seen teachers use Microsoft Word to write up their notes for their lectures and to type up the assignments they would hand out to their classes. I've also seen them use it to type up announcements that they could print out and put up on their boards.

I think the most experience I've had using fair use materials in an educational way are the clip art images in word that I would put on my assignments for students so the handout didn't look dull. I'm not really sure how I've ever used copy righted materials in a classroom.

As a teacher I would show my students the right way to go about using these materials because I would love to be able to put their work online for people to see so I'd have to make sure they aren't breaking any laws.

I use my personal twitter every single day. I've had it forever, I'm not sure when I first made it but I think it was at least four years ago. I need to get into the habit of having two twitters and using my EME2040 one more but I think that it's pretty great.

As for my classroom I would love to have a class twitter just so I can let parents know what's going on with the class and get some tips from other teachers that way as well.

Twitter !

twitter.com/AshleyEME2040

1 Computer Chronicles

When it comes to education I think that computers are extremely important because it seems that every aspect of life is shifting to incorporate some kind of technology and new generations need to know how to use technology and what different things you can use it for.

My main concern about teachers using technology in the classroom is that they are going to teach students how to use it instead of actually having them use it for an assignment. For instance I'm afraid that teachers would walk their students through how to do research online instead of actually having them do the research.

I agree with the issues that are presented in the chapters because I believe that it is as important for a teacher to know how to work technology as it is for them to be able to read and write, mainly because now that students are using technology the teachers have to be able to keep their attention and just using pen and paper isn't always going to do that, sometimes you need Power points with graphics.

In my classroom I hope to be able to use my computers for presentations so we can go over the information, polls so I can get their input (especially if it's a controversial topic and they want to remain anonymous), and test and quizzes so they can get their grade back fast and know how they did, without having to wait for me to grade 100 papers.

I hope that this class might teach me how to make this a possibility and show me how to go about creating these things and if not that I can use some supplemental resources to teach myself how to make this a reality.

I agree with the term "Digital Native" because just the like the Native Americans who were born in America and grew up here the "Digital Natives" were born into and grew up in the Digital Age.

A Digital Native is someone who was born into the Digital Age and has lived their life in a world of technology. They have always been around technology and cannot remember a time when it did not exist.

I haven't seen very many differences in the ways that my teachers and I use technology but I have seen a difference in skill level when it comes to working the technology, with the exception of teachers who have gone to classes and learned how to use computers and such. I have had plenty of teachers not know how to work their Powerpoint presentations and others not know how to work YouTube, and have trouble with tasks that I have no problem with. This hasn't hindered my learning in anyway I just feel like it's our job as "Digital Natives" to teach them and show them how to do something so they can learn and assimilate into this new world.

I do believe that there will be a difference in how my students and I use technology because technology is constantly advancing and since they are being born into it and grow up using it while their brains are still developing this new technology is ingrained in them where as I would already have a fully developed brain so it will be harder to learn. Much like how it is easier to learn a second language as a child compared to learning that same language as an adult.

0 My Life As Ashley(:

Before coming to Florida State I had only used basic technology for things like watching TV and social media. I had also used my computer for school work such as research and writing papers like most of us have.

Also, since I went to a high school that was focused on preparing its students for the real world we used a lot of technology in those classes.

I chose the Early Childhood Education academy and became the manager of the center. My job as the manager included helping to revise lesson plans and work with the teachers to actually teach the lesson to the 3-5 year old students that were in the class. That required computer use and becoming familiar with whatever technology the teacher wanted to use that day.

Since coming to Florida State I had to learn to use more technology in the classroom because I was in the FSU-Teach program where we created lesson plans and taught them to students at local schools. In our classes we had to learn to use different technology, such as apps, that we would then have our students use. Also, we had to peer teach in the class so we got introduced to different technology that other groups used in their lesson plans.

In this class I am hoping to learn other technology that I can use in the classroom and to refine my skills in different areas that I have not yet mastered.

I knew that I was pretty flexible when learning new things, but I learned why that is. In all of the categories I'm pretty in the middle, which means that I'm well balanced, so I can learn and understand the same information if it is given to me in different ways. I also believe that this will help me when I teach lessons because I can supply my students with the same information in different ways.