C4T Summary #3

For this comment for teacher I was assigned to Ms. Edna. For my first post I read about becoming a inquiry. You need to make connections, explore, ask questions even if those questions lead to other questions it is all apart of the bigger picture. Getting to what you really want to know, while in the process of learning more than you asked or thought of. My first comment was: Hello Edna,
I am a student at the University of South Alabama. I am in the EDM 310 class and was assigned to comment on your blog. I am glad I was, I find your blog, in fact, inquiring.
Your blog sparks my curiosity, it makes me want to go out and keep searching for the things I have thought of and questioned. I like your blog, it inspires me to think and keep thinking. Keep up the great writing! It is wonderful.

For my second post I read about letting go. Let your thinking come out and push forward. Ms. Edna is in a reading group that builds on thinking. Using it to the greatest extent. Students should push their thinking abilities. I want learning to happen when students are given that chance to think and analyze on their own and naturally. I want to let go also. My second comment was: This makes me want to join a reading group or make one myself among friends. In our spare time we could sit down and let go while reading and discussing books. I want to push my thinking and really get involved and this seems like a great idea. I want my students to do the same when I begin teaching. I love great ideas and this is surely one of them. Letting go starts now.

Blog Assignment #9

Posts by Mr.McClung

Mr. McClung had some very interesting blog posts. I am glad he has written about his years as being a teacher. What he learned and has written down I can see and take that knowledge in and use it for me also. One day I will be just beginning my teaching and I will want some tips, and Mr. McClung will be the person I think of and go to for advice. His blog posts are great. I want to be a great teacher and it never hurt to listen to another teacher about their first year and see what happened and get some clues. That is what we teachers need to do, help each other out so that we can teach our students to learn greatly and be successful in life. He has been teaching for the past three years and has picked up on some great information. Here is his blogs for you to look at and read also.
What I Learned (2008-09)
What I Learned (2009-10)
What I Learned (2010-11)

I hope you find them as informative and useful as I did. You may want to look back on these in the future. So go ahead, read them and them bookmark, favorite, or save them somewhere you can find them later on in your teaching life.

Blog Assignment #8

This is how we Dream by Dr. Richard Miller
Dr. Miller did an excellent job on these videos. It was truly amazing. It is crazy how much we have evolved with technology. We work with technology more and more each day. I agree that we need a curriculum developed to show how we would teach technology in the classroom. Technology can be hard to understand and develop. It can be hard to figure out and hard to do by yourself. If I was told to produce a movie like the ones in Dr. Miller’s video, I wouldn’t know where to start. I would need some sort of help to understand exactly how to do what to make my text move or my pictures fly. Thus we need a curriculum to explain, help, better involve students and teach them to understand the technology that is all around them and can be used to better themselves as students.
I do not think teachers have begun to see the changes around the world either. I think he is right. All teachers are still back in the day so to speak. Some have not realized that technology is changing for the better and will need to be incorporated into classes and teach students how to manage it. We are not using pencil and paper much anymore. It is typing and pasting and creating. Technology has become a big part of a teacher’s classroom and I hope they will soon realize this. Some already do and are beginning to work with students to have them better understand how it works. There is so much that can be done with technology that it is unbelievable. Just look at the video by Dr. Miller again.
We can do anything we set our minds to. I believe it. Do you? I believe we can master this technology in classrooms. We can have our students making movies, images and pages the way Dr. Miller did. It was amazing how he was putting some of that together. If he can learn I know we as students can too, and we can teach it also. We just have to put our minds there. We can do it. We can learn and teach the ways of technology. The only restrictions we have are the ones we put on ourselves. If you say,” I can’t make a video like that, I will never be able to”, then with a attitude like that you never will. Stay positive about the situation. Instead say, “I may not be able to now, but if I just learn and I am taught how technology works, then I can.” You can do ANYTHING you set your mind to. Just focus and do it.

Blog Post #12 by Carly Pugh
Wow, really wow. That is a very good idea. I am going to go do that as soon as I get done with this blog post. I loved the videos. I really liked the When I Grow Up one. That made me smile. I also liked the Diversity one. I couldn't watch the Think Differnt 10 Years Later one though because it contained content from EMI, who has blocked it in our country on copyright grounds, but I got to watch the rest. They were really good. I liked her playlist. I think she came very close to writing with multimedia. All those video, even though they were images and music and very little word, still spoke so much. They spoke volumes. It was inspiring. It was beautiful. It was magnificent. I believe she will be a wonderful teacher. She took something small and made it speak out loud. She inspires me to become a great teacher. Thank you Carly. You have done a fantastic job.

The Chipper Series and EDM310 for Dummies
Both videos were really great. I wish there was a actual book. I would definitely buy it and keep it forever because even though it would be used mainly for the class, it could still be very helpful when I get on my own. I could forget something and BAM! the book is there for me to use.
I think a type of video would be something like a talk show or something. You have the person that is in the EDM 310 class and then you have EDM310 itself and the talk show host. You talk about why EDM310 is so frustrating and what to do about it and such. I guess it would be like a love story. Jerry Springer? Maury? Kinda like that. I thought that would be cool. Another thought I had was making EDM310 into a horror movie. Have EDM310 running around killing people in the class with crazyness and such.

Learn to Change, Change to Learn
I can't believe education is ranked so low, especially below coal mining. I consider education to be very high in my book. I believe technology is becoming a BIG part of the classroom. Sutudents are becoming connected with so many tools in the world. They use them outside of the classroom more than inside the classroom becasue some of these technologies are not allowed in the classroom. The cell phone and laptop which has so much information that students could be informed about. Sudents don't need to just memorize information, they need to find information, validate it, leverage it, and communicae with it. It is the Dawn of learning. Let's teach with technology.

Blog Assignment #7

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Randy Pausch IS a great man. He may have passed but he is still a wonderful man. What I have learned from him will go with me til I die. He was funny, he taught you things, he was inspirational, and he was fun. When I found out he had cancer I was shocked and kinda sad, but I looked at him and saw he was happy and therefore, I was happy for him. He is definitely in better shape than me. Did you see him do those pushups? Wow, I can't even do one. Even though Randy was the elephant in the room with tumors in his liver, he was still a happy great guy. What he taught was so meaningful.

When he starts out he tells us he has experienced a deathbed conversion, he bought a Mac. He then begins to talk about his childhood dreams. He talks about how he could never find a photo of him not smiling and that was very gratifying to him. He then tells what his childhood dreams were. One of his dreams was to be in zero gravity. He was able to do this by his college got together a team and won this competition and got to go in NASA's "Vomit Comet"but this is where he hit his first brick wall. Randy says that brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things. He found out that faculty members under no circumstances were able to fly with the team. Randy was heartbroken. He soon found out that the team was able to bring a local media journalist form their hometown. Randy sent in some paper work and said they were doing virtual reality and the rest of the media could film it, he says bring something to the table because that will make you more welcomed, and he got a media pass and inevitably got to experience zero gravity.

His next dream was wanting to be A NFL football player. He talks how it is all about fundamentals.You have to get the fundamentals down or all the other stuff will not work. He talks about how his coach yelled at him and rode him throughout practice and he learned that this was a good thing because when your screwing up and nobody is saying anything to you anymore that means they gave up. He never made it to NFL but football got him where he is today. He says that, "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted."

His next dream was being a author in the World Book Encyclopedia. When he was somewhat a authority on virtual reality he got to write a article in the Encyclopedia on virtual reality.
Another was he wanted to meet Captain Kirk. He got to meet him when there was a book being written on Start Trek and they came around to different places in the country and they came to study the virtual reality setup and he got to meet him. They setup a star trek reality for him and Mr. Kirk was a good sport about it. Randy loved that he got to meet his childhood idol by Mr. Kirk coming to him to look at his cool stuff.
Another was winning stuffed animals in which he actual won quite a few, he even brings them on stage so you will believe him.
His last dream was to be an imagineer. It was quite hard for him to achieve this. When he went to Disney World he was like I want to build this so he went to college and graduated and wrote letters to try and get in but they said no. Brick wall. They are there for people who really want it. He eventually made it to be one but realized he didnt really want to do this.

I think Randy Pausch is quite a amazing person. He is very motivational and inspirational. He keeps you interested in his lectures and he tells you valuable information. I will always remember him even though all I did was watch a video of him on YouTube. Words are very powerful and can change the future of many people. I hope everyone achieves their dreams and may Randy Pausch rest in Peace. He will never be forgotten.

Project #11 Short Movie

Project #9b

PLN #1

My Personal Learning Network at first did not contain that many tools or people, but the more I googled and the more I learned it began to fill. I use symbaloo to put it all together. Right now I have tools that I use frequently and people that I talk to frequently. I have some things I thought were just very interesting and could be useful. I think the PLN is very useful with a little help from others to get it started. It can be used in many ways to help a student with homework, research, or just learning new and interesting resources to use on later projects in life. I find it useful and fun to put together. Everyone shoudl have a PLN.

C4T Summary #2

So for my second C4T I was assigned Mr. Eric Langhorst. He was really quite interesting. His blogs were great. I love how I got to see his experiences in different things. I posted two comments. The first was on some food he had while traveling in Japan. My comment was: Hello Mr. Langhorst, I am LeeAnn Bone and I am a student at the University of South Alabama. I am in a class called EDM 310. I love this post. The food looks so good. The Japanese dish is called Okonomiyaki. What a interesting name. I love that you got involved with making it. It is something I may have to try out one day. Thank you for sharing.

The second comment was on his experience at a Japanese baseball game. My comment was: Hello Eric, My name is LeeAnn Bone. I am a student at the University of South Alabama. You have such interesting posts. They are so amazing. The things you get to do and enjoy. You seem like you have such a great time. I wouldn't mind going to a Japanese sports event. That would be quite neat. I was wondering if you knew if the balloons were called something specific? And why do they release the balloons? That is very interesting. Thank you for sharing this great experience with us.