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Blog Assignment #14

Using Technology in the Classroom

I think all ten tips would be very beneficial to using and teaching with technology in the classroom. I agree with what he has to say. I think videos would be great for a visual aid. I pick up on things better when it is shown than reading it. That's just how it works for me. Using music helps because everyone loves music. Instantly people are wanting to view what has been put together and in return people learn the information because of the song. This happens to me also, I put a song with the info and I remember it. Using things like Skype help to communicate with other people like teachers and people from other places helps to learn what other people are doing in other schools or countries. It also males it fun to learn. Creating your own exercises will be fun and students will pick up on the information easier. The teachers know the kids best, other then parents, so they can generate something to help them learn and succeed.I think the whiteboard would be greatly helpful because students can interact with it. If something is wrong they can go back and see what they did that was not right. It can also be fun and motivational to students and the teachers. I find whiteboards to be very interesting and fun to play with. Podcasts can be great to use because instead of reading it you are hearing it. I find that more better than reading it. I still like to read things, but I pick up on the information better if I listen to it. I can also rewind it if I need to to hear it again. You can also put the voice or sound with a movie and make it even better. Blogs can be great as you can put all the information you want people to know on there and people from all over the world can communicate with you and learn from them and experience different things. It is a great tool. Social networks can be a great tool also. You can communicate in ways other things cannot. Internet tools, there are so many. Use them to your advantage. They can help out a lot. Lastly, students gadgets like cell phones and iPods can be used to help students out also. They can keep information stored. Use different apps to help the students out with things.
All of these tips I agree can help you use technology in the classroom. They can benefit the student in many ways. Technology can be a great asset in the classroom. Students will learn. Teachers will teach better and everyone will be motivated for the better, students and teachers and many more. Technology is a wonderful thing. You just have to be able to use it correctly for the process to work right.

Final Report PLN

My PLN has expanded and grown. Whenever I run into something I find that will be useful later or now I save it and mark it down. I have found stuff I have never heard of before, but found it to be very helpful. Even some stuff Dr.Strange introduced I out in my PLN. I think the PLN is a good idea to keep all your educational business together in one area that you can find easily and be able to get stuff done. I will keep working on my PLN even after I am done with this class. It has been a great asset to me. Everyone should have PLN's.

C4T Summary

The first comment I posted was on the children using paint on paper, folding it in half and having a piece of art in front of them. I posted the following comment: I love to watch children be creative. Just grabbing a pencil, pen, paint, whatever to create art of some sort and throwing on paper or anything. You get to see what they are thinking in their heads and in the end you get something truly amazing. To children their are no boundaries for art, they just go with the flow. It is really great. This was a great post. I love the pictures.
The second comment I posted was on children drawing their senses. I found this to be quite a great idea. I left the following comment: Wow, I really like the idea of of drawing out the senses. I never really sat down and did this. Drew what I heard, smelled, tasted, felt, and seen. I think it would create very creative drawings because not all children taste, hear, smell, feel or see. I like this idea. Thanks for the post. I love the pictures also.
Here is the Blog if you would like to read them for yourself. He has many others I found interesting also.
Teacher Tom's Blog

Blog Assisgnment #13

Did you know about WolframAlpha?
No, I sure didn't. I have never heard of it before at all.
Did you know about Google Squared?
No, I did no know about this either and I love google and use it for just about everything.
China has 1.35 billion people, India currently has 1.21 billion people and the United States has only 309 million people. China's population growth per year is 0.63%, India's population growth is 1.44% and the U.S. is 0.969%. It is strange to me how the U.S has a much higher population growth than China, yet china has way more people. Wonder why that is? The U.S will soon be out ranked by India and China.
Do you think WolframAlpha will be useful for you? for your students? Why or why not?
I think it will be very useful. It gives you some really useful information. I can use the information to do anything with. Like make a timeline. I think it will be useful for the students, yes. If I were to ask a certain question, or make the do a project that deals with populations or make a timeline about someone, the students will be able to find the information they need very easily. I think it will be a great help.