Project 15

Blog Assignment 13

ALEX, ( http://alex.state.al.us/index.php) Alabama’s Learning Exchange provides all kinds of information for teachers who are working in Alabama. The website gives all the information a teacher needs to help them be a successful teacher in Alabama including links to many other websites containing information about teaching, podcasts on different lesions, lesson plans, and any thing and every thing u need.

            ALEXS is a website with so much information for teachers in Alabama. The website is great and gives you so many different ideas and for all grades. I liked that it was easy to find things just by using the search bar. I didn’t know this website was out there but I really enjoyed going threw it. I will use this web site a lot because I am planning to teach in Alabama. 

Final Project progress report

Tierra Dinkins and I will be using our own simplified instructions on how to use a smartboard and we will be showing different ways it can be integrated into lessons for all levels of education. We will make a video and post it to YouTube and our blogs sharing our findings with the world.

Summary of Got Hunger ?

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on a scale of one to ten how happy are you with your body?
	1 2 40% 2 0 0% 3 0 0% 4 0 0% 5 0 0% 6 0 0% 7 1 20% 8 2 40% 9 0 0% 10 0 0%

What meal do you think is the most important of the day ?
	Breakfast 2 40% Lunch 3 60% Dinner 0 0% Midnight Snack 0 0%

Blog Assignment 12

Go to http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/01/what-makes-a-great-teacher/7841/ and read, What Makes a Great Teacher and watch The Motivator. After reading and watching the video briefly describe your idea on what makes a great teacher.  

I think I great teachers is some one who loves what they are doing and it shows in their work. They take time to interact with their students and make learning fun. A teacher should be willing to listen to their students and learn from them just as their students learn from them. I think that being any kind of teacher takes a special person and those people are truly helping make every day a better place. 

Project 14

How to Insert ATL and TITLE to Blog Post Pictures

C4T #3 Summary

I have been fallowing Mr. Bill Ferriter . Mr. Ferriter teaches 6th grade language arts in North Carolina, where he was named a Regional Teacher of the Year for 2005-2006. He has designed professional development courses for educators nationwide. His trainings include how to use blogs, wikis, and podcasts in the classroom; the role of iTunes in teaching and learning; and the power of digital movie making.
The first post I commented on was titled “Teacher Evaluation is Fatally Flawed”. In this post Mr.Ferriter talks about Teachers getting evaluated and how they really aren’t being done correctly. He talks about the number of flaws he sees in his own teaching but still manages to get excellent ratings on his teacher evaluations. I told Mr.Ferriter that I do not know much if any about teacher evaluations other then my dad is an administrator and he has talked about how important it is to really do them right. I also read so other peoples comments on his thoughts and on person asked if maybe evaluators are scared that they are going to run teachers off and I wondered why teachers would be scared if they use the bad comments as a way of helping them improve.
The second blog post I commented on was titled “What Does Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere Report Mean for Education Bloggers”. ? This was very interesting to me because before EDM310 I had no clue what blogging was. Mr.Ferriter takes the main concepts of Technorati’s State of Blogosphere report and summarizes the main points. I told him that I was a new bloger and have really enjoyed the process and having the chance to read other blogs and respond to them.

Podcast

Blog Assignment 11

At first I wasn’t sure about the concept of using a DS to promote learning. Then Mrs. Cassidy made it work, why not let kids use the newest technology devises and learn something educational at the same time. I love the smart board and to me it’s sort of like a fun new toy just like a DS is to a child and I plan to use it as much as I can in my classroom. I want to use the new things that I have learned in EDM to its fullest. I think I would like to have my students or class as have a blog and give them a head start in learning to use technology as much as they can. I know that a lot of schools aren’t fully up to date with technology in the class room but I hope that this change by the time I get my first teaching job.