How will UEN & Pioneer Library help me teach my students, and colleagues? Pros and Cons!
A: WOW UEN is a great tool to use for everything when it come to teaching. The pros to UEN are, They have lesson plans you can use for different topics, virtual tours your students can go do to learn more about a topic they also have games that the students can plat to help them remember and understand terms and concepts learned in class. For my colleagues, you can create a site of your own and others can go on and use some of the information you have found to use in their classes as well. This way you can incorporate different subject matters that other teachers are working on in your lesson. The Cons, it has so much information that it takes a long time to know where everything is at, you have to hunt for things for awhile until you can remember where they are.
VIDEO
The first Video I watched was "Did you know?" and to be honest NO I did not know all of that information. As it told me about helping our students becoming successful in the 21st century by learning through the computer I never had thought of it that way. Computers are getting better and better and we as teachers need to help our students understand the technology and be able to understand how to work and use a computer.
The second Video was my favorite. It truly shows people what students spend most of their time doing, and if they spend most their time online then we as teachers should do more assignments and projects online, something students love to do is be online. By using the computer and all the online tools we are given we can teach more effective things to our 21st century students.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Week 3
How will these tools help me communicate with my students, parents, colleagues and achieve classroom goals?
Learning more about our Google sites and being able to add all of the different pages got me excited to have my own classroom and create a site just for them. Google is AMAZING, this tool lets me put as much information on that I need and also gives access to students parents and colleagues. This helps them know what is expected or what is going on for that week. Also helps parents get involved and encourage their son or daughter to get more involved. One con that I see with these google sites is that some parents do not allow their kids to get on the Internet, so this would hinder their knowledge about what is going on. Other than that Google site is a fun, fast and easy way to information so everyone that needs it:) I look forward to using these tools in my future classroom:)
Learning more about our Google sites and being able to add all of the different pages got me excited to have my own classroom and create a site just for them. Google is AMAZING, this tool lets me put as much information on that I need and also gives access to students parents and colleagues. This helps them know what is expected or what is going on for that week. Also helps parents get involved and encourage their son or daughter to get more involved. One con that I see with these google sites is that some parents do not allow their kids to get on the Internet, so this would hinder their knowledge about what is going on. Other than that Google site is a fun, fast and easy way to information so everyone that needs it:) I look forward to using these tools in my future classroom:)
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
How are these Tools helpful:)
How will these tools help me communicate with my students?
With every tool we learned about today there is a way for the students to view or even be apart of the "project" The calenders gives students a rundown of what may be happening or what is due each time they come to class. Google Doc can give students the opportunity to do an assignment and give accesses to the teacher to correct and look over before turning it in.
How will these tools help me communicate with my students' parents?
Like I said above the calendar will give parents the information they need to help students complete assignments on time and studying for upcoming tests, parent teacher conference and so forth.
How will these tools help me communicate with my colleagues?
Google Docs is a great way to make things and have other colleagues revise or change things that they would like to put in to a project, news letter or handouts. Also the calendar lets your colleagues know when you are teaching a class and when you are on your prep period. It also would help if someone missed a meeting they can go in and see what was discussed and decided.
In which ways might I employ these tools to achieve classroom objectives?
I can use these tools to make a fitness program letting all students to view it and to let them know where they should be if they want to be on track. Like i said above if your assignments and things students need to bring that day are on the calendar it will make meeting your objectives a lot easier.
What are the pros and cons of the tools?
Pros, are everything I said above about being able to communicate with students and parents. letting them know what is coming up and what they need to be ready for the following day. You can get colleges help on things you are planning.
Cons, There may be some days where you don't have time to post what the meeting was about or you are not sure what you plan to do the next class period so students will not know what to bring. It takes time and you need to make sure everything that can be seen by others is accurate. One typo can cause a lot of confusion and disorganization.
With every tool we learned about today there is a way for the students to view or even be apart of the "project" The calenders gives students a rundown of what may be happening or what is due each time they come to class. Google Doc can give students the opportunity to do an assignment and give accesses to the teacher to correct and look over before turning it in.
How will these tools help me communicate with my students' parents?
Like I said above the calendar will give parents the information they need to help students complete assignments on time and studying for upcoming tests, parent teacher conference and so forth.
How will these tools help me communicate with my colleagues?
Google Docs is a great way to make things and have other colleagues revise or change things that they would like to put in to a project, news letter or handouts. Also the calendar lets your colleagues know when you are teaching a class and when you are on your prep period. It also would help if someone missed a meeting they can go in and see what was discussed and decided.
In which ways might I employ these tools to achieve classroom objectives?
I can use these tools to make a fitness program letting all students to view it and to let them know where they should be if they want to be on track. Like i said above if your assignments and things students need to bring that day are on the calendar it will make meeting your objectives a lot easier.
What are the pros and cons of the tools?
Pros, are everything I said above about being able to communicate with students and parents. letting them know what is coming up and what they need to be ready for the following day. You can get colleges help on things you are planning.
Cons, There may be some days where you don't have time to post what the meeting was about or you are not sure what you plan to do the next class period so students will not know what to bring. It takes time and you need to make sure everything that can be seen by others is accurate. One typo can cause a lot of confusion and disorganization.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Ideal School, Classroom and Students
The School
My ideal school would be one that is orderly, clean, punctual and a learning environment where the students are not scared if they make mistakes or dont understand something. The teachers and faculty are those that get down on the level of the students and help them become more successful and not out to get or trick the students.
The Classroom/Gym
My ideal gym would have nice equipment that has been taken care of two different gyms. With two different gyms if there is an assembly or a school function taking up one of the gyms my class wont have to wait for people to clean up we would just go to the other gym:) My gym will be well lit and have posters and signs hung to make the gym more friendly.
The Students
For me the Ideal class would be that every student is excited to be at gym. They would all love to participate in all of the activities and would want to improve on thier skills in each task. Each student will get along with one another and help others that are struggling or not that advanced in the skill. Students will comunicate things that would work better and things they like about the lesson and classroom.
That is what I think an Ideal school, classroom and student is:)
My ideal school would be one that is orderly, clean, punctual and a learning environment where the students are not scared if they make mistakes or dont understand something. The teachers and faculty are those that get down on the level of the students and help them become more successful and not out to get or trick the students.
The Classroom/Gym
My ideal gym would have nice equipment that has been taken care of two different gyms. With two different gyms if there is an assembly or a school function taking up one of the gyms my class wont have to wait for people to clean up we would just go to the other gym:) My gym will be well lit and have posters and signs hung to make the gym more friendly.
The Students
For me the Ideal class would be that every student is excited to be at gym. They would all love to participate in all of the activities and would want to improve on thier skills in each task. Each student will get along with one another and help others that are struggling or not that advanced in the skill. Students will comunicate things that would work better and things they like about the lesson and classroom.
That is what I think an Ideal school, classroom and student is:)
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