Sunday, March 27, 2011
Blog Post # 9
What I've Learned This Year By: McClung
I really enjoyed Mr. McClung post about What he have learned his first year teaching. He made great points in his post that really had me thinking and knowing to keep in mind some of the things he stated for when i graduate and become an educator. I like how he let his quotes stand out from the post then he goes into details and talks about them. He says " Don't be afraid of Technology", that is so true. Being in EDM 310 this semester has grown on me that technology is good to use in the classrooms and to share with your students. One that stuck out to me is "Never Stop Learning". I took that as just because you are a teacher that does not mean you can stop learning new things. This is a great post and I am glad it was shared with us. I will always go back and read it from time to time.
C4K Summary 4,5,6
C4K # 4
Miss Garden assigned her students to make an MTV video. They did an awesome job! You should check them out on youtube. Here's what I posted to them:
Hi, I'm Dana Johnson an EDM 310 student at the University of South Alabama and all I can say is WOW!! I really enjoyed your video, you all did a GREAT job! I also love the song you all chose I Believe, that's one of my favorites and I think it is a very inspiring song.
C4K # 5
Mrs. Sandy Lagitupu Room 21 Year 7/8 Pt. England School, Auckland, N.Z. Class had a school picnic. Their blog was well put together.
Hello, My name is Dana Johnson and I am an EDM 310 student at University of South Alabama in Dr. Strange's class. I have viewed your blog and it is great and well put together. You all look like your picnic was so fun! I hope you had a good time!
C4K # 6
I commented on Brittney W.'s blog post on Why are sharks so mean.
Hi Brittney W.My name is Dana Johnson and I am an EDM 310 student ay the University of South Alabama in Dr. strange’s class. This is a good post about sharks and I totally agree that their nature is to hunt and they will eat whatever! I know I will be no where near the middle of the ocean because I can not swim! :) Keep up the good work! You also can check out my blog at johnsondanaedm310.blogspot.com
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Blog Post # 8
Richard Miller: This is How we Dream Parts 1 & 2
Part 1
Richard Miller who is an English Educator at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He talks about how technology has changed in so many ways. Today instead of looking and researching information from books everyone does it from the web. I agree with what he is speaking about everything is starting to revolve around technology, books, paper, pens, and pencils is slowly getting thrown out.
Part 2
In this part 2 of This is How we Dream, Richard Miller talks about the academic process and how technology is used in schools and classes today. What he is saying is so true. Children today is well technology ready. I have a 4 year old daughter and she knows how to work my iphone almost better than me. With all this technology children will not care to read books. They will be looking for cell phones, ipads, and laptops for everything.
EDM 310 for Dummies and The Chipper Series
The Chipper Series
This is a student that was in EDM 310 that was trying to come up with so many different reasons why she could not get her work done on time or just try to talk her way out of doing the work completely. Well, all I can say is EDM 310 was not the class for her. This is a required class and she should just jump on the wagon and get it together.
EDM 310 for Dummies
This is a good video to watch. I also agree with Jamielynn that they can write a book about this class, but it should be posted on the blog because with all the technology you have to use in this class, no one would read it by hand. I was the same way like in the beginning of this video. I thought this class was so hard and so much work. I felt helpless. Now that I am mid-way in the course my attitude has changed completely. I am learning so much in Dr. Strange's EDM 310 class!
The Secret Powers of Time
This is a interesting video and I am happy it was shared with us. He speaks and draws pictures about real life events. I thought that was neat and creative. I was amazed of the many examples he used. For example, how he discuss time and how we use it everyday. He states that time is important in our life and we do not notice it. Great video!
Drive: The Surprising Truth about what Motivates Us
David Pink speaks about what motivates us in life either at home, work, or school. This is another interesting video with the picture drawing. I thought that was good to keep the viewer interested in the video. He talks and explain about better performance, and many different truth about what goes on behind the workplace.
Learn to Change, Change to Learn
This video is about different teachers, or should I say educators speaking about technology with students today. They talk about the different changes that could be made in the classroom. They discuss what is needed to be taught and what students need to be able to distinguish in life. i feel they all have good point of views about what is important for students.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Blog Post # 7
Randy Pausch's Last Lecture
I really enjoyed watching this video of Randy Pausch. I am glad it was shared with us. He seemed to be a great man with a good heart. He stood up there and gave the best lecture I have seen to be as sick as he was and with as little time he had to live. He did not let that get in his way or bring him down he was still happy and in good spirit!
I liked how he had his lecture put together with his childhood dreams and the different experiences he was able to achieve and accomplish in his life. He was able to meet Capital Kirk, and becoming an imagineer, able to feel zero gravity and even wining some stuff animals . I like how he made an example of the brick wall, if you want it you will go through that bring wall. I thought that was very inspiring. This video really had me laughing and smiling because Randy Pausch seemed to have had a great sense of humor.
I think he was a great teacher and he knew how to make learning fun. I think he was a teacher that believes in his students and make his students to believe in themselves. He says that it starts from parents when coming successful. I love how he admired his parents and that they are part of him becoming the successful person his was. After parents he names teachers, and many others that can help you become successful and I agree with him that it takes become to help you out in life. He makes it very clear that to never give up! This was a great video and I know that Randy Pausch will always be remembered as a great person.
Friday, March 4, 2011
C4T Summary # 2
C4T Summary # 2
My teacher was Joe Bower, a teacher in Red, Deer, Alberta, Canada. Post # 1 was on Limits of Twentieth Century Assessments. He is a teacher that do not like or use multiple choice,true/false,matching and fill in the blank assessments. I commented My name is Dana Johnson and I am a EDM310 student at University of South Alabama and I agree with you about the assessments due to experiences myself I use to love those types of assessments until I finally got in a teachers class that did not use them. I came to realize that knowing that you do not have that type of assessment will make students study more and become more focused, well I know that is what happen in my situation so I really agree.
Post # 2 Where good ideas come from by Steven Johnson. Joe Bower posted this video on his blog. The video was about coming up with successful ideas. Steven Johnson maps it all out for you on this video. It's a interesting video, everyone should check it out on you tube.
Project # 10 1st Progress on PLN
After looking at each PLN I could do I chose to use Symbaloo. I thought it was more user friendly. I have Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Gmail, Blogger. You Tube, and ebay. I think it is a very useful internet source to use and I really enjoyed this experience to use it. I am glad it was one of our projects and I plan to add more tiles to mines over time.
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