Thursday, July 19, 2012

Project #13

Well I must say I have learned quite a few things during this short semester. During the beginning of the semester I dreaded to do any of this work; but as time went on came more familiar with the world of technological tools. I was in Group 2 for 2012 summer semester. We as a group constantly used several tools to communicate. We mainly used text messaging to find out group meeting times, to find missing data and sometimes just to drop a line of encouragement.
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Group 2 also used Google Docs as a way to view and transfer data that was needed for upcoming projects. All the members of our group seemed to be pretty busy so these tools really helped us pull things together.

Project #8 Group #2 revised

Project #12 Book Trailer

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Final Project Report

I am a member of group #2 and we are approximately 50% complete with our iBook project. We have gathered most of our individual data. Our plan is to have the project complete by Sunday. We somehow lost all over our information when we initially started creating ibook. During our second meeting we got reorganized and now we’re focused on completion.
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Blog Post #12

Watch this video:



1. Write a write a paragraph or more in which you identify a coaching philosophy that fits your personality. Comment on ways a coach can adjust their philosophy to increase the team's cohesion.

2. Post a comment on the YouTube video:

My Post:

The "Tell it like it is..." approach fits my personality the best. My plans are to become a high school football or basketball coach. Athletes at the high school level usually adopt a game style before entering the 9th grade. Therefore completely changing their game can be rather hard. My tell it like is approach will be perfect for capturing their attention. Athletes at this age deal with aggressive feedback a lot better than younger kids. When coaches directly approach a positive or negative issue, players often give instant feedback.

I also think coaches have to be very versatile. Even though I have an aggressive approach, having that "quiet strength" works great when dealing with a really diverse team.

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Blog Post #11

Ms. Cassidy’s video was a nice breakdown of ways to engage students with technology. In her interview she stated that “You are handicapping your students if they are not using technology. Ms Cassidy technological journey started ten years ago with only five sun-ray computers, but with the help of her administration she was able to launch her students into the technological world. She successful uses blogs, web pages, Skype, videos and wiki’s as her avenues of approach.
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Ms. Cassidy uses blogs in her classroom to gain a larger audience. This audience will be able to comment on several student blogs which will help students learning progress. Blogs can also be read by parents, family members and other teachers. Therefore, when students post their work family members can check their progress at their convenience. This promotes learning around the clocks. The best thing about their blogs is that the kids love them too.
The students in her class also use Skype. They use this tool as a virtual connection to the multimedia world. By using Skype teachers, parents, students and others abroad can connect as if they were face to face. This is also a tool that builds a relationship with people with whom you would have never connected.
The third tool she used was classroom video. These videos can help students learn to produce and interacts with others. These videos can be used for short plays, book reports and classroom tools just to name a few.
A social networking tool that Ms. Cassidy uses is Twitter. I personally have shaky feelings about twitter, I too feel as if I am talking to myself on twitter. Ms. Cassidy also had the same feeling, but with proper use of twitter she has definitely expanded her PLN.
I received good advice from this video. Ms. Cassidy’s comment about the use of blogging as a physical education teacher really helped. I can use her advice to post practice schedules, rosters, game schedules or any changes to my blog. This will keep my students and parents updated throughout the day.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

C4T Summary

My C4T assignment was from http://web20classroom.blogspot. He Had two very interesting blog post. They were very different but so much alike. The first post I read was "The Power of Connectedness", it talked about an international conferance in San Diego where educators from all over the world connected. They shared ideas that would make each individual a better educator. The second post titled "Where Am I" was my favorite he talked about goning on vaction and getting away from everything even technology. He called it a Technology Cleanse I thought it was a great idea.
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Blog Post #10

Adventures in Pencil Integration

I love idea of a multimedia educational world. The digital age is rapidly growing, but i do understand the need for pencils. A pencils is an essential tool to writing fundamentals. Although I do believe computers are one of the greastest educational inventions. Things like spell/grammer could easily handicap a child learning to write.The easy accsess to correction deminishes the fundamentals of writing. I do think its still hip to carry a pencil
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Why are Your Kids Playing Games

I think it's a great idea to intergrate games into teaching. Kids respond better to things they enjoy. Most Kids learn more when the teaching session is more engaging. I coach a 4 year old Tee ball Team and it can get very hectic when trying to keep their attention. For example, we play base runnning games that develop base running skills, builds endurance and team cohesion. Games sometimes make teaching seem effortless. I've tried to be a by the book teacher when it came to sports, but during that time my loses outwieghed my wins.

Sunday, July 1, 2012

BLOG POST # 9

Mr McClung made some very interesting points about his first two years of teaching. Alot of the things he talked about I can definately relate too. I'm currently at South studying to become a teacher/coach. But in the mean while I do numerous jobs working with kids; whether it's an after school study session or me coaching a team. I have encountered some of the same realities of teaching.

Getting to know your students is the biggest and most rewarding task of the year. If you don't know who you are teaching it's hard to convey the message. In the process of learning your students things you should always consider is a lessened dictatorship, keeping your students envoled in classroom rules and decision will help the learning cohesion of the class.
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Another valuable topic he dicussed was the value of a school mom. My football and baseball team moms are the greatest. They do things for me that allow me to actually do my job... Teach! What would i do without them?