Blog post 13

E-Media Fast

I thought this project was going to end in me not being able to complete it. I thought that it was going to be the most difficult thing because I'm on my phone constantly talking to my girlfriend from Ohio or looking up something to do with sports. Well I was wrong! Saturday I made plans with friends to go fishing. We set out at Four in the morning and stayed out all day deep sea fishing. We made use to get out of the range of cell phones so no one could distract us. It was a perfect day. The fishing were biting like crazy and we had a blast. We had alcohol and food and no one to distract us with gossip from Facebook or call us to inform us that we was doing something wrong. We came in from a day on the water and cooked the fish we caught. I woke up that next morning to 45 text messages and 10 missed calls. This assignment proved to me that people spend to much time using technology. We rely to much on technology these days. Go outside and do something productive. Technology is good to learn stuff and what not but it is causing more and more obesity. No one can take the time to go outside and do something with out being face deep in a phone. We need to just shut down every cell phone television and internet tower for one day and see what happens. Everyone would go into a panic and run around like a chicken with there head cut off. WE RELY TO MUCH ON TECHNOLOGY AND NEED TO PUT AN END TO IT!!!!!!!!

Final PLN project.

I used Symbaloo and it worked great for me. I have access to all the top websites I go to on a day to day bases. It has Facebook and all my social sites to The South homepage and my Gmail. This would be extremely helpful for me as a teacher to help me keep my stuff organized. I still have a lot of titles open, but I will run into plenty of sites that I will find helpful and put them on their. I showed my mom my final PLN and she feel in love with it and is now trying to get other teacher like her to use it and stay organized. Hopeful the other teachers will find it like she does and use it to and not push it to the side and say technology is not for them.

C4T #4

Our iPad Apps
Mathew Needleman Made the Ipad a lot easier for teachers. He took and made different sections for the different teachers and put the apps for that teacher in the section. I think its a great idea and makes the Ipad easier for teacher to learn how to use it.




Adobe Creative Suite 6 Announced

Mathew talked about how Adobe made an announcement about its updates to Creative suite. It includes a lot of cool tools like photoshop, after effects, and dreamweaver. I have never used these programs and told him that I would have be interested it in now after all the good things he talked about. He said he would post more after playing with the programs so looked forward to his review of them.

Project #15 Smartboard Instruction Part 2

Blog Post 12

When Should Kids Get Cell Phones?

How old was you when you got your first cell phone? At what age do you think a kid should be given a cell phone? Watch this video and write a brief paragraph or two in own words about what the video says. Also put your own opinions in you paragraphs. Also put whether pr not kids should be allowed to have cell phones in school.

C4K for April

Shawn's Blog

Shawn talked about a glog which I have not idea what that is. Can anyone explain it to me?

Mrs. Cassidy's Classroom Blog

Mrs. Cassidy's blog basically showed all the stuff the class does in the classroom. It showed the Easter project they did and a assignment on mass and measurements. I told her I like her blog and the style of blog she had. It really impressed me.

Little Kids...Big Potential

Mrs. Cassidy had a great idea with making technology such a big role in the classroom for 1st graders. Even better is that she got the parents involved. Which allowed them to know what the students were studying and helps them help them at home. This also helps the parents monitor their work at home. The blogs was a great idea because this helps with writing and language skills. Also the student were able to connect with people from around the world. I think the blog was the best thing for them to do because it not only helps with technology skills but also with social skills, along with the school skills I already mentioned. As much as a great idea this all is, I don't think I would be able to use this as a physical education teacher. I mean I could but who would enjoy a class where you can run around and let off some steam mixed with projects and computer work. That wouldn't be a practical thing I could use in a PE class. I would how ever encourage other teachers to use this assignment.

Blog Post 10

Do You Teach or Do You Educate

This video made me think of my past teachers throughout my education. It was made up of a simple uestion. Do you want to teach or be and educator? As I though about my past teachers had a few that educated me and the rest just taught me. They forced material and lessons in your face and didn't care if you learned it or not. Never made it interesting for you in hope that you would enjoy and learn the lesson just put it in you face expected to learn. For the teachers who did educate me I learned a lot more and enjoyed learning. Those teachers and the love of sports is what made me want to be and teacher.
I wanted to be a teacher so that I could use sports to help change kids life like it did mine. I was wild when I was young and in constant trouble. When I started playing sports in middle school I was more involved in that then causing trouble. The coaches I had cared about me and educated me about sports and life. Before the video I just wanted to teach my future students Now after I want to be like my old coaches and educate my future students.



Tom Johnson's Don't Let Them Take the Pencils Home
I read this post and was confused at first then soon found out that he was talking about technology, (which I should have known since this class is all about technology in schools).I couldn't help but to think that the academic specialist was crazy for thinking that test school is all the matter. Yes with news laws test scores do mean a lot more but the students learning should mean a lot more. You could have good test takers that don't learn and thing and horrible test takers that learn everything. I was shocked to see how many people actually thought he was talking about pencil. HElLO PEOPLE, he was using a hidden message. He was talking about not everyone having technology, and not being exposed to it in his school district. How some people think that technology lowers test scores. When really technology educates us more about the world around us, other countries and help generate more creativity. Student need to be introduced to technology more in school,and that is what this post talks about.

Blog Post 9

I decide to write about Mr. McClung's first year. In this blog post he talks about how he transitioned from a student teacher to a real teacher. He first talks about how he got so worried with what the supervisors would think of him that he for got about the real thing that mattered, the students. The students are what teachers should be focused about, not what the supervisors think or trying to impress them. In the end if the students are learning isn't that all that matters? He also went on to talk about flexiablity and that "there is no perfect lesson plan". Also communication between teachers and students is key. As a future educator I want my students to be able to trust me and not fear me. Another key point he brought up was that we Don't need to be Afraid of Technology. No one is an expert at it so don't be afraid to try it in the classroom. These were the main points I got out of this post of his.




I also decided to write about his last year. To my surprise he was more focus on teh students then he was after the first year. I did not think that he would or could be more focus on the students but he was. "Our decision making process should always be student centered and not centered around pleasing adults". That statement says a lot, because all teachers should have that philosophy. He also talks about not getting comfortable is another key point he talked about. If you get to a point where you are comfortable then you don't grow as an educator and you lack a certain spark that gets students to want to learn. Another huge topic was that you let the students do the work on their own. Don't do the work from them, that causes them to never learn the skill and you to fail as a teacher. You may think you are helping them but your not. I was shocked to see that not only did he had the same views after his first year but how much they had grew. We should all take a lesson from Mr. McClung because he know the trick to becoming a great teacher at such a young career.

C4T #3

Post Conference Personal/Professional Reflection
In this post Matt talked about this graph he made to help him with what he wants to do in life. He wrote down what he knows how to do, what he can do and what he wants to do. This way he know what he needs to work in in the future. He did this to be able to see what he can already do and to know he doesn't have to work on that and he can focus more on what the want to do.


iPhoneography: Unleash Creativity
In this post mat talks about how he went out and bought a camera and how he liked it but on his recent trip he caught himself reaching for his Iphone to take the pictures. He found that the Iphone was easier to handle as well as faster. Also he liked being about to send the pictures straight to his Ipad back at his hotel. The apps on his Ipad was easier for editing for him and he liked that a lot. The apps also made it easier to post his pictures on social media sites. This just shows how technology makes things so much easier.

C4K for March

My poem by Kaitlyn
Kaitlyn is from Simon Mcloughlin's 4th grade class in the UK. In the blog that I read she wrote a poem that was about Justin Bieber. She took each letter of his name and wrote about him using a that letter. I was very creative and I enjoyed reading it. Their was a few spelling errors and I told her to work on that but over all it was a great poem.


Shawn's Blog
Shawn wrote about a possible 3rd and 4th Ghostbusters movie. I would love for that to happen because I loved the first two.

Project #14