C4T post #3

I commented on Hadley J, his blog title is Middle School Matrix. I commented in his blog called “An Hour of Silence”. In this post, he came up with an idea of “Quiet Time” that his kids would be quiet in their rooms, no TV and no computer. Just themselves and lots of paper and crayons and books to read. He wants his kids to just be quiet to let their minds relax and think whatever thoughts that they had. I think it’s a wonderful experience because it has shown that many students were in urged to talk to him and telling him what they were thinking during silence time. Sometimes, we as adults need silence time and just relax our minds for a little. It actually a very great way to help relieve your stress and help you to think more effectively. Anyway, I really enjoy reading his blog post because I can use it in the future with my students and for myself as well. If you would like to see his blog, please follow this link at
http://hadleyjf.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/an-hour-of-silence/#comments

C4K 4-6

I commented on Ms. Janine Tito in room 22. She is teaching 7/8 years old students at Pt. England School, Auckland, N.Z. In her class blog, she stated that her students are multi-talented, hard working crew of the kids who love sport, music, art and even school work.

My comment for kid is Lesley and she is a Tongan. She lives with her mom, her sister, and uncle and his wife. She also mentioned that she have three half sisters in Australia. In her blog, she have posted two charts that shows who is the favorite teachers in the school and what is the most favorite sports in the school. Also, I have learned that Lesley is very proud of her family. Click on the URL if you would like to see Lesley's blog. http://peslesleym.blogspot.com/

Skype Project # 12

Blog Post #9

Mr. McClung's blog post:

I really enjoy reading Mr. McClung’s post, he has been so informing and putting a lot of emphasis when it comes to teaching. He share his experience with the readers about his first year of teaching and how he could better himself to help his students by stop worrying about how he going to teach but how the students can learn. Mr. McClung had advice the readers to take actions. Talk and listen to the students and encourage them to learn and be successful. Another thing he point out is that we need to take advantage of technology and use it efficiently to better teachers' career. I really appreciate his advice because I was a little concern about teaching when I’m out to the field but after reading his post it has given me strength and courage to not be afraid and just put all your efforts out there for the students. I will definitely take his advice and will be a better educator.

Blog Post #8

In this movie Richard talks about writing activity. He informing us that how we write and where we write could affect our works. He said that working with our word processing has saved us so much time and energy, there’s no hassle going to classes and trying to keep up with the assignments when we can simply save all the document in the data and open it to check on it. Richard point out that it is easier to create personal projects in computer systems to enhance the audio and video which you can tag right on to your document to view without having to download.

In the second part of the video, Richard talks about digital technologies consists of representations programs such as ITUNE U. In the advanced technology world, students can create their thoughts and create ideas which can inform to other cultures and see how different it is compared to them. I like the fact that Richard is sharing his knowledge to everybody and informing us great ideas and his successes.

Technology has given students a great affective ways of learning and it also helps educators to teach affectively too! I believe that in the future students will have to learn how to navigate web-base technology and builds the needs in student’s schools. Students with knowledge about the technology system are more likely to help them better in schools because they have more resources more research and information they need.
According to the two videos, I found it interesting and very informative. From what Richard said, in the future students will participate in technology more instead of relying on teachers for questions or answers.

Learn to change and Change to Learn:
Teachers must look into this and strengthen students learning skills and their abilities to prepare them for the future. They will learn and be preparing for future jobs. The importance of technology occurs in teachers’ lives as well as students. As educators, we need to broaden our students’ knowledge and collaborate their learning through technology and teachers’ knowledge. It’s best to combine this because it is useful to improve students think more creatively.
In the last two videos, it has shown that we are becoming more advance now and the world is changing faster and faster. Our world has become more digital and technology required. As a matter of fact, in the future our children will be more involved in technology rather than spending time playing outside. Children will eventually experienced in the technology and expand their knowledge and in the next generation more technology will be use in schools.

Smartboard Presentation Group 3B

Project #11 Short Movie

This is a book I read for my short movie called "The Day It Rained Hearts". by: Felicia Bond
Click on this link to view the movie.

Blog Post 7

Randy Pausch Acheiveing your Childhood Dreams:

This is a great video, Randy Pausch encourage us to live with our dreams and inspirations. I like the fact that he encourages us to create ideas and uses technologies in the classrooms more often. Randy Pausch is a great motivation in every children dreams as well as teachers, he believes in childrens’ dreams and their creativities according to his lecture called “Chasing Your Childhood Dreams”. He also mentions that as teachers we should try to help children meet their potential and reach to their goals. As educators we should help our students succeed and live their dreams and never stop believing it not come true. Reach for the goals and do not let anything interfere.

He discusses “head fakes” referring to indirect learning uses to teach children without them knowing it. Since children tends to participate at things like playing video games which is a great way to educate them. Pausch uses this method to help our children to think effectively and give out life lessons to his children. He also encourages teachers to challenge their students and said that to never give up on their children but inspire them. He passed away in 2008 of pancreatic cancer but his passion will live on and be remembered.

PLN Post

I really enjoy using PLN; it helps me organizing my sites in one place and saved me a lot of time. I did not know how much to do in Google search, I never knew of Gmail and how it have document and presentation. Google is very beneficial to me because I can create presentations without buying PowerPoint software and it save my data right after I updated, which is great because just in case my computer shuts down I don’t have to worry about losing my information. Also, I can joint it with my Facebook, Twitter, Blog, and I can schedule my plans for every week. I like the fact that it is so convenience and most of the time I can just log in my Google account and open it up instead of carrying my laptop or jump drive around.

C4T #2

This is very informing to me. I have never heard of "everloop" before and it sounds very interesting. I like the fact that this site provided the security purposes and it have so many activities. As you quoted "Everloop will be the platform kids groups use to actively promote, entertain, and inform. Loaded with educational resources, entertainment opportunities, and apps, we’ll foster content sharing, innovation, and entrepreneurial development. All within a private loop." I think this is a great opportunity for children to interact with one another in a efficient way and educated by using this rather children go online to play games and random stuff which doesn't benefit them.
DoInk: I have never heard or use this site before but this is a a great site for children. We can do simple & friendly vector editor
create flash-style animations use community art & your own post to YouTube and Facebook download your art. I have two younger sisters and they love it! This site provide the creativity for children worldwide especially if there's nothing for them to do. It's fun and creative!

Blog Post #6

The Networked Student: Wendy Drexler
In this video, I found it very formative and creative. This video shows that when teachers decides to let their students to use internet resources, which will affect their learning more efficient. Future educators need to help students learn through technology, also exceed students learning skills. I like the idea of technology because there are so many things we can use to help improve learning styles for students as well as teaching styles for educators. For example, in this EDM class we learn how to create blogs and read other people blogs to understand and gather more information most people are not aware of. Technology is a wonderful resource but I also think that teacher to student’s classroom is completely required. Why? Because many students are not in the same paste as others therefore, teachers need to be in classroom to physically lecture the lesson. Some students have different ways of learning and memorizing that is the reason why having teachers in classroom is also a great resource to have as well. I understand that technology changes every day and everybody need to be updated regarding to the changes, but there are many people still disagree with the fact that we should completely depending on technology. We need to emphasize what exactly our students need and how can we do to help improve their education. I solely believe that teaching in class with a little of technology is great but if we were to completely depending on technology, I disagree.



A 7th Graders PLE:
This is amazing! This is my first time hear of PLNS in this video. These seventh grader students present a social bookmarking which links to their class website. In this video, the students providing information like videos and articles that could help them with school assignments. The teachers would provide assignments that are due on certain days and the students have to complete their own assignments on time. This reminds me of my EDM310 class, I basically does the same exact things like the students in this class. I think this is a wonderful course because this will promote students to learn at their own pastes and also have responsibility to complete their assignments. If you would like to see this video, you can find it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEls3tq5wIY.

Is Smart Boards beneficial?
Smart boards are wonderful tools to use to lecture lessons in classrooms. It provide useful sources, like teachers can just tap a button in front of the class and it would allow speaking out. I really like this equipment because I go to my field experience every week and we would use it to motivate students to learn! Especially kindergarten students in my classroom, I noticed that they love the smart board because in all of the activities we do in class this is the most effective tool which would draws students attention to participate. Smart boards are very impressive due to the fact that it has so many features as motivators to help our students participate. Although, this is a great resource for the school to use however it could be very expensive. Many schools still don’t have this kind of technology in every classroom yet. But I think this would be very beneficial for every students, it helps motivate students to participate and pay more attention to the lesson. I found this video on YouTube which explain how it is easy to use and helpful for educators to use. If you would like to see this video, click here