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1st Graders create their own read along audio book

I really liked this video and how she explained what she did to help the students stay better focused like splitting them up into groups. The coolest part to me was that she said how much enthusiasm they showed to do all of the recordings. They wanted to re-record if it didn't sound just right which helped them get better with emotions and the way they read the story. This also will help them in the future with reading in classrooms or public speaking I believe and making a crowd believe that you enjoy what you are talking about and not just reading a piece of paper. One more thing I really liked was that she thought to put a specific noise at the beginning of each chapter just in case a student became lost along the readings.

Listening Comprehension Podcasting

This video was really cool and I only wish we could have gotten to do things like this in the first grade. They were able to use the smart board and edit their audio clips like it was some kind of music track or something. It was really cool to see that and they were speaking Hebrew pretty good whether the knew it or not. Another thing I liked is how she said that listening to the words not only helped them see how they were pronounced but how they sound or relate to the sentence. This will help future use of the word when they put other words around it to make their own sentence. Overall, a really cool post.

The benefits of Podcasting in the Classroom

This video was probably my favorite out of the group because it shows a way that technology is helping education that I can immediately relate to. I have been sick plenty of times in school and had work sent home with me that I may not understand. Now they have podcasts and or vodcasts where the teacher can explain the lesson to the sick student in more depth for them to understand it better and complete their work correctly. I think that is very cool and can't wait to integrate that into my classroom. This is another great positive about technology in the classroom that is helping us educate even better.

Blog Post 3

Part 1.
All of the videos and slide shows talked about quality peer reviews and how they should be constructed. I loved the techniques that they showed especially in the video of the Top 10 mistakes. It was pretty funny and informative at the same time which was cool. Some of the techniques like speeding through the review or being vague were good because those are things I think everyone does without realizing it sometimes.

Part 2.
Technology in special education was really cool and I'm glad someone made a video for everyone to see first hand. I had the chance to experience this on a first hand basis myself. I had the opportunity to visit the Little tree which is an inclusion school for autistic and regular children. It was a great learning experience and i got to see just how much technology plays a role in education. This also ties into How the ipad works with Academics for autism.
I got the chance to see them use the ipad and other things like the smart board for non verbal children to communicate. It is absolutely unbelievable to watch how much technology helps these children. They literally have a voice when they use these programs. I got to watch them do programming with a non verbal child who was beginning to speak all because of the ipad and smart board technologies he started on when he arrived there as nonverbal.
I would use these different apps and features to help with the education of the children no matter how serious their condition may be. You can sit down with a child who may have not been able to talk and actually have a conversation because of these apps. There is a whole new world that is available now because of these features. I truly believe education and special education would not be improving as quickly as it is now without these technologies

Part 3.
This social media count is Crazy! It was so cool to see just how much time and information people put into computer. You really see how popular things like facebook and twitter are which was pretty crazy. I also liked the section bout gaming and mobile phones and if you click on the tabs under it to change it to days or months or even years. Those numbers got so high it took second to count! Definitely a cool video to watch to understand how much time and effort is put into these social features that are available to the world.

Part 4.
I liked this video because this can relate to all of us here at south taking huge classes where teachers don't have any idea who we are. It seems like a lot of them don't even care to know who we are or our situations. Teachers need to get back to actually caring for the student and actually wanting to help them. I really liked how it had different students holding up different signs describing aspects of their life with college. We all can relate to the papers, the 18% of teachers that know our names, and the seven hours or Less of sleep we get every night. I think teachers should have to watch this video.

Post #2

Did You Know?

I really liked this video because of all the interesting facts you probably wouldn't learn elsewhere. I thought it was pretty cool how all of the facts tied into our class and our goals for becoming a technological literate teacher. One of the main things i picked up from the video was the fact of how behind the U.S. was in this education. Imagine how much more could happen in our country when the education increased or did some of the things that those countries did.

The education system here in our country is based around what Dr. Strange likes to call burp back education. I think one of the main things that is wrong with teachers today is the way they view education and students. In my opinion there are tons of teachers who see every semester s just a group of kids who they have to get to meet a curriculum instead of actually caring how the student will learn to their best ability. I think if teachers start caring more and want the kids to know about the world around them there will be many different aspects of education that will increase.


Mr. Winkle Wakes

This video was interesting and showed side of someones opinion on the education system in today's time that you can actually say is kind of true. It showed rip van winkle waking up after One hundred years sleep and finding how the world has changed around him in so many aspects except for one, school. I guess i can see where they are coming from technology has advanced so much in the last ten to twenty years alone much less the last one hundred. Through all of this there are many aspects of school that have stayed the same as well. Books, paper, and reading are the main tools in schools today.

I did like how they did show there was a computer in the back of the room that was collecting dust because that is how a lot of the schools are today in society. They have computers in the classroom but, it is every once in a blue moon they get on and use it. Why can't you get on the computer everyday instead of having to have some type of special assignment every other week to do?


The Importance of Creativity

This was probably one of my favorite videos out of the whole group. It shows how videos need to be in school that we must watch for learning. He combines comedy with teaching to keep us awake and paying attention to his every word. If every video that we had to watch for school was like that the most boring of topics would be interesting. He was really funny and intriguing about his thoughts on the school systems and education for the future.

One of the cooler things he said was the story about the little girl who couldn't sit still. The doctor walked out and cut some music on and told her to watch. The girl started dancing and he told her she wasn't sick she was a dancer. They out her in a dancing school and now shes a multi-millionaire and world famous choreographer. We should fit education to the students needs not hand them some pills and tell them they have a problem.

A Vision for 21st Century Learning
I loved this video because it get's me ready to become a teacher. I'm going to teach history and there are tons of students that find that to be one of the most boring subjects in school. So it makes me happy to know that they tied technology into some world history in the video to show that there are ways to make it fun for everyone. I'm a firm believer in teaching through and with technology and i think that one day our system will go to something like that.

I can only hope that one day i will be able to do something cool with my students like that. It would have been unheard of for us to get on a computer when I was in high school and walk around ancient Rome and learn things through the computer, and that was just 3-4 years ago! This video just makes me excited about becoming a teacher because of all the possibilities in the future.

Harness Your students' Digital Smarts
This video was the best in my opinion out of the group of videos. We had to watch this teacher in rural Georgia teach students to be technologically literate. It really hit home to me because that is the kind of school I came from, a small rural area and small school. I can not tell you how exciting it would have been for me to have had a class like that where we learn so much on the computer and other devices. She also let her students teach class sometimes which would have been really cool I think. The classroom would have been more comfortable with everyone being so active among classmates.

These techniques are some that I hope I can use once I become an educator. There are just so many possibilities for our future and the future of our students. We can start making the classroom more interactive like this class that we are in now. Who says you have to wait until you get to college to take a class where you learn how to blog among other cool technological things. I'm just ready to become a teacher and to use some of the techniques to my own advantage in becoming a teacher who can keep up with the times.

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