Portfolio

http://cms.jonlinn10.webnode.com/

Technology

This class has provide me the opportunity to use the tools I never knew how to use in the classroom. I throughly enjoyed the class making videos, concept maps, and the protfolio at the end of the semester. I believe that this class is pointing me in the right direction to become a more influential teachers and a better teacher. There are many pieces of technology I will take from this course and apply it to my teaching philosophy.
I used the smartboard before but never to the extent of making a lesson plan. I learned a lot about teaching and tools in the classroom I will use in my classroom. I took from that class that I can have my students make a YouTube video of the civil war battles and the class can view the videos and write a report about the specific battles and what they have learned.

Glogster

http://jon72567.glogster.com/

Electronic Protfolios

http://www.education.mcgill.ca/edu-e3ftoption/alex/Planning.html 
This teaching portfolio is a good example of electronic portofilio, because Mrs. Roche uses her teaching philosphy and much more. She has posted pictures and other artifacts. Mrs. Rouche also leaves a lesson plan on Rudyard Kipling's Just So stories and the story is linked to the other lesson plans. Mrs. Rouche provides steps to creating a lesson. She got input from other student teachers in Westmount Park. Mrs. Rouche has classroom mangagement established and explained out in her portfolio. Lastly, she provides an example of the assessment of her students in the third marking period.

http://sites.google.com/site/stephanieladner/
I thought that Stephanie Ladner's teaching portfolio was not a very good example of a portfolio. There was no assessment portion in her portfolio or collaboration with other teachers. Comparing Stephanie's portfolio to Mrs. Rouche's I like Mrs. Rouche's because it went into detail and went step by step. I thought this portfolio could have been better if she added maybe a lesson plan, comments from other teachers, and an assesssment or two.

Technology Notebook

The technology notebook project was interesting to see what is out there for teachers who know how to use the resources in the classrooms to help the students understand the information. There are new technologies out there each and every day. The children today have had the technology at their fingertips thier whole lives and it is amazing once you put that in their hand what they can come up with.

I was really surprised when I read Kevin's Power Point that the post secondary schools use the technology than the younger generations. I understanding waiting to use the technology in the post secondary classes so that the students can gather the information and bring it to their classroom when he or she becomes a teacher.

When we have this technology at our finger tips why do teachers not let students use the technology? This does not make sense of any kind, because why limit the children from growing? This is what comes to mind after Katie's video. I enjoyed the video and I believe that the children in schools are important to this generation and the technology could be used to expand learning across the Internet.

Adam's Crenshaw High School was interesting to me that they take at-risk students and help them develop video games. The multimedia projects have helped the students score on the proficient level or above in No Child Left Behind. The multimedia project has engaged the students and has helped the students at risk. This generation is good with technologies and that is how the students become engaged and motivated in schools.

Interactive Whiteboards

My feelings toward the interactive whiteboards are that students in today's classrooms are more inclined to gain information from using the whiteboard, than through a teacher putting notes on the board and having the students copy it. I would use the interactive whiteboard in my classroom, it is a great tool to use to teach several subjects. As a history teacher I could use the interactive whiteboards for current events in the paper and to teach lessons about the fifty states and capitals.
The advantages to the use of the interactive whiteboards are the it not only gives the students a place to take notes, but be interactive with the lesson. Students could circle the important information on the slides in different colors to pick out what is important of the differences between similar stories. The interactive whiteboards will engage the students to think and put themselves in the lesson by using the whiteboard tools. Other advantages are that the teacher can give tests or quizzes of filling in the blanks and have the students fill the blanks in.

video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmQxdge-Fpo

Reflection on Video

The idea of the use of videos in the classroom is another idea that I like and will use in the classroom when I start teaching. The value of this tool can help children understand the civil war, by having students pick a section of the war and have each group play out the whole war. This teaches students how to put the information they know into a video and reenact the war. Then the video also allows other students to learn more about something.
The idea I would have is a video about a specific war. I would split the class up into groups and each group gets a section of the Battle of Gettysburg. Each group gets a day of the battle and comes back with a video of their day and each student gets to learn about the different days and from there the students learn about the Battle of Gettysburg. Challenges are that the students would have to find video cameras and need class time to do the project as well as time outside of class to work on it.

PSA

The group video project was fun and enjoyable. My group had a little trouble on what to do our video on, that was the toughest part of the project. Last week when we got to class we had a plan on what we wanted to do for the project. We have pictures and were able to use the video camera to capture some of the history around the college's athletics.
There are always those who say athletes are "Just dumb jocks" especially football players. The video our group does begs to differ. We tried to show that people like that, that athletes are some of the smartest people and graduate with a degree.
It is true athletes to live for the big bowl games and the national championships, they meet people and make friendships for a life time as teammates.
We had no problems with anything, the part that took the longest was the cutting the video to what we wanted to show and match up with what we had to say. I would maybe add more video of the sports to show the athletes in action, but thats about it. What surprised me was the finalized video and how it looked. I never did anything like that, i will try and use these video maker in the future.

Educase

After focusing on the surveys and expectations of the students use of technology, I felt that the data fell right along side my expectations. I grew up using technology, because my mom works with computers and I just pick up things from her. As far as my expectations I would say it was fairly close to what I expected. What does surpirse me is that teachers have the use of the internet in the classrooms and use of smart boards in most schools but do not use them. I know the teachers are not what we can Net Geners, but as teacher we are suppose to educate the children in our class and make sure they get the information we are teaching. If they are just lecturing about a topic and not engaging anyone in the class whats the purpose.

I jsut went through a guest teaching orientation and they show me how to use the internest and the smart board for many different subjects that would get the students engaged in thinking and interested in what I am teaching. This is a way a teacher can use the internet in the classroom, because right now teachers are not in the Net Gen. mode like the teachers that are up and coming. Most older teachers are not tech savey.

A question I would ask to all teachers working now, would they be willing to learn from student teachers on how the teachers could use the technology in the classroom? From there develop the use of technology in their every day classroom.

Copyright

I learned a lot when i read about the copyright. I was surprised to see how many of my teachers did violate the copyright rules. I had teacher take copies of  books and give them to us to read and come in and discuss. Professors in college have done the same. The newspaper clippings that the professors or teachers use for current events I  reakized that it was not copyright. What got the point across to me was the video with all the disney characters, I thought it was the best way the copyright laws got back to me. Outside of the school walls the downloading of songs that I know most people do is illegal, because you are violating the copyright, because the artist is not making any money off of the song. As a teacher when I assign a paper I will go over what is copyright and what is not copyright with my students, because I do not want my students to be taking and using another authors source.

diigo page

http://www.diigo.com/user/jon72567

Social Bookmarking/ Excel or Docs

1. Social bookmarking to me is a Internet resource that can be shared and a person can make bookmarks of websites that he or she likes and wants to share them with other people. Students and teachers a like would use social bookmarking to take a online practice test or for a online class in college. Students can use the social bookmarking sites to share their interests with other students. For example, the teacher can post a website that he or she wants to have their students take. All the students go to the teacher's diigo page (a social bookmarking site) and click on the website and take the test. Teachers can also post sites for specific projects that they gave to their students.
2. I am recently introduced to google docs, and I like using it. I would have to take the google docs side of this argument, because you can do a lot with it. I like how students and teachers can have a discussion about a problem that the student might be having and no one has to know. Google docs is also a great way to have several people answer a vocabulary list or write a group paper. There is more that google docs can do to help students and teachers in education today.

Excel Uses

1. Excel can be used for many different things besides graphs and sorting data. Students can use Excel to create a budget for a trip if they were going some where. For example, if the students were traveling across Europe they would put a country in cell 1A and go down from there. Then the student will out the amount of money they would like to spend in each country, budgeting the money equally to be careful not to go over the money they are taking with them in the last cell. 4B
2. Teachers can use Excel for a review game for a test. The teacher asks the question to the teachers and gives four answers A-D and the students can vote on their own computer (if accessible).1A
3. Teachers can use Excel to keep track of important dates such as birthdays. You are able to keep a column of every one's birthdays and you can sort by clicking on "sort ascending" and that will sort the birthdays by who's birthday is next. Instead of writing every one's birthday on the side of a refrigerator. 3C
4. You can keep track of you basketball or football statistics. You can keep track of these statistics on days on rainy days compared to days where it was sunny. You can do this by making two different columns of one that says rainy and the other says sunny. Each row has different statistics of tackles or for baseball hits or strikeouts. 1D
5. Lastly, you can keep inventory of the things you have in stock. You can keep track of the quantity and the items that you have in another column. Then when items are sold you can subtract a number of the quantity. 5B

Post 2

Technology has evoled over the time that I have been in school. The language the students use has changed since the last generation was in school. The language that students are using is changing for the good, because they are able to expand to who he or she is talking to. They can talk to people across the world about business and not spend the money to fly and talk face to face. In my own perspective the language the students use and the technology is the same. I agree with the readings and the video, because that is the way that I felt comfortable and helpful to study and get good grades. For me, I can only take in a little bit of information at a time and I wonder off to something else and come back to studying. A good example of the advancement in times is ths use of a debit card instead of checks and keeping a check book, which I was taught in high school but do not remember exactly how to keep it. The videos are right in that students nowadays are digital learners and spend most of their days at a computer, TV, or listening to music or books. The videos are right children need to be engaged to learn, that is why I agree with this video one hundred percent.

Post 1

The Digital Natives and the 21st Century Learners learn differently than what some of the teachers are teaching in todays classrooms. Students in schools nowadays are use to having internet at the touch of their fingers, whether it's on a computer, cell phone, or a laptop. Digital Natives are use to and can edit a paper on the computer, but they can't remember capitals because it is not taught in an interesting way. I agree with Marc Prensky when he talks about how Digital Immigrants do not believe their students can not learn a specific way, because he or she (Immigrants) can not. I agree that teachers have to adapt to the new times and become digital immigrants. The Immigrants are suppose to be there for the children and if adpting to the new times is what helps a students, then thats what needs to happen. The ideas of teachers adapting to the new style of learning is not obsurd, but is a great idea. I recently wrote a paper on how children use video games, computer games, and television to start their education. This has grown since before the start of the century. Children a playing on the computer or video games before he or she reaches kindergarten and they are picking up reading and learning their letters.