Sunday, September 16, 2012
Saturday, September 15, 2012
blog post 3
Peer Editing
After watching the Peer editing videos I learned that it is a good thing to have a good balance of every aspect in editing your peers blog post. One of the first things is you must leave a positive comment and have a positive attitude when leaving a comment on a peers blog. second you should make some suggestions to your peer on things that they could add to there blog to make it even better. Third you tell them what corrections they need to make on there blog but when doing this you must be respectful and treat them how you would want to be treated DO NOT be rude or disrespectful. these three tips can be found in the video Tutorial Peer Editing
You must also be specific in what needs to be corrected, don't be pushy, and stay on topic with what their blog is about. with that said as the recipient of the editing you must not take it personal they are your peers and are just telling you what you need to do to be successful. you must also be receptive and take into account what they are telling you don't be a Whatever William and just brush it off like you don't care. When I watched these videos they gave me some great tips on how to give a correct peer review and I really enjoyed them.
Technologies In Special Education
Watching the video Technologies In Special Education was an eyes opening experience. I never realized how much technology could help students with special needs. Not only could it help them complete their homework but it could also help them interact with there classmates. Even better than that it could help the students who cant speak interact with society and even allow them to find better jobs for their future.
I think that as a future teacher it would be so cool if you could have a open chat projected on the board so when you are speaking and asking questions to the class they could type the answer and they would pop up on the screen. I think this would be a neat idea because it would allow them to actually be able to participate in class discussions. Not only do I think it would improve these students class participation but it could improve there self esteem and the way they act in class if they have this way to express their self.
How The I Pad works In the Academics of Autism
The I Pad allows students and children with autism to interact with what they are doing in a almost game like manner witch makes it a fun way for them to learn. from watching the video you can tell that This app is a very useful tool for autistic students. It is not only a visual interaction but it is also auditory and somewhat physical interaction all mixed into one. I think that this I Pad app would also be good for students who have problems just listening in class because it allows them to interact by seeing the problems witch is very neat.
Harness Your Students Digital Smarts
This video showed me that students have there own ways of learning. These students learned it themselves and even the teacher how to terraform. witch is pretty dang cool if you ask me cause as a student you know you are learning something when you figure stuff out that you have to teach you teacher. The teacher in this video said something that was very interesting she said" when you have only paper and pencil then only certain students will learn." I think this is so true.
I myself am a student who has a hard time just doing the same old thing with paper and pencil. I think that a change of pace and a change of the way things are done is a good idea. this video was very good and i really enjoyed it.
After watching the Peer editing videos I learned that it is a good thing to have a good balance of every aspect in editing your peers blog post. One of the first things is you must leave a positive comment and have a positive attitude when leaving a comment on a peers blog. second you should make some suggestions to your peer on things that they could add to there blog to make it even better. Third you tell them what corrections they need to make on there blog but when doing this you must be respectful and treat them how you would want to be treated DO NOT be rude or disrespectful. these three tips can be found in the video Tutorial Peer Editing
You must also be specific in what needs to be corrected, don't be pushy, and stay on topic with what their blog is about. with that said as the recipient of the editing you must not take it personal they are your peers and are just telling you what you need to do to be successful. you must also be receptive and take into account what they are telling you don't be a Whatever William and just brush it off like you don't care. When I watched these videos they gave me some great tips on how to give a correct peer review and I really enjoyed them.
Technologies In Special Education
Watching the video Technologies In Special Education was an eyes opening experience. I never realized how much technology could help students with special needs. Not only could it help them complete their homework but it could also help them interact with there classmates. Even better than that it could help the students who cant speak interact with society and even allow them to find better jobs for their future.
I think that as a future teacher it would be so cool if you could have a open chat projected on the board so when you are speaking and asking questions to the class they could type the answer and they would pop up on the screen. I think this would be a neat idea because it would allow them to actually be able to participate in class discussions. Not only do I think it would improve these students class participation but it could improve there self esteem and the way they act in class if they have this way to express their self.
How The I Pad works In the Academics of Autism
The I Pad allows students and children with autism to interact with what they are doing in a almost game like manner witch makes it a fun way for them to learn. from watching the video you can tell that This app is a very useful tool for autistic students. It is not only a visual interaction but it is also auditory and somewhat physical interaction all mixed into one. I think that this I Pad app would also be good for students who have problems just listening in class because it allows them to interact by seeing the problems witch is very neat.
Harness Your Students Digital Smarts
This video showed me that students have there own ways of learning. These students learned it themselves and even the teacher how to terraform. witch is pretty dang cool if you ask me cause as a student you know you are learning something when you figure stuff out that you have to teach you teacher. The teacher in this video said something that was very interesting she said" when you have only paper and pencil then only certain students will learn." I think this is so true.
I myself am a student who has a hard time just doing the same old thing with paper and pencil. I think that a change of pace and a change of the way things are done is a good idea. this video was very good and i really enjoyed it.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
blog post 2
Did You Know?
After watching the videos by Dr. strange, Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod I saw that yes our country is in store for some major changes in the future to come and that the world is changing into an advanced technological society, when I say society I am not just talking about the U.S. I am talking about the entire worlds society. Some of the information I found interesting in the video Dr. Strange posted was that every minute 48 hours of you tube videos are added to the you tube collection. That is a lot of videos in one minute, but after watching both videos there were two specific points that stuck out to me.
these two points were that the top ten jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004 and that we as students are more than likely going to have jobs that don't exist right now, but on top of that we will also be using technologies that DO NOT exist yet and that to me is just mind blowing. Half of me is excited to see what awaits us in the future but the other half of me is hesitant because of this next point in the video that caught my eye is that by the year 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species. If you sit back and think about it that is really a scary thought that a computer could be smarter then all the humans combined. over all these two videos were very good and I enjoyed them.
Mr Winkle Wakes
The Mr Winkle Wakes video by Mathew Needleman I honestly did not get the point of it. I understand that Mr. Wink saw all the changes in the outside world but not in schools. Teaching has been done the same way for a very long time. Over those years changes have been made and I understand the need for students to learn on there own and not just spit up what they learned for one test and forget about it. I don't think it is so much the way that the students are given the information but the way they are tested on it.
In saying that I do not see anything wrong with the way students are educated because some students need to have that face time with the teachers for them to actually learn the information. On the other hand there are those students who can learn things without even stepping foot in a class room. from a personal stand point I learn best when a teacher lectures the information but when it comes test time the test is all comprehensive were the teachers test ask what is this? what is its function? and why does it preform that function? ect. This method makes the students actually sit down and learn the information and not just learn the bare facts but the whole aspect of the subject at hand.
Ken robinson
first I want to say is WOW this video was great early in the video the Importance of creativity Mr. Robinson say that creativity is just as important as literacy. I find that to be so true because without creativity we would not have all of the technology, artwork, music, and literature we have today. fallowing that he told the story of his sons play of the nativity. What he said after this story is also very true that if you are not prepared to be wrong you will not come at it with some thing original. This I find to be very true as well as the fact that we are educated out of our creativity and that is very sad.I took a min after watching the video to think about it and it struck me. Could we actually get to the point were creativity is looked down upon? That's just some food for thought. This video really made me think and everything he said rang a bell of truth to me education does educate students from the feet up then slightly to one side. After watching this video I am going to make it a point that as a future educator i plan to allow my students to use as much creativity as they possibly can in my classroom.
A Day Made of Glass
The A Day Made of glass video was very cool and I hope I get to experience technology like that. It seems like technology like that is so far away but honestly if you think about it some of that stuff is so close to being possible today. such as the full touch screen car display for air conditioner and the display pads used for there daily school equipment. There is so much amazing stuff in this video it's crazy. But seeing that I can understand now how Mr. Wink felt when he woke up in a world were people were using computers and other technological devices such as cell phones.
I could not even think of waking up 100 years in the future. i would not know what to do with all the Technology and how far it would have advanced in 100 years from now but I could see it looking a lot like the A day made of glass video. A world like that would be so great to experience I would love to see technology that advance. This video was my favorite over all not only because of the neat stuff but because of the creativity it took for the people or person who made this video. I was very original and captivating.
After watching the videos by Dr. strange, Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod I saw that yes our country is in store for some major changes in the future to come and that the world is changing into an advanced technological society, when I say society I am not just talking about the U.S. I am talking about the entire worlds society. Some of the information I found interesting in the video Dr. Strange posted was that every minute 48 hours of you tube videos are added to the you tube collection. That is a lot of videos in one minute, but after watching both videos there were two specific points that stuck out to me.
these two points were that the top ten jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004 and that we as students are more than likely going to have jobs that don't exist right now, but on top of that we will also be using technologies that DO NOT exist yet and that to me is just mind blowing. Half of me is excited to see what awaits us in the future but the other half of me is hesitant because of this next point in the video that caught my eye is that by the year 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species. If you sit back and think about it that is really a scary thought that a computer could be smarter then all the humans combined. over all these two videos were very good and I enjoyed them.
Mr Winkle Wakes
The Mr Winkle Wakes video by Mathew Needleman I honestly did not get the point of it. I understand that Mr. Wink saw all the changes in the outside world but not in schools. Teaching has been done the same way for a very long time. Over those years changes have been made and I understand the need for students to learn on there own and not just spit up what they learned for one test and forget about it. I don't think it is so much the way that the students are given the information but the way they are tested on it.
In saying that I do not see anything wrong with the way students are educated because some students need to have that face time with the teachers for them to actually learn the information. On the other hand there are those students who can learn things without even stepping foot in a class room. from a personal stand point I learn best when a teacher lectures the information but when it comes test time the test is all comprehensive were the teachers test ask what is this? what is its function? and why does it preform that function? ect. This method makes the students actually sit down and learn the information and not just learn the bare facts but the whole aspect of the subject at hand.
Ken robinson
first I want to say is WOW this video was great early in the video the Importance of creativity Mr. Robinson say that creativity is just as important as literacy. I find that to be so true because without creativity we would not have all of the technology, artwork, music, and literature we have today. fallowing that he told the story of his sons play of the nativity. What he said after this story is also very true that if you are not prepared to be wrong you will not come at it with some thing original. This I find to be very true as well as the fact that we are educated out of our creativity and that is very sad.I took a min after watching the video to think about it and it struck me. Could we actually get to the point were creativity is looked down upon? That's just some food for thought. This video really made me think and everything he said rang a bell of truth to me education does educate students from the feet up then slightly to one side. After watching this video I am going to make it a point that as a future educator i plan to allow my students to use as much creativity as they possibly can in my classroom.
A Day Made of Glass
The A Day Made of glass video was very cool and I hope I get to experience technology like that. It seems like technology like that is so far away but honestly if you think about it some of that stuff is so close to being possible today. such as the full touch screen car display for air conditioner and the display pads used for there daily school equipment. There is so much amazing stuff in this video it's crazy. But seeing that I can understand now how Mr. Wink felt when he woke up in a world were people were using computers and other technological devices such as cell phones.
I could not even think of waking up 100 years in the future. i would not know what to do with all the Technology and how far it would have advanced in 100 years from now but I could see it looking a lot like the A day made of glass video. A world like that would be so great to experience I would love to see technology that advance. This video was my favorite over all not only because of the neat stuff but because of the creativity it took for the people or person who made this video. I was very original and captivating.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Blog Post 1
About Me
My name is Micah R Cotton. I am 22 years old and am from Foley, Alabama. My birthday is February 20, 1990. I am a biology education major and want to coach high school football. I attended Foley High School, and after graduation I attended Louisiana College were I played football. After my senior year of football I decided to transfer to the University of South Alabama. This is my first semester attending south and so far it is going good. I am currently volunteer coaching at Foley High School and I am very thankful for that opportunity.
My hobbies include working out, hunting, fishing, swimming and hanging out with my family. I am definitely a people person and I like to push myself to be the best I can be. I love it when people tell me I can't do something because that gives me even more motivation to work hard and achieve my goals. I am not one to give up, put my head down, and walk away. The word quit is not in my dictionary. One of my favorite quotes is by Bill Parcells witch states "Blame nobody. Expect nothing. Do something."
Randy Pausch On Time Management
This video is very true, and I can relate to what he is saying because my freshman year of college was very difficult for me. I had a lot on my plate such as football, school,work, and it was my first time living on my own. To top it all off, I had bad time management skills that reflected on my grades. One of the things that interested me the most about the video is when he said "you should ask why is something on your list of goals". I stopped and thought about it and said to myself "why is my education one of my goals". Well because I want to succeed and be successful and gain knowledge. There were a couple of other things that stuck out to me, but especially when he talked about breaking things down into small parts. That is so true. Breaking things down into small steps allows you to get them done with less stress, and it allows you to learn the subject more thoroughly. No matter what it is, school or even relating back to sports, it could help you learn the play book more easily instead of trying to cram it all in at once. Over all this video was very helpful to me, and I think every student should watch it.
My name is Micah R Cotton. I am 22 years old and am from Foley, Alabama. My birthday is February 20, 1990. I am a biology education major and want to coach high school football. I attended Foley High School, and after graduation I attended Louisiana College were I played football. After my senior year of football I decided to transfer to the University of South Alabama. This is my first semester attending south and so far it is going good. I am currently volunteer coaching at Foley High School and I am very thankful for that opportunity.
My hobbies include working out, hunting, fishing, swimming and hanging out with my family. I am definitely a people person and I like to push myself to be the best I can be. I love it when people tell me I can't do something because that gives me even more motivation to work hard and achieve my goals. I am not one to give up, put my head down, and walk away. The word quit is not in my dictionary. One of my favorite quotes is by Bill Parcells witch states "Blame nobody. Expect nothing. Do something."
Randy Pausch On Time Management
This video is very true, and I can relate to what he is saying because my freshman year of college was very difficult for me. I had a lot on my plate such as football, school,work, and it was my first time living on my own. To top it all off, I had bad time management skills that reflected on my grades. One of the things that interested me the most about the video is when he said "you should ask why is something on your list of goals". I stopped and thought about it and said to myself "why is my education one of my goals". Well because I want to succeed and be successful and gain knowledge. There were a couple of other things that stuck out to me, but especially when he talked about breaking things down into small parts. That is so true. Breaking things down into small steps allows you to get them done with less stress, and it allows you to learn the subject more thoroughly. No matter what it is, school or even relating back to sports, it could help you learn the play book more easily instead of trying to cram it all in at once. Over all this video was very helpful to me, and I think every student should watch it.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
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