LAST DAY of CLASS! :)

Web Quest

WV vs. National Math Averages

Today we created a graph using Kids Zone. My group compared the available 4th grade National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) math, science, or reading scores for West Virginia compared to the national average. I used a bar graph to request additional funding to address the differences between West Virginia and the national scores.

Click Here to view my site!

Crappy Graphs

Today we made a crappy graph. They aren't the most accurate graph, but they would be great for Elementary students! I also added several websites to my delicious account.

CLICK HERE!

Today we were actually allowed to get on facebook. We took a survey of Professor Pierce's blog about facebook.

I then made an assessment about my Web Quest. I created this document by using Google forms. Click here to view

Rubistar!

RUBISTAR

A rubric is some type of a template that stands as a scoring tool. It is a way to gage a student's performance. A rubric lists detailed criteria for a specific assingment. There is also a point scale that allows students to know what they need to acheive to get a certain grade.

Google Site

CLICK HERE to see my google site for my webquest!

My Webquest is almost finished. I still need to add in websites for the roles, as well as a conclusion and grading scale.

Embedded Presentation

A Slaves Life on Prezi

Wednesday

Today Professor Pierce went over our entire unit because he read my blog. It helped me understand everything better. (I guess I know you are reading this, :) haha) Anyways, I am working on my web quest. I am hoping to have it finished by Friday, but I have a busy end of the week. I completed my Prezi this past Monday. CLICK HERE to view. To get a link to the Prezi website - see April 7 post.

Today

Today in class we worked on our Prezi presentations. I am still somewhat confused as to this whole unit project, but hopefully I will begin to understand after each class we have.

Jing

On Friday half of the class was absent. But we still continued working. We learned about a new snipping tool, which is called Jing. Jing is a free software that you can download online. It allows you to capture a picture or anything on a page. Then you can easily transfer it to wherever you want, like your Prezi page. For the remainder of class, we worked on our Prezi presentations and asked questions.

Click Here for more information on screencasting

Image Capture -

Screencasting -

Prezi

Today we are learning about a new online multimedia tool. Prezi is an online presentation tool that is "way cooler that PowerPoint." We had to sign up for another account name for prezi. I bookmarked prezi into my delicious acocunt

We will build a presentation with prezi out of objects we put in there, which will include a combination of texts and images.


PREZI

Embedded Photo Story Video

Microsoft Photo Story

1. MPS stands for a Microsoft Photo Story.
2. Photo Story 3 for Windows is a program that creates a presentation from digital photos. It is also way better and more advanced than PowerPoint. Using this program allows you to add narration, transitions, effects, and music to your photos or PowerPoint slides. Once you are completed, then you create a Windows Media Video. You can get a copy of Photo Story 3 for free on the internet by downloading it.
3. The file type for a MPS project is .wp3.
4. The file type for an exported MPS movie is wmv.
5. MPS projects 0pen in Photo Story 3. But you can save them anywhere you want. (Ex: desktop, u-drive)
6. MPS movies open in Windows Media Player. We are uploading ours on YouTube.
7. Yes, you can do transitions between images in MPS project.
8. The image editing options in MPS allow you to crop pictures, rotate pictures, color contrasts, red eye, etc.
9. The image viewing options in MPS lets you to determine where you want the motion settings set (what part of the photo you want seen from start to finish) and the duration of time you want the image seen.
10. You turn a PowerPoint presentation into images by saving the presentation on your desktop. When you go to save as, then click on other formats. Save the type as JPEG File Interchange Format. (save every slide in this form)

My MPS Video

What makes a good web quest?

What makes a good WebQuest? A good WebQuest should be student centered and project based. It should consist of an introduction, task, process, resources, conclusion, and evaluation. It should be time effiecient for the lesson you are presenting. It should also be a group project that allows students to work together, but it needs to have individual work too. A good WebQuest needs to have a higher level of thinking. Technology based is great and it should be creative. A WebQuest should simply be a lesson that provides students with a different experience of learning that is fun, up to date with technology, and group centered.

Monday the 22nd

Today we finished up the last of the class presentations. We then learned about our first lesson we are going to produce. We will create a webquest that is student centered and project based. The webquest consists of an introduction, task, process, resources, conclusion, and evaluation. As of now I really have no clue what this will be about. Perhaps I can design a tour like expedition of how African Americans were sent to North America. Then maybe the students could each make a travel brochure. I will continue to research and brainstorm ideas for my webquest.

Almost Spring Break!

People continued to present their presentations. We had presentations on science, history, geography, reading, and health. We learned again that you should always back up a jump drive, because Heather's crashed.

Click Here to go to my PowerPoint. (Go to the bottom of the screen to Attachments. Click download)

Presentation Day

Today in class we started doing our presentations. I got up there and completely winged my presentation, but at least it is over!

Today

Today in class we asked any questions we had about our sites. I fixed my Curriculum page to have subpages of the WV CSO's, National Content Standards, etc. But I accidentally deleted the Curriculum page when I was trying to delete a subpage. It was very frustrating! We looked at the River City framing questions to help us get a guidline to our essential, unit, and content questions. We then completed a module 3 worksheet to help us understand esssential questions. Our homework is to do the 2nd page of the worksheet.

Monday Morning

Today in class we learned how to create a page in google sites, as well as how to delete a page. I also edited my standards page to say curriculum. Scrolling down a page is bad! haha So we added subpages to our site. So the internet is super slow and we aren't getting much done. And after I posted this, I realized that we don't need to make a blog post for today.

Today in class we discussed the topics of two people that were absent Monday. We then went to our google site for our Unit and created an introduction about our project. Next we visited free teaching tools and resources and looked at the River City Water Unit. We then added a new page to our google sites for the WV Content Standards, and listed the specific CSO's I am using. We didn't have to make a blog post, but I already have one made. haha

Topic Day

Today in class we got to hear everybody's topic. Professor Pierce, as well as classmates critiqued our topics and helped guide us towards a question that wasn't too vague or too specific.

My topic question is... Slavery: How did I get here?

We then went to google and clicked on sites. Google sites is where we are going to keep our unit.

Click here to view my google sites homepage.

Almost Friday!

Today in class we further discussed our Module 2 projects. We went over another PowerPoint to help us understand the purpose of this project. Professor Pierce gave us an example of a project. I looked at CSO's again, and I am still leaning towards something dealing with slavery. Below I have listed the CSO I am interested in doing. It is from fourth grade history.

SS.O.4.5.7
research how and why African Americans came to America and explain the motivation behind the development of slavery.

Professor Pierce told us a website to look at called Think Finity. Click here -> Thinkfinity

Our project will live on the internet! We also looked at some sample intel projects.

Click here to see another useful website on intel with example projects

Is it Friday Yet?

Today in class we discussed Undergraduate Research Projects, as well as Action Research Projects. Professor Pierce gave us tips and pointers about these projects. He highly suggested that we start working on the Action Research soon. We looked over a few Intel ranking projects in class. Then we began to go over Module 2. We will be designing a standard based project for this module. We decided that for Elementary majors we should choose a unit on social studies. We learned aout the content standards, and I also bookmarked that website on my Delicious account. Click here to see the WV Teaching Standards website. That was the main points we covered today!

It's Friday!

Today in class we...

1. Created an Intel Education Teacher Workspace.

2. Linked West Virginia CSO's into my Delicious account.

3. Used the visual ranking tool in Intel Teacher Workspace to create a ranking project.


My visual ranking activity is called "Order of Operations." In this visual ranking activity, the students will try to place the four order of operations in the correct ranking.

To do the activity you will need my ID, Team ID, and Team Password.


My ID is akelley13

Team ID's are either 1, 2, 3, 4

Team Passwords are one, two, three, four


Sign In to my Order of Operations Ranking!

The Glass is Half Full Problem - Applying Bloom's Taxonomy of Thinking Skills

First, I recognized the situation or the problem I am faced with. (Two glasses are each filled half-way with soda – one with cola, and the other with lemon lime. A small amount of the lemon lime is removed from the glass and put into the cola glass. The glass is stirred thoroughly so that the lemon lime is completely mixed into the cola. Then the same amount of mixture is removed from the cola glass and put back into the glass with the lemon lime)

Then I interpreted the problem and really thought everything through. I read over the question that was asked. (After the soda has been exchanged, is there more cola in the lemon lime glass or more lemon lime in the cola glass) Again, I interpreted the problem along with the question and did a mental reflection.

Next, I applied the problem into a real experiment. I modified the experiment a bit, but it will still get the same conclusion. I measured one cup of water (comparable to lemon lime) and put it in a clear glass. Then I measured one cup of diet coke (cola) and put it in a clear glass. I took out 3 tablespoons of water and stirred it into the diet coke. Then I took 3 tablespoons of the diet coke and stirred it into the water.

After I applied the problem, I then analyzed the experiment. I closely looked at the color of the two cups compared to the beginning colors. Next I tasted the two cups and compared them to the beginning taste. (There seemed to be more lemon lime in the cola, and less cola in the lemon lime)

Evaluating the experiment was the next step I took. I drew a mental picture of the problem and calculated the result. (It was straight lemon lime added to the cola. However, when cola was added to the lemon lime, there was lemon lime already mixed into the cola)

Finally, I created and produced my final answer. After testing and analyzing the problem, I believe there was more lemon lime in the cola glass.

Snow Day! :)

Today in class I...

Slept in! :0)


We were assinged homework through Blackboard.

Embedded Presentation

Taxonomy Presentation

Wednesday in class we had homework assigned. I created a PowerPoint that shows Bloom, Costa & Kallick, and Marnozo taxonomys. I then chose certain points that I want to follow in my classroom.

Click Here to see my taxonomy presentation!

Wednesday

Today in class we...

1. Made a 30 second Animoto video! It was lots of fun. :)

2. Discussed the thinking skills of Costa and Kallick, Bloom, and Marnozo.

3. We were assigned homework. We need to make a PowerPoint including Costa and Kallick, Bloom, and Marnozo. However, we are supposed to include the points that we believe would reinforce our specific thinking skills for our own classroom.

Storage Issues

Name 4 places to save an electronic document and tell the pros and cons of each one.

1. Jump Drive ~
Pros - You can transport a jump drive anywhere.
Cons - It can easily be lost, broken, or left behind in a computer.

2. Network Drive ~
Pros - You can open up your documents on any Fairmont State Computer.
Cons - You have to be logged into a Fairmont State computer. You can't use a wireless connection to open the network drive.

3. Desktop ~
Pros - I can find it easily when I am working on my laptop.
Cons - My hard drive could crash and I could lose everything. I can't open my documents on any other computer.

4. Google Documents ~
Pros - Its free and you can turn it into a web page.
Cons - If the internet is not working then that can be a big problem.

Wednesday, January 27

Today in class we...

1. Added contacts on gmail.

2. Learned about gmail chat.

3. Created a document on Microsoft Word.

4. Uploaded the document on Google Document.

5. Published the document on a webpage.


Click here to view my published web page!

Second Blog

Monday, January 25

Today in class we...

1. Created an account for a social bookmarking service called Delicious.

2. Bookmarked the Instructional Technology home page in delicious.

3. Discussed the "action research topic" that we will complete during student teaching.


Link to the social bookmarking service Delicious!

First Blog Post

Friday, January 22

1. Discussed the ISTE NETS - T standards by clicking on the link on the homepage.
2. We learned how to safely save documents on fairmont computers without using a jump drive!
3. Next, I set up my very own blog. I picked out a blog name and a pretty layout.
4. Went to list links in the layout tab. Then added my links such as Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Fairmont State Homepage, and Blackboard to my blog home page.

Link to the home page of instructional technology 2201.


Amanda :0)