Adding and Subtracting w/ Unlike Den.

Adding and Subtracting With Unlike Denominators

High School Musical Dance Along - Health Lesson

In Class Presentations

The presentations in class were really cool. The first thing I learned was about different types of technology you could use. We had someone use a form of I Clickers which was really cool. I never thought of using this type of technology.
The second thing I learned is that technology can be used really well with literacy. One group member used the computers to publish students work. I thought that this was a great idea.

Internet Safety

For this assignment I talked with my parents. I told them about the Frontline videos we watched. My dad remembered seeing this before. I reminded him about what it talked about. We talked about how people just need to be aware of the dangers. He also told me about what he has noticed at home with the kids in our town. He noticed how they usually use the internet for mainly socializing. Kids are loosing their social skills because they are socializing online instead of in person. It was good to talk to my parents and their thoughts on how kids need to be careful and not be on it constantly.

Learn from Presentations

One thing that I learned from other people's presentations is that even though there is little technology in the classroom, you can still use technology very effectively. If you only have one computer or one set of technology equipment, you can still have students take turns and use the technology. This is an important thing I learned from watching other people's presentations of their technology lesson.

Internet Safety

I chose to read Leave it Alone by Elder H. Burke Peterson. The most important thing I learned from this article was to just stay away from the appearance of evil. The best way to stop problems from the media is to just stay away from the bad stuff in the first place. It drives the spirit away so quickly that you can not make good decisions because the spirit can't be with you. What I have read will affect me because I will be more aware of the content of the media around me and my students. I can use what I have read by modeling how to just stay away from inappropriate media. Prevention is the best. If something is inappropriate I will model that we must get rid of it, stay away. Staying away will influence my family and friends for good by helping them stay away as well.

Technology Lesson Presentation

Technology Integration

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My Technology Lesson

So far, I have used technology in about half of my lessons. In my classroom I have a Smart Board to work with which is heavenly! I usually create a PowerPoint and do an overlay of it so I can write on the slides with the Smart Board. One of my favorite lessons with the Smart Board has been my math lesson for adding 3-digit numbers. I had a variety of problems on the Smart Board and the students and I solved them. I demonstrated once and then called on students to come up and show us how to solve the problem. It was great because their was no clean up, I could have the problems already ready to solve, and the students were able to come up and help me solve. I pretty much Love the Smart Board!

Technology Enhanced Lesson

So, I don't know about everyone else, but I am in love with the Smart Board! It is so cool and comes in so handy for lessons. I have already used it several times as a huge portion of my lesson. One idea that I haven't used yet, but I might use some time is this:

Matching Game!
You can use the Smart Board for a matching game in your lesson. This would be a great review for whatever you are teaching. Using the Smart Board, have students come up and move the boxes that are hiding your matches. When they find a match they can move the boxes together or just out of the way. There are so many possibilities with this idea. You could hide words, sentences, pictures, links, what ever under, and have students move to find the answers. You could make this as easy or as hard as you want! Endless possibilities with this one idea!

Classroom Technology Inventory

I learned much by doing my Technology Inventory. I learned that students have much access to technology. They rotate about once a week in centers to use the computers in the classroom to enhance their learning. They also work on the computers on a set schedule. An important technology that is used everyday, several times a day, is the Smartboard. The teacher uses it in her lessons and the students have many opportunities to come up to the board and work on it as well.
I also learned that the school has 4 mobile computer carts. They rotate between classrooms and have all of the programs that MACs normally have on them as well as several programs that the school uses. They have a tech person and 2 assistants as well to help teachers and students with tech stuff. I'm really impressed with the technology in my school!

Google Tour - The Civil War

Here is my Google Tour! Enjoy!

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TPACK - The Civil War

I am going to go through four important events of the Civil War with students. The core content I am using is the fifth grade social studies core:

Standard 4
Students will understand that the 19th century was a time of incredible change for the United States, including geographic expansion, constitutional crisis, and economic growth.
Objective 3 Evaluate the course of events of the Civil War and its impact both immediate and long-term.
a. Identify the key ideas, events, and leaders of the Civil War using primary sources (e.g. Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, news accounts, photographic records, diaries).

The pedagogy I will be using is guided discovery learning. I will have the information on Google Earth for students and they will discover it, think about it, and write about it.

The technology I will be using is Google Earth. I will create a kmz file for students to open using Google Earth. They will use Google Earth to look at places where events in the Civil War took place. This is a great fit with the content because students can see where the Civil War was taking place and actually see the places where important events took place.

The Civil War - Google Earth Style!

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1. Show South Carolina's secession from the United States.	Have them read Wikipedia and find the reasons for South Carolina's secession.	Have Wikipedia information on American Civil War.
2. Show Fort Sumter - where the first shots were fired.	Have students write in their journal how they would feel if all supplies were cut off from them.	Show pictures of Fort Sumter and have Wikipedia content on Fort Sumter.
3. Show Emancipation Proclamation took effect in the northern states.	Have them write in thier journal how they would feel if they were just freed from slavery.	Show images of slaves, Abraham Lincoln and have Wikipedia pages from emancipation proclamation.
4.Show were the Battle of Gettysburg and where Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address.	Read the Gettysburg Address and write in their journal reactions to it.	Show images of Gettysburg, Have Wikipedia page information, and the actual Gettysburg Address.
Show the outline of the United States at the time of the Civil war. Link the four events they are learning about with a line.

Falling for Rapunzel

Here is our video!

Storyboard - Falling For Rapunzel

As you can see in our wonderful storyboard, we are going to tell the tale of "Falling for Rapunzel." We did amazing work on the claymation! (most of it we actually found already made in the clay box!)

The content for our lesson is the following first grade standard:

Standard 1
Oral Language-Students develop language for the purpose of effectively communicating through listening, speaking, viewing, and presenting.
Objective 2
Develop language through viewing media and presenting.
b. Use a variety of formats (e.g., show and tell, drama, sharing of books and personal writings, choral readings, informational reports, retelling experiences and stories in sequence) in presenting with various forms of media.

The pedagogy we are using is a combination Fractured Fairytale and Poetry Interpretation taken from the book "Falling For Rapunzel" by Leah Wilcox. This is good fit for the content we are teaching because it helps the students develop lanugage in a very fun way.

The technology we are using is PhotoStory. We will be using it to put together our images and the language used in the book. This technology works wonderfully with our content and pedagogy because it really enables us to do more than just read a book or create a book, we can use media/technology to really make this creation come alive!

Stay tuned for the finished product. PhotoStory and "Falling For Rapunzel," here we come!

TPACK In Action!

For the content of our wonderful experiment we were using the following 6th grade science standard:

Standard 1, Objective 1a.
Describe changes in the appearance of the moon during a month.

The pedagogy we were using was guided learning. We were guiding students, having them observe and record what they saw as we oversaw them and guided their thinking.

The technology we used was the program Stellarium. It was good for our pedagogy and content because it allowed students to work on their own to observe the phases of the moon as we guided them through what they were seeing.

TPACK really worked for us!

The Tech Savvy Teacher - Stellar Observations

Star light, star bright, first star I see to…day? That’s right – thanks to the free computer software program Stellarium, we can view the earth, moon, and space at any time and any place – including during the daylight hours and inside! This technological marvel is ideal for stargazing; but more importantly, it is perfect for use in elementary science!

To get a better idea of just how exceptionally this software can enhance the elementary classroom, we turn to Lindsay Priday and Charla Teaford, both sixth grade teachers at Provo Elementary. “We were elated with the implications of Stellarium’s use in our astronomy lessons,” says Teaford. “But we decided to collaborate to try this program for ourselves before introducing it to our students.” The teachers were thrilled to learn that Stellarium allows users to view Earth and space at any date, time, and location. Intending to test Stellarium for classroom applications, Priday and Teaford decided to conduct an experiment that employed nighttime observations. “Astronomy lessons have often been difficult in the past. The students understandably want to personally observe the moon and space, but it is just not possible to perform such experiments because of the daylight during the school hours,” explains Teaford. “We were really hopeful that our experiment could prove that Stellarium can be used to study the moon in a more exciting, observable way!”

Priday and Teaford’s experiment was to observe the phases of the moon that occurred during a one-month period and record their findings, using Stellarium. Priday and Teaford set up Stellarium so that they could observe the moon in Provo, Utah at 10 p.m. on January 1-31, 2009. They soon found that the moon was waxing, or becoming more visible to viewers on Earth due to its rotation, at the beginning of the month. It continued to wax until January 11, when there was a full moon. During the next several days, the moon underwent the process of waning, or becoming less visible to viewers on Earth, due to the earth’s rotation. The moon became smaller and smaller until there was a new moon on January 26. The moon then began waxing again. The teachers used Stellarium to take pictures of the moon’s phases for several different days of the month. (Their photos appear below.) Priday and Teaford were incredibly impressed with the way Stellarium enhanced their experiment. “Stellarium was easy to use, and the images were so clear! I really felt like I was observing the moon outdoors!” exclaims Priday.

January 1

January 5

January 11

January 13

January 26

January 31

The teachers were anxious to use this experiment as a science lesson in their classrooms. They divided their students into groups and had them conduct their astronomy experiment using Stellarium. The experiment was a complete success! “My students told me that they were so excited to be able to view the moon while it was still light outside, and to make their observations inside our warm classroom,” Priday comments. “They thoroughly enjoyed being able to view the moon from their fingertips. An additional benefit was that the students could make their observations in one sitting – not over the course of 31 days. They were able to observe the moon’s phases during the entire month of January in less than one hour.”

Indeed, Stellarium is an ideal asset for any elementary classroom. It provides both teachers and students with the opportunity to observe the earth, moon, and space for any date, time, and location. Stellarium allows them to conduct astronomy experiments inside, during the school day. Normally lengthy experiments can be performed in short periods of time. The program is free of charge. And Stellarium is just plain fun! Sixth-grader Rachel Borrow from Provo Elementary sums it up best: “I love to look at the moon! Stellarium is so cool – I give it five stars!”

TPACK

The idea of TPACK is really cool. From watching the videos  I can see that students learn much more if they can use technology with whatever they are learning. After this class I just want to go do cool and fun stuff with technology and apply it with everything! It is very important for students to learn how to use technology because they are so interested in it and will use it for the rest of their lives! Technology really is amazing!

When we were exploring with temperature it was really fun trying to make letters and cause the temperature to go where we wanted it to go. I think students would really have fun doing this!

RSS and Web 2.0

So this experience of using RSS and Web 2.0 has been interesting. It took a long time to figure out what to do and how to do it, but I finally got it! I really liked learning how to use the RSS feed and I think it is so applicable to when we are teachers. We can have instant lesson plans, news, and such at our fingertips. I think that that is so awesome! I would love to use RSS feed as a teacher!

My Technology Experience

I didn't really grow up with too much technology. I didn't get a computer until I was in high school. Even then, it was a crummy old computer! My kind aunt gave it to me, but it wasn't the best. I eventually got another computer from my other kind aunt which was much better. But I still didn't have the internet until I came to College and got a laptop from my kind uncle! I learned so much more then when I could figure out stuff for my self. I am great figuring out stuff with technology though! I love video games and movies  and am great with that stuff! I'm experienced with my IPod and after working 2 1/2 years with computers for work! Technology is great! Isn't it?!