Tuesday, April 24, 2007

technology and curriculum

Reflection
One thing for sure as the end of school arrives, I forget more than ever to write these reflections. One thing that interested me last week was Jenny's comment about her son and using video games educationally. He had suggested a game using history and it made sense to me. This is such an exciting idea because kids love video games and if you can educate them while they are having fun.......well, it works.
Youth knows the computer and lives the computer as only youth who grew up with the computer can. This is so true but for someone my age (old) this idea is just incredible. It is like when I grew up TV started.


4/24/07

access to computers only occasionally
A digital native - grew up on computers

www.teacherspress.com
resources links to everywhere


http://www.baen.com/
free science fiction books

The Ultimate Y2K Glitch....

At high risk schools that get integrated learning systems to make skills higher to get scores up
How do you use technology that uses technology at a high level.
technology is the tool and it still needs an educator. and it doesn't take the place of what you want the child to learn which is the standards and skills.

speed up computer
- option apple pr
hold down until 3 bongs
let up pr - rebuild desk top

zap p ram
restore memort to

pc. windows for defragmenter = system tools

what if you only have 1 or 2 computers?
use for data management for teacher tools.
use as a learning center for students.
use as a presentation station
2 or 3 - think co-op groups.

Distance Learning
a web based class
pg. 159 - how to use labs

sales force foundation
classroom 2.0 on ning
http://classroom20.ning.com

collaborative tool. a big blog. free to join to talk to perople about tech. from aroung the world

http://isighted.com algebracic expression
projects - teachers

http://rockourworld.org


Powerpoint show
it starts running
.pps
powerpoint show with no tag

http://donorchose.org

http://www.adoptaclassroom.com

http://www.debugmode.com.wink

wacking
copy a website onto the desktop////files 1. website 2.
open the file and you are not on the internet

powerpoint on the website.

ppt.

pps.

changes powerpoint to show

aug tag is like a pop-up for students who cannot see.

http://elluminate.com
time distance learning

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

4/17/07

Reflection:
Everything I did tonight was incorrect and it made me crazy.
Copyright law.
Did not turn in the assignment.
Thought my web site assignment was done and it was not.
OK. I am going home.
Tonight we are learning about Designing Web Sites


4/23/07
I learned a great deal about copyrighting.
Now, my web site is minimal because I did not want to put alot of information on a sight that I was not going to use. When I make a page for my class I will use a professional web site maker.
This process was too confining. And it is nicely designed. I did use one piece of clip art in the high point book. That is why I said image composed by......

http://rainforestmaths.com/

2nd life
moo and muds
moveable objects and orientations
http://secondlife.com/

virtual reality - to join be over 18 years old
trying to find a use for education - what it can do for kids
http://www.vrealities.com/vrsim.html

Wisconsin Technology.org

games are the future. how do you educate with games?
Because kids will do the game until they find the answer.

articles by James G at Wisconsin.technology. com

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

4/10/2007

Reflection 4/11/2007
Last nights class was a learning experience.
First we learned how to make a web quest using
http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/mts/showAccount.do 316094
trackstar. I really see that this can be a valuable experience for our students.
The problem is that you must choose the web sites carefully. If you go to a web site and then you hit on this and that you lose the trackstar web quest. So one must plan the web search very carefully which I did not do and you can get lost on my web quest. And that is what I learned.

Making the web site was rather tricky. I have made web sites and I felt constricted using these templates. I understand how to write the html code and get things where I want them. So I found this frustrating. I connected three pages together and I feel ok about it as the time involved is relatively nothing compared to when you write the code. So that is a good thing.
It was a fast paced and learning evening.
Web Quests and Web Sites
www.4teachers.org
create on line quizzes in any curriculum area for free.
Rubrics can be adjusted to your needs
games for math and language
Persuasive essays
an on-line calendar
custom checklist
project poster
go to trackstar for web quest
virtual fieltrips

quiz star - grades quizzes for you


bbbnonan@gmail.com


http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/mts/showAccount.do 316094






Picasso web search
Created Track #316094, 'art web site search'.
Return to Manage Tracks

http://images.google.com/images?q=van+gogh&hl=en&um=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title
paintings

email this web search to sharon



google pages for web site

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php rubrics

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=CustomizeTemplate&bank_rubric_id=21&section_id=5&

web site rubrick 4teacher ------ go to rubistar and find # 399252

web quest was completed.
Web Quest was a great project with great potential.

Powerpoint do not save as web page because one would have to edit html.

Page source is the html code.....dirty code
View it on internet explorer.
Brousers = netscape,

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

4/3/07

Reflection
Last week's class had an activity called "Technology across the Curriculum."
This was the first part of the evening. My partner and I worked as quickly as possible and I did not feel that we were able to achieve the wanted results in the time span given. It was significant because two people have a lot of ideas to give to one another.
The most significant part of the evening occurred quite by chance and it was about a law suit on transition goals. I found how important it is to use the correct language in goals. For example using the words plan instead of will.
I discussed this litigation with my director of special education and was assured that our goals are written correctly. I learned a great deal about language.



Curriculum areas that span technology

What technology would you use to teach writing.
Starfall for phonics

Reading
AR reader excellent for assessments
Grade Level assessment
http://daisy.com

Read 180 - Lexile levels not Grade Level

Math
Math-hyphen.com
downloaded on pdf files

www.metnews.com/articles/2006/educ121306.htm

www.kidsdiscovery.com science


Transitions law suit

the student plans to - Not will

the student expresses an interest in

googlelittrips.com

geographyabout.com
empty countries

puzzlemaker.com

assistive technology
family center on technology.org INFO
fctd.info

FCTD Assistive tech free CD


Aliance for Technology access
free classes on line

The family center on technology and disability www.fctd.info

www.teachertube.com

tappedin
internet4classroom.com

http://internet4classroom.com/