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I really enjoyed this video! It was about Daraja Academy of Kenya opening its doors on February 26, 2009. The students were so excited!

Comment4Teachers week 13 and 14

Educators royal treatment is the blog sit that I followed for week 13 and 14! I read a post about blueprints for today’s classroom! It was a dream classroom! Some of the ideas for this classroom was:
1. An energetic, compassionate, forgiving, curriculum knowledgeable, appropriate technology-using teacher.
2. A teaching station laptop that plugs in easily at school, but also gets to go home with the teacher after school and weekends. Equip it with graphic, video, presentation, and word processing software.
3. A classroom set of netbooks, laptops, smartbooks or similar 1:1—real computing devices that are as reachable as pencils used to be at school. And at the end of day they go home.
4. Handhelds for fieldwork are a good idea when traveling digitally light. And I’m not as opposed to smartphone-style devices anymore—if appropriate and they work to improve learning. And yes, recorders and reporter’s notebooks allowed, too.
5. Safe and quick Intranet connectivity for both teachers and students at school and home.
6. An online desktop, curriculum, portfolios, software, and digital tools for teacher and students—that can be accessed anywhere.
7. An interactive wall of some sort—whiteboard or whiteboard solution—with all the hook-ups, and pen and touch software.
8. A projector with sound and closed captioning for multimedia presentations
9. A document camera with audio and video to display, record, and video communicate.
10. Hardware and software for special needs, hearing, and sight-impaired students.
I said: Hi, my name is Lauren Reeves I am in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama, with Dr. John Strange! I would love to have all of that Technology when I become a teacher!!! That would definitely be great classroom!
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The second post that I looked at was summer professional Development! It is about; teachers planning their summer activities!

Comment4Teachers Week 10 and 12

Creating life long learners by Mathew Needleman Is the blog I followed for week 10 and 12! I learned so much from his blog! He had alot of input on how to handle situations that I would not of thought of! The first blog that a I commented on was about test taking startegies which I got great ideas from! (everyone should go look)

I said:
Hi, my name is Lauren Reeves I am in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama, with Dr. John Strange! I liked your test taking strategies! I will definitely be using your suggestions to improve my class’s comprehension scores when I begin teaching. Thank you for sharing your ideas, I will definitely be following your blog in the future!
The second blog that I commented on was about kids crying in your class! He started the post off with a funny video! He made great points in this post that i will definitly follow!

I said:
Hi, my name is Lauren Reeves I am in EDM 310 at the University of Alabama. I really enjoyed reading this post about how to deal with crying kids and watching the video!! I agree with all of your point’s especially the big girls don’t cry or big boy don’t cry! I have to admit I have said that before, but after reading this post I will not handle it that way any more! I will definitely deal with crying kids the way you do by saying “I understand you’re feeling ___________ I’m sorry you feel _____________.” Thank you for all of your good points! If you would like to view my blog just go to: http://www.reeveslaurenedm310.blogspot.com/http://www.reeveslaurenedm310.blogspot.com/


If any one would like to look at Mathew Needlemans blog you can CLICK HERE!

Comment4Teachers Week 7, 8, 9

For these three weeks I was following Jen Deyenberg's class blog! She had so many great ideas and used lots of technology! She gave me many ideas that I can do with my class one day! The first blog post That I looked at was my favorite! It was about doing Science vocabulary! (You all have to go and check it out, it was such a great idea) She put groups together and made stations for each group to rotate to! The comment that I left was:

Ms. Jen Deyenberg, my name is Lauren Reeves and I am a student in Dr. Strange’s EDM 310 class at the University of South Alabama. I will be following your blog post and at the end I will post an overview onto my blog. If you would like to visit my blog, I would greatly appreciate it. My website is http://www.reeveslaurenedm310.blogspot.com. I really love your learning stations! That is such a great idea and a fun way to learn. By doing that it really makes the students want to learn and they will remember the definitions! I would definitely do something like this for my class one day! Thank you for sharing this idea!

If you would like to see it CLICK HERE

The second post that I looked at was so cute it was called Eggesercizes! For an Easter activity she hid plastic Easter eggs all over the school yard. Each group had six eggs they had to find.Inside the eggs were exercises or “eggersizes!” After they found the egg they had a task to perform outside!

I said:
Hi, my name is Lauren Reeves and I am a student at the University of South Alabama! I love this idea about Eggesercizes! It is such a good way to get your students to exercise and have fun at the same time!

The 3rd post that I commented on was about exercising and using technology with it! It was called Nike and the kids marathon! She definitely keeps these kids healthy!!! But it is such a great idea for the kids to run a marathon and incorporating technology with it!


If any one would like to look at Jen's blog you can CLICK HERE!

Blog 6 February 21!

This week I looked at Dr. Alice Christie's website which was very useful! It had links and information about different programs that can help teachers. One link that she had was Google Earth. You may be asking what Google Earth is, it is a program where you can see different places on earth! To me it is not a very useful site but it can be fun for students and a way for them to use technology in the classroom. Her website has many more fun sites like web designs and many more that are helpful.
Dr. Alice Christie’s website is a great place for teachers to look at! I will definitely use things from her website!

iTunes University

iTunes University is great site for students to use! The number one reason is because it is free for you to download! You can download as much material as you want. ITunes University is a source that can be used by teachers and students. ITunes gives free information and resources to universities. It also gives you free videos, books and podcasts. This can really help teachers and students out!

While iTunes U is perfect for accessing and replaying lectures, many other forms of content can also be distributed, including slide shows, PDFs, films, exhibit tours, and audiobooks. ITunes is very helpful and great! I did not realize how great it was until now!

iPods

Believe it or not, IPods can be useful in elementary school. Teachers are doing so much with ipods in classrooms such as students doing podcast! Universities are also using podcast! For example, one major college is Duke University. Researchers at Duke University posted an article about iPods in the classroom and how it increased in just one year. It also said that the university has courses that require the use of iPods. That is great that they are using different technology in the classroom! As a future teacher I will definitely use different technology's in my class!


Wiki

This Wiki space is created and started by Dr. Strange! He took a question that was asked in 2007 by author Karl Fisch .He is the director of technology at a high school in Colorado. His question was: Is It Okay to Be a Technologically Illiterate Teacher? The answer that Mr, Fisch said was “If a teacher today is not technologically literate and is unwilling to make the effort to learn more it’s equivalent to a teacher 30 years ago who did not know how to read and write.”

Dr. Strange also makes a discussion dealing with Mr. Fisch’s question. I think it is such a great idea to have a site like this where you can have a discussion and chat with other people!

PLN 2

My PLN has grown so much since my first PLN and it will keep growing when I learn more about technology. Since my last post I have used skpye which my username is Lnreeves.I skyped a professor and asked him questions about his job and his opinions! I have also talked to Mrs.Tommy Autrey alot more and got many of ideas from her and asked her plenty of questions about technology. I have also learned so much with doing comments4teachers that I will use in my class room!

From being in this class I know now that there are sites available to me for new ideas in the area of technology and in the classroom! The Internet has been a big source for my PLN! One thing that I have learning from this class is how much blogging can affect people and help them! I will have a class blog each year for my students! It will have what we did in class, whats for homework and many more things that will help the students! I am very grateful for this class!

Professional Blog

Here is a link to my professional blog. Please check it out and leave me a comment!

Project 8

I am teaching you how to use Vocaroo! I hope everyone finds it helpful!

Podcast Week 3

Podcasts
I listened to many podcasts. You may be thinking what is a podcast! A podcast is a pre done audio session done by one or more people. Podcasts are not live and can be recorded at any time of the day and then they are able to be replayed when preferred. The podcasts that I listened to were: KidCast, EdTech, ConnectLearning, Smartboard Lessons Podcast and This week in Photography.

The first one I listened to was KidCast it talked about when it is suitable to use podcasting or vodcasting. Vodcasting is a visual images as well as audio. I will definitely use KidCast for my elementary students. The second podcast that I listened to was EdTech. The presenters were great; it was about using gaming in schools. This podcast flowed and seemed more interesting than one with just one or two speakers. Next was he ConnectLeraning podcast, Episode 91: Conversation about Podcasting with Media Coordinators. I liked it because of the question and answer format. It made it easy to understand!

Podcasting can be a great tool for a teacher. I can record a podcast about school assignments that were given that day or on previous days for the students who were sick and put it on my class blog! This can also be a good way for teachers and parents to communicate with each other. Without this class I would of never of knew what a podcast was or ever use it. I will definitely use it and teach my students to use it!

Group Interview (Project 15)

For this interview I worked with Pam Overstreet and Heather Ludwig! We interviewed Stephen Ludwig, an administrator of technology in Clarence city schools and is also a part time teacher at the University of Buffalo teaching the NY version on EDM 310. The question that we asked Mr. Ludwig was what constitutes a technology literate teacher?

My Google Earth! New York City

Week 15

PLE

I watched a video by a 7th grader called Welcome to My PLE. Her Personal Learning Environment is like a personal learning network (PLN) her PLE organized her school work and her personal work! She has all of her work organized, for example the top row is her personal things such as facebook and the bottom row is her school work. Everyday she would come to class and check the class blog to see what she had to do for the day. Some days she would have videos to watch and much more! She would do a lot of things at her own pace! She had the freedom to do the work on her own and go in any order she would like to.
EDM 310 is a lot like this! Instead they organize their work! Maybe we should make a PLE! It would be nice to do things at your own pace, but you would have to be responsible enough to do it. And not wait until the last minute! I will defiantly do a PLE in my classroom.


Two Questions that can Change your Life!

The second video that I watched was by Daniel Pink. He said there are two questions that everyone needs to ask themselves. They are: What's my sentence? Am I better today than I was yesterday? What’s my sentence means is that every person has a sentence to do something great. What I want to think of my sentence in life is to help people. So I would want people to look at me and say “She is a great teacher that wants to change lives!” Question number two was, am I better today then yesterday? I try to improve myself everyday, so hopefully I get better instead of stay the same or worse! I believe that no one is perfect and has room to change so if you have the attitude to want to do better then you will!

Comment4kids 14

I read a story that Carson wrote called I Love Dogs! He did such a great job. I really enjoyed reading it! The pictures were also great.

Comment4kids 13

I watched a video called Bin it! It was about students picking up at their school! They did a very good job. What a great way to show students that they should pick up after themselves and others!

April 18 blog

We could pick any topic to talk about this week and mine is going to be about blogging! At first I hated to blog, but when I got the feel for it I loved it! Its your own thoughts. I enjoyed some of the blogging assignments that we had because it made me watch different videos, and read different post that I would have never read without this class. Blogging is a great way to learn. I will definitely have my elementary class blog because it is a great way to learn how to write and express yourself.

I also loved looking at the teachers blogs. That is such a great idea. I have wrote down so many ideas that different teachers have done and when I become a teacher I will use some of them. Comments4Teachers is a great idea and I am very happy we have had the opportunity to do that. After this class I will still continue to look at different teachers blogs!

My Wordle!

(Project 14) To Blog or Not to Blog...Is that even a Question!!

In our group we had Lauren Reeves, Heather Ludwig, and Pam Overstreet. We did our project over Blogging. The video has facts about blogging then short videos over creating a blog, posting on a blog and adding pictures to your blog.

Podcast Group! (Project 13)

My group was Alice Anderson, Heather Ludwig and Me (Lauren Reeves) we discussed interesting school blogs in the United States.

LISTEN HERE

Class podcast

Vocaroo Project!

For my Vocaroo Project I read a child's book!! Vocaroo was so easy to do, I was really surprised!

Skype

Before EDM 310 I really did not know what skype was. I knew a little about it but not enough to know to use it! But now that I have been in EDM 310 I know what skype is and I know how to use it! Skype is a free way to communicate with people, even if the person is across the World! You can talk to someone and see them! It is so neat! The first time I used skype was with Heather Ludwig and Pam Overstreet. We interviewed Heathers father in law! Skype is a great way to do business and also to talk to the ones you love! Now that I know how to use skype I will use it more in my everyday life, and I am thankful to have this class because without this class I probably would have never used it!! My username is lnreeves.

PS22 Video

"Why is it important for students to post their work to blogs (or in other ways)?"

I do think it is important for students to post their work on blogs. It gives them many opportunities to do different things it also gives other people opportunities to learn! These students were just singing in at their school and then next thing you know they were offered to sing with Fleetwood Mac! It just shows you having a blog can be a great thing! Three examples are:


1. Mr. C’s class blog- Mr. C's class saw Kaia blog and then in return after skyping with her father they made a voice thread for her to listen to their comments.
2. Mr. McClung- He blogged about everything he had learned in his first year of teaching. This really helped me know what to expect for my first year teaching!
3. Dan Brown- I could really relate to what he was saying.

Week 13 Blog

Dr Seuss's video The Zax, is about a North and South Zax going their own ways. They run into each other and refuse to move out of each other's way. Even though they did not move the world continued as normal. They can stand there as long as they would like but the world will change either way!

This video just shows you how stubborn some people can be. Some people are just stuck in their own ways and refuse to change for anyone or anything! It just shows you that people should just accept change! For example some people do not want to accept that technology is changing everyday! Some teachers are set in their own ways and I am going to make sure I venture out!

Blog 12

I loved looking at these blogs!! Kaia's father thought a great way to share his daughter’s childhood with not only his family members but also, the whole family was to create a blog for each of them. This was a great idea in my opinion! Kaia loves taking pictures with the help of her father. She has many pictures that she took on her blog. Kaia is using technology at a young age which is great and with help from her father she is able to share it with the world!

The voice threads in the blog that Mr. C's class had created was great and well put together. The class did a great job communicating with Kaia. As a future teacher I would love to do something like that in the future! I think it is wonderful that Mr. C is and also Kaia's father is helping her use technology at a young age!

My Timetoast Timeline!

I did my timeline on the University of Alabama's National Championships! I found timetoast to be very easy and helpful!

Comments4kids 12!

I read Izac blog about going to the beach! The student did a great picture for their blog!I like how the student did a picture to go along with their blog, but I wish the student would of wrote a little more about going to the beach!