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Jack wrote a blog about his day with Conner. The boys played a video game called Black Ops 2. Jack and Conner also watched Despicable Me 2. They were sad when Conner had to go home. I told Jack that my son loves that game. I told him how good i thought Despicable Me 2 was. I told Jack it seemed that he had a fun weekend.

Alexis had a survey on her blog. The survey was titled "All About Me". The survey had several questions on it. I told Alexis she did a wonderful job on her survey.

Liam wrote about having a match coming up in his blog. He had no idea who he was playing against. He hoped he was playing against a team he had already played against. I told Liam he was doing a great job on his blog. I also told him how much my children enjoy playing sports. I also told him that I was sure he would do well in his up coming match.

Carolina wrote a short story on her blog. Her blog was about an evil mother in law. She did a fantastic job with her story. I left her a comment telling her how much I enjoyed it.

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Blog Post #6

Personal learning networks are different people who you interact with online. I have a lot of friends and family online that I interact with online on a daily basis. I also have educators on my Facebook, twitter accounts as well. This can be useful to teachers because they can share with other educators ideas for lessons. Teachers can share fun ideas to do with their class rooms. Teachers can share projects with each other. PLN also helps educators by obtaining resources for the class room. Here is a video that discusses creating a PLN on twitter.


My first additions to my PLN would be educators. I always love others opinions and discussing different things with others.


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Blog Post #5

For this blog we watched videos of Mr.Capps. He is a third grade teacher at Gulfshores Elementary school. He was discussing with Dr.Strange the direction that Baldwin County public schools are going in with teaching. He talked about the different tools the students were learning use for research and to help them better when they have projects. One of these tools was called Icurio. Icurio is a safe,and easier way for students to search the web. Icurio filters out the bad sites that students should not get on. I am a parent to a 4th grade student who attends a public school in Baldwin county. I liked watching the videos of Mr.Capps. I know my son will be bringing home a Mac Book this week. I loved hearing all the new things our school systems are coming up with to make sure our kids are getting the best education possible. The icurio is one of the best ideas I have heard. In my opinion, icurio sounds like a safe search tool for students. Mr.Capps also discussed a tool called Discover Ed. This is where the students can upload educational videos to help them with projects as well. I liked the projects he discussed as well. Mr.Capps seems to be leading his classroom in the right direction. I do think children learn better when they are more hands on. Mr.Capps also gave some good advice to future teachers like "Never limit your students". Mr.Capps also says "Let your work become a fun experience". I agree with that statement. Kids now are so different than they used to be. My son can work my ipad,computer,smartphone better than I. I am amazed with the way technology is going. I am also amazed at how much my child is learning in school using technology. I think PBL is leading these students to have very bright futures.
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What do we need to know about asking questions to be an effective teacher?

Ben Johnson is the author of The Right Way to Ask A Question. He writes in this article about asking questions. Johnson says,"We present ourselves to be the ones with all the answers". When in fact teachers do not know everything. They will go through a lesson and then in turn ask the students questions about what they have just talked about. Why do teachers do this? They use this method as a learning strategy to make sure their students are comprehending, and listening to what they are teaching them. Everyone might not be learning what the teacher is teaching by this method. Johnson says,"Does Everybody Understand"? I have been in this situation. Some students feel embarrassed for some reason to ask a teacher questions if they need help for any reason. Johnson suggest to call on the students randomly to answer the questions. Using this technique will have all the students brains focusing.

In the article,Three Ways to Ask Better Questions In the Classroom, by Maryellen Weimer, There are Three ways to ask better questions. "Prepare the questions" the author explains that it is a lot better to prepare for class when you write down your questions before giving a lesson."Play with questions",says Weimer. After asking a question if some students do not understand move on to something else to get their brains jogging, and to help them better answer the question. The author also suggest saving good questions for other times. If a student has a really good question or even a teacher write it down and save it for when you may need it for another class. We need to understand as aspiring teachers that questions are the key ingredients to project based learning. We need to make our students understand how important it is to ask questions so they will be better prepared for their future as well.

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Mr. Brian Crosby wrote a blog about a science activity he did with students ranging from Pre-k to middle school. The students and their families did this project together. First, They took washers and paint stirring sticks and put them on a desk. Next, the students placed the washers one-by one, horizontally on the stirring stick until it was full. Finally, the students observed how many washers they could place on a stirring stick before it toppled off the edge. I found this to be a good science activity. The fact that family and friends were involved in this was awesome. In my opinion, group activities are more fun and the students seem to progress at an equal rate.

Mr. Crosby posted a blog called "Unleashing the Learning Power of Blogs By Actually Using Them Constantly". His blog gives his audience insight on how easy blogging actually is. All you need is time. He explains how you can use your blog to connect with friends and family as well as the outside world. His blog was very interesting to read considering I'm a first-time blogger. After getting used to blogging, it becomes easier.


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Blog Post #3

When editing your peers, being positive is a very important factor. I learned in the clip, What Is Peer Editing?, It is imperative to be polite when commenting about your peers papers because there is no need to hurt someone’s feelings during the process. I learned from Peer Edit With Perfection Tutorial,by Adriana Zardini, you need to compliment your peer’s paper. Personally, I am not one to hurt another person’s feelings. I do not feel comfortable giving someone negative criticism. If anything, I prefer to be constructive.

There are several things to look over while editing your peers paper such as grammar, punctuation, spelling. In my opinion, peer editing is a very good activity for students aspiring to be teachers. I like for someone to read my papers before I turn them in to an instructor. They can find errors that I have missed. In return, I can turn in a better product. It is important to add positive feedback when editing which I saw in the clip Writing Peer Review Top 10 Mistakes. This will improve the writers confidence and will help them through the writing process.

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What Will Teaching in The 21st Century be like?

I watched a video,Mr.Dancealot, and this video would be the perfect example of why students cannot be taught some lessons with just lectures. Dancing is something that needs to be practiced over and over again until you learn the moves.In my opinion, direct instruction is not the best method to teach students how to dance. I think students should be hands on with things such as this so they can learn. I am a person who learns faster by doing things myself instead of being told how to do something. In the end of the video, the students did not know what to do or how to do any of the movements they were taught through direct instruction in class. I am sure if he would have demonstrated the dances to the students he would have received better results.


A wise Instructor once told me, "You will not teach the way you were taught" on the first day of class and I completely agree with him. Kevin Roberts, author of Teaching 21st Century Students, shows students have many different resources now to search and learn new things. Roberts mentions being creativity is not what it used to be. Today, creativity is technology. In the 21st Century a fantastic blog would be considered creative. Students in the 21st century are pretty much one button or click away from finding anything they want to know. He shows in the video questions people may have about the technology teachers are using in the class room. Is this the right way to be teaching students? I think so. Technology is getting more advanced every day. I think technology will really help students with their academics as well as everyday life. I know every time I have a question about anyone or anything I can always Google it. The author seems to think technology is going to play a huge role in the classrooms in the 21st Century. If this happens, I think it will make teachers jobs a little less stressful. I agree that students need to learn technology because this is their future.

The Network student, by Wendy Drexler, was a little overwhelming. I was very overwhelmed with this class reading just the syllabus. I watched this video and was amazed at all the things this student was doing using the Internet. This teacher guided him through it all though. She helped him when he needed and help and guided him in the right direction when he got caught up with something. She taught him differences in what information to use and not to use. I think this video is a great example that even though learning is moving forward with technology in the class room that students still need their teachers to help them.

I watched Harness Your Students’ Digital Smarts, by Vicki Davis, and learned that you do not have to know everything to be a teacher. Davis explains she is constantly learning new things in her class room. I have always agreed that students need to be taught with technology because it changes every day. My son will be bringing home a Mac book from school in the next week. His school is starting to teach them to learn using technology. I also feel that working together will help students to learn. This is giving the students more of a hands on experience instead of the teacher doing the research and everything for them. This way of learning will better prepare them for future.

Flipping The Classroom is very new to me. My son is in the fourth grade as well. I think that this process will help the students be ready for the next day. This will also help the teachers save time for class. The teachers will be able to walk in and start that days lesson and answer any of the students questions. I got this image from here

Blog Post #1

I have heard good things about this class. I have been told it was most peoples favorite class. I am starting to see how hard I will have to work I just hope I can keep up. The only fears I am worried about with this class Is keeping up with all the due dates. I have taken a computer class before it taught me how to use Microsoft word pretty much.

I also took one in high school that taught me how to type pretty quickly. I thought this computer class would be similar I was very wrong. I think the most difficult thing for me to do in this class will be getting all the work in on time. The best way for me to to overcome this is to make sure I keep up with dates. I have already realized that I do not know as much about blogging as I thought I did.

I am very quick at learning new things I am sure I will be fine once I get used to everything. I am looking forward to learning new things with blogging. I am a little nervous that I will get behind if I do not understand something. I know I have plenty of people to ask for help if I do get behind.

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My name is Kelsey Bramlett I am aspiring to be an Elementary school teacher. I have a son who is almost ten and two step daughters who are eight and six. I love my kids they are the main reason I have chosen this profession. I love the ages and there is so much fun things to do with them. My kids are my life and I just love being around children.

I am a transfer student from Faulkner State Community College. This campus is a lot bigger as well as different from the small campus I am used to. I chose to come to USA to continue my degree because Faulkner only offered an associates degree in Elementary education. I love this school so far and feel I made a good choice to continue my education.

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