Blog Post #9

Mr. McClung Posts

Mr. McClung has some pretty good advice. In his post "What I Learned This Year- Volume 4" , he states 2 things. You cannot base your teaching methods on the need to satisfy your colleagues, as a teacher you must base what you do in the classroom on your students. If your students are having fun, enjoy your class and learn as they go along then you as a teacher are doing everything you need to do.
As a teacher you must challenge yourself, if you get too comfortable teaching the same lessons over and over again you will begin to get lazy. Mr. McClung says that getting too comfortable in teaching the same subject can have a serious effect on your actions as a teacher. He says to always challenge yourself as a teacher. Teach a new subject when given the chance or change the grade in which you are teaching.

In Mr. McClung's second post I read entitled "Lessons Learned", he writes about a snow day the school has. Other schools around his had closed, making his class very meek. He says he rambled with his students about Facebook and pet peeves all day in class, which made his students more comfortable around him. It's always good to get along with your students at times.

His advice was very good! It was also really nice to see he had been blogging throughout his entire career. This is a good idea, to me, because he can look back on his career. He can reflect on things he has already done, what he has learned. Almost like it's his own personal diary.. except the entire world can read it.

Blog Post #8

This is How We Dream

Structure is a major part of any language. It is the foundation in which we all speak, write and learn. The ecoluation of a foundatin has matured for years and years, the value of literatue has reached a level and time period for which it could be taught and learned on a basis that everyone can learn. Now that it is accessible to anyone who wants to take the time to learn and fully understand what this will mean for the future. One indicidual taking in this specific knowledge can make it possible to be passes on from person to person. Curiosity gives the world ideas and willingness to want to know more, it helps individuals separate themselves from the "Average Society". Technology is infulecned by education today an anyother social outlet. In Part 2, of This is How We Dream Dr. Miller  touches base on the rapidness of how information is being update and that the information itself may be written by us but does not solely belong to us.

I share his opinion, educators being required to share ideas freely with students.My only concern is that different teachers have different teaching techniques and we all interpret things in a different way. How do you know if your information is current and correct? However, Technology is the key!

Carly's Blog Post #12

I have to say what a great assignment. Carly's ideas were awesome. Dr. Miller and her share the most intimate ideas about the multimedia. I love how passionate they both are. I hate to follow rules about what I can and can not write about. I feel as though it kills the creative mind that flows within us all. As a future eduator, I plan to shine a positive light on this just like Carly did in her blog.


EDM 310 For Dummies

I can say that this is a truly interesting YouTube video. I personally did not find it very helpful; however, it might help a few of my classmates. I would suggest an illustration about how to help with some of the problems students are having instead of just talking about it. This is my first time taking EDM 310 although there are many people in my class that are on their 2nd or 3rd try. I am trying my very best to take this seriously the first time around so I don't end up with a D like most of my classmates did that had to  retake it. I think that I would make a kind of survival guide for this class. The dos and don'ts of EDM310.






Learn to Change, Change to Learn.

If the student is the hub  of education then why is education such an open and shut institution? Someone should develop a group discussion so we can all sit and discuss why this is, maybe then we can all figure it out. School systems are shitting down the avenues to the very reason that students connect with and are comfortable with as a learning tool. When a teacher gives out assignments that require resources, what do students go to first? The internet of course. The library only has so many books to choose from, where else are they to look. When are the leaders of education going to realize that we need media and technology in schools?