Project #15 Smartboard

Project #9 Final Report on PLN

In the beginning of my PLN, I had a hard time figuring everything out but I was having a good time doing it.Symbaloo made everything a lot easier and faster to get to. Every website I may want to go to all on one page to choose from. Having this PLN has made browsing through the Internet much easier, getting where I need to go a lot faster, and opened my Internet world to many other different useful web pages. I'm very glad we were made to make a PLN, it has made me a lot more technologically literate and open minded to new websites.

C4T #4 Last C4T

#1 Larry Ferlazzo

Larry's blog consists of a lot of great thoughts and resources. He has everything from educational resources about classrooms around the world to nutritional value of the food we eat today. His blog Helping Students Make A Connection Between What They're Learning In School To Their Goals In Life explains his teaching techniques. He gives his students three sheets of paper to fill out. One sheet asks the students to list everything they had learned and how they had learned it in the prior week. The second sheet asked the students to write down their life goals, hobbies, ext. The third sheet then asked the students to use the last two sheets to explain how the things they have learned can help them complete their life goals and how they can be used in life. To me, this is a great exercise. I know when I was a kid in school I always complained that everything I learned in school would be useless to my everyday life when I grew up. Knowing that, I hardly paid attention to much of anything. If the students understand how the things they are learning in school will help them in their everyday life, they are more likely to take an interest and pay attention. Larry's blog is very helpful.

#2

Larry's blog post "Three Infographics of Malaria" contains facts all about Malaria. Everything from who is at risk, how you are at risk, and the statistics of Malaria is covered by Larry. Apparently, over 52% of the worlds population is risk. Every day 1800 children under the age of 5 die of Malaria. Over 90% of all deaths from Malaria occur in Africa.
Larry's blog contains many other facts about Malaria that I will recommend everyone check out. He has an awesome and informative blog. I thanked him for his contributions to education in my comment. If not for his blog and Dr. Strange's assignment, I would not know these new facts about Malaria. I'm sure to keep an eye out for it now.

Blog Post #13

Part #1 Learning is Messy

This is an interesting video created TEDxDenver of Mr. Brian Crosby and his awesome 4th grade class. In this video Mr. Crosby focuses on one balloon project that his students conducted. The best part about the video was when he showed the balloon going into the Earth's atmosphere. The kids even got to attach cameras to the balloons to get awesome arial shots! I'm so jealous.

Part #2

Mr. Paul Anderson created this video about Blended Learning Cycle and the cycle he created to do it with. We have learned about Blending Learning where teachers take online, mobile, and classroom all together. He tells us the best cycle he uses in his AP Science class is called Engage-Explore-Explain-Expand-Evaluate. He then goes saying he uses the acronym QUIVERS. QUIVERS stands for: Questions, Investigation/Inquiry, Video, Elaboration, Review, Summary quiz. He uses an oilers disc and a mirror as his example.

I think this is a great way to teach and to learn. EDM310 is a blended learning classroom even though we spend most of the time out of class teaching ourselves. I like using technology and I like being able to learn things my own way. I hope to do this in my future classroom. I believe technology is a great thing and every classroom should make it useful in an educational way. I love the new SmartBoards and iPads. Technology is taking over, we must take advantage of its' uses.