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I have been a digital native since I was a child. I never knew I was digital native until I began to meet other children who didn’t not understand how to explore and let loose within the technological world. My parents allowed me to digitally explore the Internet with safety limits, but realize that there is more to our world than just paper and pen. I grew up being able to use a computer, a digital camera, a copier, a scanner, learning about Websites and how and why they are used. By learning about technology at a young age, I was able to explore further as far as “html codes”, building websites, and troubleshooting. Through the information that I learned when I was young, I was able to bring it into the class of EDST 221. Now, after taking this class I am more apt to expand my horizons even further and go beyond the depths of searching just within Google search engines. I realized that there is more to the Internet that meets the eye. I always thought of myself as tech savvy or a digital native, but when taking this class I became a digital learner to so many opportunities. I learned about the Smartboard and smartboard tools, and its many uses in the classroom and office space. I also learned about Google, in the past I have used its search engines, maps setting, news archive, and mail. What I never learned to discover about Google was its documents application and website builder. They are easy to use and interpersonal. Knowing about technology, I figured I would use it in the classroom, such as teaching the children how to use a computer, what a computer is, the basics of a computer. Therefore, they are not completely foreign to technology. After, taking this class, I want to integrate technology nearly completely into all of my lesson plans. Whether it is an announcement across Smartboard displaying the day’s assignments or a video from Xtranormal explaining class rules for the day. I would like the children to be interacting with technology every chance they get. They can be making crossword puzzles online, printing them out, and completing them as their homework. The kids could make a poster explaining the War of 1812 on Glogster. Anything to get them excited to learn and ready to explore the Internet safely. If they are learning about exploring the Internet safely at a young age with an adult by their side, the lesson progresses through till their older. I believe that students today have the same aspirations to explore the Internet and technology as my generation did. When each generation finds a new experience or challenge to beat they must explore it and realize how it works. These generations of younger students are just as explorative as my generation, to find how out what is going on within the Internet and other technological devices and how they can make their contribution.

eBistro

The website is really well put together and it incorporates a lot of the material we did in this class. If you were a person or child who was a digital learner then this website would be a perfect fit. This website would be able to explain how to go about putting an imovie and iphoto into the classroom presentations. It also goes on to explain about Digital Storytelling, what it is, and how it is done. This website entails EVERYTHING that happened in this classroom. It is a perfect representation of what we did in this class. Our whole class curriculum has been concluded within this website.

Floorplanner

I am an extremely visual person and I love drawing out every detail. When I found floorplanner.com I was so thrilled, this is exactly what I love. Floorplanner.com allows you to set up an exact floor plan of any area you may live or work in. It is perfect for figuring out a new living arrangement or for a new classroom arrangement. With floorplanner, you are able to be organized and prepared for your classroom. It is also great for students to use. They can be creative and design houses or a classrooms, with geometric or mathematical shapes and figures.

Technology Projects Enhancing your Classroom

Technology projects that enhance your classroom for Teachers

1. Tech newsletters
2. Voice Thread
3. Smart Board
4. Glogster
5. Digital Storytelling - Slideshare.com
6. Online Whiteboard

Technology projects that enhance your classroom for Students

1. Voki
2. Google Docs
3. Big Huge Labs
4. Wordle
5. Interactive White Board
6. Google Earth

Wix

I didn't create a site on Wix, but I spent a lot of time messing around on it and I believe I am going to use Wix instead of Google sites for my portfolio. Wix has the professional look I wanted to portray in Google Sites. It would take me too long create a whole site on Wix, so I figured I would just continue to work on my portfolio. Google Sites allows you to add html whereas Wix does not allow users to add html.

Rubric

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYURe54JswUPZGNoNDY0cXRfNDZ6OHZzYm1nag&hl=en

Podcast about French Nouns

I podcasted about French Nouns. I would play the podcast in my class everyday for my students to hear the nouns and become familiar with another language and soon learn the language. The nouns would change every week.

http://aloberg1.podbean.com/#

Podbean was a little bit easier than mypodcast. I had to do my podcast on Garageband because I own a mac. After doing my podcast, I was able to simply transfer my voice on to Podbean and then describe what is going on in the podcast. Mypodcast would not allow me to open a new page or create a new page without first creating a podcast with my voice through Internet Explorer or a PC.

Tech News for Teachers

Here is our PLN's Tech News. It's an innovative way for students to learn about new technology and for parents to learn about them as well. With descriptions about each website or application and pictures showing the product.

Wikispaces

http://hannahross22.wikispaces.com/

Our PLN made this group wikispace, it is a great space for children to make a website to deliver information.

School Games

http://classtools.net/widgets/quiz/quiz51419.htm/

French Tools through Classtools - Students are able to practice a few french phrases and verbs to become aware of different cultures and understand a different language. The repetition of different verbs and nouns in a fun game becomes easy and soon becomes second nature.

http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/code/BuildWordSearch.asp

I made a wordsearch about the Solar System. This would be a great worksheet for the kids to work with to remember the parts of the Solar System.

VoiceThread

http://voicethread.com/share/936193/

Voicethread is very interesting, I looked over some other people's voicethread's before I began mine and I realized that you could draw on the picture being presented. You can also project your voice, write a comment or do a video of yourself. It's all very cool, I will be using this in the future and now.

In my voicethread I asked questions about the networking site, Facebook. Is Facebook becoming a universal networking site? I mean, universal as in more than just your close friends but also your family, and people around the world. Could Facebook soon become the next Gmail or even Google? Could it possibly be integrated into classrooms or workspaces as a way to communicate?

Glogster & Xtranormal

Glogster, in my opinion, is definitely made for the use of pre-teens. There were a lot of pictures and add-ons that I remember seeing throughout my teenage years. I probably wouldn't use it as a teacher, and I wouldn't even suggest it to students. The pictures and links can be graphic and depressive. I would not any young children being introduced to dark and depressive site as such. The site is obviously designed for children ages 14 and older.

Here is my link to glogster: http://aloberg.glogster.com/edit/fruits-vegetables/

Xtranormal, I have played around with before. It is easy to manage. Kids can have fun making movies and I believe I will probably make little reminders on it for my future students. Great site.

Google Earth & Rubric

Pageflake

I was going to begin a pageflake account. I began to look at the other websites and I realized that all the websites are exactly the same. I already have an igoogle webpage that I use avidly, (I literally check it every minute). I don't really see the point of having another webpage that has about the same little boxes telling me about my mail, weather, favorite quotes from tv shows, favorite arts, and a calendar. I think I would get more out of these sites if I was in your position, a teacher and I had more going on in my life than just school. I mean, I currently only get four to five emails a day, sometimes 10! If I had to look up multiple lesson plans, worksheets, how to teach students a certain subject, how to get somewhere, pick up certain tickets, etc. I would find more use for more accounts from pageflake and igoogle.

FRENCH VERBS!

French Verbs

I believe when I become a teacher I would like to teach my students a few french phrases and verbs. I don't want my four years of french schooling to go to waste. A little website like this would have helped me when I needed refreshing on french verbs and chem bonds. Oh, how this would have been useful in high school. That is why I will shove it in my future students' faces.

Youtube & Math

I have a difficult time learning and understanding math. Any videos about math would really help me elaborate my lesson plan and allow the students to understand the material a lot more. All the videos I found were math related. The three videos I found were related to place value and angles. I was also able to find a website called yourteacher.com, which gives you practice, self-tests, worksheets and videos for middle school and high school math. I could still use this site for elementary school students, because elementary school students begin to learn middle school math in 4th and 5th grade. The problem with this site is that it's a pay for site. I could refer the students to the youtube videos for extra homework help. My other video is a fun video from a musical group of guys that sing about angles, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 9s, just math in general. These guys repeat important facts about math, so then the children remember and understand

the material.

Livebinder & Simplybox

I believe if I had more time for this and I wasn't so sleep deprived this week. I would be more interested in researching on bookmarking. I was at first really excited about bookmarking sites, because there are multiple times when I am at someone else's place and I want to show them some funny video or a good cooking site and I cannot for the life of me remember the URL. All of these bookmarking sites will be really useful when I become a teacher, and I don't wanna lug around my heavy laptop, I can just access the school computer and find all of my bookmarks online. I had trouble using livebinders and simplybox this time around. Simplybox wouldn't let me box any of my bookmarks, so I couldn't save any of my bookmarks on my simplybox. Livebinder wouldn't let me load my bookmarks either because of a load error. I wanted to load all of my cooking sites and share it with my friend, but no. Oh well.

Internet Safety in the Classroom

Internet Safety is very important in the classroom, because it keeps the students safe from identity theft, being kidnapped, being robbed, etc. It is our job as teachers to keep the students safe from predators outside of the school, it even means the predators online. Internet Safety means that the students are not allowed to open restricted e-mails from unknown recipients, because it is exactly the same as talking to a stranger. The students are not allowed to go to restricted websites during class time, because it not only wastes useful class time but it could also send the students to harmful sites. Copyright means that the exclusive rights are granted to the author or creator of the original work. A teacher must explain that to a student, that you cannot steal another's work without giving them credit because the author or creator did the hard work to find the information.

SMARTboard Lessons and Differentiation

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/clock.html

If a student is having difficulty learning to tell time, they are able to play with this clock on the SMARTboard. Instead of just staring at the analog clock and a teacher explaining to the student how a clock works and how to tell time. The student is able to play with the clock and is able to differentiate the difference between a minute of time, five minutes of time, fifteen minutes of time, or an hour. It is really useful to visual learners. I especially had difficulty learning time from an analog clock, I would have loved to have this in my classroom on SMARTboard when I was young.

http://www.theteachersguide.com/InteractiveLitSitesSmartBoard.htm

This website has a lot of links to other websites, that provide literacy sites for the SMARTboard. With these literacy sites, have word guess, connect the dots to letters, other little games for grammar and literature. These sites can be very useful for students that once again have a difficult time in the classroom understanding the concept of the literature, reading, or writing. These students typically need to practice a little bit more and these activities allow them to practice more.

Thinking and Linking about Differentiation

I believe that differentiation focuses on the enhancement of each student. Each student must learn the same lesson plan, despite fact they have different learning styles. Through differentiation, a teacher is able to realize the different learning styles of each student and focus how to teach the student through the given lesson plan. It allows the teachers to see their students as all the same, but as a variety of individuals learning the same lesson. The teachers must adhere with the challenges and facilitate a successful teaching environment.

I wrote the above in ThinkLink, but the website would not let me export or transfer to Word. Anytime I would want to export or transfer the page would cancel. I just copy and pasted. Here are my views and definition on differentiation. The thinklink website was very interesting. I have been noticing a lot of internet sharing websites on your lesson plans. They all seem quite the same. You are able to type and and share among others. With thinklink, you can open a new page to write on but in order to write with others you need to add others everytime you write on a new page. Another interesting fact about thinklink was that you are able to chat with the people you are typing with. You can collaborate and chat about what you will soon type on your thinklink tablet.

ScribbleLink

http://www.scriblink.com/index.jsp?act=phome&ld=1&rid=4068&cid=5349

These interactive whiteboard are great. They remind me a lot of GoogleDocs only with SMARTboard notebook and Adobe Designs integrated within.

SMARTboard Lessons

I believe if I had the time and the energy to learn how to use the SMARTboard notebook, it would not have taken me five hours to build three lessons. It would have also been helpful to know how to create lesson plans. Since I have not learned how to create lesson plans, this assignment proved to be very complicated. I had complications with the notebook as well. Since this was the first time I was using it, I was struggling how to put a button on a page which led to a link to another page. I had difficulty with the object animations, they would begin to spin or fade out when first opened but after a while the animations would stop. It is apparent which lesson plan is my first (Shapes) and which is my last (Images) as my text, images, animations, and lesson plan begins to improve a little more. As I began to understand the program more, I was able to become comfortable and begin to experiment more. A problem that I constantly had with SMARTboard was that I would click on certain objects or activities and it would take an extremely long time to respond or load. With the multiple activities open and in use, SMARTboard would have complications loading and would crash. I had the notebook crash on me at least 4 times when I was working on my project.

FLASH Animation

http://www.flashanimation.com/flash3content.html

This one is obviously a website created by someone for a school project. He obviously created this when he was first learning about Flash, because in order to open a new link, a new window opens. I thought I would add it in my blog, because it shows another person just like everyone in this class that is learning something new. The website just explains what flash is and the different types of flash animation people run into daily. He also shows examples along with the definitions. Well then again, the whole website is an example of flash animation.

http://www.animationforeducation.co.uk/index.html

This teacher talks about how he allows his students to see the opportunities in Flash Animation, Clay Animation and Animation. He has write out a simple story line and then from their they are to build the props, the characters, the set, everything to make this cartoon, or movie. They are usually set in a team working atmosphere or they work alone, depending on the assignment. The students are really able to cross the barrier between left and right brain thinking, by being able to use an electronic device such as a computer or camera and being able to create.

http://www.fg-a.com/

This website is filled with flash animation clip art and real clip art. It is awesome. It has a whole bunch of random little bits of clip art that can be used for presentations and such. It is perfect for a teacher that needs to entertain her students.

SMARTBOARD Tutorials

The SMART board interactive whiteboard 10 is the SMART notebook only with less animated tools and gallery items. It is a whiteboard, that projects your computer screen, allowing you to open Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. It is an interactive whiteboard, so the user is able to draw on the project computer screen or any of the Microsoft Applications. The user is also able to take a screen capture of anything they create. This is much like the SMART notebook, except the SMART notebook allows you to add in animations, videos, and flash animation all from your laptop. You are able to design and create lesson plans from laptop and project it provided there is a projector, thanks to SMART notebook. Whereas SMART whiteboard, you are not able to create any lesson plans and save them, you are just pulling up documents from your computer and profiling them to the class. It all becomes like a powerpoint document and there is not much excitement to it.

The SMART Table is much like the SMART whiteboard only it has become a little more advanced. It has the tools of the interactive whiteboard with the activities of the SMART notebook included. The students are still able to touch the screen and draw on it. Students are now able to look at images and can resize the images and organize them. The students can also play activities such as multiple choice and hot spots. The activity multiple choice allows students to come drag the correct answer to question and hot spots allows students to match words and images to correct areas. There are also addition and puzzle activities. These activities build team work and leadership.

The SMART podium is a great idea. You are able to stand in one area of the classroom or walk around and present your information. I would personally find it a little complicated to hold and draw on at the same time. Although, I would have to get over it and learn to multi-task! It is a great tool, I can see how it can be very useful in a large classroom setting such as EDST 221 or a elementary school classroom.

Lesson Plan from Smarttech

The first lesson plan I found was a lesson adhered to Elementary School children grades 3-6. It focuses on Adverbs. It has activities focusing on adverb practice and understanding what adverbs are. The children are able to understand what adverbs are through sentences. They then sort the adverbs into different categories in order to understand the difference between when an adverb is used, such as "how, when, where, how much?". The whole lesson is to understand and practice when to use adverbs and how to correctly use them. It was really well put together, because it was put together by smarttech. It had slides with pull tabs explaining more about the adverbs and how they used in sentences and life. Many of the slides had an answer key, when pushed it would display the answers. The answer key was very useful, along with the pull tab. I want to incorporate that into my lesson plans. I would definitely use this lesson for my class.

The second lesson plan was made for Primary children. It states that it is meant for children grade one. It focuses on phonics and filling in sentences with the correct words. The lesson plan is sloppy. There are too many words for primary school children. This lesson plan was obviously put together by someone beginning with SmartBoard.

The third lesson plan was made for Secondary children. It is meant for middle schoolers. They learn about discounts in math. This lesson plan was put together by smarttech and it has answer keys where the answers materialize and show up. It also has the answers in the pull tab.

Web 2.0 Websites for Students of the 21st Century Classroom

Web 2.0 Websites

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21st Century School Models

It came to my attention the fact about, if your classroom does not have the correct resources then you're wasting your time making a lesson plan. This stood out to me, because in all of our readings and lectures we speak as if our future classroom will be stocked full of technology and high-speed internet access. I imagine some classrooms are like that, but not all of them. I believe when I do have my own classroom and I do have access to the internet I will use it when it fits into my lesson plan. After taking this class, I will have acquired all the skills to put into my curriculum. It would be my dream for my future classroom to have all laptops instead of monitors for the students. There is the risk of the laptops breaking with younger children, but they would not take as much room as a monitor would.

Zoho vs. Google

The main reason I go to Google is for searching for meaningless facts, how to get some where, dictionary, finding images, just searching. I never starting using Google's other applications until recently such as its mail, its documents, and video. I see Zoho as Google without its search bar. At first glance, Zoho and Google seem very similar. They both have mail, documents, chat, and website creator. The only difference between the two is that Google is meant for people who don't use the internet as often as they should. They need quick and easy access to a map with directions, they would like a streaming live video of their favorite tv show, they would like to check their finances. With Zoho, you can build a small business with Zoho Creator, manage it with Zoho CRM, web conference to other bigger name companies with Zoho Meeting. Zoho allows you to use the tools you already have, create a large company, and manage it all from your desk at home, with Zoho Projects.

Google Docs: Check It Out

The 3-4 templates I found intriguing on Google Docs, was all of them! For a classroom setting I would use a template of a rough sketch of an MLA Formatted Paper complete with Works Cited. It would be a perfect example for students to work around when beginning fifth to sixth grade papers.
The presentation template would be great for student group projects. I remember being in elementary and middle school and doing a bad job on group projects because I could not make it to someone's house. Now with google docs, everyone can add their input to the assignment and e-mail it to the teacher the night before it's due.
The google spreadsheets students can do surveys throughout the school year. With google forms, a teacher can switch it up, instead of giving out homework on paper they need to go to their e-mail address. The teacher gets to know her students better from these fun little questions from the form. It also allows a paperless environment to begin the year.

Interview a Teacher

Stephanie Owen - McKay Elementary School, Portland, OR

1. My favorite tech and web tools in the classroom: the most used one is the ELMO document projector (you can put things under this camera and it displays them on a screen, kind of like an overhead projector but better), it is awesome, I use it everyday, we can display pictures from books and it is the most valuable way for students to share their work. Smart boards would be awesome if our school could afford them. I also think teacher webpages are amazing, its an awesome way to keep parents updated on assignments, students progress and events/activities in the classrooom.

2. Frusterations with Tech: You pretty much always have to have a plan B when you are integrating technology into a lesson plan, because there is always the off chance it will not work, and you don't have the luxury of troubleshooting with 25 kids staring at you, starting to get off task (this happened to me last week when the ELMO would not work).

3. The biggest misconception: That it is a hassle/more work to include it in your lesson plan. Also, I think alot of teachers may not realize that their students may not have access to technology at home (coming from a title 1 (ie: poor) school, I found out most of my kids do not have access to word processing or the internet at home- therefore I try to integrate these into our school day so the students can get some exposure it in our increasingly techno-dependant world.

4. Hurdles: The biggest hurdles teachers face is getting the funding to get updated technology in our classrooms. Right now we have OLD OLD Macintosh computers in our classrooms that sound like airplanes when you turn them on and work very slowly. Another hurdle I would say would be keeping informed on updated technology, this is probably a challenge for older teachers.

5. Biggest success: I enjoy bringing my iPod into the classroom and finding music to correlate with what we are studying, I find it really helps students and myself get excited and motivated about the material.

6. Inspiration: We have a teacher at our school who is our designated "technology person" (it's our librarian) and she is our go-to person for technology ideas, questions and troubleshooting. She always knows resources I can use and gives me ideas for lesson plans.

7. Future: I think schools need to stop fighting and begin to embrace the technology that students already know how to use and are currently using every day (ie: cell phones) and integrate it into their classrooms- personal cell phones are powerful individual computers in our pockets- it would make learning more meaningful for students if they were able to integreate them into lessons- ie: using their cell phone to find an answer in class.

Three Educational Blogs II

http://schoolweb.missouri.edu/poplarbluff.k12.mo.us/lowe/math.html

This one I just stumbled upon. It would be very useful, it has many website portals to multiple different websites. I didn't check out all the websites, but there were at least 10-15 websites for each subject. Math has more links than Science or Spelling, but it is focusing on elementary geometry, time and graphs, fractions and division. There is a lot to cover within this website.

http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/

Cut-outs of a scarecrow or an award for reading Ten Books, Math Worksheets, History Worksheets, State Worksheets, Grammar Worksheets, Writing/Reading Worksheets which is perfect for practicing cursive. Spelling Lists and Puzzles to pass their time. This website has got everything provided for the worksheet world.

http://www.pasadenaisd.org/teachertoolbox/PPts/ppt_elem.htm#Spanish

This website provides powerpoint for Elementary teachers. It has Math, Science, Language Arts, and Social Studies powerpoints. It also has math powerpoints in Spanish.

Three Educational Blogs

The first one isn't a blog, but I thought I might include it because I know I will be using it for years to come. It is a website called, Purplemath.com. It is useful for people who struggle in math and they need an easy reference to algebraic equations or formulas. I constantly use it for looking up the point-slope form or slope-intercept form. It would be perfect for a educator teaching middle school math. They can refer their students to the website when need be.

Then there is this blog about Teaching Homeschool, specializing in math. I continue to struggle in math, so any math website or blog can help.

http://homeschoolmath.blogspot.com
She tells stories of other people struggling to teach math, which relieves the pressure off of myself a little. She also recommends different textbooks for teaching, there are videos with quick reminders about simple but useful procedures through math, such as angles and multiplying by decimals. She gives out other blogs that could be useful to math help. This will be extremely useful to teachers who struggle with math, and struggle to teach math. It is also useful for simple reminders. It can be used by not only elementary teachers but secondary educators as well.

http://www.guerillaeducators.typepad.com/

This blog is interesting, because she speaks of teacher conferences for Tech and Science Savy Teachers that are interested. She teaches at a Charter Academy school, she talked about how the sister school participated in an Alliance to Save Energy Leadership Team. This team will be responsible for the conservation of the school's energy this year. Her blog is innovating. It isn't just about lesson plans, there are also stories about how her school or sister schools are changing ways to save the Earth. Her blog could provide many futuristic ideas for educators years to come.

http://mrpullen.wordpress.com/

Just from his earliest blog topic to his last, he has many thought provoking lesson plans. His earliest blog topic speaks of 5 ways to address and teach about the Haiti Earthquake. He adds in book suggestions for educators, how to become better educators. He suggests two great books about technology in education. One of the books being titled, "Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology". This blog is just one useful tip after another about teaching to young minds. It would be very useful to beginning teachers or experienced ones.

Although, he speaks of distance education for high school students and that school busing should be eliminated. His exact quote is, "Eliminating school busing will force districts to get serious about considering online education and distance-learning initiatives. Why shouldn’t many of our high school students be coming to school every other day and working online from home half the time? Without school-provided transportation, parents will be demanding that these types of opportunities be offered immediately."

I cannot agree with his idea of distance education for high school students. Even though that would save money for the state to eliminate school busing, there is still bus system for the middle and elementary students. Therefore it defeats the purpose of saving "some" money. Also, if high school students were to stay home and have a distance-learning environment half of them would probably fail out of school.

Slide.com Classroom Rules

PLN Blog Requirements

• It should be easy to read, and the readers should be able to understand what your main topic is about.

• Not too much information in one posting, split it up

• Background information about the blogger should be included, therefore topics don't become confusing

• Professional language, no criticizing language within the blog

• Understand who your audience is, and make your blog appropriate to either a professional or personal audience

Storybird-A Children's World

Domo Teaches Us about the 21st Century Classrooms

http://domo.goanimate.com/movie/0S4ujn8Xn2PQ?utm_source=myspace&uid=0VRP0v9Q5W54

Here is a link to my comic about Domo

21st Century Teacher

A good teacher is all of these aspects, an adaptor, a communicator, a learner, a visionary, a leader, a model, a collaborator, and a risk taker. I had a teacher this summer who was a wonderful 21st century teacher. He lead the classroom with grace and style, while being able to understand the subject at hand. He collaborate in video slide shows about organisms from chemistry, as well as different movies involving different chemical reactions. He even showed us his Second Life character which had some friends and showed the class its collection of chemical molecules. It definitely kept the class entertained for three hours.

ToonDoo

Learning about Australia!

Creating comics would be useful to teachers, because it is a different creative outlook on the learning concept. As a teacher, you could use it as a teaching tool; in order to captivate the minds of young children who become easily bored with long-drawn out subjects, such as language arts, history, or math. Comics could also be used by students to create the subject they are currently learning. It could be used as a homework assignment or in-class assignment, to explain what they have learned. An example here is a student's work displaying what they have learned about Sydney, Australia.

igoogle

My igoogle page with multiple widgets included. I would be able to use igoogle as a teacher in order to quickly find teacher pages, such as math cheat sheets, stencil cut-outs, or other teacher tips. With a simple quick click I am able to find out a ton of information.

My Future Classroom!

Starstrukk! With Wordle

My Video About Me and Why I Would Like To Be a Teacher

Research for Digital Storytelling

1.Digital Storytelling is combining art and people’s stories with digital text, video, and audio to create a topic of information. The story is usually represented around a type of theme.

2.Children often have trouble paying attention during class, usually during long, boring lectures. A presentation featuring Digital Storytelling would help break up the time they are learning, with interactive pictures, video, and audio pertaining to the lesson they are learning. They will be able to pay more attention in class and remember the lesson.

3.Digital Storytelling can be used through any of the K-12 lessons such as writing, reading, language arts, math, science, art, music, and history. It can portray a story of a person as if they were alive today, explain multiplication and division tables, and go over different types of reading styles for students. It is also great for visual learners to understand the material they are learning in the textbook.

4.The challenges that face ahead with Digital Storytelling would be the equipment (digital cameras, computers, scanners, etc.) would become damaged over the years of usage. With the high cost of digital materials being put into the school, the school would not be able to by high end products or none at all.

5.The products needed are a digital camera, computers or laptops, photo scanners, applications on the computers to make a Digital Story, such as Photo Story 3 through Microsoft.

http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/powerpoint.html

http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan02/banaszewski.htm

http://www.edutopia.org/use-digital-storytelling-classroom

http://www.dtc.scott.k12.ky.us/technology/digitalstorytelling/ds.html

http://techszewski.blogs.com/

Technology K-12

I remember at my school in Utah we had only 3 computers in a small room. The room was considered for the school newspaper and some typing classes. In first grade, we had a short typing class, that consisted of learning how to use keyboards (what they were, how to use them) for 15 min. and then playing computer games for 45 min. It was a one time only class. Then moving to Oregon, I didn't have another computer class until 3rd Grade. I began to actually learn how to type and how to type fast. I wasn't a fast typer, but I learned the proper way to type. On through 4th -8th grade, my computer teacher was fascinated with claymation and fast-motion animation. We had multiple projects involving the usage of digital cameras, video cameras, photo scanners, and Windows Movie Maker. Through high school, I knew fully well how to use anything digital. A digital camera, a video camera, a photo scanner, I owned a Dell for a while, now I own a macbook. By my Junior year of high school, I began to experiment with Adobe products.