Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The Oregon Education Technology Standards

The Oregon Education Technology Standards


Creativity and Innovation

Communication and Collaboration

Research and Information Fluency

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making

Digital Citzenship

Technology Operations and Concepts


Here are some ways I came apply these standard to my future lesson plans,

For communication and collaboration I can use blogs where students can read and post assignments, questions, and information. The students then can collaborate by leaving comments on each others blogs. Also for communication and collaboration students can use skype which is a way students can talk to each other in real time.

Students can show creativity and innovation by using TokBox to make presentation to show the class. Also students can share ideas on their blogs.

Technology Operations and Concepts: Google Docs can be use for a variety of reasons. It can be used for students to have e-mail addresses for communication purposes. Students can use Google Docs for assignments for the use of graphs and google sheets. There is also a lot of gadgets on google docs that can help with assignments, labs, and experiments.

Research and Information Fluency- I can also create a web site for my class where I have the syllabus, lesson plans and assignment, but it also has places and good sites to go to to find reliable information for research projects.

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making-In class we can use yodio to have a quick collaboration of words or phrases where students can listen to and write down their reactions for this. For example in a health class each student can say a word of what they feel when they hear the word bullying. When everyone in class said their word in yodio it can be played back and the whole class can listen to and react to what they hear.

Digital Citizenship- I will make sure that the class knows the class rules that revolve around respect on what they write about. How they react to each others statement and comments. Also I will tell the student that there are sites like
Turnitin.com where I can put in their work and it will tell me if it is plagiarized or not. I will make a statement that explain and shows the students why they should now plagiarize.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Ed Tech TokBov

Here is my TokBox presentation. We used the TokBox to recored out TokBox presentation. We talked about how to use Tokbox and ways to use TokBox inside and outside of class. We showed what the main screen page looks like. We also talked about some things that Tokbox is like, for example people can video chat like Skype but it can also record like video camera and be sent to people.


TokBox - Free Video Chat and Video Messaging

Monday, October 26, 2009

Yodio - OTEN

This is my yodio, I talked about what TPACK mean's and about the two sessions I went too. I went to a session about how to make a web site for my future class. I also went to a class about science where we talked about misconceptions and the moon.


Sunday, October 25, 2009

Google docs spread sheet

The data shows that even though the students scored below average on their test, their scores increased from test 6 to test 10. This means that every test they increased their score and did better from one test to the next.

This can help me in the future by showing me that even though the students are scoring below average they are improving. This can be difficult to see by just looking at their test score. This spread sheet allows to input multiple scores to see how they are doing throughout the term and not just for that test.

I will can use this in the future when entering data on grades and tests but also I can enter the data to show the class what different people got for part of an assignment. For example, when recording information for genetics and what characteristic each of the students have. Then I can show it on the a graph for the students to see what is dominate and recessive.






Here is my score sheets:

Click HERE

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Students

Students
There are 38 students in the physical education class that I am going to teach. Out of the 38 students one student is Asian, one student is Indian and three are Hispanic. That means out of 38 students 33 are white.
In the physical education class I am teaching, the students tend to group boys with boys and girls with girls. Occasionally there will be a mixture of boys and girls. When the groups get together usually they are the same students grouping together. This makes me aware that there are a lot of cliques in my class. Rarely when students pick groups do they go with anyone else then who they usually group with. In physical education there are times where students are getting too competitive and they start to say mean things and are not nice to each other.
When I teach I will not allow any disrespectful comments or attitudes towards one another. I want to start the class by doing cooperative games where the students get to know each other. By doing cooperative games it allows the students to work together to reach a goal. During the cooperative games I am going to reinforce that no negative comments are made and that in this class we help each other and encourage each other. I will also try and do activities where the students have to work with other people by either assigning teams before class or splitting the students up during class. I want my students to feel comfortable playing with anyone, that way they can focus more or the activity and worry less about who is on their team.
Since the class is mostly white I will watch for students who leave out or exclude any of the different ethnic students. If this happens I will make sure to group the students myself. I will not tolerate anyone who purposely excludes others no matter what their ethnic background is. I want to make sure people feel comfortable and safe and allowing students to exclude others does not help the students feel like they are in a safe place. If there is anyone who might not want one of the different ethnic students in their group I will make it clear to them it is not allowed in my classroom. By not allowing the segregation it will open their eyes and minds to accepting them and hopefully they will get to know one another in the process.

Skpye

This was my first time learning about Skype. I didn't know this type of program existed out there. I really like how it people can talk over their computers and there is no need for a phone to connect. I also like how there is a place where students can just talk to one another. In the future I can use this for the students if they had questions they can either get onto skype and ask their classmates or even I can communicate with them to explain an assignment or any confusion they had in class.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Teamviewer

Teamviewer is a WEB 2.0 tool that allows people to access your computer or for you to access their. The person who can access the computer now has control over the computer.