Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Painting the Roses Red
Through out my time here is Wonderland/Internet that I have found to be really interesting and informing. Form the start here I have been in contact with a few other people, that are also down here. The next group of people that I came upon was the Red Queen/techfridge.com Knights. They were going around spreading the word of the Red Queen and painting teh roses red. When they saw me they came up and started taking about a whole bunch of things. There were a few thing that they were saying that really stuck with me. One of them was when they were talking about Mobile Math Apps. These apps are cool because they can solve problems and learn the math functions that they will need all the way through high school They made a great point that now days almost every student has a cellphone with them and now they can have math in their pocket. The second Knight was hanging up a variety of poster. Now these poster were awesome, they can be seen at http://teachfactory.com/?p=766. They all have motivtional saying on them, my favorite said “To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.” Last the third Knight was talking about, the coolest thing so far, creating you own choose your own adventure video. I was informed that I YouTube had and an area were I can upload videos to an interactive. using the spotlight annotation tool in the YouTube video editor you can insert into your videos a hyperlink to other videos or websites. Next I inserte multiple links into your videos you can create "choose your own adventure" series of videos. These were almost my three wise men but, that is a different story for a different time. But, these Knights gave me a lot of great ideas to share with the youth that I will be teacher in the super near future. This information, they gave me, will help me become a more engaging teacher. I will now have the ideas and soon to be knowledge be be a teacher that kids want to learn from. I really like the idea of having students create their choose your own adventure video. I was so happy and excited about the info the Knights gave me, I helped them paint the roses red,
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I checked out that link. It seems pretty interesting. I went to the technology link and it showed that it is having an event to show teachers the benefits of social media such as Twitter. The author focuses on using social media in gifted education. She says it is helpful to find people say in Ireland that has the same difficulties you may face in our small town.
ReplyDeleteAlso I have seen some of those math phone applications. I every once in a while like to see apps available on for my android phone. The other day I saw I could get a scientific calculator one. Currently I only have the basic calculator that was already on my phone. It is nice to have all the options to access learning tools.
I checked out the math 4 mobile math apps. I think the idea is really cool if children have access to that technology. Children could use them at home on homework assignments to bring graphing to your phone. I thought it was really cool that you can collect children's drawings and present them on a smart board. What a cool way to collect homework.
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed reading your blog all semester. The story line using Alice in Wonderland is a real hook to engage your reader.
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