Blog #7

I found a random middle school online, and directed myself to the class page of 07 English with Hughes. This is where I can see class announcements, assignment schedules, and the teacher's email. Along with this information, she includes short readings at the bottom and resources. However, when I compared it to a class page for Mr. Bond at St. Brendan School, his class page just has a simple list of to-do's for each grade he teaches, and his email address at the top. I would like to believe that if a parent or student were to sign in to a class paged they're authorized to view fully, there would probably be a class directory with parent names and phone numbers. Both sites I viewed were for middle school grades (6-8).

These were the two sites I viewed: https://stbrendanschoolbronx.org/8th-grade
https://ms.nyackschools.org/directory/class

I like being able to blog weekly to keep in touch with the class, being that it is online and we don't have in-person experiences. It helps me stay on track and reflect on my research and assignments for the week. I do enjoy having the ability to comment on other's blog posts and give each other suggestions. I have gotten some great feedback from others.

I enjoyed the Web Evaluation assignment. I came up with a cute little chart for my "class", for them to easily identify if a website is reliable. I can definitely use this in the future to teach accurate information, and also I can teach my students to use web evaluations to check the authenticity of the information on a site. I learned a lot from this assignment, check out my version below!

My comments:

https://lexiijones.blogspot.com/2019/06/since-my-future-classroom-will.html?showComment=1561953063768#c6940728551034559707

https://letssaythis.blogspot.com/2019/06/ive-used-ton-of-academic-software-as.html#comment-form

Blog #6

Hi all, we are halfway through the semester!

This week we are discussing academic software for students. One thing I was introduced to in high school was Kahoot!, the quizzing game technology made for classroom purposes. Students were to log on on their phones (integrating technology into the classroom), and answer multiple choice questions on their phones that appeared on the big screen in class. It was a competitive and fun academic software that I enjoyed using even at an older age in my academic career. I would love to use this in classrooms with older students because they must be using a handheld device for the game. It is entertaining and influences kids to learn and compete with one another on questions! It integrates technology into the classroom perfectly and serves the purpose of education perfectly. Also I would really like to implement Khan Academy into class because it is such a great practice site. It is nice because it is current with grade levels and materials for any subject.


I have enjoyed the communication process of talking to my classmates on Twitter. It has been useful to use the hashtag #FSU2040 to see what other people find to work for them in the class, or haven't worked for them. I personally have interacted with Katie and Courtney about class assignments, specifically Inspiration. I will definitely use Twitter as a PLN in the future to get advice from other educators and also new ideas for my students!

Please find my comments on:
https://baileysblogeme2040.blogspot.com/2019/06/blog-5.html?showComment=1561345349121#c916507962993028343

https://pedagogicalperegrinate.blogspot.com/2019/06/ela-and-cpalms-for-science.html?showComment=1561345594326#c7024765016596337523

Blog #5

When reading about the ELA Standards, I choice to inform myself on 5th grade standards since that is the grade I am most interested in. The one standard I feel most prepared to teach on is standard LAFS.5.RL.3.7. "Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem)." The suggested tools for this are: presentation software like PowerPoint, online poster creators, mind-mapping applications, and eBooks. I am a big fan of language arts and visual learning so this standard is right up my ally. I am proficient in PowerPoint and would have no problem teaching about the software based off of my preexisting knowledge. Also, I love eBooks! I believe they are the future and by 5th grade students should be able to know how to download books, and read them from electronics, something I can preach on! A standard I would need to learn more about to be able to successfully teach it would be standard LAFS.5.SL.2.5. This standard "Include[s] multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes". This is a very important subject matter, but I am not too familiar with the means of demonstration; online graphic software, audio recorders, online poster creators, and online movie creators. I am vaguely familiar with all of these softwares, but not enough to teach them. Specifically, I would love to learn more about online graphic softwares and online movie creators!

One of the educator tools I like in CPALMS, is the lesson plan kits provided when you click on a grade level. I kept with 5th grade, and scrolled down to language arts. There are so many lesson plans for this it is exciting! I like how when a teacher becomes stumped, or whats to know a better way to teach something, there are examples of lesson plans out there that help. There are plans provided for different parts of reading and writing; fiction, grammar, types of words, genres, and more. I would use these in my classroom because I like the approach the plans take to language arts, but I would also add my own personal twist to each lesson plan this way the assignments aren't so black and white.

Personally I enjoyed making a newsletter for a class in our previous assignment. It was fun because I like to lay things out in an organized manner with images. I also enjoy writing and creativity. I think I can research other letters in the future to see if there are key phrases I should use or better methods of announcements. I think there should be more creative room in the newsletter assignment, though. We should be able to lay it out however we want! The columns were difficult.

My comments for the week: 

https://letschatwithlucy.blogspot.com/2019/06/hello-and-welcome-back-week-4-already.html?showComment=1560729350641#c3267873641247779314

https://minnieseducationblog.blogspot.com/2019/06/post-4.html?showComment=1560729487559#c254047860397468834

Blog #4

This week I am interested in open educational resources. Please comment if you found a site you like!

One that I found is https://creativecommons.org/. It is a site for anyone who wants to learn more and use the Five R's of OER! It tells you that you can Reuse and Remix, along with sharing your own information on the site. This can be extremely beneficial to educators! I could be wrong, but as I am learning I know that Open Educational Resources can be very useful in the classroom, and provide a unique learning experience. However, I feel like it could also be dangerous? Being that some of the information could be incorrect. I think if an educator is going to use information on certain things from an Open Educational Resource, they should fact check some of the claims made this way they are not passing along inaccurate information when teaching in the classroom.

https://atom.io/ is an Open Source site that is rated #1 on the most exciting open source project on the internet right now because of it's so hackable down to the core-- meaning users can edit the website to make it however they'd like and personalize it to their own use. I never knew about Open Sources and Open Content sites but they are so interesting! I think it is good to use these sites because an educator can customize the content to cater to their lesson plans, or create new lesson plans around things that they find on these sites that they never knew before.


Comments on Karla's Post #3, and Bailey's Blog #3.