Education at a Glance

We reviewed Mrs. LeBlanc's Kindergarten Classroom Website from Diplomat Elementary School. https://app.oncoursesystems.com/school/webpage/452539/494293 Contrast: The contrast is well done and you can read everything quickly. When you hover over certain headlines with your cursor, the headlines turn a different color which allows you to know exactly what you are clicking on. This is a very helpful tool and makes the website look more neat. Repetition:  Mrs. LeBlanc uses similar visual elements repeated throughout her webpage. For example, the titles are bold and the headings are both bold and underlined. She also uses images throughout her page consistently. This helps to create organization for the webpage.  Allignment:  Although she did a great job with her webpage, similar elements are not alligned within her website. If she did this, it would improve her webpage greatly. She could allign her content with the title of the webpage.  Proximity:  The similar visu...

There is no escaping Web 2.0 tools in a modern classroom however how an educator uses them can make or break the lesson. The more familiar you are to the technology the easier it is to incorporate it to your lesson. I personally think YouTube and blogs are a great way to get your students engaged with the class. On YouTube you can access an unlimited amount of educational videos pertaining to your subject. Whether they are full length documentaries or short clips to put in to your lecture there is always something available. Twitter is not my favorite media to use. I feel as though I can not get my point across in only 140 characters. It’s just very restrictive in my eyes. Yes you could get a quick response from an author or journalist but they may not answer your question entirely or you may have another that they don’t respond to. I would definitely use YouTube, seeing history happen is much more memorable than just reading it. I did find a website that allows students to build th...

My classmate @brennacarrigan1 found a unique way to teach children the circle of life with butterflies and softwear like excel! — Jessie Mrock (@JessieMrock) October 10, 2017

I honestly hate Twitter. I've been trying to be open minded about it but I just can't jump on the band wagon. I tend to forget about it, it just doesn't grasp my attention like other social medias. However there is valuable information available and constantly being pushed so people can access it. I'm following U.S. News Education and  they are always providing you with new up to date information that not only helps educators but parents as well. I probably won’t be using Twitter in my future.  There are two different types of students in the digital divide, students that have access to computers/technology and students that do not. Some students, student A, live in cities where they have the latest and greatest in technology, internet at home and in school. While others, student B, who live outside city limits do not have internet at home, their school has older computers and only uses a computer lab for in class assignments, even the local library has...

September 26, 2017 SL3 "Evaluate Speakers Point of View" is the ELA standard I am prepared to use and teach at this time. As a history major we use this skill in almost every paper, we summarize and take positions while analyzing documents, speeches and art. Since I want to teach secondary education specifically 12th grade American History I think I can easily instill what I have learned into my students to help them succeed. I personally need to work on RI.7 Multi Media, just because I tend to rely on what I already know instead of expanding my repertoire. Widening my resources will allow me to become a better teacher because I will have more to offer my students. I would probably use Poll Everywhere the most at the moment, kids don't always want to share and since this is an anonymous way to answer questions its easier for kids to open up about a subject. I know I hated being the only student to answer questions in class, I thought everyone saw me as a know it all ...

Free Willy? An Argument Analysis of the Controversy over Captive Killer Whale Populations. http://www.cpalms.org/Public/PreviewResourceLesson/Preview/59379 It may be me and my teaching style but I would not do a section on vocabulary, I believe students at this age should know these words and be able to use context clues on their own to figure out the meaning, or find a different way to find the meaning of the words in the article I present to them. Maybe instead I would ask them to identify the trigger words, words that show bias towards one opinion or another, have the students look for any possible contradicting statements. More in depth learning skills than just looking up vocabulary words this way when the students are done we could share their findings with the class because there is always more than one way to view/read an article. I do like how this lesson plan includes media like the documentary "Blackfish" it is a very eye opening experience that will def...

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