Saturday, November 7, 2009

Social Networks

Socail Networks are pretty good webs for educators or students to get the ideas from and also discuss it online. It is also a great resource that teachers may leave the message to others or comments and so on. here is the Ning web introduction that you may want to read.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets upon calculate calories a day and graph

Thursday, October 22, 2009

where the wild things are video

this is the video that I took for the project or teaching and learning on the video tap.

Monday, October 19, 2009

where the wild things are reflect on the tool learning

This is a movie project that concludes lots of different technology stuff to create out a film that may play for students in the class or even when they go home. It is a very useful and livable source for students to see and do

the entry for the where the wild things are

It is just a character intruduce short video for my main video later and I use the long shot at the begining and then took the close shot later for students to see it better.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

video besed on the seven elements of Digital Storytelling.

Also there is a learning outcomes from Bloom's Taxonomy, and the questions that I think may also apply to this video as well.

Here is the story board template go with the video.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Digital storytelling

When we don’t have very good technology that time, we just used the based materials to teach students, but the most deficient point is students cannot give feedback directly and also it may lead them don’t think is that important to say out what they really think about. That’s why I really think voice thread is a very good resource for teacher to teach in the class. My unit plan is focus on healthy topic by eating healthy food, doing exercise regularly, and also getting good sleep every day.
Voice thread is not just give out the sounds, but also with visual pictures to them. I used it as a illustration to them to lead them to do activities in the mypyramid.gov which is a very wonderful web-site for children to know what are the foods that can really benefit them though very interesting little games activities for them to play and find out.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Food Chart learning

relation between Voice Thread and my specific future curricular-integration ideas

There must be very sufficient ways to use voice thread to teach our students because we all love livable things. Since voice thread allowed to put the visual, sounds, and even to give the feedback for the composer. Also is a very livable for educators to react with their students and even share the life experiences together as in a small class. It should let students feel more interesting than just working on paper and also they may give all the comments to others as critique; Therefore, colleagues can all improve together through this voice thread program.
Also it may benefit teachers at the same way to teach and make more efficient teaching to students. To find the better teach students are all of our goals and this web-site just gave us the ability to search on, give comments with our thoughts, and also do activities through it even. I think it is a really good way to contact students directly online. For my unit plan, I think is a pretty good way to teach students about the food chart and how to keep them in healthy condition by show them the little video because if I just put on paper maybe they would think is boring just look at one piece of paper; Therefore, I really think using Voice Thread is a very wonderful program to use and also it is free for both teachers and students as well.
Here is my unit plan and Teks with Cited work for Voice Thread

Digital Storytelling

Digital storytelling is a very useful program for us as human, because we are all visualized. The whole purpose of this program is making you follow the directions directly without any confusing, such as, on one of my voice thread I showed about how to choose the healthy food, and then students may just follow very simply to get the idea what are the healthy foods to get. It is not only just focusing on the simple things to illustrate them, but also we can give all the ideas that how things effect us and also what are the things that we may do for our healthy. To feather more, it may even lead us to learn how to teach children in the proper ways; for example, like how to make students all included in the activities that I want them to join and how students would be interested in and also really work out by all the process.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

link to other sources

This following doc. link gives teacher a good way to cmmunicate to parents or email or even to do the survey on web-site as well.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Warlick's website (http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/)
From this blog, we can see it really useful as we can use it to post anything that we want our students to read or to look at. It may also make students want to involve more as they can directly give some commands or feedback. Also when students create their own blog, they need to pay lots of attention to it and keep think while they type every words on it. It's a very useful web-site for every one of us to learn from not just students, but people all over the world.
When we expect to see students project, it must be orgaized nicely and with clear typed so this is just the right web-site to use. Also it showed the date whenever it posted or updated so it is also good to keep students work on time as well. Students may also tag any web-site that related on their blog and give the description about it.

Idea of different thinking for children

From our past until now, education has changed a lot during this whole time. It includes we changed our expectation for children and we changed our way to teach them as well. We always keep our eyes on children's growing process and want them to be bette every day. We changed from traditional way (teacher centered) to critical way (student centered) to prove our children to uper level of thinking. We started to stop asking "What we know", but "How we come to know" which is more thinking involved in the whole concept.

This is following my thought for essential question.

Since thinking has changed, we may see that problem solving skill level being higher than before. The constructure for all the idea is just “a seeking for truth, information, or knowledge-seeking information by question.” We may see there are whole bunch of kids acting differently, such as some are really quiet by themselves and some are really active to others. People are different so we need to find the best way for all of us to be in the same process.
Not only just from study we can see all of these process, but also we can see it during our life times, such as how we keep in health condition and how we expect our life to be. Essential Question- Why we need to exercie? From the whole idea to keep healthy, one of the requirment just to exercis without any question. Following we may add some more detail as our unit questions, like why more people face obesity in recent days? or what would effect us if we exercise every day? they are also require some basic thinking to answer the questions and even you may lead to more complicated questions as well
See my unit plan about exercise to see how I've incorporated a student-centered approach.