Assignment 1b

Hey. I'm Randi Simmons. I am a Junior majoring in Elementary Education. I think that technology is a good thing and that we benifit from it in many ways. I think that I can use technology many ways in my classroom. I want my students to know many things about technology and I want them to able to use all the different technologies. But I do think that it is a very important part of our lives.

Assignment 3

http://www.personalitypathways.com/type_inventory.html

My Myers-Briggs personality type test resulted in the four personality type letter of I, S, F, and P. The text concluded I was an introvert that understood by sensing, made choices by feeling, and perceived the outside world. I think I am an introvert for the most part but I do tend to act out first and then think about what I have done. However, I find as I get older I tend to think first before acting. I also completely agree with the sensing over intuitive category as I tend to use common sense to fix problems that are in the present era, but I do think sometimes on how to fix future problems before they even occur. Thinking critically on how to pre-emptively solve conflict is something I tend to do a lot of. I also like to know facts or details when I am 100% sure of them, if the information is not clear I will normally not attempt to answer a question or offer input to a conversation. I am not sure about the category that said I make choices based on feelings. I do tend to think of others thoughts and feelings when making decision but sometimes that is not always the case. The test said “disharmony was toxic” to me but I can handle conflict very well and often act as a mediator. The last category on how I perceive the outside world by perceiving instead of judging was something I was really not sure of, I do tend to move without a plan and make plans up as I go along, but I also like to have some sort of general plan in the back of my mind at all times. I feel I am very flexible to my environment and can adapt quickly to cope with it even though it may be against my wishes

http://www.learning-styles-online.com/inventory/results.asp

The results for the learning styles test was harder to evaluate as it did not give an explanation for each style as the personality type test did. My styles scores were a 5 for visual, 11 social, 5 physical, 16 aural, 10 verbal, 12 solitary, and 5 logical. I knew my aural would be very high as I am prone to learning and listening to all auditory sounds. I use listening to help me because my eye-sight is not very good. This is proven as I got a 5 for visual. I did not agree with 11 for social because I got a 12 for solitary. However the more I think about it I am about the same as far as interaction with others and spending time on my own. I have a high verbal score of 10 which I believe is a result of constant history and English classes so I do agree with that.

Personality Results

Dominant Introverted SensingISTJ & ISFJ What is it like?By Danielle Poirier www.RebelEagle.com © copyright Rebel Eagle Productions
Dependable, reliable and trustworthy, they like to belong to solid organisations that are reasonable in their ambitions and loyal to their employees. They feel useful when their roles and responsibilities are clearly established and they can monitor their activities and productivity in tangible ways. They tend to be rather modest, traditional and conventional, to like sensible clothing, to be thrifty, careful and wise with both money and possessions.
Once they accept a project, they will see it to the end. They manage their time well and are realistic about how much time and resources will be needed.
They tend to like to stay in one neighbourhood, often choosing to live close to where they were themselves raised. They are often involved with volunteer organisations and have a developed sense of citizenship and accountability. When they purchase something, it is after careful consideration; rarely will they buy something without having a known need or use for it. They may keep possessions for a lifetime and treasure those that were given to them.
They tend to have a good memory for specific facts that are necessary in their day-to-day life at work and at home. They accumulate facts and details to orient themselves, relying on repeated experiences that have been proven trustworthy. A fact once experienced may be the product of circumstance and happenstance; it is not in and of itself reliable. When an introverted sensing type hears an idea, they rummage through reams of archived facts to find an experience that provides information for the relevance and realism of an idea. When an introverted sensing type utters, "It's never been done!" they are saying that no information about the relevance or usefulness of the idea is available to them. They tend to shy away from surprises and what is perceived as unnecessary change.
I think that the results defined me very well. I agree with them because everything they said(beside one thing) was true. It weird how an internet test can tell explain how you are by answering 4 questions.

Assignment 1b

Hey! My name is Bethany Adkins. I am a Senior at the University of Alabama majoring in Collaborative Special Education. Technology can be used in education in many ways. I plan on implementing technology into my classroom when I become a teacher. One way I might do this would be to have a class website that the parents, as well as the students, can access. The website would consist of assignments, classroom activities, field trips, calendar, etc. The most important aspect of technology in education is communcation. Today, lack of communcation in education can become a barrier. I would use technology to make sure this was not a problem in my classroom.

Assignment 1B

Hi! My name is Christina Jackson and I am a Junior majoring in Elementary Education. I think that it is very important that we as future teachers learn to use all the technology that is available to us. More and more technology is becoming available for the classrooms and teachers need to know hos to utilize it effectively.

Blog Use

Blogs are a very useful tool for teachers to utalize in the classroom. My opinion is that it allows teachers to ineract with their students on a new level. When a student views a blog from a teacher, they can look at assignments, check alternate links, keep informed and in contact, and a lot of other useful information. Using blog for assignments could help elliminate all the confusion that comes from a classroom. Maybe a student didnt quiet here the assignment assigned and is confused on what to do. Blogs is an easy and efficient way to avoid problems like this.
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Blog Use

I think that Blogs are a useful tool for teachers to uses. The teachers used their blogs to close the gap between school and home. Parents were able to go look at their student's teacher blog and see what they had learned and what was planned for the future. I like how some of the teachers posted homework assignments on their blog, this way students who are absent could keep up with their lesson. This gave me ideas on how I would like to use blogs in my classroom.

Blog Use

I think the blogs these teachers are using are very helpful. They are using these blogs to help their students understand and really grasp what they are learning about. Some of them were not even about the subjects they were learning in school, they were about life lessons, which are just as important. I think this is something that I would like to use in my classroom someday. It helps the students not only communicate better with the teacher but with each other as well.

Blog Use

Each of the teachers used their own blog in a different way. One teacher used blogs for assignments for the students to do. One blog was used keep students and teachers posted about what is going on with the school, and another about what was going on each day in a particular classroom. One blog was used to tell about a letter then students had written and also where an assignment was posted. The last teacher used her blog to post information about English such as grammer and writing, and also a book list. Each of these blogs could all contribute to help think of ideas on what a person would want to blog about as a teacher, and also help to decide how to set up and arrange a blog.

blog use

Blogs can be used in math for experimental probabilities and predictions. By creating bar charts you can calculate percentages and also solve equations. You can also solve seintific equations and can post news events. It can also help you present conference presentations.

Blog Use

Blogs can be used in many different ways by teachers. One way a 7th grade math teacher used his/her blog was to put math problems on the website. This would enable students to view problems and work on them from home. This could also be used for the parents to help their children if the children are having problems in math. The parents could go over the problems at home. A 3rd grade teacher used the blogs to tell about daily activities in the classroom. The teacher also included some of the students' work on her website. This could be useful for parents to view. Another blog was one where the students submitted their opinions. The students told what they did at school that day. They also told what they enjoyed and did not enjoy. The students could read each others comments. This would also be useful for the teacher to see how the students view what is taking place. The teachers could use this to spark the children's interest more by seeing their likes and dislikes. All of these blogs can be very useful to the teachers, parents, and students in some way.

Blog Use

The blogs are being used in some cases as forums for students to discuss their daily activities as well as sound off on assignments and topics. In other cases the teachers are using the blogs as an extension of the classroom by posting review and supplemental materials, including links to other blogs. If I were an educator I would certainly create a blog for use in posting daily reviews of class materials in addition to posting supplemental materials and links to pertinent websites.

Blog Use

Educators use blogs for many things. Some use them as homework tools for students to create their own math problems like in the article "7th grade math", while others will use them as a diary of the events in the classroom, all accesible to parents. In the Clem 2005 blog, supporters could give money to certain organizations that the bloggers chose. Mrs. Huff's English class uses blogs to send out helpful information to classes and shows new books to try etc.
These examples are definitely helpful in creating some new ideas for students and their parents. It would be easy to get any information i needed to a parent, especially in Special Education when so much parental help is needed.

Blog Use

It was interesting to see the different ways teachers choose to use the blogs. Some were more for parents to follow and some were strictly for the kids to use. It a good way for teachers and parents to communicate about assignments and events in the classroom. It is also a good way for the students to talk about events like the kids who blogged about their field day. It keeps students and parents more involved in what's going on in the classroom.

"Blog Use"

These blogs show us many different ways to use blogs, such as, posting assignments on these blogs for students to do at home or at the beginning of class. They can also be used to keep student parents informed of what their kids are learning and activities they are involved in. Blog are also great for sporting events, showing who got what prizes or place and how the over all team is doing. Through blogs you can post resources that will be beneficiary to your students, whether this is grammar tools, dictionary, explanations for math problem, and so on. Blog are an excellent way to keep in touch with your students and parents, with also providing unlimited amounts of resources.

Blog Use

In the examples, the teachers and students are making you part of their classroom. I really liked the examples I saw in the blogs I viewed today. I thought it was a great way to make your student's parents and families a part of your classroom without them actually being there. One thing I want to do when I teach is to do a blog, I think it is a great way to connect with your student's families. You could also include important information like field trips, test coming up, important dates for your parents to know about and have a resource for them to returned to throughout the school year. This would be a way for parents to see what their children are doing in the classroom, like the artwork one teacher had posted. It would also be a way for children, parents, and teachers to have a better line of communication.

Blog Use

Teachers are using blogs to post assignments, announcements, simple comments, and even their day to day activities.The examples definitely gave me some examples of how I can use a blog as a teacher. I plan to use a blog to post links to helpful resources for both my students and their parents and to post announcements about important information that others should know. I can see how this type of technology is great for the environment because of using less paper and at times blogging seems to be more convenient and is an easy way to communicate with others.

Blog Use

In the examples, blogs were being used in multiple ways. Some were using the blog like we are using it (having students post on a class blog). Others used it to post assignments or to share information about what is going on in the class. I think it would be useful to use a blog as a way to share information with parents(communication with parents/families is very important). Another way a blog could be used is to post homework assignments. Also a blog could be used for students to post their reflections from the days activities. I think a blog is a great way to connect and share information with many people all at once.

Blog Use

The blogs are being used in many ways. Some of the teachers were posting math problems and asking students to answer them in comment form, other teachers would just post about the things they did that such as field trips they took and things they did for people, another teacher had a whole blog with lots of links for english students to look at, and another teacher used it to tell and show what her students where doing. These examples did give me a lot of ideas I could use for my future classroom. The blogs showed me I could use it for almost anything;I think I would use my blog more in a social way of getting information out there for the parents to see all the information they need, because sometimes little kids seem to lose things before they get home. I also might use it as an assingment sheet incase the students forget to write something down they could login on their blog and get the information they need.

Blog Use

I think that blogs are a helpful tool for teachers to use. The blogs are a good way to be organized and for students to see what is going on in the school and classroom. I think that blogs can help me when I start teaching to stay organized and to help inform the students in what is going on.

Blog Use

The math teacher's daily assignments were put on a blog from which his students could contribute and he could include examples for them to work on. Taking the daily objective of each math skill and applying it on a blog is a great idea to get the students involved with technology and getting the lesson done at the same time.

Mrs. Myrmel's classroom blog was directed at informing the student's parents on what their children are doing each day. I really like this approach to use blogging in education because it allows parents to become involved in their children's studies with the click of a mouse.

The Everts' Times blog was interesting because it allows parents/educators to view the students' thoughts on their schoolwork and activities. This is a great use of a blog to allow students' to express themselves and perhaps find out what is and isn't working in classroom strategies.
The Clem 2005 blog was much like the Everts' Times blog, in that it allowed students
to voice their opinions or ideas on a subject that could be viewed by everyone.

To be honest. Mrs. Huff's English class blog was a bit confusing to locate all the material and what it meant because of the page layout. But it included outside sources and information students could use in their reports or work that could help them and also posted weekly reminders of the classes' agenda so it was easy for the students to keep up with what was going on.

Ideas I would use from these blogs would include letting parents access the blog to see what the class was currently working on and also letting students communicate and express their own ideas and opinions on a subject because I would like to know how well my students are understanding the material and generally how they feel about it.

Blog Use

Some blogs that educators are using are set up for the students and others are set up for parents. Another teacher set up a blog for her students to post entries describing their days at school. Other teachers made blogs available for students to share their ideas with others. One blog has many links the students can take to other sites where they can practice their vocabulary. I think using a blog could be very a very useful tool for educators. Many students may have trouble finding sites that help them learn vocabulary and having their teacher post links on a blog may make it easier for them to gain access and to learn. Also, students whose classwork is displayed on a blog are able to show their parents their work. Blogs are useful for being in touch with parents.

Blog Use

Each teacher used the blog differently. It seemed like it was based on preference. One teacher, pretty much the students in control of the whole blog. They were writing about their day, as like a journal entry. Other teachers used it as a message board to let students, other teachers, parents, know what their students were doing in class, even how they were performing. Another teacher used it as a way to give assignments, and for students to communicate.
Theses examples show a variety of ways I can incorporate blogging in my classroom. I think it would be nice to have two different blogs though. One that I could use specifically with my students- assignments, communication. The other I could use with parents as well as other faculty, a way for parents to keep up with what exactly is going on the classroom and future events. I feel like it is important to have a line between the classroom and the house.

Blog Use

The blogs are either teachers keeping in touch with parents to keep them updated on what their children are doing in that class. Others are using to post assignments for the students that are also available to parents. Using the blog to post general things the students could use for reference in the class is very useful for classes such as an English class or History class. Math teachers could use blogs to post tricky math problems for "daily starters" in the class to get an idea of what her students are thinking and to get a feel of how the students are applying things in the classroom. It also allows teachers to keep blogs to let parents know exactly what the students are doing in the class so parents arent just left out in the blue wondering how they can help their child in school.

Assignment 1b

My name is Haley Morris and I am a Junior majoring in Early Childhood Special Education. I think technology is a great resource and tool that I will be able to use in my teaching. Research has been made very simple by technology and it saves a lot of time.