Krauss, J. (2012). Infographics:more than words can say. Learning and Leading with Technology, 39(5), 10-14. Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/February-2012.aspx
"Infographics; More Than Words Can Say" shows us how teaching students to use infographics can be important in more areas than may be apparent. It helps students meet the standard in any subject that requires information literacy. Creating infographics requires students to make sense of the materials they learn so that they can share it with others. It boosts comprehension by appealing to the visual aspect of learning to enhance what students have read or listened to. Further more, it can help students with computational thinking, skills that can be useful outside of computer technology and applied to real world situations. Infographs is also important now more than ever with our new technologies that allow us more information and data to share with our students. This information is only useful if students can make sense of it, which infographs can do.
How can I incorporate infographics in teaching my students?
In my class I will have student both gather information from infographs created by others, and then create their own infographs. It is an important to have students both use and create infographs in order for it to help students truly meet the standards it is capable of.
Why is using infographs a useful and important tool to bring into the classroom?
In using infographics in my lessons I can engage students about all different subjects in a manner that is less intimidating. Students may also become more engaged in their own processing and sharing of information when they get to do so with a creative technology tool rather than the typical paper.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Journal 2
Ferguson, H. (2010). Join the flock!. 37(8), Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/February-2012.aspx
"Join the Flock!" explains the importance of being part of the virtual community not only in our personal lives, but as professionals and teachers. The virtual community can create a network of people that you would most likely never encounter in the real world, but can be extremely useful to your life. A PLN, or Personal Learning Network, allows you to learn from other teachers as well as give back to the teaching community by sharing your skills.
How can I incorporate a PLN into my prefessional life?
The author suggest keeping PLN as well as a separate social network. This will alow me to keep my professional and personal life separate. If I can take a few minutes out of the day to be engaging in my PLN, then I can focus without distraction by the other personal interaction with my social network.
Miller, S. M. (2010). Enhance your twitter experience. Learning and Leading with Technology, 37(8), 14-19. Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/digital-edition-june-july-2010.aspx
"Enhance Your Twitter Experience" shows us how we can build our Personal Learning Network and do so by utilizing all the interesting tools that you can use to make your Twitter better. A tool called bookmarklet in which we can share information we found with our online community with a simple click and drag of the mark and make it available to the online world to use. It is important to spend our time looking for information to tweet, but also to share information with others and take time to remember that we are all real people behind our computers with individual lives.
How can I use Twitter to enhance my classroom?
Other than the importance of teaching my students how to utilize twitter themselves for good and learning and not for evil, I can use it to learn and teach the rest of the digital world. As a teaching professional I can learn an abundance of information from all over the world all while sitting at my own computer. It is also my responsibility to share with others useful tools so that I can positively influence students across the world.
"Join the Flock!" explains the importance of being part of the virtual community not only in our personal lives, but as professionals and teachers. The virtual community can create a network of people that you would most likely never encounter in the real world, but can be extremely useful to your life. A PLN, or Personal Learning Network, allows you to learn from other teachers as well as give back to the teaching community by sharing your skills.
How can I incorporate a PLN into my prefessional life?
The author suggest keeping PLN as well as a separate social network. This will alow me to keep my professional and personal life separate. If I can take a few minutes out of the day to be engaging in my PLN, then I can focus without distraction by the other personal interaction with my social network.
Miller, S. M. (2010). Enhance your twitter experience. Learning and Leading with Technology, 37(8), 14-19. Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/digital-edition-june-july-2010.aspx
"Enhance Your Twitter Experience" shows us how we can build our Personal Learning Network and do so by utilizing all the interesting tools that you can use to make your Twitter better. A tool called bookmarklet in which we can share information we found with our online community with a simple click and drag of the mark and make it available to the online world to use. It is important to spend our time looking for information to tweet, but also to share information with others and take time to remember that we are all real people behind our computers with individual lives.
How can I use Twitter to enhance my classroom?
Other than the importance of teaching my students how to utilize twitter themselves for good and learning and not for evil, I can use it to learn and teach the rest of the digital world. As a teaching professional I can learn an abundance of information from all over the world all while sitting at my own computer. It is also my responsibility to share with others useful tools so that I can positively influence students across the world.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Classroom 2.0
NETS 2. I used school 2.0 to investigate NETS 2 so I could learn about designing and developing digital age experiences and assessments by reading an article about the importance of incorporating digital tools into the classroom rather than fighting with students to get rid of them. 
I am investigating Net 2 to design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments. I chose this because I think it is important to grow with our students as they become increasingly involved in technology. Rather than fight young student's desires to be constantly connected to the digital world and technology, it is better to incorporate these things into their learning and maybe even learn things from our students along the way. The article "Using TPACK Framework; You Can Have Your Hot Tools and Teach With Them Too" explains that although it is not always easy, it is possible to develop ways in which to use things like ipods, blogs, cellphones, etc as tools in the classroom. In order to be an effective teacher, it is essential to not only know the material you are teaching, but to be able to express and relate it to students in a way in which they can use. While it might be easier as teachers to just relay the material in the form easiest for us, it is our duty to go the extra mile and learn how to incorporate things like technology into our lessons if it is what will keep students intrigued and able to learn.
The TPACK framework explains that a successful and effective teacher incorporates knowledge, technology, and content into their lessons. In order to do so, a teacher must change their incorporation of technology to fit in with what is new and effective at the time. While content and pedagogy may not change, a teacher can not simply use the same technological approach she learned when she was in school and expect it to have a positive effect on her students the way it did her years ago. Successfully following the TPACK framework means continuing to keep up with learning new technology as a teacher.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Technology Self-Assessment:School 2.0
NETS 2. I used school 2.0 to investigate NETS 2 so I could learn about designing and developing digital age experiences and assessments by reading an article about the importance of incorporating digital tools into the classroom rather than fighting with students to get rid of them.
I am investigating Net 2 to design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments. I chose this because I think it is important to grow with our students as they become increasingly involved in technology. Rather than fight young student's desires to be constantly connected to the digital world and technology, it is better to incorporate these things into their learning and maybe even learn things from our students along the way. The article "Using TPACK Framework; You Can Have Your Hot Tools and Teach With Them Too" explains that although it is not always easy, it is possible to develop ways in which to use things like ipods, blogs, cellphones, etc as tools in the classroom. In order to be an effective teacher, it is essential to not only know the material you are teaching, but to be able to express and relate it to students in a way in which they can use. While it might be easier as teachers to just relay the material in the form easiest for us, it is our duty to go the extra mile and learn how to incorporate things like technology into our lessons if it is what will keep students intrigued and able to learn.
The TPACK framework explains that a successful and effective teacher incorporates knowledge, technology, and content into their lessons. In order to do so, a teacher must change their incorporation of technology to fit in with what is new and effective at the time. While content and pedagogy may not change, a teacher can not simply use the same technological approach she learned when she was in school and expect it to have a positive effect on her students the way it did her years ago. Successfully following the TPACK framework means continuing to keep up with learning new technology as a teacher.
Monday, January 30, 2012
journal 1-100 Things That Make Me Happy
1. my parents
2. my sister
3. my friends
4. avocados
5. dogs
6. my computer
7. money
8. sunglasses
9. sleeping
10. Christmas
11. horses
12. the beach
13. Hawaii
14. coffee
15. good surprises
16.tea
17. Summer
18. Fall
19. Spring
20. laughing
21. cats
22. veggie burritos
23. Trader Joe's
24. wine
25. yoga
26. cheese
27. my Grandma
28. talking
29.pizza
30. the sun
31. full moons
32. Disney World
33. french fries
34.sunsets
35 hiking
36. water falls
37. The Grand Canyon
38. palm trees
39. the desert
40. the mountains
41. yoga pants
42. flip flops
43. chapstick
44. cinnamon gum
45. presents
46. diet dr. pepper
47. the color orange
48. naps
49. new jeans
50. teaching people new things
51. learning new things
52. comfy couches
53. text messaging
54. skittles
55. family dinners
56. almost being done with school
57.being busy
58. paychecks
59. gift cards
60. coffee shops
61. walking the dog
62. cooking
63. other people's birthdays
64. amazon.com
65. swimming
66. clean
67. sleeping in
68. going out
69. days off
70. vacations
71. seeing old friends
72. going to my parent's house
73. visiting my grandma
74. Thanksgiving
75. riding in the car
76. hearing good news
77. the smell of laundry
78. good music
79. watching planes take off
80. being warm in the winter
81. being cool in the summer
82. drinking cold water
83. new cars
84. weddings
85.getting flowers
86. getting As
87. trying new things
88. hearing good stories
89. being happy
90. helpful people
91. being helpful
92. good coworkers
93. good classmates
94. new opportunities
95. playing wii
96. good perfume
97. going home
98. nice hotels
99.the zoo
100.planning things
2. my sister
3. my friends
4. avocados
5. dogs
6. my computer
7. money
8. sunglasses
9. sleeping
10. Christmas
11. horses
12. the beach
13. Hawaii
14. coffee
15. good surprises
16.tea
17. Summer
18. Fall
19. Spring
20. laughing
21. cats
22. veggie burritos
23. Trader Joe's
24. wine
25. yoga
26. cheese
27. my Grandma
28. talking
29.pizza
30. the sun
31. full moons
32. Disney World
33. french fries
34.sunsets
35 hiking
36. water falls
37. The Grand Canyon
38. palm trees
39. the desert
40. the mountains
41. yoga pants
42. flip flops
43. chapstick
44. cinnamon gum
45. presents
46. diet dr. pepper
47. the color orange
48. naps
49. new jeans
50. teaching people new things
51. learning new things
52. comfy couches
53. text messaging
54. skittles
55. family dinners
56. almost being done with school
57.being busy
58. paychecks
59. gift cards
60. coffee shops
61. walking the dog
62. cooking
63. other people's birthdays
64. amazon.com
65. swimming
66. clean
67. sleeping in
68. going out
69. days off
70. vacations
71. seeing old friends
72. going to my parent's house
73. visiting my grandma
74. Thanksgiving
75. riding in the car
76. hearing good news
77. the smell of laundry
78. good music
79. watching planes take off
80. being warm in the winter
81. being cool in the summer
82. drinking cold water
83. new cars
84. weddings
85.getting flowers
86. getting As
87. trying new things
88. hearing good stories
89. being happy
90. helpful people
91. being helpful
92. good coworkers
93. good classmates
94. new opportunities
95. playing wii
96. good perfume
97. going home
98. nice hotels
99.the zoo
100.planning things
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