What was the most difficult portion of this assignment? The most difficult portion of this assignment was trying to find enough information to fill up all of the squares on our Symbaloo. I found a lot of great information, but finding the rest to fill up the squares made me really have to dig up great things to use in my lesson plan.
Give an example of at least one way you would use Symbaloo in your future classroom. I love Symbaloo! I think that this is a great website to use. I plan to use this website all of the time. I plan to use Symbaloo for a couple things. I first plan to use it for all of my favorite websites for my students. I would create a separate webmix for the websites that I use very frequently in lessons.
Identify some problems/issues that arose as a result of creating you Edmodo quiz. ( hint: the types of questions) The main issue that everyone seemed to run into was the fill in the blank questions. If the question was not exactly like the way we put it as the answer, it was wrong. I ran into the problem of trying to create a short answer question. I found it very difficult to create a short answer question using sight words. The other problem that I ran into was I had a couple questions created, but was not able to use because the option was not offered on the edmodo quiz creation. My question was, "Circle all of the words there shown below in the color blue. I then made a little word box with 12 words on it and the student would have to go find the correct word and circle it in the correct color. That would create more of a challenge because it gives them not only a sight word challenge, but also a challenge of knowing their colors.
Give your overall impression of this assignment. I really loved this assignment! I created my first lesson plan. I worked and worked to find the correct things that I wanted to use and tried to make the best questions I possibly could. I was going to test out the quiz on my cousin who is in kindergarten to make sure it was at the grade level it needed to be, but I did not see her in time to quiz her. I really loved that I made my first lesson plan and really enjoyed it. This assignment just makes me that much more excited to become a teacher.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Thursday, January 22, 2015
What does Mobile Learning look like? Mobile learning is basically just learning gone mobile. As the years progress, we seem to be getting less paper and pencil homework and more homework on a computer. Children todays are learning more now on electronic devices than from a book. Mobile learning is when you learn anything from any type of electronic device or use of a website.
What is a podcast? A podcast is just a small audio file for people to open up and listen to. Podcast is a method that uses little money and it makes it easier on the teacher and students by eliminating the hours of long lectures.
What are the advantages or disadvantages to podcasting? The advantages to podcasting are that they are cheap, less distracting for children, helps prevent a teacher from lectures for hours, and some researchers have found that kids retain more information by hearing something and not by reading. The disadvantages to podcast are children could not really be listening to them, which makes them not learn the information taught. Podcast may be a way to prevent long lectures, but that is a part of being a teacher. Why have a podcast, when a teacher is sitting right there that could give the lecture themselves and answer any questions? Another disadvantage to podcast are visualization. A lot of kids retain information better through visual learning and not by listening.
What are the current results of educators who have used podcasting? The current results of educators that have used podcasting are very positive. Using podcast give children a chance to learn at their own pace, which gives them a chance to retain the information better. This also eliminates the problem of a lot of homework each night. Teachers send the podcast home with kids and they listen to it that night. The next day they come in and do homework. This creates more interaction time with students.
How would you begin podcasting? To begin podcasting, I would first figure out how it works. Once I have that all figured out, I will then check to see if it is even possible for all the children in my classroom to be able to watch the podcast each night. Not everyone has a computer, so this would really be my biggest problem. To make sure my kids are actually watching the podcast every night I send one home with them, I will have a time set to review the whole podcast. This way I can help out any student who did not understand any part of the lesson that was on the podcast.
What is a podcast? A podcast is just a small audio file for people to open up and listen to. Podcast is a method that uses little money and it makes it easier on the teacher and students by eliminating the hours of long lectures.
What are the advantages or disadvantages to podcasting? The advantages to podcasting are that they are cheap, less distracting for children, helps prevent a teacher from lectures for hours, and some researchers have found that kids retain more information by hearing something and not by reading. The disadvantages to podcast are children could not really be listening to them, which makes them not learn the information taught. Podcast may be a way to prevent long lectures, but that is a part of being a teacher. Why have a podcast, when a teacher is sitting right there that could give the lecture themselves and answer any questions? Another disadvantage to podcast are visualization. A lot of kids retain information better through visual learning and not by listening.
What are the current results of educators who have used podcasting? The current results of educators that have used podcasting are very positive. Using podcast give children a chance to learn at their own pace, which gives them a chance to retain the information better. This also eliminates the problem of a lot of homework each night. Teachers send the podcast home with kids and they listen to it that night. The next day they come in and do homework. This creates more interaction time with students.
How would you begin podcasting? To begin podcasting, I would first figure out how it works. Once I have that all figured out, I will then check to see if it is even possible for all the children in my classroom to be able to watch the podcast each night. Not everyone has a computer, so this would really be my biggest problem. To make sure my kids are actually watching the podcast every night I send one home with them, I will have a time set to review the whole podcast. This way I can help out any student who did not understand any part of the lesson that was on the podcast.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
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