Project 15 part 2: Smartboard lesson plan video

my group Katie Carlee, Jeffrey Dorsey (me), and Courtney Williams did a social studies lesson plan with the lesson objective of educating children on what to do in the case of 3 natural disasters: hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes.

Blog Post #13

This article basically talks about the pros and cons of online teaching. It tells how online teaching can benefit school systems and how it can improve drop out rates. Online teaching could take away from jobs for teachers. In this article they also talk about how online teaching can make students anti-social. I think that online teaching is a good and bad thing. The reason I think it's good, is because a person has more time. A lot of people can budget there work better because they're on the on time. The reason it's bad is because anyone could be doing your work for you. A person could have all A's and get accepted into a great college but once they get there they can't do the work. I think that everyone needs to know how to do online work, but eventually hands on work will be what a person needs.

Blog Post #12

1. Watch this video: Top Ten Tips
Write a paragraph on how these tips can help you over time.

I think that these tips will become very useful over time. Learning to use these different things will always stick with you. A teacher could also teach someone else these methods. When you learn some of these things, a person can be effective from other places also. An example would be a teacher could go out of town and still give her class a lesson by streaming a video to them. I think that these tips are very handy and can really help a lot of people in there future.

Progress on Final Project

There are three people in our group. We have been talking about our final project for a while now. We all have decided to come together this week to try and finish everything in the lab. I think we will have a great final project.

Mrs. Yollis Classroom Blog

In Mrs. Yollis Classroom Blog she prepares her students for the best. I noticed that she explained Veterans Day and provides a movie for anyone viewing her blog. She has also taught her students how to Skype with other children in Australia. I think this is great because these children can learn a lot from each other. They talked about different places and they also talked about there population differences. Mrs. Yollis class has taken a special time out the year, to collect coins for the United Nation Children Fund. They actually received well over their set goal. I think the idea of family blogging is great. Mrs. Yollis class has a specific month, where the children blog there family.

Skype Interview

C4K Summary #2

I really enjoy commenting on these children pages. It's something new for each and every student. These students have great ideas at such a young age. I wouldn't change commenting on these children blogs for anything. This is a great experience to comment on such intelligent children pages. I look forward to commenting on more children blogs.

Blog Post #11

In Ms.Cassidy Skype interview, She explains how she got involved with technology about ten years ago. She has been blogging for about five years, and she has been doing video's for about two years. She really enjoys doing what she does. She says that other teachers and parents really support what she's doing. She explained that she keeps her children safe by just letting them post there first name on there profile. She also doesn't allow here children to post pictures of themselves on there profile. I think if I had to teach this in my class, I would use the same techniques to protect my children. This technique can keep others from trying to track these young children down. Ms.Cassidy feels that every teacher should be technology literate. I agree with her on this because our world is getting smarter and smarter everyday and we need to know how to handle this.