C4T Teacher #3

Comment #1 Twitter I agree twitter chats are A great way to stay connected and informed in our professional circle. I like being able to communicate with my clasmates, family, friends and celeberties. Twitter is so neat tome. I’ve om=nly been tweeting since January this year so i don’t thinki’m using it tomy full potential. I’m a college student at the University of South Alabama and I take an educational Media class. When we watch different powerpoint about different people we have to see the author a thankyou tweet. My teacher is very creative. Comment #2 “Slideshows for Facebook, Twitter and blogs” I’m a student in EDM310 at the University of south Alabama. Your post was very helpful to me, since I’ve only been using the social networks for a few months. It was all so confusing to me in the begining. I’m getting better but not as good as I would like to be

C4K Summary

My first C4K of March was on Kaitlyn a fourth grader and her post was about 5 things what makes a great teacher. I thought it was really cute that she thought all teachers needed Starbucks coffee. One other thing she named was an educational tent her teacher created and I really liked that it a great way to do creative learning. My second C4K was on Drew. He is the student I will be blogging on for the next three weeks. He and two partners in his class made a song called the Hebrew Song. I really thought this song was creative and interesting. I would like to learn more about the construction of this song. I asked Drew what gave them ideas on the construction but I haven't gotten an answer.

Blog Post #7

Why do networked students even need a teacher? Hi,my name is Byronn Brye and I'm a EDM 310 student at the University of South Alabama. I think that teachers are very important to have in the networking program. The only problem is the teachers must be technologically literate in order to teacher the students to there full knowledge. As we no that it is hard to teach someone something if you your self don't have a clear understanding. I believe that teachers in the 21 century have to have a great understanding of computers in order to be successful in teaching. With the world relying so heavily on computers, everyone will need to have a good understanding of computers. Networking is becoming a very important skill in order for students to become good teachers. Networking is also a great way to hold a meeting or get a point across to lots of people at one time. You can also share ideas with a group of people or your entire classroom. Networking is also a great way to hold conversations with people without meeting face to face. By watching this video on YouTube it makes me want to learn networking even more. Students need the teachers in order to correct problems and help them get better prepared for how to teach.

Summary of C4T

Summary of C4T Lectures are beneficial, but only if the material is presented well and explained thoroughly. I agree with Mr. Young that the messenger is more important than the message. Dr. Mcleod grabbed my attention with the sarcasm and satire. If not caught it could give the wrong understanding of the topic. Sarcasm is pretty self explanatory, but on the other hand satire can be confused and not understood.

Blog Post #6

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Randy Pausch is a lively and happy man even in the eyes of death. Although Randy did not have long to live, he still gave his lectures to help students and teacher get a better grasp on learning new technology. He was always smiling and seemed to be a very positive person to be around. Randy also makes a good point on the football concept. He said that his football coach had practice with no ball because only 2 maybe 3 players ever touch the ball. With that being said, there are 20 more jobs on the football field that don't require the football that have to be learned. Randy Pausch talks about other skills that are very important to consider in teaching. The next skill that was pointed out was called leadership. He used Captain James T. kirk of the star ship enterprise as a great example of leadership. Kirk had all the cool gadjets that it took to be the leader of the spaceship and the entire crew. There was also a point made about students not really knowing a lot about books. Books are becoming extinct due to all the ways they can be downloaded onto your computer from different web sites. Every thing from the lecture to the students assignments for the entire semester are being posted on sites for your entire classroom to view. By posting assignments on the internet, makes attending class sessions somewhat a thing of the past. Randy also mentioned that if you are mad at someone you just didn't give them enough time yet. He also says that there is a good way and a bad way to answer a question. Most teachers answer the questions the bad way because they don't have a logical answer for there students. Randy built a virtual world using 50 students from art, design, drama, and CS. Lots of schools are talking about turning labs and other class rooms in to virtual rooms. Randy was a great thinker that always had teaching on his mind. He was always trying to in store a better way of learning for students and teachers to get on the same page.

C4K Feburary's Post

My CK4 #1 was on a fifth grader named Marlene she was very bright. She discussed Witch Craft very briefly. CK4 #2 was on a forth grader by the name of Peterse. He discussed how he like playing with Lego's, and how he was trying to build a really big ship.I shared with him that my son also loves to play with Lego's. CK4 #3 was done on Igarcia and she discussed reading Dr.Seuss books. I shared my like for those books as well

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Blog Post #5

Who is Scott McLeod

Scott McLeod,JD,PHD, is an Assoicate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Kentucky. Dr. McLeod is also the Founding Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced. Reading Dr.McLeod's blog post makes me realize even more one how important learning computers has become in our everyday lives. He is telling parents not to teach technology to there kids so his kids can be one step ahead in the game of life. For a while as I read his post I was thinking to my self who is this nut case. The closer I got to the middle of his post I realized that he was being sarcastic. There are a lot of parents that don't like there kids on the computer because they think there kids will be exposed to some of the bad things on the Internet. I don't think that is a good enough reason not to let your kids play wit the Internet. All though there is a lot of sites that are not appropriate for kids to be involved with. Most of the sites on the Internet are things that kids will be faced with in real life situations. I'm on Dr.LcLeod side because I agree with kids learning computers so that they won't be left behind.