Monday, April 27, 2009

Coastal Habitat Restoration Blog

Coastal Habitat Restoration GIS, this website is very helpful and would be a very good website for any teacher to use in their classroom. I like the links that are on it especially the Texas Beach Watch website. Living here in Corpus Christi, Texas and having no idea about this site is helpful to learn about the water quality at the beach. This site is put together well and it does have tons of information, but it is pretty easy to move around in. You don't seem to get lost as you are going thru the site. The pictures of the different beaches with the data is very detailed. I learned things I had no clue about, so I can imagine the students.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Students voicethread

working with student

I have had many issues with this project, but I think I have finally finished. Ihad issues with finding a CCMS student, so I decided to use the ones that I work with everyday. I started working with a boy named Alex and we did alot of the research on volcanoes and then when it was time to do the voicethread Alex was absent. Then I decided to pull another student and work with them on the voicethread. We decided to go over the research and then I taught her about voicethreads. It ended up working out in the end.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Finally

I finally have a child to work with. After awhile of waiting for responses, I have a child. I really am excited to start and teach him something new. We have done the start up blog, as well as first post we are now gathering the information that we need to do a voicethread and movie. I am feeling a little overwhelmed because we have to find the information and do the assignment. I feel like it is a great learning expierence for the student and I.

Monday, April 6, 2009

CCMS Project

I emailed my parent on Monday. I recieved an email back on Thursday evening that the parent talked to the child and they did not want to be involved. Which is fine I have a child and completely understand a parent signing a child up for something and it back firing. I now have the task of finding out an email for a new student I have been assigned. I hope this works out because I am runnign out of time. I feel somewhat stressed because I have a nine year old and work as a special ed para full time. Oh and do not forget I go to college three nights a week, I am taking twelve hours. I love the technology I have learned, but if I feel the pressure. I hope to have a happier post this week.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Monday, March 23, 2009

Spreadsheets

This is my wedding budget with graph. I think using spreadsheets in the classroom will be beneficial to the children. You can compare numbers, calculate as well as modify when you need to. Spreadsheets are a nice tool to learn about technology. Learning about formulas is something many do not know as adults now, but teaching your students will help them greatly throughout life.

My unit theme is weather. This would be beneficial in collecting data. Things such as rain and all other weather data could be put on the spreadsheets. I could have them record the tempature outside for a week and then put it into a spreedsheet. This could work with wind or rain as well.

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