Grade 9-12 podcast

For thousands of years, travelers have been hearing noises in the desert. It sounds like the wind, but it's not. Its the sand dunes. A research team came from California to observe what is causing all the noise. So they go to Death Valley in California to do some research on the different types of dunes and what is responsible for the sounds.
It is due to the Booming dunes. There are a couple of layers to a dune. There is a soft top layer and a hard moist layer that keeps the sand from caving in or sliding. The researchers say that They make sounds because all the sand particle are the same size, that way they can make the same sound.

Thanksgiving Blog

My experience in this class by itself was very difficult. I did not have any clue of what is a blogg, let alone how to write one. My perspective of this class was to learn other things that we as future educators would use in the class room. Not to say that we will not use different forms of technology, but I was perseived as to learn about spreadsheet, powerpoint, access, excel, just microsoft itself. However my experience in this class was interesting. The topics however were challenging.
The first part of the class was fun, learning about google and doing everything in google. But the blog topics in the first half of the class were relatively simple and rutine. Topics like ACCESS AND ALEX. Basically the beginning of October the topics became more demanding. These topics pertained information on technology, mainly podcast. I've just now hearing about The IPhone and Itunes just being in this class.
However I'm not the only one that has that type of problem in this class. The good thing about blogs is that you can voice your own opinions about anything within reason. People can observe how your mind works, meaning if you have a knowledge of the subject at hand. A blog is just merely an online diary to certain extent. However there are rules to what you put on the web.
That's one of the bad espects of blogging. People are willing to put anything on it. And that kind of information may ruin a persons' reputation professionally. It is our resposibility as adults to know what is appropriate to put out there.

Standford University podcast

The issue is getting ahead in school and how we are creating a generation of stressed out materialistic students. Students engaging in productive activities in school not just for a grade, but because they want to because they love it.
Students always are going to have a hidden agenda when it comes to school. And it al depends on motivation, what motivate a student to perform well in school.
The answer is not that simple. It depends on the student. One may feel the need to get out of a bad situation, like the environment at home, others may do well because they are athletes, and have to make good grade to stay on the team.
However, motivation can make a person do bad things, if they do not like school, they may be motivated to act out or disrupt class.

Wikipedia Scanner

Wikipedia can not be trusted. That's my opinion. There are alot of more sources that students can find information pertaining to research. Wikipedia sometimes do not have their fact straight. Some professors do not allow student to use Wikipedia for their papers, not because of pragerism but it isn't a reliable source.

Correcting Links That Do not Work

The four important reasons that the links do not work:

1. The link is not correctly spelled.
2. Nothing is placed between the two parts of a tag.
Apple's Web Site.
3. You forgot to include http:// in the address. It must be included.

International class bloggs

http://goddessmirador.gaia.com/blog/2008/9/my_k-1_international_classroom_in_niger_west_africa

This website talks about a K-1 blogg in Niger, W. Africa. The website starts of with this passage: "ANOTHER WAY 2 CELEBRATE our Beautiful Oneness... I am working on a website for my classroom. Each day I play the role I have been given right now as a K-1 teacher at the American International School in Niger. I count all my blessings among children from all corners of the world." On the side of the site it lists all the rent and not so recent posts. One post for example: LONG LIFE,USA! LONG LIFE Obama, where it talks middle school students at the American International School in Niamey, NIGER /West Africa came in before 5:30 AM to be able to watch the election results and Obama's touching speech on TV. We all shared breakfast in our small TV room in the Community Center.

Blogging in the classroom

http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/weblogs/

This website breaks down blogging in simple English. On the website it breaks down all the catagories of using blogging as a personal learning network. The man on the website states on the website that Blogs as personal learning networks can change that and open you up to a whole new world of possibilities. At the same time, he introduced the concept of a personal learning network. Facilitated by blogs and RSS Feeds, the purpose of the PLN is professional development within your area of interest. This idea of building your own professional development network--where you find who you can learn from, ask questions of them, comment on their thoughts and links, and have them do the same for you--is one of the major benefits of blogging and podcasting. It is the art of conversation captured in digital format.

http://supportblogging.com/Links+to+School+Bloggers
The second website I found was this one. It talks about supporting blogging. And also give a number of catagories including different class bloggs.

Randy Pausch’s Lecture

The lecture was broken up into three parts: 1.My childhood dreams. 2. Enabling the dreams of others, and 3. Lessons learned: how you can achieve your dreams or enable the dreams of others.
The inphasis of "My childhood dreams" was the fact that children are always going to have childhood dream when they start school. You probably have heard children say "I want to be a doctor when I grow up," or I want to be a fireman, or even a lawyer. I the video he gives a list of things that he dreamed of being. One of which was to be Captain Cerk off of Star Track. But in the end he became an educator.One of the phrases he said about learning is Its all about the fundamental because if you don't know the them the fantsy stuff won't work.
The second topic he talks about was enabling the dreams of others. Basically helping others forefill there goals in life. It is our job as future educator and educators not to crush every students dream but to help them achieve tasks to there full potential.
He talks about a coach that coach him football that road him hard all through high school. He was tell another administrator about it. And the administrator told him some valuable information. He said, "That was a good thing because if you screw it up and no one is saying anything to you that means they've given up. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

The fischbowl Video

The question of the movie is "Did you Know, and alot of Americans, espicially students don't know the exstent of what was presented in this movie. The movie talks about globalization in what is described as Third World Countries. For example India, And China. Alot of American jobs are going over there, as well as our language. In the process the people that already live there are loosing their sense of tradition and heritage.
I have mixed feeling about what is going on over there. Globalization has been going on since the colonial period. The British empire was built on globalization, and it crossed over to the USA. The US learned from the European nations. And now the US is the modern day British empire.

Alex

Alex is a web site that teachers use to instruct students in the class room. It is designed to to break down the curriculum of any subject that a teacher teaches. Alex gives good example for lesson plans and different assessments to use in the class room daily. Alex is a useful tool to use for not only first time teachers but also teachers that have been teaching for a long time.
My over all opinion of Alex is very satisfactory. The website is set up very easily and is organized in a way that even a child can understand how to use it. Alex is a good site.

Access

ACCESS Distance Learning (Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide) is an education initiative of the Alabama Department of Education. It provides opportunities and options for Alabama public high school students to engage in Advanced Placement (AP), elective, and other courses to which they may not otherwise have access. The website is broken up into different expansion sitess. These sites are titled Plan and implementations, where it discusses that different plans for that year and the objectives, what they plan to do. The website is a very useful tool for teachers to use in and outside the class room. Especially for uper high school students.

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