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Blog Assignment 9

"What I've Learned this Year"
In this post I learned many things. While in the first year of teaching, they learned many things. Be flexible is the most important thing that I got out of this post. Things are likely to change at any moment of time and with that change, you have to be willing to adapt to that change. Other things that were in this post were to listen to your students, be a good listener, and be reasonable.

SMARTBoard Presentation

This project was fun but also a challenge for me. I was glad to be able to get some experience in working with Smart boards. The challenge was learning how to work the technology. Gathering the lesson together was fun, and working with the different tools was a new learning experience that I was happy to get the chance to do.
The responses that we got from our form was that our people were wanting to teach high school, and middle school. As far as working with the smart board many responses were given as to how people were going to use the smart board in their classroom. Everyone that answered the form said that they would definitly be using the SMART board in some way in their classroom.
I learned from this survey that it is helpful to get other people's opinion about how they would be using this new piece of technology. It was helpful for me to see other people's views on using this and how they would be using this in the future.

Blog Assignment 8

This is how we dream
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHvoBPjhsBA&feature=player_embedded#at=175
       This video shows that people are more abiding by their laptops to use for everything such as to read books, or to compose books or articles. It shows me that soon, computers will be used for a lot of things as to now when paper and pencil are more predominately being used. Using computers for more things such as computer articles or simply just composing an extended piece of an article from a news story is what is starting to happen in many different areas in the world.
        People are now wanting to share their ideas to allow many different people to access them, but to also give these people the chance to learn from one another. Sharing ideas of writing, teaching styles, and of internet programs is helping many people to share with people not only in the United States but also around the world.
        I like this idea because of the way that people are getting the chance to learn many different things from many different people around the world. Allowing ideas to be shared gives people the chance to see different ideas maybe in a way that was never seen before. This is a way to learn how to allow the ideas of one person to be shared with another.

The Chipper Series
http://gallery.me.com/jstrange#101120
EDM 310 for dummies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqhMRj-Ne38&feature=player_embedded
       I think the primary purpose of both of these videos is to keep up with your work and to not fall behind. I also think that the class does not need to overwhelm you with the work, but just to keep up with the work.

Learn to change, change to learn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHiby3m_RyM&feature=player_embedded%23!
       This video talks about the many changes in the world of education, and that the world of education is changing every day. The educators that are focused on in the video, are talking about the many changes that are happening and how people need to be aware of this, and how it is helping to change the world.

The Secret Powers of Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg&feature=channel
     This video talks about how some people are focused on the past, the present, and the future. The people who focus on the past are focused on the things that went wrong or regret. The people who are focused on the present are focused on the things that are happening now and the things that are happening around them. The people who are focused on the future are worried about what is going to happen and what will happen. I try to worry about the present and just getting through each day that comes.

The Surprising Truth about what motivates us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc&feature=channel
      This video talks about what motivates us. The video talks about the different tasks that people are either asked to do or perform, and what is the motivation behind these tasks.
    

Progress of Project 10

I have started putting together my PLN. I hope to have it fully set up by the end of this week. I have put all of my school work related websites at the top of my page in order for me to see what I have to do and motivate me to get the work done. Any other website is below the school websites.

Short Movie Project 11

Blog Assignment 7

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
     

In this lecture, Randy talks about how children's dreams change as they get older. He says that their dreams may start out as one thing and completely change to another in a matter of time. Randy says that when children start to create their dreams, that sometimes they are far out of their reach but to tell children that anything is possible and to never give up on your dreams. Any dream can be altered or changed but in the end the dream will still have the same over all goal to the child, and that will be what they want to do no matter what.
      Being an imagineer is the second part of the lecture. This part summarizes that using the dreams can help to achieve any part of the dream to help the dream to become reality. If a child has a dream of creating a fashion line, then some of the first parts of achieving this dream is to see the dream on paper. Then the next step is to send the sketches out to get the ideas and designs out for other people to see. Once this part is done then, the rest will be up to the designer.
       Enabling the childhood dreams of others is the third way in this lecture. He says that in this part that he will build a course called building virtual worlds. In this course he says that the students in this course, the projects are changed with the students every two weeks. He says that in changing up the people on the projects that are due every two weeks helps the children to expand their imagination and their creativity. He says that by him pushing the students to do their very best, then he got the best work that he had ever got out of the class.
        On other part of his lecture was The Dream Fullfilment Factory. This is when he says that he puts students together in working in teams and putting together objects that allows more than one person to come together to allow everybody's dreams to be put together into one great project. I really enjoyed this video. It shows that even though dreams start out small, they can grow into something tremendous. Dreams are something that should never be put to the side but rather should be expanded and put into a higher level of achieving the best dream that can be made possible.