Comment for Kids Summary Post

http://mcclungsworld.com/
For my first comment, I posted to Mr. McClung's blog under the post Just Like Riding a Bike. In this post he talked about how he had some time off because he had a student teacher. He was anxious about getting back to his class so that he could work with them again. He was very passionate about getting to work with his students again.


http://thompson67.edublogs.org/
For my second comment, I posted to Hannah's blog.


For my third comment I posted to Mrs. Yollis blog post about family blogging month, and how she is trying to get families more involved with blogging and communicating with one another.

http://gracieonthego.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-new-mascot.html
For my final post I posted to Grace's blog post about her new mascot. In my post, I said how I have many different favorite animals, and although they do not go everywhere with me, they are still in my room.

Blog Assignment 13

http://alex.state.al.us/index.php
This website, is a tool for students and teachers to use. It has information on many different subjects with different information to use. It can also be used as just a search engine. It can be used as a workplace for teachers. It has podcast videos on many different subjects. In the podcast treasury, it shows podcasts for many different things, but also showcases certain places in Alabama such as the exploreum. This will be a useful tool for a teacher as to getting ideas for lesson plans, getting information for helping students or teachers to learn on any subject or on the subject that is being taught. The lesson plan tab can help a teacher to look up a certain lesson plan by the subject, and the grade they are teaching. It also gives other information while searching for the lesson plan that the teacher is trying to find.

Progress report on final project

Myself,Abby Jordan, and Kevin White will be getting together this week to discuss ideas on what we would like to do for the final project. We have been looking at other students projects trying to come up with ideas and will hopefully have the project started and finished by the end of this week.

Blog Assignment 12

An assignment that I would have liked to do would have been to write one or two paragraphs on why you chose to go to college.

I chose to go to college not only to help me get a chance at a better career, but to also be the first one from my family to get a college degree. Getting a college degree would be a huge accomplishment for me. I chose to go to college because I knew that I could advance myself in getting a better career when I finish college. Completing college would give me a tremendous boost of confidence in knowing that I set my goal and I was able to achieve it.

Blog Assignment 11

First Graders in Ms. Cassidy's Class
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvPZtTej0jQ&feature=player_embedded
All of the things mentioned by Mrs. Cassidy in the video and the skype conversation were very interesting. I think the way that they use skype in the classroom is very interesting. The way that the children are so very invested in all of what they do in the classroom I think is very good in getting the children to learn more about technology and how to use it better.

Special Assignment

1. Mr. McClung is an organized person but I think that he is also very flexible. I think he is very organized in the sense that he makes sure his posts are very easy to understand, and that he is also flexible with his schuedule has very many activities but he also keeps everything in check.
2. I think Mr. McClung is a very well educated educator. He keeps his lessons not only in the classroom but tries to relate what he is talking about with what is going on in the world.
3. I think Mr. McClung is very connected with his students. When I read these rules for his classroom, I think they are good. I think the rules will help students to be able to learn quickly and on their feet.
4. The first thing everyone needs is a dayplanner. I think this is essential to keep up with important due dates and to keep up with classwork.
5. The penalties for being late are a loss of a letter grade for every day of being late for an assignment. I think this is good in the sense that it will keep students aware of keeping up with their assignments.
6. Mr. McClung wants to accomplish with his blog, sharing of resources, and educational information. I think this is very interesting because the blog not only gives educational information, but also gives information that kids find cool.
7. I reviewed ANT and Convince Me. ANT is useful because it is a search engine. I think that this made his list because it will gave students the chance to search for anything that they have questions about. The other link that I reviewed was Convince Me. This link is helpful because it helps to review certain concepts in a debate. I think this made the list because it will help students to see all of the different sides or opionions of any argument.
8. I would not take away anything from these rules.
10. I think Mr. McClung does a wonderful job with his blog.
11. He makes his blog very useful by giving parents information about how the students are doing in his class and lots of links as to how to help.
12. There are differences in how students do their assignments and how they portray their thoughts on each assignment.
13. Mr. McClung has done a great job with his blog and the best part about it is how well organized it is.

Teach Someone Something

Comments for Teachers summary post

In my first post on Paige Baggett's blog, I posted about Mr Ricky who is an artist who is blind by circumstances that happened in his life. However he uses his talents to talk to children and inspire them by showing them how he paints by using the feeling of the texture of the paint.

In my second post I posted about how music can be the voice of many emotions that anyone is feeling. Music is many times what helps me to get through bad days and to make me feel better.

Blog Assignment 10

In this post, I see that school of today was very different than the school of yesterday. I think this is all of the sense that things are changing every day in many different ways like technology, and social aspects. I do not think I would have dropped out of school, but I do understand some of his points that he made in the video.

Tom Johnson
I think this post is very interesting. I liked how the problem was resolved with the pencils. I also think that the idea of keeping the children interested in projects is very important to keep children focused on what their final projects will be.