Mrs. Lori Elliot of Nixa, Missouri has a blog for her fourth-grade class. She has a well of information in her class blog... information for parents, pictures of class outings and projects and student comments about their experiences. You can visit her class's blog at http://teachers.emints.org/F406/elliott/
Mr. C of Noel Elementary has a blog for his class. He has video of his students performing their experiments and their reactions. Some of the experiments were making a boat made out of Ivory soap sink, making a boat out of aluminum foil that floats... and also to see how many marbles/pellets it could hold before it capsized. You can visit his class's blog at http://mrcsclassblog.blogspot.com
Friday, September 19, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Week 3 Blog Assignment
ACCESS is a program set up by Alabama Gov. Boby Riley and State Superintendent of Education, Dr. Joseph B. Morton. It enables students access to instruction and courses that may not be able at their school. ACCESS stands for Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide. You can log on to http://alex.state.al.us/access for more information.
ACCESS provides instruction and coursework to students through the internet and/or videoconferencing by certified instructors called E-teachers. ACCESS provides advanced diploma courses, courses such as Latin or other languages that may not be available at the student's individual school, advanced placement, and remediation and/or supplemental resources and services. It also provides teacher with multimedia and other tools that will help them provide their students with the best instruction possible.
Log on to http://alex.state.al.us/access and check ACCESS out.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Week 4 Blog assigment
I just finished watching the Did You Know video for the fourth time. Wow! Technology is so cool! So many things jumped out at me. I thought that the country that was the richest; had the largest military; was the center of world business and finance; had the strongest education system; whose currency is the world standard of value; and had the highest standard of living would be China. I was surprised to learn that it was Great Britain.
I wasn't suprised that in 10 years it is predicted that China will be the number one English speaking country in the world. I was surprised that 100 % of 2006 college graduates in India speak English.
My son could reconfigure your hard drive by the time he was five. So, I wasn't surprised that by age for over 70% of four-year-olds in the U.S. have used a computer.
When I read that the amount of technology is doubling every two years and that, by 2010, it's supposed to double every 72 hours; I really took note! How are we and our children's educators going to prepare them for the future? How do we prepare them for technologies that don't even exist yet... but will very soon? Those are questions we have to find the answers to very quickly.
Watching the video left me in even more awe of our expanding technologies today. To think that any one of us can sit down at a computer and, in a matter of seconds, be connected to someone on the other side of the globe is just amazing to me. It also helps me realize that we are all part of the human race and share one planet. Well, one planet for now.
I wasn't suprised that in 10 years it is predicted that China will be the number one English speaking country in the world. I was surprised that 100 % of 2006 college graduates in India speak English.
My son could reconfigure your hard drive by the time he was five. So, I wasn't surprised that by age for over 70% of four-year-olds in the U.S. have used a computer.
When I read that the amount of technology is doubling every two years and that, by 2010, it's supposed to double every 72 hours; I really took note! How are we and our children's educators going to prepare them for the future? How do we prepare them for technologies that don't even exist yet... but will very soon? Those are questions we have to find the answers to very quickly.
Watching the video left me in even more awe of our expanding technologies today. To think that any one of us can sit down at a computer and, in a matter of seconds, be connected to someone on the other side of the globe is just amazing to me. It also helps me realize that we are all part of the human race and share one planet. Well, one planet for now.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Check out ALEX
ALEX stands for Alabama Learning Exchange. It is a project of the Alabama Department of Education and is set up to provide teachers, administrators, parents and students with valuable information and resources such as lesson plans, web links and interactive activities that will help educators provide the best quality of learning to their students.
ALEX can be reached at http://alex.state.al.us. You can click on the following links to receive information: Courses of Study, Web Links, Lesson Plans, Personal Workspace, Professional Learning and Distance Learning. There are also Search and Help links.
After you click on the Course of Study link, you can choose the course to be studied and the grade level to be taught. It will give you the goals and standards that are to be met in a time period for that age group along with other information.
After you click the Lesson Plans link, you can create your own lesson plans or use lesson plans that have been posted and modify them to your needs.
Personal Workspace is for you to store and submit lesson plans and websites. It is just what it says it is, your personal workspace.
Professional Learning link gives you some websites that will help you find opportunities for professional development, teaching tools, news and other information.
Clicking on the Distance Learning link takes you to the ACCESS access. ACCESS stands for Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators and Students Statewide. It allows students to participate in Advanced Placement, electives and other courses that may not be available at their school.
Log on to alex.state.al and check ALEX out!
ALEX can be reached at http://alex.state.al.us. You can click on the following links to receive information: Courses of Study, Web Links, Lesson Plans, Personal Workspace, Professional Learning and Distance Learning. There are also Search and Help links.
After you click on the Course of Study link, you can choose the course to be studied and the grade level to be taught. It will give you the goals and standards that are to be met in a time period for that age group along with other information.
After you click the Lesson Plans link, you can create your own lesson plans or use lesson plans that have been posted and modify them to your needs.
Personal Workspace is for you to store and submit lesson plans and websites. It is just what it says it is, your personal workspace.
Professional Learning link gives you some websites that will help you find opportunities for professional development, teaching tools, news and other information.
Clicking on the Distance Learning link takes you to the ACCESS access. ACCESS stands for Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators and Students Statewide. It allows students to participate in Advanced Placement, electives and other courses that may not be available at their school.
Log on to alex.state.al and check ALEX out!
Monday, August 18, 2008
Jenni's blog for edm310
My name is Jennifer (Jenni) Lenox. I am 37 years old. After my son, Jonah, was diagnosed with Autism at age 3, I dropped out of the University of South Alabama where I was majoring in Elementary Education and quit work to focus on getting my son through the 'critical period'... which is between the ages of 2 and 5 for autistic children. Jonah is now 8 1/2. I am returning to South to complete my education and am now majoring in Special Education. My hope is to teach autistic children.
For those of you who are not familiar with Autism, it is a Pervasive Developmental Disorder that affects 1 out of every 150 births in the United States today. It is more prevalent than all the forms of childhood cancers, heart disease and diabetes COMBINED! It is a spectrum disorder that ranges from very mild (commonly refered to as Asperger's Syndrome or High Functioning Autism) to severe. Contrary to popular belief, there really is no such thing as Classic Autism. You could have a thousand people with Autism in a room and you'd have a thousand different variations of the disorder.
Jonah is on the moderate to severe end of the spectrum. When he was first diagnosed, he had very little language. He only used about ten words. I say used because he said many words, but they were not functional. He would just spout them out, echo what he heard. Now he has a vocabulary of hundreds of words and speaks in sentences. He still has a long way to go, but he's come a long way.
The most common form of therapy, or method, used in teaching children with Autism is called ABA or Applied Behavior Analysis. You can find out more information on Autism and ABA at autismspeaks.org.
For those of you who are not familiar with Autism, it is a Pervasive Developmental Disorder that affects 1 out of every 150 births in the United States today. It is more prevalent than all the forms of childhood cancers, heart disease and diabetes COMBINED! It is a spectrum disorder that ranges from very mild (commonly refered to as Asperger's Syndrome or High Functioning Autism) to severe. Contrary to popular belief, there really is no such thing as Classic Autism. You could have a thousand people with Autism in a room and you'd have a thousand different variations of the disorder.
Jonah is on the moderate to severe end of the spectrum. When he was first diagnosed, he had very little language. He only used about ten words. I say used because he said many words, but they were not functional. He would just spout them out, echo what he heard. Now he has a vocabulary of hundreds of words and speaks in sentences. He still has a long way to go, but he's come a long way.
The most common form of therapy, or method, used in teaching children with Autism is called ABA or Applied Behavior Analysis. You can find out more information on Autism and ABA at autismspeaks.org.
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