Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Presentation Ideas

One of the ideas I liked from the presentation was to have the students perform a play, the teacher records them, and then fluency and speaking are discussed. The students can then watch themselves and critique how they sound and what they need to improve on with reference to their oral speaking, fluctuation, and voice.
Another idea I liked was doing an interactive writing with the students by having it projected on the big screen. Have students write on the marker board to emphasize, or change words. They all can see the text and be involved. It would be easier to read or write as a class by doing this.

Technology Presentation

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

"Doing" Internet Safety

My 17 year old sister and I had a good discussion about media and its influences. She was willing to listen to what I had learned, but wasn't that interested. She doesn't realize how dangerous things are or how concerned the church leaders are about the media. It was hard trying to convince her of that, but she committed to be more careful and set a good example with her friends and what they're doing with the media. So overall it was a valuable conversation and I think she did learn something and is going to at least be a little more consious of types of media she is being involved in.

Internet Safety

-What article did you choose?
"Leave It Alone" by Elder H. Burke Peterson

-What were the most important things you learned from the readings?
Satan will try to slowly win you over, and he's been successful at it. Don't go anywhere near bad or questionable material, just stay away. The light in each of us will grow dimmer each time because the darkness increases each time we have anything to do with this type of material. The media is really negativelly effecting families and this is the basic unit of eternity so we need to prevent our families from taking part in this evil material. Refuse to support the things with questionable material. The suggestions on the "Pornography" article were great and I think can just be summed up with educate your children and always be aware of them and what they are dealing with in media. Presiding in the home and with media was an interesting concept that I think is important to remember. I need to be aware of the new forms of media and learn what is popular and know how to set standards for my family.

-How will what you have read influence your actions as a parent and/or teacher of children and youth?
I will definitely be more aware. Know when kids are dealing with media and be sure that the content is alright. I will not watch or have anything to do with questionable material becaues that would be the wrong example for my kids/students. Children need to know of the dangers and the bad material that is out there and know what to do when they encounter it. I need to take every precaution to keep children away, but make sure that they're educated enough that they know what type of material is inappropriate and how to stay away.

-How can you use what you have learned from the reading to have a positive influence on family and friends?
Many of my siblings have children and I can be sure that they know of the dangers with the media and that they are educating their own children. I can also be a good example to my friends now and not take part in any material or media that is inappropriate or even borderline. I can stay away from bad material now in preparation for my future family. I will make sure that my future children are aware of risks and educated about media and ready to resist it.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Plan for technology assignment

For my integrating technology I'm going to do it along with science. My class has just planted seeds and they are monitoring their growth-So next week when there's been a little more growth with the plants I am going to have all the students to a journal write about their plants and what's happened- and some of the students will get to post the information on the class blog.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Technology Lesson Idea

I am in Miss Clayton's first grade class and it would definitely be possible to have the class help with the blog that Miss Clayton has. Right now each student is growing a plant for science and I think they would love it if they got to write updates of the experience on the class blog. The students love typing and working on computers-so this is just something simple they could all participate in. Some could help upload images of their plants, others could be keeping track of them or come up with learned information about the plants. This could be done on the classroom computers or we could reserve the school laptops and teach the students how to do it all at the same time as a class.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Technology Inventory

While doing this inventory I was actually surprised at the resources that were available and the knowledge of my teacher. I don't really remember working on computers at all or doing a whole lot at all technology based in elementary school. I think with the way we are all living now it is vital to teach children using technology, but also teach them how to use it.
With all the resources that are available in my school it's simple for the teachers to get help or get access to things and to utilize it in their content. Overall my school does have quality resources and I think that helps in teaching the most effectively.