Presentation project #3

My passion and my sentence

Blog post #5

       One way that teachers get help and explore each others work is by developing a personal learning network. It is those people,places,organizations and activities which enable you to learn. Since I have learned to use twitter, and have my own blog I am now learning how to build my own PLN. It's great being able to communicate with other professionals around the world like  Michael Fawcett; who discusses his PLN by saying he stayed connected, he communicated, and asked questions. Fawcett not only listened but he made suggestions himself. he added new sites and exchanged ideas, with a new network of teachers. He also got a question answered for a student. The student asked, what time did Neil Armstrong land on the moon? The answer came from NASA. He also said that PLN can be eye opening and inspiring.

c4t#1a post blog comments for number 1 and 2

1.In my comment I talked about how technology has really been helpful to me and those of my generation. I talked about how i liked the two questions and agreed on how changes do need to be made in the budget. I stated my convictions of how teachers need to be more educated when it comes to technology.

2.In this comment i talked about how a high school graduate had told me that computers where taken out of his school because of funding. He looked at my blog and said he wished he had learned this in high school.I than stated my conviction that technology should be brought into classrooms not out because they bring a freshness to the classroom.

Blog Post # 4

Asking questions : What questions do we ask ? How do we ask ?

The driving question is, what do we need to know about asking questions to be an effective teacher ?

     Three ways to ask better questions in the classroom. By : Maryellen Weimer, PhD

      Weimer recommends three actions that have the potential to improve our guestioning. Those actions are 1. Prepared questions 2. Play with questions 3. Preserve good questions. Weimer points out that she never prepared questions, she just asked whatever came to her at the moment. Some of the questions were stimulating and provocative; some were not clear at all. She was not surprised when the students looked confused. Weimer read an article by Bill Wetty, that motivated her to try going to class with prepared questions. She found out when you write a question it makes it clearer. Playing with a question means leaving it unanswered for a while and giving the students time to think about it. She lets us know that sometimes when a question is answered so quickly, it is soon forgotten.Sometimes questions like this maybe asked at the beginning of class, but the answer is revealed at the end. A good question can be preserved. The question can be asked in another class even in a different way. Weimer also gives credit to students asking really good questions. Asking good questions help students see the importance of questions, how they make us think and help us learn.

      Asking questions to improve learning, General strategies for asking questions

       When planning questions keep in mind your goals, do you want students to master core concepts? and develop their critical thinking skills ? It is important to ask questions to practice these skills as well as communicate to the facts, ideas, and important ways of thinking so they can learn.Avoid leading questions, the questions that tell the answers. If a question is answered with a yes or no, always as another question to see why the answer was yes or no. For example the student to give you an explanation for the yes or no answer. As the teacher make sure you aim for direct, clear, and specific questions. Make sure these questions come one at a time. Sometimes students get confused and don't know which question you want them to answer. Don't ask questions during the entire class period, this will take away from your teaching or lectures. Don't save the last few minutes of class for questions. Students are unlikely to ask questions when they know class time is about to end.

Project#15- search engines

       

 
     iseek is a search engine that complies hundreds of thousands of authoritative resources from university, government and established noncommercial providers. It provides time-saving intelligent search and a personal web-based library to help you locate the most relevant results immediately and find them quickly later. iseek looks deeper than traditional engines which just skim the surface of the web, to produce the most specific and relevant results available.

     American memory is a search engine that provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. American Memory will continue to expand online historical content as an integral component of the library of congress, to harnessing new technology as it fulfills its mission for future generations.

     ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. Thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been answering questions for thousands of students. ipl2 is basically a volunteered student-driven project.

     Reefseek is a unique approach that offers students comprehensive subject coverage without the information overload of a general search engine- increasing the visibility of academic information and compelling ideas that get lost in a muddle of sponsored links and commercial results

     African journals is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the online visibility of an access to the published scholarly research of African-based academics; this is done by using the internet as a gateway. Ajol aims to enhance conditions for Africans learning to be translated into African development

     Sortfix is one of the more useful search engines for students because it provides relevant, streamline search results. It does this by analyzing the keywords in the search results. This gives the student the ability to focus on or remove, certain keywords. It declares that Google, Bing, and Yahoo may not always be the best pick for students. It is visually appealing and much more user-friendly for younger users.

     QuinturaKids  is another great search engine for visual learners and it works like Sortfix. It is a brain stormer for the classroom. It catches the students attention by using words in clouds. The student will click the word and the search is on. It is one of the safest search engines for education.

      WolframAlpha- Its basic goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone It's aim is to bring expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people- spamming all professions and education levels. It's goal is to create something that will stand as a major milestones of the 21st century intellectual achievement. It makes the world's knowledge computable.
   

Blog Post 3

                             In reference to the video, Peer Editing, peer editing is a smart way to get students of their own peers to correct each others writing without being to critical. Always remember to treat others the way you would like to be treated. Don't start by reading their papers and picking out all the mistakes right away. Start by letting them know what they have done correct; for example, maybe they have beautiful hand writing or spell very well.Stay positive even if you had to make some suggestions .They may need to work on improving their main idea, punctuation, and grammar. Let them know that you are their to help.
                               We all make mistakes, that's why we need others to edit our writing. Sometimes others can find mistakes that we haven't seen. The slide show peer edit with perfection tutorial stated;we can change someone else's work by considering their feelings. It also brought out things like, telling a person when their paper has good details. You may also say things like your choice of words go very well with your subject. Find more likes then dislikes as you can be more helpful being positive. Doing this doesn't mean writing the paper for them but showing them how it should be done.