Sunday, May 3, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
CHRGIS Enhamcement Presentation
Tonight Deidre Williams came and spoke with us about the CHRGIS site. The talk was fascinating and allowed for another website for usage within the science TEKS area. I can see usage of this within the water ecosystems and Erosion section. I would have to do some more thinking on this, however, I can see this being valuable data for use within the classroom.
I would love seeing the use of the areal photos within a movie to show the migration of the sand over time and how the beach begins to take on natural formation.
I also would love to see the different types of sand used within a game to match to beaches in the area.
Another idea would be to see how the creation of University beach has changed the underwater ecosystem.
There are many idea..I just have figure out what more we could do.
I would love seeing the use of the areal photos within a movie to show the migration of the sand over time and how the beach begins to take on natural formation.
I also would love to see the different types of sand used within a game to match to beaches in the area.
Another idea would be to see how the creation of University beach has changed the underwater ecosystem.
There are many idea..I just have figure out what more we could do.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Time passes too qucikly
This has been a difficult assignment. I am trying to work with the student, but the amount of time with all the other responsibilities I have and he has really causes problems. I have emailed my student and I am trying to get information from him. I am hoping this will be tomorrow or later. I am hoping to have the voicethread done by this weekend. I am sure it won't be done by the 16th.
Overall this would be an okay assignment, but it needs to come with a greater length of time for it to be done.
One I would do the KWL with the student and then assign the research to the student. (first week)
Second, once the student has had a week to research I would then create the blog with them. (second week)
After, this I would allow the student to take one day each to blog on each topic within his project. (second and third week)
Next, I would have the student pick one topic to do a voice thread..say wars or tools/weapons. (fourth week)
Then, we would do a slidecast of the the one famous person. (fifth week)
Lastly, I would require at least two comments from students involved in the project each week.
Overall this would be an okay assignment, but it needs to come with a greater length of time for it to be done.
One I would do the KWL with the student and then assign the research to the student. (first week)
Second, once the student has had a week to research I would then create the blog with them. (second week)
After, this I would allow the student to take one day each to blog on each topic within his project. (second and third week)
Next, I would have the student pick one topic to do a voice thread..say wars or tools/weapons. (fourth week)
Then, we would do a slidecast of the the one famous person. (fifth week)
Lastly, I would require at least two comments from students involved in the project each week.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Service Project Meeting
I just finished with my student, Matthew, that I am working with. His topic is Native American Stories. He has to research the following areas on Cherokee Indians: war, where and when they lived, shelter, language, culture, tools/weapons, one famous person, clothing, tribal leaders, art, religion, and myths & legends. My student said he didn't know anything. In fact, it was difficult to get him to speak about his project.
I am still not quite sure about the parameters of the project. However, I am planning on diving in and doing the best I can for my student. His father and mother were very receptive and I am sure we will be able to get him to a nice design.
The one thing we did do today was establish his blog site and get his first blog on it. This was also the most difficult as we had problems with email addresses and he couldn't remember his. After about 15 minutes of working on it we finally settled on his fathers email address and will be working from there. I will also be helping Matthew add in his K-W-L chart.
I am still not quite sure about the parameters of the project. However, I am planning on diving in and doing the best I can for my student. His father and mother were very receptive and I am sure we will be able to get him to a nice design.
The one thing we did do today was establish his blog site and get his first blog on it. This was also the most difficult as we had problems with email addresses and he couldn't remember his. After about 15 minutes of working on it we finally settled on his fathers email address and will be working from there. I will also be helping Matthew add in his K-W-L chart.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Spring 2009 Service Project
Well this week we are entering into the realm of service projects. We are selecting and will be working with students from the Corpus Christi Montessori School and/or students from the Early Childhood Development Center. I am looking forward to this project as I will be working with a student whom is researching Native American Stories. I can't wait to begin this new project and to see the resulting projects from hardwork.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Spreadsheets and Googledocs??
I have to tell you all this has been one rip roarin' wild ride on the side of Spring Break to figure everything out in Excel. I think I have figured items out, however, Google Docs hates charts. Yeah, just can't stand them! Which for such a sophisticated program you would think is weird.
Now, I decided to do My Teacher Budget with this wild amount of $10,000.00 as my first year start up costs. Yes, many of you are out there saying your dreaming Becky. Since most teachers get only $200.00 to $150.00 from their schools. True, but in my dream world I live in the country in a log cabin with a nice wrap around porch to sit back on, all the kids in my classroom come ready to learn, and the President of the United States just consulted me on my secret meatloaf recipe......HA!
As for doing a teacher budget instead of a wedding budget, those of you who know me know the wedding budget is not in the cards. The teacher budget was something I really thought about. Graduation is just around the corner and starting out as a first year teacher can be kind of expensive. Especially in the Social Studies realm. So I decided to look at the categories of Apparel, transportation, videos, books, recordings, technology, professional development (not paid by the school district), Office supplies, Networking, Associations and clubs, and then miscellaneous. The spread sheet took me five hours to figure out, even with the tutoring videos. The charts about an hour. So I made two. I would recommend this be done in relation with the technology teacher training students. Once they have a basic idea of what their doing, then you can help to reinforce this skill by setting out a project with some basic items within the template.
Now Three Guiding Questions to help with the Template:
1) What do you want to measure? This could be the differences in what types of music in their CD collection to the number of women in the first wave, second wave and third wave that participated and what they participated in the women's rights movement for.
2) Is the thing you have chosen measureable? One must have a true handle on what they are measuring and whether it is a measureable concept. In measureable I can see things like How many women employed in 1880? 1890? 1900? Not only would this make a good chart, but it can show a direct relation to the cultural changes taking place across America during this time.
3) Have you made your data your inputting too complex for this simple project? The more information you place in your spreadsheet and want to calculate the more complicated the form becomes. Start off simple and slowly add elements in to projects.
Well, thats all I can think of now. Hope you all enjoy the Spreadsheet. If you have any ideas please email or comment for me.
Now, I decided to do My Teacher Budget with this wild amount of $10,000.00 as my first year start up costs. Yes, many of you are out there saying your dreaming Becky. Since most teachers get only $200.00 to $150.00 from their schools. True, but in my dream world I live in the country in a log cabin with a nice wrap around porch to sit back on, all the kids in my classroom come ready to learn, and the President of the United States just consulted me on my secret meatloaf recipe......HA!
As for doing a teacher budget instead of a wedding budget, those of you who know me know the wedding budget is not in the cards. The teacher budget was something I really thought about. Graduation is just around the corner and starting out as a first year teacher can be kind of expensive. Especially in the Social Studies realm. So I decided to look at the categories of Apparel, transportation, videos, books, recordings, technology, professional development (not paid by the school district), Office supplies, Networking, Associations and clubs, and then miscellaneous. The spread sheet took me five hours to figure out, even with the tutoring videos. The charts about an hour. So I made two. I would recommend this be done in relation with the technology teacher training students. Once they have a basic idea of what their doing, then you can help to reinforce this skill by setting out a project with some basic items within the template.
Now Three Guiding Questions to help with the Template:
1) What do you want to measure? This could be the differences in what types of music in their CD collection to the number of women in the first wave, second wave and third wave that participated and what they participated in the women's rights movement for.
2) Is the thing you have chosen measureable? One must have a true handle on what they are measuring and whether it is a measureable concept. In measureable I can see things like How many women employed in 1880? 1890? 1900? Not only would this make a good chart, but it can show a direct relation to the cultural changes taking place across America during this time.
3) Have you made your data your inputting too complex for this simple project? The more information you place in your spreadsheet and want to calculate the more complicated the form becomes. Start off simple and slowly add elements in to projects.
Well, thats all I can think of now. Hope you all enjoy the Spreadsheet. If you have any ideas please email or comment for me.
EMBEDDING!
Just a quick, short note here on embedding. When I went to embed this video on the website I found that blogspot would not let me. It had something to do with the script line. So I have placed the video here for you all to see, however, I am still attempting to figure out the embedding part. It is also on Teachertube for all the world to see.
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