Monday, September 21, 2009

Movie Project

here are the movies i watched:

time out video- http://techbrooke.blogspot.com/

The three little pigs- http://eduffieldipt.blogspot.com/2009/09/week-4-assignment.html#comments

Sylvester meets little red riding hood- http://mariahteaches.blogspot.com/

body language- http://laurynblog56.blogspot.com/

goin fishin- http://carolhoffer.blogspot.com/

summer of the trifecta movie- http://bethpeach.blogspot.com/

I think the most difficult part of implementing this into my teaching would be time and management. I would need to decide if this will be a class, group, or individual project and then make sure students stay on track in order to finish it within a reasonable time.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

TPACK and storyboard images

Ok. So. I did my storyboard wrong. But I got permission to not have to go back and re-do the whole thing. So moral of the story is follow directions EXACTLY!

... and don't do what I did.........



TPACK (technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge) is a way of looking at how to integrate technology into your teaching. By being able to teach using all three aspects incorporated together, a teacher can be successful in administering the appropriate information they want their students to understand and know. This is very useful because being able to teach using all aspects will help to broaden the students understanding and knowledge of the topic the teacher is trying to teach. In addition, being able to use technology to help teach saves valuable time if you know exactly how to use what is available to you in your school. It is important for all teachers to know the content and to understand it and to be able to teach it effectively.


This is the first page of my storyboard layout.
...later on the next week....
so I tried the outline for the storyboard above but it confused me and I felt very disorganized using it. I couldn't see the whole picture and I'm one of those visual people. I did find a storyboard on Windows Movie Maker that I used instead. It helped me be able to see the visuals with the transitions and the information I needed for on each page. I took a few screen shots to show my work. It took me ALL Friday and Sunday to get everything together (pictures and audio).

The first image is of my first few pages.


The next two pages are random screen shots of different parts of my storyboard.



This shot is of the credits page with the audio all saved in a folder and all my visuals I made for the storyboard! It was a lot of work!!
And that is my storyboard!!!

Here is my text for my storyboard:

Hi! I’m Baxter the Bee and today I’m going to show you what it’s like to live like me!

Bees are ACTIVE. We stay BUSY everyday!

Bees are attracted to COLORFUL flowers.

We communicate by DANCING to tell others where the flowers are. It gets everyone EXCITED.

We find FLOWERS to collect pollen.

The flowers GROW close to our hive.

We use the pollen to make our delicious HONEY.

The IRIS in the flower is what attracts us bees to each diverse flower.

We all have different JOBS that help us work together.

KIDS enjoy our honey because it is so sweet.

Bees LOVE their honey. Unfortunately, so do bears!

We MOVE from flower to flower, not to collect NECTAR, but ONLY the best POLLEN.

Besides making honey, we spend a lot of time caring for and protecting our QUEEN bee.

Bees cannot fly in the RAIN. When the weather is bad, we stay inside the hive.

When we get mad, we STING our enemies. It’s a TERRIBLE habit.

But when the sun comes out, the ULTRA VIOLET rays warm us up quickly and we get back to work!

Did you know that scientists have not figured out how it is physically possible for our WINGS to support our body WEIGHT when we fly? That’s some
(e)X-TREME flying!

So the next time you see some tiny YELLOW bugs buzzing, just listen for us and we’ll sing: Zzzzzzzzzzzz!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you learned something new today.


Active
Busy
Colorful
Dance
Excited
Flowers
Grow
Honey
Iris
Job
Kids
Love
Move
Nectar
Only
Pollen
Queen
Rain
Sting
Terrible
Ultra
Violet Rays
Weight and wings
(e)Xtreme
Yellow
Zzzzzzz





Friday, September 4, 2009

RSS and Web 2.0 tools



After watching the clips from week 1 about Web 2.0 tools, I feel as though they will be useful to my future teaching methods. These tools will help me to keep myself organized and teaching in an effective and efficient manner.

Web 2.0 tools are ways of social-networking. One example are these blogs that we created for the class. Not only do they allow us to document what we learn each week, but we are able to follow along with other members in our groups and class to see what they learn each week as well.

RSS is one easy way to keep up with different websites. One example is google reader. It creates a place where you can keep track of several different websites all in one place. I really liked the analogy the first video on the course website used when comparing RSS to netflix. Instead of traveling to the video store to spend lots of time pouring through all the different movie selections, you can now just have netflix send you the all the videos you want. It saves money but most importantly time. It's efficient in its method. Like netflix, RSS allows you to view all the current posts from several places at once to save you the time of looking up each one.

I think that these tools will be useful in my teaching and even now. Instead of pulling up 5 different windows or tabs to check my email, blog, facebook, blackboard, bank account, etc., I can just view it all in one place.

The most useful thing I learned this week was how to put together a website. After a lot of time (seriously....) and many meals later, I finally figured out the "source" button and what it actually did. I think this was the most useful thing I learned because I didn't know how to do it previously and it was really challenging!

Here's the final result!!!: http://rienasinternetcommproject.pbworks.com/


my synchronous video chat:












my asynchronous video:


Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Computer Savvy

My technology background and experience is mostly based on Microsoft Office. I can find my way around Microsoft Office pretty well (really just the basics) thanks to working at BYU Independent Study. I had a lot of free time to figure out little shortcuts around the computer, especially with Word. Annnd..... I've used computers for school..... That about sums it up!