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The student I had was Owen. His story was titled MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY!!! He explained that Dec 10th was monkey day, because one morning long ago on Dec 10th a boy woke up with a cripled back and all the kids picked on him, and started walking like him...a monkey!! so therefore Dec 10 is walk like a monkey day!! CLICK HERE

Comment 4 kids

I had a student that was really interested in the trombone. The student listed several facts about the trombone, such as Beethoven was the first to include the trombone into a syphonic orchestra. CLICK HERE

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I had Keiana, a 1st grade student in Mrs.Cassidy's class! She demonstrated 4 ways to make 8. I must say she is a very bright student. =)CLICK HERE

ACCESS:

The Vision: The State of Alabama will provide equal access to high quality instruction to improve student achievement through distance learning.

GOAL: The goal of the distance learning plan is to create equity through additional educational offerings for all Alabama public high school students.

MISSION: The mission of the distance education program in Alabama is to provide an infrastructure that delivers equitable, quality learning opportunities for all citizens.

This website is very helpful. It provides access to course catalogs, test preps, advancement placement, and also a look at the Graduation Exam. Also provides many resources such as the Alabama Virtual Library.CLICK HERE

ALEX:

This website is very beneficial, and also easy to understand. I was on for a few minutes and already knew what to do and where to go on the site! This is a website that provides different activities for courses and Lesson plans. Also it provides other web links, personal work space, and an option for a search. I will definitly keep this website in mind when i begin teaching.CLICK HERE

Dear Kaia:

I was very impressed by these documents. Its a moving story that is gonna effect our learning and technology in the future! Kaia had some wonderful pictures, and it was so cute hearing her talk about them. I also liked the voicethread that the class sent Kaia's father. Im sure the voicethread was alot easier for Kaia to understand then a regular comment! These new technologies are very important to grasp now i feel, because its only going to get more and more advanced.CLICK HERE

Networked Student: Ms. Drexler

I think this is such an interesting video. Its very true, there are so many other ways a student can learn rather than from a teacher or a textbook. In this video we see that students can network, by getting online talking with other students, looking up the subject and checking out blogs on the subject. Also if the student has an ipod you can listen to lectures from Berkely!!! Thats crazy..and its a very creative way to learn!! However i still believe in teachers, there is other things that teachers teach you rather than a subject, they also teach you discipline and responsibility. Soo we always will need teachers. =) OF COURSE! Ms. Drexler has created a great project that students will enjoy. I sure did. CLICK HERE

Richard Miller: This is how we dream

I agree with Mr. MIller, his videos are full of interesting information. Our students will have more knowledge of technology than we did at their age. Everyone has a computer these days, Computers are used as an everyday resource. It still shocks me that my sister knows more about technology than i do, and she is in 7th grade.CLICK HERE

ipods: Duke

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To encourage creative uses of technology in education and campus life duke distributed 20 GB Apple ipod devises each equipped with voice recorders to over 1600 first year students in 2004. At least 15 fall courses with a total enrollment of 628 unique students and estimated 33 spring courses with a total enrollment of over 600 students incorporated ipod usage. However classes like art and music ipods were prohibited. The academic uses of ipod decices by Duke fell into 5 major categories: Course content dissemination tool, Classroom recording tool, Field recording tool, study support tool, file storage and transfer. HOwever even though the ipods had a positive influence, there were also some negatives. Students seem to be very distracted with the ipods and were not paying attention to the professor.

iTunesU

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iTunes University, a website with downloadable educational podcasts, can provide students the opportunity to obtain professors’ lectures when students are unable to attend class. I think this is very Helpful!! I have never used itunes University myself but sounds like a GREAT idea. however this is the first I have even heard about it. So Im not sure if the University of South Alabama even has this as an option. I think mostly this university's rules are to BE IN CLASS! MANDATORY ATTENDANCE. =( but I know that one day itunes University will be more of an open option for college students. I have read that Students that use itunes U have had higher test scores, because they can listen and take notes, but also they can listen again!

Dr. Christie: Educational Technology

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EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY....This section of Dr. Alice Christie's site would be most useful for me. I say this because this section has the most information period, it seems. She has listed several different approaches for me to use. Such as: Digital Media and photography, electronic portfolios, educational portals, internet tools and safety, podcasting, and Rubrics. There is so many different sources to look at! She seems to be a very smart woman and I appreciate this site. I also like the photography site. I think photography is very important because thats an easier way for kids to learn...through pictures. And how fun would that be to take pictures in class. She has alot of information on photography, and also alot of beautiful pictures.

"What I've Learned This Year" by Mr. McClung

Mr.McClung shared some very interesting thoughts, that are very helpful and inspiring to me! One thought he shared was that we should communicate. If there is ever any drama or confusion going on, then you should stop and talk about it. Another thought was to never stop learning even as a teacher. We owe it to the children to keep learning and to keep gaining knowledge to help the children learn more. Also Be REASONABLE dont set the standards so high that the children never reach them, Understand the level they are on and help to extend their knowledge by making small goals that are reachable.

See who's editing Wikipedia

Props to This Cal Tech graduate student, Virgil Griffith. He has created something very useful. Its about time someone has figured out how to trace the false statements and scandals placed on the website. This Wikipedia Scanner offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses.

"Everything's better if you do it on a huge scale, and automate it," - Virgil Griffith.