Interview with Sarah Johnson

Comments 4 Kids Assignment 4

This week for Comments 4 kids I got the chance to watch a video on Halogens of the periodic table. I know just saying the words periodic table makes me become instantly bored. Instead this video about halogens used sock puppets and interesting accents to grab and keep my attention. I actually learned some things about halogens. Such as, that halogens can be produced in all 3 states of matter and that they are highly reactive. Making education fun, entertaining, and technologically friendly will grab the students attention and essentially make them learn. You too can learn more about halogens at this website, http://blog.benwildeboer.com/2010/take-2-student-produced-video-projects/ .

Blog Post 10

A 7th Grader's Personal Learning Environment

This 7th grader has a lot more going on on her PLE than i do on my PLN. And she is only in 7th Grade! I like the way she had everything organized on her PLE, she kept her school work and personal stuff separate. She used her PLN to look up what her class would be doing for that day for her science lesson. I thought that was very interesting for a 7th grade class to be doing at a very young age. I started checking what I would be covering in class when I got to college not grade school. I guess the only setback for that would be what if all the 7th grade students did not have computers? How would you handle that?

Two Questions That Can Change Your Life

Talk about a video to make you sit and think for a while. The two questions mentioned in this video is "What is your sentence?" and "Was I better than I was yesterday?" These are two very powerful questions. So I sat and pondered for a while to what MY sentence would be. I believe my sentence would be, "I will strive to always try harder the next time." This class has taught me a lot about trial and error.

Blog Post 9

Morgan Bayda and Video by Dan Brown

After reading the post made by Morgan and the video she shared with us by Dan Brown, I had to sit and think for a while. What am i doing in college? Am I sitting in a classroom being lectured for hours at a time? Yes. Are some of my teachers reading facts from the book to me? Yes. Am I making flashcards for some of my classes so I can repeat facts on a test then receive a grade? Yes. After thinking about these facts that are very true about my education, I became sad and angry. I cannot exactly drop out of school tomorrow because I need a degree to teach, but when I graduate I can make a difference in the classroom. When I graduate I want to be able to remember a lot of the things I learned in this class. This class is the future of education.

ALEX
Alabama's Learning Exchange

I have actually been on the ALEX website before for a previous class. I really like this website and I have bookmarked on my delicious account. One of the perks of the ALEX website is the lesson plan tool. You can look up lesson plans on this website for your classroom. After clicking on the lesson plan tool you can then select what subject you are teaching and what grade level you are teaching. I decided to play around on it and chose mathematics and grade level 3. After clicking search it came up with a lesson plan for rounding numbers. I clicked on that lesson plan, and listed on the lesson plan was a list of materials, preparation work that the teacher would have to do, the standards of teaching it covered, and a step-by-step instruction. This would be a great tool for my first couple of years for teaching until I got comfortable in making lesson plans.

C4K 3

Mr McClung's May 13th Post Lessons Learned

Mr. McClung in this particular post talked about at the end of each week he comes up 3 lessons learned in great education to talk about at the end of each week. He said that it is sometimes to hard to come up with three ideas, so sometimes he lets his students come up with some topics to talk about. Some ideas that were submitted, that were my personal favorites, were Nurtisystem+lunchables for grown-ups, two for flinching, if your bored do handstands, and don't try to slide down a dry slip n slide. I thought his students were very creative in choosing these ideas.

You can visit this blog at http://mcclungsworld.com/2010/05/13/lessons-learned-30/

Blog Post 8

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

I found this blog post to be extremely insightful. I constantly think to myself, what kind of teacher will I be? I think my classroom will have an atmosphere with a combination of structure and "go with the flow". So when I read his tip on you need to be flexible to be a teacher, that meant a lot to me. This summer I also took classroom management. I learned that we may have this homerun lesson planned for the next day and get to class and nothing works. Teachers need to know how to regroup and figure out a different way to get the information across if the class is not willing to corporate.

Another great tip, don't be afraid of technology. I have learned that tip from this class. This generation has grown up on computers and the internet. They do not know how to do research anymore in a library, but they can tell you how to use a search engine. Teachers need to equip themselves with the right tools to teach this generation of students in the classroom. So that means we need to be technology friendly.

Mr. McClung ended it with the best tip, never stop learning. I believe people think when they graduate college or high school, they will just stop learning. They will not have to put forth any effort into anything else ever again. WRONG! I learn things everyday, and to be a teacher I will be open to learning from my students everyday.

C4K 2

This week I got to read about a student from New Zealand. Room 11 of the PT England Scribes was learning about how to write book reports. This report was about mice. They talked about how mice were animals, lived in warm places, humans did not like mice, and that mice have four legs and a tail. They ended the report with that people do not like mice and that we use mouse traps to catch them to get rid of them. I thought the report was good and included facts and opinions. You can visit their blog at this site, http://pesscribes.blogspot.com/2010/06/mice.html.