Thing #13

This has been a pretty amazing road thus far. The information that I have learned is difficult to calculate and its effect on my teaching will be immeasurable. The blogs and discussion posts by my fellow candidates are great. I have enjoyed their willingness to help each other shown in the email threads. The experience has all been good. I can not wait to complete the work though and resume some sense of a normal teaching day.

Thing #12

I found this fantastic presentation software on Web 2.0 called Pow Toon. Below is a video that I created from the website.

Thing #11

One of the learning objectives that all sixth grade students have this year according to the new Common Core Standards is to master the Pronoun, in all forms. I have explored a few websites and looked for various lesson plans online to find some alternate activities for my students that would help them learn the Pronoun. I found a pretty good video on Teacher Tube. Which goes over all forms of the pronoun in a short video. The students could watch, re-watch and then take notes on pronouns after viewing this video.

Pronouns - TeacherTube

Thing #10

The QR Code attached to this blog post will give teachers great uses for Book Creator in a classroom. Check it out and see if you can make a collaborative project with Book Creator.

Thing #9 - Learn From Listening

I cheated a little bit for this blog post. I listened to two new podcasts. One on a familiar subject and one that was not so familiar.

Let me first begin by telling you how this post is very timely. Last Thursday, I introduced my students yesterday to the "Podcast". To my surprise my students had no idea they existed.

We explored some topics and I showed them what kind of subjects were available before we stopped and listened to a podcast called "The Story" which is provided Public Radio International. We listened to a story about the Dust Bowl. This was mildly interesting to my students at best but I think more over they understood the concept of a podcast.

The first podcast that I listened to was for my students. It was a hunting podcast, Peterson's Bowhunting Radio. I showed my students the different varieties of podcasts that one has to choose from. I also wanted to prove that there was something out there that would interest them. This particular episode included tips for bow hunting. It was informative.

The next podcast was called Grammar Girl. This is a podcast this quick very short episodes that give grammar tips. I enjoyed this podcast and I liked the length of it. I thought is might be great to use with my students as a warm up.

Next, I am planning on podcastng with my students. It should be interesting.

How to start a Twitter account

The video above is a brief video using Jing so review the basics of acquiring a Twitter account.

Step by Step Instructions for starting a Twitter account