pod people please leave a message

Well now I see the edit HTML tab which I did not use when putting my links into my last post. Was that bad? I clicked on the links and it took me there. Am I the only one who can do that?

Are you a POD person? Are you? How about You?

I liked the explanation of pod casts, that was helpful. It sounds as thought they are easy to make so I can see using them in the classroom as a learning tool or means of assessment. I think the kids would like the idea that other people could see what they had made. Parents could access it from home so it would help connect the students to the outside world.

I subscribed to one pod cast about middle school teaching strategies. I have not listened to one yet. I keep coming back to the overwhelming factor. There are a LOT of pod casts out there. I think if I were going to use this technology personally I would want someone who had a podcast that they found valuable to recommend one. I don't feel like going through and trying to find the golden POD!! If YOU are a POD person and have found some golden pods there's probably one about, "On Golden Pond," let me know what they are!!

I am going to attempt to put a link to a YouTube video about a way to multiply quickly and accurately without a calculator. I think there are a great many YouTube clips that could be brought into the classroom to spark interest or help teach a concept. I also watched two other clips about math. One position was that students need to learn standard algorithms and the other felt that algorithm were good but that the students need to understand the ideas behind the math. This went along nicely with the math foundations class that I just took. As with everything except ice cream, I think that a balance of both would be best, rather than coming down far to the left or far to the right.

Here is the link, I think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLdKsKep1og this was a neat way of looking at multiplication that really is faster and I intend to show this clip to my math class.

Since we're trying this why not go all the way. The next link is a weather person who does not believe in "New Math" and feels that children just need to learn standard algorithms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1qee-bTZI



This link is an answer to the woman in the above link by a college math professor. While he is not as well spoken, he isn't reading from notes that "Big Brother" wrote and he believes that ideas and algorithms are important.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9skRrnN2_HU&feature=related

I have used You Tube before and like it for personal use. For the classroom you have to preview and probably save the file because you never know what might also come up on the page that could be inappropriate.

Link for week five

Here is the link to the google doc. which is not accessable in my previous post. hopefully this will work (: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AUIBacLDEf7-ZDhwdGpxYl8wZmN4ejgzY3I&hl=en

LuLu is a LOO LOO!!

I looked at LuLu a self publishing web site. I can imagine using this to create a class book, something that I do now with another company, but this would give students the ability to access the internet for images etc. and everything would be done online. The way I do it now, I have to have the students create their writing and then photocopy it onto the pages that the company sends me. pictures need to be hand drawn or scanned onto the pages that the company sends me. I am going to investigate this more when I have a minute. If I could do it this way it would save paper and time. I have not investigated the cost to publish what you write. More on that later.

blog post week 5 - Google Docs

blog post week 5 - Google Docs

Totally Irrelevant PUPPIES POST

Here are 3 puppies that I found set out on Brim's Grove Road. If you need a puppy or know someone who does they need homes!!! The picture with all three: Front and center: Flopsy, one white blaze, In the middle: Mopsy, two white patches, Bringing up the rear with one blue eye: Penelope.

RSS SOS

Well isn't that interesting!!!I created an RSS with Google and added many of the 21 best on the Free technology for teacher's blog. That part was very easy.
I was disappointed that I could not get blog pages from google blog search to work. The front page would come up but then would not go further and then I would get the "not responding " box. It's doing it right now for classroom 2.0 blog. MR. ANDERSON WHERE ARE YOU!!!! Are you in car 59??? Is that the right number??? If you were here could you tell me how to "Make it go?"
I will hit the end now button after I finish this post for week number four. There will probably be another post for week number four after I've had more time to investigate. I really want to read more about the flat earth project. I tried to join/subscribe but I have to wait 48 hours for an answer.
I think that many of these blogs will give me ideas to use in the classroom. Vague I know, but I haven't had time to read any of them yet. I will be trying to get to classroom20 @ home so I can read car 59/Mr. Anderson's most recent post.
I joined Technorati and when I get home I will go to my email to confirm this. I am thinking that then I will be able to subscribe to blogs that it finds. I did a search for special education and got a long, really big, large gigantic, enormous list, but when I clicked on one selection it was not the blog itself, but a description of it. More on this later when I've solved the mystery.
I can see where this would be a time saver and I am excited about all the new possibilities I have. Of course I never followed any blogs so REALLY I now have another thing to do (: I believe it will be beneficial how ever.
Once I have had time to review posts from the blogs I subscribed to I will post interesting info on my public page. Here is a link to my google public page. Just created and tried to link Flikr pics to it w/ no success. Also, one link to a post about "Are we too connected" which related to the Too Much technology and communication/connection issue. http://www.google.com/profiles/noradearborn
Happy Saturday

Hot Air Balloon, Montreal, Canada

Hot Air Balloon, Montreal, Canada, originally uploaded by noradearborn423.

I have been teaching for 14 years now, all of them with EC students. I think that tecnology properly used canbe a great motivator for students that struggle in the classroom. I looking forward to continuing to grow and feel comfortable integrating technology into my lessons. Through everyting that I have looked at there continues to be theme of TOO MUCH, for me. I would probably function better at centralized "hub" where others had already sorted through what's out there and selected things that have merit and are appropriate for my students. I feel site as thus described are vitral to teachers because we have so little time and so much to do.

When I started teaching I was at a theraputic day school in Cambridge, Massachusetts and we had no technology in the classroom. We did not even have class sets of text books. It was a school for students with severe behavioral and emotional disabilities. It was a great school with an excellent behavior management program, small classes, and couselors for all the kids. I see the benefit of technology in learning for motivation and reaching different learning styles, but there is no substitute for a caring people. Small classes and attention paid to the students' emotional well being are very important and often not tended to in public school due to too many kids and not enough adults.

Can you please give me a hand down off my soap box so I can go home...

Until week 4
are we in week 4 already? behinder and behinder I get

Covered Bridge in Wilson's Mills, Maine

Covered Bridge in Wilson's Mills, Maine, originally uploaded by noradearborn423.

SO now that I know how to get pictures in here there's no stopping me. I was in Wilson's Mills this summer. We had a camp there when I was growing up. I love the smell of fir trees, which has absolutely nothing at all to do with technology. bummer.

I think I might be getting punchy from punching all these buttons. Well I've already mentioned the overwhelming thing.. Here are a couple more things.: BE CAREFUL. In flickr tools there is an aplication to look at pictures of sexy girls. Didn't see one for viewing sexy men. Sorry ladies.

I liked BIG HUGE LABS. You can do all kinds of things with your photos like create posters, magazines covers and more. Another plus, they did not mention sexy girls. They were probably thinking about them however. Also, Mr. Anderson I hope that this blog was not supposed to be written in academic mode. If so I apologize and willl censor myself in the future.
peace

My Garden 08-09

My Garden 08-09, originally uploaded by noradearborn423.

Well I had so much fun doing the first photo, I thought that I would repeat the experience and also talk about what I have learned so far. OVERWHELMING!!!!!

THere are at least 15 applications (right term?) that can be used with Flickr to do various things. There was a cool project that a student is doing called flat somebody or other that I want to investigate more as I think my students could send the student information and photos from our area.


Tags are labels that you can put on pictures sotaht if someone searchs using that tag your photo will come up with others having the same tag.

You can join groups on flickr. There were many teacher's groups. Again,
OVERWHELMING!!!

How do you sort out what would be most worthwhile?
This just in..... Due to the demands of teaching my life has been placed on hold.
Well not literally but that's how it feels. And then there is all THIS!!! I want to pull weeds in my garden. It is theraputic (: There I go -complaining again. I am committed (Should be committed) to incorporating technology into my classroom to facilitate learning so I have a lot to learn.

Wish this had old fashioned spell check! Or that I know where it was if it exists...

hard tellin' not knowin'

hard tellin' not knowin', originally uploaded by noradearborn423.

I think I figured it out but I had to go from Flickr to Blogger, could not figure out how to get a picture from Flickr to upload from Blogger. Well. I'm tired!! It's 7:30 and I'm still at school working on this because if I go home I probably won't do it!!! While there is something to be said for playing with technology and figuring it out on your own, I get aggrivated when I hit a road block. I get aggrivated because there is always so much to do and so little time. How cliche is that, yet oh so true. Well enough complaining, one to the next Flickr adventure.
Namaste

Will there Won't there be a picture in the post?

Well I don't see my picture that I tried to upload from Flickr. If when I hit the post button the picture shows up, woo hoo. If not, stay tuned folks and Mr. Anderson, I'll be asking how to up load a picture during the smart board class tomorrow night (: