Day 26

Today I learned then when searching on the internet for information it is important to be cautious becoming misinformed. When viewing a website check it's domain to determine whether or not it is a .com, .org, or .not. If it's a .com the website is selling something. If it's a . org, the website is representative of an organization and will present the organization perspective. If it is a .net, it is a personal site that will contain the opinion of whoever's site it belongs to. This knowledge allows me to promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility through digital etiquette responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information.

Day 25

In my opinion Mimio Smartboards are too complicated and cumberson a device. The same results can be accomplished with a simple powerpoint or less technologically sophisticated, a chalk board. When my group tried to get the smartboard to work it took us almost two class periods to get it to work. In my experience the more sophisticated and more expensive the technology, the greater the margin of error.

Day 24

Working with a Mimio Smartboard allows teachers to exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society. Teachers demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations. Teachers also model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.

Day 23

The SMART Board interactive whiteboard supports interaction and conversation in the classroom; it helps with the presentation of new cultural and linguistic elements.

One teacher stated that the smarboard engaged their primary students in literacy learning. The teacher was able to interact with the class, demmonstrate, model, and manipulate what was on the board by touch. The teacher was not confined to, or focused on, a computer that separated them for the class.

Day 22

Creating a webquest allows a teacher to create media products; it allows a teacher to understand and utilize the most appropriate media creation tools, characteristics, and conventions. Creating a webquest also allows a student to understand and effectively utilize the most appropriate expressions and interpretations in diverse multi-cultural environments.

Day 21 Webquest made using Google Sites

Webquest

As a future educator creating a webquest helps me to customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.

Day 20

Here's a link to my webquest


Mostly I changed the images on this Webquest to be more interesting and reflect more of the beautiful art and sculpture associated with Greek Mythology. This meets the rubric standard stating that appropriate and thematic graphic elements are used to make visual connections that contribute to the understanding of concepts ideas and relationships. Differences in type, size and color are used well and consistently. The CSO's met by this webquest are: RLA.O.12.1.07 demonstrate knowledge of and evaluate literary devices. - achetypes-allegory-antithesis-pace-satire-cadence-scansion-flashback-foreshadowing-
Freytag's pryamid(exposition, rising action, climax, falling action,catastrophe) and RLA.O.12.1.08 that students will use knowledge of history and cultural diversity, politics, and effects of language to comprehend and elaborate on the meaning of texts to expand vocabulary and to draw connections to self and the real world.
Through studying Greek Mythology students will gain a deeper understanding of their modern day western culture in that it is from the greeks that all our culture descends from.