Thursday, December 20, 2007
Shift Happens
Visit this blog and watch the You Tube "Did you Know?" Post your responses as to what this information means for you personally as a teacher. http://www.thefischbowl.blogspot.com/
Monday, December 10, 2007
Our Wiki
I have started a wiki page for us to collaborate in. The page is drmietlickiwiki (how could you ever forget that???) at wetpaint.com, and the password is worfie23 (named after in inimitable worfie himself). You might even try using the wiki this week as you are working on those portfolio documents.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
A Digital Unit
Go to the link listed above and check out Miss Boeser's unit in which she involves her students in authentic writing activities, role play, creative dramatics, and Web 2.0 creativity. Follow the links to the articles she provides; analyze the scaffolding assignments in which she engages her students with the project and leads them to higher order critical thinking. As you work through this website, draw up for yourself an outline of its design so that you might be able to create one of your own on a future literature unit that you might teach. Post on this blog what you have learned about the value of such use of Web 2.0 in teaching English language arts. In case you lose the url, or want to check out other digital units, they can be found at the CEE Literature Resources page, http://constructingidentities.pbwiki.com/
Monday, December 3, 2007
Micro-teaching
What do you think could have been different about the Micro-teaching experience to make it more beneficial for you? How helpful was it in preparing you for student teaching? What changes should I make for next semester? What suggestions do you have for the new interns to help them get the most out of the experience?
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Connie Mietlicki, Ph.D.: I-Movie
Connie Mietlicki, Ph.D.: I-Movie
This education movie serves a distinct purpose in creating awareness for educators to understand the importance in connecting learning with any student's life, regardless of age or grade level. Serving as a reminder that many, if not most, students will engage and entertain themselves if learning is not relevant to their lives. In creating learning connections, educators must get a message across that goes beyond the classroom and into their everyday lives in order to keep students wanting, needing, and yearning for more. Connection is the key to learning; without connection information often "goes in ear and out the other." ("My teacher says that I don't listen, at least I think that what she says.")
This education movie serves a distinct purpose in creating awareness for educators to understand the importance in connecting learning with any student's life, regardless of age or grade level. Serving as a reminder that many, if not most, students will engage and entertain themselves if learning is not relevant to their lives. In creating learning connections, educators must get a message across that goes beyond the classroom and into their everyday lives in order to keep students wanting, needing, and yearning for more. Connection is the key to learning; without connection information often "goes in ear and out the other." ("My teacher says that I don't listen, at least I think that what she says.")
Saturday, December 1, 2007
I-Movie
Please go to the following website:
http://cityvoicescityvisions.blogspot.com/
Scroll down until you get to the video on education. View this 4.44 minute You Tube video. It does take a few minutes to load. Then write a paragraph in this blog about the impact of this message on future teachers.
Then scroll down to view some of the i-movies on poems that the students have created. Consider how you might create an assignment in which, instead on the same old boring class discussion on a poem, students, working in small groups, might create their own i-movie (of under 2 minutes) to share their interpretation with the class. Then write a paragraph in this blog suggesting a specific poem for which this assignment might work.
http://cityvoicescityvisions.blogspot.com/
Scroll down until you get to the video on education. View this 4.44 minute You Tube video. It does take a few minutes to load. Then write a paragraph in this blog about the impact of this message on future teachers.
Then scroll down to view some of the i-movies on poems that the students have created. Consider how you might create an assignment in which, instead on the same old boring class discussion on a poem, students, working in small groups, might create their own i-movie (of under 2 minutes) to share their interpretation with the class. Then write a paragraph in this blog suggesting a specific poem for which this assignment might work.
Student Blog Directions
Go to drmietlicki.blogspot.com
Click on the thread on which you wish to comment. You can do this by either scrolling down or by selecting the thread from the "blog archive" on the right hand side of the screen.
Once you have typed in your comment, you are ready to submit the comment to the thread. Sign in as a new user by clicking on the statement "No Google Account?" (you will have to create a new account for this project). Your login needs to be your email address. Write down your login and password in a safe place.
Click on "post a comment."
You can draft your comment in Microsoft Word, which will enable you to save it and spell check prior to posting.
We will only be using first names or pseudonyms. Please avoid giving any personal information about yourself.
Click on the thread on which you wish to comment. You can do this by either scrolling down or by selecting the thread from the "blog archive" on the right hand side of the screen.
Once you have typed in your comment, you are ready to submit the comment to the thread. Sign in as a new user by clicking on the statement "No Google Account?" (you will have to create a new account for this project). Your login needs to be your email address. Write down your login and password in a safe place.
Click on "post a comment."
You can draft your comment in Microsoft Word, which will enable you to save it and spell check prior to posting.
We will only be using first names or pseudonyms. Please avoid giving any personal information about yourself.
Go to holtdiscussion.blogspot.com
Go to the postings of the Reading Groups and read what some of the students had to say about various novels that they had read and various literary critiques that the teacher, Mrs. Holt, had provided for them as she guided their out-of-class discussion.
Then post on this site your evaluation of the students' blogging. Your blog comments should also be a short paragraph (4-5 sentences). Make sure that you clearly make your point and provide examples when necessary. Comments are due by 12am, Midnight, on the given due date.
Then post on this site your evaluation of the students' blogging. Your blog comments should also be a short paragraph (4-5 sentences). Make sure that you clearly make your point and provide examples when necessary. Comments are due by 12am, Midnight, on the given due date.
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