Final Reflection

Final Project

Blog Assignment 14

Jose Picardo's website, Box of Tricks is full of information and resources available to teachers. The list of links that he has available is of websites that he reads regularly. It is quite a long list, but each one has something useful on it. He also has a list of resources that is full of websites, programs, etc. Some of the programs he listed are programs that we have used in EDM310 and several others were suggested for download at the beginning of the semester.
The video of his "Top 10 Tips for Teachers" listed several things that we have already used this semester. The one thing that he mentioned that we never really talked about was using music in the classroom. Kids love music and they respond to it very well. I think that is something to definitely consider and I'm sure that I will be adding his website to my PLN!

Final Report on PLN

My PLN is officially a work in progress indefinitely. The reason I say that is because it has become such a useful tool that I think I will always have it. Not only have I used it for EDM310, but I used it for my other classes as well. For instance, I had a research paper due in my Sociology class and in order to keep all of my research separate and organized, I used my PLN. I have gained so many valuable resources from EDM310 and they will all remain in my PLN. I hope to be able to use PLN's in my classroom one day because I think that my students will not only benefit from them, but they will respond to them very well. It will help them take more control of heir own education.

C4K November

In the month of November I visited the blogs of a few students.One of which was Evan at Pt. England School. His blog was actually a video that he made that was animated and narrated. It was about visiting the pool that is a few blocks away from his school. I commented and told him that his blog was very cool and that the animations he made was not something that I could have done. It so awesome to see what kids are capable of.
The blog I visited that stands out the most in my head was called "The Age of Exploration". It is a high school class blog of History students. Since I plan on teaching History, this site amazed me. The blog I was assigned to read was by Jack and it was called History + Technology =Better Learning. The blog was about Jack's experience in his class and how technology has impacted him in this specific class. I commented and told him that I loved what they were doing. I asked him specifically if he preferred this classroom method as opposed to a traditional lecture style. He commented back to me and said that ".... learning with technology isby far the best way to learn history, as well as any subject."