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Reflection’s K12 Online 2007

Where to start?  Educate the admin., teachers, kids, and ourselves?   The big question is where to start when it comes to education.  I believe we need to start with the administration and teachers.  Because how can we educate our students if the staff is not educated or up to date with the educational world.  There is a vase variety of information out there on the Internet, for teachers today.  But what are we doing with this information.  This is where the world of blogging comes into part.  The professional world of blogging for teachers.  I did not know that there was so much information on the Internet and the world of blogging.  I realize I need to take time to explore the wonderful teaching world of blogging.  The few blogs I have looked at has given my a lot of new information about teaching and education.  This semester was the first time I use blogging in a classroom setting as a form of communication.  It was different and interesting to post your thoughts and feelings on a website for the whole world to view and make comments.  But it is also a good way to share new information, by writing a blog.  I personally still need to learn more about the world of blogging.  For as educating our kids about blogging, I think school should have a blog website for student to post the thought about different subject matters.  Students should really start to blog in third grade.  This teaches them about computers, a form of communication and how to share information over the Internet with fellow students.

All the information provided form this on eliminate talk was an real eye opener for me.  Because I am not a teacher and just to hear about the wonderful world of teaching.  Why I call it a wonderful world of teaching because there is so much information available via Internet that one can become overwhelmed with to much information.  It is hard to decide what information is useful and or not.  I know I have a lot of work cut out for me if I want to become a teacher.  My desire was to teach college level courses at night.  But know that I have taken this class I believe I need to taught some more about becoming a good teacher.  Because I believe one must be taught first in order to teach others.

Second Life Reflections

I just recently became a new member of second life world (Rashunda Triellis).  I am still trying to figure out how to play this animation game.  I realize there are so many different level to this game.  This game to me was designed for individual who are really into games and like to create different creates and experience a whole new world ofgaming.  Now, that I have some time on my hands I can take a closer look and how this game really works.  I have been exploring the orientation level and I just do not see how people make it passthis level. They probably felt the same way when they first joined second life.  If you want to playan exciting in game I recommend check out second life. 

http://secondlife.com/whatis/

Second Life

What is Second Life?

What is Second Life?

 

Second Life is an Internet-based virtual world video game launched on June 23, 2003, developed by Linden Research, Inc (commonly referred to as Linden Lab), which came to international attention via mainstream news media in late 2006 and early 2007.  A free down loadable client program called the Second Life Viewer enables its users, called “Residents“, to interact with each other through motional avatars, providing an advanced level of a social network service combined with general aspects of a metaverse. Residents can explore, meet other Residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade items (virtual property) and services with one another.

• From the moment you enter the World you’ll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity. Once you’ve explored a bit, perhaps you’ll find a perfect parcel of land to build your house or business.
• You’ll also be surrounded by the Creations of your fellow Residents. Because Residents retain intellectual property rights in their digital creations, they can buy, sell and trade with other Residents.
• The Marketplacecurrently supports millions of US dollars in monthly transactions. This commerce is handled with the in world unit of trade, the Linden™ dollar, which can be converted to US dollars at several thriving online Linden dollar exchanges.

Please enjoy a short video clip on the world of second life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life

http://secondlife.com/whatis/

K12Online-Conference

The conference link that I explore was called, “Oodles of Google!”  This was created by Sharon Betts.  Why I choose to explore the link is because I wanted to learn more about Google especially since I just created a Google account a couple of weeks ago.  I thought this would be every educational experience to learn more about what Google website and the features.  The videos were very informative it went step by step explaining the different features of Google.  I recommend if you have any question regarding Google please feel free to logon to the link below.

 

http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=154

Educational Teacher’s Community

Educational Community

 

The community I recently just joined is an online resource for educators.  Tapped In brings educators together both locally and worldwide to cultivate a community that supports each teacher as a professional. We build the capacity of teachers to support one another through peer networks supported by the Tapped In community. Educators.  These are some of the features this website offers:

• Plan and conduct learning projects with colleagues and students.
• Participate in or lead topical discussion and groups.
• Manage and attend online courses offered by TPD providers.
• Mentor other educators.
• Guests and member access via standard Web browsers
• Room “sticky notes” for posting welcome messages, agendas, etc.
• Online orientation and tutorials

You are able to join different activities.  I explored playing to learn link.  Why I picked to explore this link, because I would to help more about different ways to make learning fun within a classroom setting.  As you can see to the left there are links to on-line resources for educators to use when developing a lesson plan.  This is a website you just have to visit for yourself it offers a wide variety of great benefits.  It’s Free!

http://tappedin.org/tappedin/

Basic Math skills

Who said that math could not be fun to learn? I have provide a few video clips that you can incorporate into your lesson plans.  These video clips should be every helpful when it comes to teaching basic math skills. 

Basic basic skill for learning how to subtract.

 

Please enjoy this video on basic math problem equations.

What is Podcast?

  Podcast  is “a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player,” but the generally accepted definition has expanded to include video as well as audio.

Podcasting can be used for:

1. Self-Guided Walking Tours - Informational content.

2. Music - Band promotional clips and interviews.

3. Talk Shows – Industry or organizational news, investor news, sportscasts, news coverage and commentaries.

4. Training - Instructional informational materials.

5. Story – Story telling for children or the visually-impaired.

 

How to set-up your Ipod to the computer.

Need help on how to set-up your ipod or on how to download videos from youtube to your Ipod? Then look at this short video clip on I have provide to help you set-up your ipod and downloading videos.  

This is a video on how to download music to your IPod.

How to Download Free Music Legally from the internet.

Online Organizational Applications

Google Notebook

 

Are you tired of writing long notes and then have to transfer those hand written notes to the computer.  Well why not use an online notebook to help your organize your notes.  So say good bye to the old wire ring notebook and hello to online Google notebook.  This is a wonderful website that you can use to type notes, add clippings of text, images and links from web pages to your Google Notebook without ever leaving your browser window. You are able to access your Google Notebooks from any computer by using your Google Accounts login.  The great thing about all of this it is free!  Wow!  Now you can access Google Notebook from your mobile phone.

http://www.google.com/notebook/m.

www.google.com/notebook

 

Gradefix

 

Do you need help with organizing your time?  Are you tired of trying to figure out what homework to do, then let Gradefix do the organizing for you?  What is Gradefix?  Gradefix is an online daily planner that helps you to organize or manage your time better.  Gradefix has only being in operation for one year but, ranks 4th on “Top 25 Web 2.0 Apps to Improve a Student’s or Professor’s Productivity”.  One mentioned it’s like having your own personal secretary.  When I viewed this website and read the success about how individual’s grades has improved since they have been using gradefix.  The best think about this website it is free or you can pay $5 a month for premium access to the website.  I recommend that this website to individual who need help with time management.  Please feel free to view the short video clip on gradefix. 

 

Video: Adding tasks Format: Quicktime .MOV Size/Length: 1.7MB, 1:16

 

You can see in a minute and half how quickly tasks

 can be added. All the tasks are broken into reasonable

 portions and scheduled for you. As you can see, Gradefix

is much more efficient than a planner.

 http://www.gradefix.com

Rashunda Taylor

 

 

 

 

 

 

Technology in Education

When I think of technology it is the wave of the future.  The technology has increased over the pass couple of years.  How would have thought you can get a degree online , without having to attend campus!  Since technology has grown you do not enough have to go to a library to do research, when you have all the available resource just at the click of a finger?  Teens said they relied mostly on Internet sources for the last big projects to gather information from the internet . Because of technology you are able to communicate with fellow students through email, online chat rooms, message boards, blogs, etc.    Most students rely heavily on the internet for their main source of communication.  Recent studies have shown that students believe th at the Internet helps them do better in school (86 percent of teens , 88 percent of online teens ).  The internet as a whole provides should a wide range of information technology and this is just the beginning of a new era. 

Rashunda Taylor