Finished Webquest

Today i finished my webquest! In class we are doing peer evaluations. Click here to view my webquest! :)

We also filled out our exit survey at the begining of class!

Scaling Graphs

Today we created a graph and scaled it. I chose to show how West Virginia was behind the National average test scores for 4th grade reading. We used Kids Zone to create our graph. I chose to create a bar graph. Click here to view my document. Click here to view the webpage where my data came from. Click here to go to Kids Zone which is the site I used to create my graph.

Graphs

Today we played around with an online site to help us create graphs call Crappy Graphs. Click here to view my graph. We used date reguarding Pay per pupil in states. We collected data on West Virginia, Pennsylaviana, Texas, and Florida.

Next we also used Kids Zone to create another type of graph. I created a bar graph on the number of miles I ran each day this week. Here is the graph i created.

I created an assessment about my webquest. I created it using google forms. WE chose one question from each category besides the grid. I also chose a pretty theme for my assessment. Here is a link to my assessment. It is also embeded below.

Rubistar

Today we created an account in rubi star. Click here to go to that webpage. A ribric is a scoring tool for a subjective assessment. I learned this in Dr. Smith's planning, assesment, and management class. It helps teachers grade projects, presentations, and other work that is subjective. It also makes grading very fair. Also if a parent has a question on why their child got a certain grade you can show them the ruberic to explain the grades that were given.

April 19, 2010

Today in class we worked on our webquest. I decided on a task for my students. I chose for my final project to be for each role to take their individually created Powerpoints on their cultures and combine them with each other to create a final group presentation using Photostory. I think this will show not only the individual work that each student did in their powerpoint but also how well they worked as a group in making the final presentation using photostory. I think that this will make it easy to grade fairly.

Link to my google site

This is a link to my google sites page. Click here to view my site. I am still working on it, so it is not quite finished yet.

Jing

Today learned about Jing. It is a good students resourse for students to search information about their unit. Jing is a screencaster click here to go download it! Click here to view a comparison of 12 screencasting tools.

Last Class

Last class we added introduction, task, process, scoring guide, conclusion, teacher page, and credits to our web site. I also filled out the process part with my student roles and websites to find information on.

Prezi

I missed class for Cheerleading Nationals! I am starting to get caught up now! I created my prezi acount and added weblinks to my first lesson! I hope that my unit is on track and i have all the necessary elements! WE talked about screen casting and image capture. Click here to go to the Prezi site. Click here to go to my presentation in Prezi. It is also embeded below.

Cultures around the world on Prezi

Photo Story

Today we took our power point and created it into a photo story. Then we uploaded that onto the Youtube accounts that we created today.

1. MPS = Microsoft Photo Story
2. What is Photo Story 3 for Windows and how do I get a copy? Click here and download it.
3. What is the file type for a MPS project? wp3
4. What is the file type for an exported MPS movie? wmv
5. Where do MPS projects open? Photo Story
6. Where do exported MSP movies open? Windows Media Player
7. Can you do transitions between images in MPS project? Yes
8. Describe the image editing options in MPS.
9. Describe the image viewing options in MPS (include motion path over images)
10. How do you turn a PowerPoint presentation into images?

View my Photo Story here.

Webquest

We began working on our webquest. We need to answer these questions about our unit to begin:
1. My lesson content question #1 is …
2. My lesson content question #2 is…
3. My lesson content question #3 is…
4. My lesson content question #4 is…
5. My student role #1 is …
6. My student role #2 is …
7. My student role #3 is …
8. My student role #4 is …
9. Role #1 will produce…
10. Role #2 will produce …
11. Role #3 will produce …
12. Role #4 will produce …
13. The group product is a …

In class presentations

Today in class we began presenting our power point presentations to introduce our units. I presented my project on Cultures around the world! Several other people presented today also, and we will finish presenting on Friday.

March 5, 2010

Today we thought of our essential questions, unit questions, and content questions. We added them in our web page under framing questions. We also talked about an evaluation too. We also talked about making a powerpoint to introduce our first lesson.

Today in class!

Today in class we talked about Module 3. We talked about different types of questions and also did a worksheet where we decided what type of question different questions were.

My Intel project web page

Today we talked about our unit questions! Here is a link to my web page I created for my unit. My question is Cultures around the world: What makes us unique?

Class today!

In class today we started Module two. We talked about cso's and standards and how we should use them in this module. We were told that we will be creating a unit with several lesson plans in it. It is smart if we use something for this module that can be reused for another class. I have not had Social Studies Methods yet with Dr. Smith, so I plan on doing a S.S. unit and lessons, with hopes that it will save me some time later down the road!

Visual Ranking

Today we learned how to create a visual ranking tool. We had to get an acount under Intel to do this. We then had to chose a CSO from the W.V. Depatment of Education to use in our tool. I chose to have my students count backwards from 10-1. This is a math CSO for Kindergarden.

To access my visual ranking tool you will need these things.
My i.d.: charman@students.fairmontstate.edu
My team i.d.'s are One, Two, and Three
Team passwords are: 1111, 2222, and 3333

Here is the link for using my tool.

Homework..Applying Bloom's Taxonomy of Thinking Skills!

I think that there is more Cola in the lemon lime. When I was trying to solve this problem I started by going over the problem and remembering it. Next I made sure that i comprehended the question, next I applied the knowledge that I knew and worked on the problem. I realized by adding lemon lime first to cola then adding that mixture back to the lemon lime that some of the lemon lime would be added back into its originial container. However, next I eveluated this and realized that if you added the cola and lemon lime mixture back to the lemon lim it might be less cola added in because the lemon lime would take up some of that room. So after thinking more about it I think they might be equal.

Embeded Presentation

We created a power point on developing our own taxonomy! THis gave us a chanse to develop our own taaxonomy for when we are teachers ourselves. This is the link to my power point.

Power Point

Today i also created my power point on Bloom's, Costa & Kallick, and Marzaro. I saved it in google docs for class on Monday!

Intro Video

Today we created a short 30 second video, using animoto. We uploaded pictures from the web and added titles and music. This is the link to my video. It's short and sweet! :)

Storage Issues

Four place you can save an electric document are:

1. On a jump drive. This is bad because there is a possiblity that you could lose it at even given time. However, this is also good because it is easy to just stick it in any computer real quick and view or edit your document. They are also cheap and you do not need the internet to use it.

2. On a computer's hard drive. This is good because you do not have to worry about losing it like you would a jump drive. However it is bad because if your computer crashes your work would be completely lost.

3. On the world wide web, like google docs. This is bad if for some reason your internet goes down or if you are somewhere with no internet access. This is good because you will never lose it and you can get on it from any computer that has internet access.

4. Network drives. These are good because you do not need internet access and only you can access it. These are bad because you have to be on the network's lines to access it. For example I live in college park and access the internet by a guest network, so I would not be able to use this source in my apartment.

We created our own web page in class today from Microsoft Word! I did not realize how easy it actually was to create a web page! This is the link to the web page I created. We saved our document to the desktop and then used google docs to make it a web page! We also began to create our Resumes!

Monday Jan. 25, 10

In class today, we set up our delcious acounts, which is a social bookmarking service. This is a link to delicous. In order to set up this account I also had to create a yahoo email account because I did not have one before.

In class today we created our blog. We had to think of a name and a URL for it. We then learned out to add a link.

This is a link to the home page 2201.

We also went over what our final will be in this class! We learned where to find it and what it is about.