Goodbye!

Goodbye All! You can keep in touch with me via MySpace Or Facebook. Just look up my name. Dr. Strange, sorry I couldn't Skype you. My computer crashed yesterday! And I tried to put a picture with this blog, but then my words wouldn't show up!

What I Learned

I don't think there was anything that I didn't learn in this class. I'll have to admit that there are some things I would like to forget, such as iTunesU, simply because I didn't understand it and it didn't seem beneficial to me. I found a lot of things in this class intellectually challenging. iTunesU was challenging simply because I had never used it before. I don't even own a iPod! Making videos and things of that sort was also challenging because I'd never done that before, either. I admit I was bored at times during class. It felt that sometimes all we were doing was sitting there. As for being Technologically Literate, I think that I am more now than I was when I first entered the class. There are some things that I know how to do now that I didn't. I think I will maintain my literacy from now until I teach. I think that Google Forms/Documents is probably what I will definitely use the most.

Seven Stupid Things And Smart Things Teachers Do

I think one smart thing that teachers can do is to make conferencing real-time. It's important to keep your students' parents up-to-date on how their child is doing, but sometimes, the parents can't always come to the school. To e-mail, post newsletter on online, calling them, e-mailing them, or even texting them, is a whole lot easier. It's easier for the parent who work different shifts to hop on the computer and e-mail the teacher.
I think the most stupid thing on this list is watching porn while at work. The computer at work is not your personal computer. It shouldn't be used to do things you would normally do at home, may it be watching videos or sending e-mails to everyone you know. To see these two lists, click here.

My Project

To see the project on Randy Pausch, click here.

Comments4Kids

I thought Comments4Kids was a great assignment. It was really neat to see how excited the kids got about a comment to their blog. It's also neat how they would write back and respond to us. It's so cool to see that someone from around the world cares about what is going on over here and that they're interested. It's also a good assignment for us, as well as the kids over there, to learn how to blog. It definitely keeps us connected.

At The Teacher's Desk

I think this website is good for first time teachers. Other teachers get on here and talk about what they've been doing and they give tips about their blogs. One teacher needed probability problems, so he went to Twitter and people he didn't even know were helping him find them! I think this website is important because it could definitely help out those first time teachers with ideas for their class. They could get on and ask other teachers for advice on what to do. Click here for the website.

PS22 Chorus "Landslide"

I think it's important to publish a student's work on a blog because it lets the whole world see what they can do. This chorus published themselves singing, and because of it, they got to sing at Madison Square Garden at a Fleetwood Mac concert. They probably had no idea that would've even happened. And with the other blogs we've seen, those kids probably had no idea that people from across the country would even see their work and comment them. To see the video, click here