My iMovie NETS-T 1 &3

I created a PSA about the CSU San Marcos campus using iMovie. I used different video clippings and added music. I added texts that described facts about CSU San Marcos. I added effects to different clips and added my own voice to the end of the PSA.

journal #10

1. Dancing
2. My goofball dog
3. Movies
4. Vacations
5. Meeting new people
6. Family
7. Friends
8. Sleeping
9. Warm cookies & a big glass of milk
10. Going to different clubs
11. Going to the beach
12. Playing poker
13. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
14. Going to Denny’s late at night
15. Playing monopoly
16. Playing around on Photoshop
17. Listening to music
18. Singing to my roommate early in the morning
19. Sunny weather
20. Warm temperatures
21. A blanket fresh out of the dryer
22. Sleeping in front of the fireplace all night
23. Buying new toys for my dog
24. Going on dates
25. Mac & cheese
26. Singing in the car
27. Making people laugh
28. Getting good grades
29. Comforting people
30. Scuba diving
31. Having a clean room
32. Having something work right
33. Having money in the bank
34. Swords
35. Collecting unique items
36. Getting dressed up
37. Going to the river
38. Going to the desert
39. Going to the mountains
40. Having food in the house
41. A BIG TV
42. Having the latest technology
43. Bonfires at the beach
44. The fact that I almost done with school
45. Road trips
46. Full moons
47. Over came my disability
48. Grateful of the friends who never left my side
49. Buying my house
50. Buying things for my house
51. Getting out of the hospital
52. Son of anarchy
53. Putting up Christmas lights
54. Museums
55. Magic mountain
56. Not working on the weekends
57. Halloween
58. April fools
59. Telling jokes
60. Shark week
61. Going to Oktoberfest
62. Walking around fry’s
63. Watching my dog play
64. Sleeping next to my dog
65. Living on my own
66. Becoming independent
67. Coming home to dinner made
68. My apple computer
69. Buying presents for people
70. Swimming
71. Companionship
72. Having roommates the buy food
73. Learning new things
74. Thunder and lightening
75. Popping bubble rap
76. Tattoos
77. Love
78. Watching the sunset
79. Happy endings
80. Funny you tube videos
81. Sleeping in the shower
82. Chocolate ice cream
83. Watching my brother get married
84. Vegas
85. Payday
86. Mexican food
87. Italian food
88. Playing wii
89. People I made friends with in my education classes
90. Having a clean dog
91. My cat Vegas
92. Parties
93. Talking with my littler sister
94. Going out with my brother and his wife
95. Getting better looking as I get older
96. Watching glee
97. Going out to dinner
98. Being able to sleep in when its raining
99. Helping children
100. Inspiring others

Journal #9 NETS-T 2 &4

Point/counterpoint: Is it Time to Switch to Digital Textbooks?

Cady, Michael. "Point/Counterpoint: Is it time to switch to Digital Textbooks?." Learning & Leading With Technology. 38.3 (2010): Print.

Summary:

Michael Cady, who is a teacher that emphasizes the use of bringing digital textbooks into the classroom, writes this article. With digital textbooks, students can have their books wherever they are. With digital textbooks, text-to-speech can help guide students who are reading below grade level, English learners, and gifted students. Digital textbooks are more up to date. With information changing quickly, it is hard for traditional textbooks to keep up. Yet, with digital textbooks, they are easily changed. Digital textbooks are more interactive and interesting to the students.

Question #1: How can schools afford digital textbooks?
Today digital textbooks are often cheaper then traditional books, because they save on the materials and printing. Also with digital textbooks, the need to buy new books every couple years is replaced, because as information changes, the digital textbooks are easily altered to fit the new information.

Question #2: How can students use digital textbooks at home?
Most kids have access to a computer, either privately, or publicly. So, students can access their books from any computer. For students with trouble getting to a computer, perhaps the school can print out the pages needed, or the student can use the school computer.

Journal #8 NETS-T 1,3 &5

Learning Connection:What? Wikipedia in History Class
Boggs, Jeremy. "Learning Connection: What? Wikipedia in History Class?." Learning & Leading With Technology. 38.4 (2010): Print.

Summary:

This article is about a history teacher, Jeremy Boggs, who uses Wikipedia in the classroom, as well as requires his students to research and write an article in which they will post on Wikipedia. Boggs says that the assignment helps students to become more responisible digital citizens, and shows students the difference between fact-only writing and analytical writing. It introduces research methods, as well as gives students an insight of how Wikipedia works, so that they can understand why, or why they should not use it in certain situations.

Question #1: How is Wikipedia helpful for students?
Wikipedia has a lot of good information that is often quite accurate, but its also has references and links to other areas of where to obtain the information. Students can use Wikipedia to get an understanding of a topic and then research it in other areas.

Question #2: How can teachers use Wikipedia in the classroom?
Teacher can use Wikipedia to get their students to find out how to properly research a topic. Students could choose a topic, and then do research to find if the information on Wikipedia is correct. They can learn more about networking and proper research.

Journal #6 Change Agent NETS-T 3,4, & 5

Change Agent, an interview with Will Richardson from the Education Week’s Website

Richardson, W. (2010, October 11). Change Agent. In Education Week Teachers Pd Sourcebook. Retrieved November 30, 2010, from http://www.edweek.org/tsb/articles/2010/10/12/01richardson.h04.html?cmp=clp-edweek&intc=bs&sms_ss=delicious&at_xt=4cb7dc75d0303b73,0

Summary:

Will Richardson was a high school English teacher, and wrote a book called “Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms.” Richardson is now an educational-technology consultant and co-founder of Powerful Learning Practice, a professional development provider devoted to fostering online community for teachers. Richardson speaks at engagements and blog about his belief that schools need to transform their models of teaching and learning to reflect broad changes in information technology. He believes that teachers need to be “ Googleable,” which is that teachers need to be on the web and using it to enhance their teaching, as well as their learning on ways to teach. Richardson says, that kids need to be taught how effectively, and safely find information on the web. Teachers and students need to learn web 2.0 tools in order to participate in networks of other learners and teachers.

Question #1: How can teaching Web 2.0 tools in the classroom help students?

We live in a technology based world. However, schools are not teaching the true potential of what students need in order to survive web paced world. Students are unfamiliar with how to find information. There is a world of knowledge just a mouse click away. Technolgy is growing everyday, and schools need to prepare students for the future

Question #2: Why is helpful for teachers to be Web 2.0 educated?

Teachers need to compete with the distractions of the world, and lecture style teaching will not keep today’s kids focused on the lesson. Teachers need to learn different ways to teach. With web 2.0 tools, teacher can use blogs and other forums to discover ideas to bring into their own classroom.

Journal #7 My Personal Learning Network NETS-T 5

1. My personal learning network incorporates Twitter, which enables me to discuss, and learn from other educators so that I may bring new ideas into the classroom, along with a social bookmarking tool, known as Delicious, which is useful to find websites that broaden the horizon of learning for myself as well as my students. Both are useful tools for a teachers to keep up to date on new advancements of how to incorperate technology into the classroom, as well as make it fun and exciting for the students. Teachers need to find ways to compete with the distractions of video games, texting, and the internet. So instead of trying to beat it, why not use. Both Twitter and Delicious are tools that encompass the technology that kids are using today and turn it into learning devices.
2. My Twitter network consists of 2 prospective teachers like myself ( Danielle Salim, and Kaytlin Swartz). I follow 2 teachers, one of which is Julia G. Thompson, who is a best-selling author of First-Year Teacher’s Survival Guide, as well as a consultant and a teacher, and the other Jefferey Heil, who is a technology resource teacher and a professor in educational technology at CSUSM. I follow ED.gov, which gives up to date news and information from the U.S. Department of Education, along with 2 collaborative sites: teachertube, and Impact Teachers. I chose these people to follow, because they have a lot of insight on becoming a successful new teacher, and how to make the classroom an exciting learning environment by using technology.
The chat that I portook in was on edchat. I followed edchat, because it covers a wide range of issues dealing with education, and since I am still unaware of what grade level that I would prefer to teach, I find a wider range of topics to benefit me. The topic question for this chat was, What are the real versus imaginary dangers in technology? Many people in the chat agreed that the real dangers of technology is that students are not learning how to use it properly. With the problems of cyber predators and cyber bullying, children, as well as parents, need to learn the proper ways to use technology as a tool, and not a replacement for thinking. Children need to learn about their digital footprint, for what they do, or post on the internet can possibly have real consequences. One person said that kids will use technology either way, so teachers have a moral obligation to teach appropriate use. I agree with this statement. Technology is everywhere, and most people do not realize the true potential of what it can do. Another question that was brought up was, should children be allowed to keep passwords private from parents, and/or teachers? I believe that answer has to rest with each child's parent. I think that parents should know their child's password, and even monitor what they are doing, however, when do parents start trusting their child? The topic was very informative, but the question leaves a lot of other questions unanswered. However, students need to learn the world they are living in, and it is the world of technology, and teachers need to guide the way.
3. I research many areas that I found interesting on Delicious, but some common tags that I focused on was “education,” “technology,” “teaching,” and “lesson plans.” I added people into my network that were also interested in some of the same tags. Some of the sites that I tagged as PLN, can be useful for newer teacher to make lesson plans that incorporate a wide range of learning. I use an iPad in school now to help me learn, but I found a site that explains 16 educational Apps for the iPad, which I can use to help with teaching, and even project my work onto a projector screen. I also tagged Freerice.com, which is a fun way for children to quiz themselves and reach a goal in many different subjects. A third site that I tagged was Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators, which is a site that has access to other sites depending on what topic you want to teach, such as a site where students can enter in their birth dates and learn about people in history births, deaths, and events that happened on the date of the students birth. The last site I tagged PLN, was U.S. History Teachers Blog, which has an abundance of youtube videos, and tutorials for a U.S. history teacher.
4. The video that I watched on The Educator’s PLN was Education today and tomorrow. This video focuses on how today’s classrooms are similar to the classrooms of the past, whereas they teach children old ways of boring lectures, and routine memorization. They are preparing kids for the assembly lines. Yet, the world has changed with greater populations and more to learn. Todays student live a world everything is at their fingertips, from music to communication. School’s today are not preparing students for the jobs of tomorrow. I believe that school’s today do not teach tomorrows know-how, but instead teach to the tests. We have access to much information, and resources, but teachers do not use them, or teach them. Instead of memorizing hundreds of facts that a child will not remember, or perhaps need for tomorrows jobs, schools should teach children how to access the information that is in their hands, and gigabytes away.



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Inspiration NETS-T 5

This is my NETS-T Inspiration. This is a visual representation of the five NETS-T standards for teachers. Subtopics represent parts of the standards with images. With each subtopic is an activity that I have done that meets the standard. Ultimately it is visual map of all the assignments and standards met in the Ed422 class.

Journal #4 Computing In The Clouds

Johnson, D. (09, December). Computing In The Clouds. Learning and Leading. Retrieved October 16, 2010, from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/digital-edition- december-janruary-2009-2010.aspx

Summary:
Cloud computing can be used to get away from expensive programs that can only be accessed from a specific computer. By using Internet based programs, one’s information can be accessed from any computer. The information can be accessed without having any specific programs and the information can be stored freely leaving needed hard drive room on your personal computer. A person does not need to be concerned with downloading software or their information getting erased because all information is stored elsewhere and there is no downloading. Others can also share information without having specific programs. Making documents into PDF can be opened without using programs, just the Internet.

Question #1 How can Cloud Computing help in the classroom?

By using Cloud Computing, students are able to use free web based programs in the school in order to accomplish their work. This saves the schools money from purchasing expensive programs. Also students can work on a computer at school, and then continue the work at home without worrying if they have the right computer programs.

Question #2 How can Cloud Computing help students in low-income areas?

Students in low-income areas can access information and continue their work from any computer. Students that are not able to afford a computer can use public computers in a library to continue their work, and they do not have to download programs onto a public computer or someone else’s computer.

Journal #3 Bring The World Into Your Classroom

McDermon, L. (2010, September). Bring The World Into Your Classroom. Learning and Leading. Retrieved October 16, 2010, from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and- leading/digital-edition-september-october.aspx

Summary:
Video conferencing is an effective tool that can be used in the classroom to bring the outside world into the class. Students are able to tour a museum, talk to experts and fellow students from around the world without leaving the classroom. Classes are able to share projects and information with each other. This technology can help teachers with lesson plans as they discuss ideas with other teachers from around the world and can accomplish them together without being in the same room. Students are experienced with other nationalities from around the world by video conferencing with other students who might live in England, or Africa.

Question #1 How can video conferencing help students learn tolerance?

By exposing students to different students from around the world that are from different ethnicities and religions, students will learn that people from different areas of life are just like them, making this big world a little smaller and closer to a child’s perspective.

Question #2 How can video conferencing help students to learn?

By using interactive information, the students will be more focused to the information given. Also the students will retain the information better by acting out information to other students. Younger students can conference with older students to help transfer the information in a way they can understand.

Journal #2 Join the Flock by Hadely Ferguson and Enhance Your Twitter Experience by Shannon McClintock Miller

APA Citation:
Ferguson, H. (2010). Join the Flock! Learning and Leading, 37, 8. Retrieved October, 2010

McClintock Miller, S. (2010). Enhance Your Twitter Experience. Learning and Leading, 37, 8.

Summary:
Join the Flock article is from a junior high history teacher that uses twitter to enhance her teaching and learning. The article discussed the easy steps of how to sign up to twitter, as well as some helpful dvice to make the experience more enjoyable. It does not matter what typ of person you are, Twitter compliments everyone in that you can sit back and watch, or you can be active in a conversation and retweet.

Enhance Your Twitter Experience is an article from a teacher who uses Twitter to help her classroom learn from around the world. The article also helps to explain different tools that are not readily known that can be used with Twitter in order to help organize and find what you are looking for.

Question #1 How can Twitter help students?

Students can use Twitter themselves by finding information and help from other educators around the world as well as professionals in a field. Using Twitter can help students discover primary documents and information.

Question #2 How can a teacher with little computer skills learn from Twitter?

Twitter is a very easy program to start with helpful tutorials to guide one along the way. Once in, a teacher can learn from others by asking question, and following others who are experienced computer users. Teachers can find video step by step tutorials that will show them programs that can enhance their students and their experience in the classroom.

Journal #1 Taking Laptops School wide

Taking Laptops Schoolwide: A Professional Learning Community Approach
By: Tim Green, Loretta Donovan, and Kim Bass
APA Citation: Green, Tim, Donovan, Loretta, & Bass, Kim. (2010). Taking laptops schoolwide: a professional learning community approach. International Society for Technology in Education, Retrieved from https://acrobat.com/#d=7rIs4heRCXPhOZp7l-otEg

Summary:
Laptops are being used in schools to help student’s progression of subject matter as they move up the grade level. Students in lower grades are learning essential skills of basic word processing that will help later as they progress to higher grades where these programs are necessary. The use of laptops helped teachers to collaborate with each other through Richard DuFour’s Professional Learning Community (PLC) approach to planning, where the focus is on learning instead of teaching, and each teacher being held accountable. Currently the Fullerton School District provides six of their schools in the district with laptops and focuses on the PLC approach. They use the laptops to find where students are struggling and focus on that area. The PLC program is designed to bring student, teacher, and parent together into the classroom, where parents are able to view their child’s work and progress through such programs as class webpage.

Question #1 How can the use of laptops in the classroom help students with disabilities?

The use of laptops would help students with a wide range of disabilities. Students with certain learning disabilities could use specific programs to help them understand and remember the material, as well as keep the students with attention problems focused on the task. Other students with physical disabilities could use programs in which they talk to the computer and the computer writes what the student says. There are other programs where a student’s eye movement moves the cursor around.

Question #2 How are schools able to afford laptops?

Instead of schools buying expensive books that go out of date quickly, and buying materials for the classroom, the school can take the money to buy laptops. Teacher are able to download books on the computers for very cheap, and students can use the computer to write notes in and do their work, saving the school money over time from buying new materials as well as saving on pollution of paper being used.

Test Survey-All About Me

School 2.0 Reflection Tool NETS-T 4

Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity.  I chose this standard because, with the budget cuts in public schools, the arts are the first to be cut from schools.  I believe that kids need these subjects just as much as they do math or English.  If you cut the arts from schools then you may be cutting a talent from a child.  Without learning all subjects, how is a student suppose to find their talent?
I watched Creativity and Schools-Sir Ken Robinson.  In this clip, Sir Ken Robinson points out that education now days is killing kids creativity.  That by getting rid of the arts in school and diagnosing kids with ADHD and giving them pills and telling them to sit still, kills the creativity in kids that are suppose to something else in life besides being involved with the traditional education of English and math.  Robinson made a good point also that mistakes are not all bad.  A person needs to make mistakes in order to find the correct result.  I remember reading once that when Thomas Edison was trying to invent the light bulb, Edison's assistant came to him and said you have failed hundreds of time to make a light bulb, and Edison replied, I have found hundreds of ways how not to make a light bulb.  I liked how Robinson said that all kids start out creative and education kills creativity.  This is true because when kids are young they have make believe and can construct things with legos or other toys.  Yet, as they grow, kids are stripped of this.  I believe as teachers, we should be helping students find their potential and encourage it.

My funky self

Rolling Through Danny's Head

            Most people have a time in their lives they remember as a life changing experience.  For some it might be getting married, or having a child born.  Mine took place on September 20, 2004.  On this day seven of my friends and I were involved in a car accident that left me as a quadriplegic.  I do not recall the event of the accident, and after about a week of being in a coma from a head injury that caused my brain to bleed and swell, I had learned what happened and was told that I would never be able to regain functions from my chest down.  I also had a crushed right hand, a broken right scapula, and bruised lungs that were taking on liquid and causing me to drown.  While in the hospital, I was surviving with a respirator and stomach tube.  Unable to talk, eat, drink, or move; like many I assume in a similar situation, I was saddened and discouraged that someone would have to look after me for the rest of my life.  I felt that my life was over.   This disheartening news would later be a fact that I would ignore as well as prove wrong to the doctors and myself.   My name is Danny Miller and this is my autobiography, not from when I was born, but when I was given a second outlook on life.   At the time of the accident I had just turned twenty-four years old, still a young man by standards with my whole life ahead of me.  As a healthy young man, I was arrogant and proud, active in all types of thrills and adventures.  I enjoyed anything that challenged, and scared me.  I partook in such things as Paintball, dirt bike riding, snowboarding, wake boarding, scuba diving, and rock climbing.     As well as staying busy with adventures I also worked full time at the family Paintball Park, and was attending college full time in order to earn my degree in criminal justice.  My boy hood dream was to be a FBI agent.  I wanted to be the man you see read about or see in movies that ended some political regimes plan to take over the world, or stop some cataclysmic event that would kill hundreds of people.  I knew that what I saw in movies was fiction, but a boy could dream.  My father was in the Marines, so we moved a lot.   I was born in Hawaii, where I attended most of my Elementary school years.  I attended my junior high years in Orange County and my High school years in Murrieta.  After High School, I attended San Diego State University for a year, the Menifee junior college until I transferred to San Marcos last year.  Many might say that I lived my life as if there was no tomorrow, and maybe I did, but I made each day count, and as I was told by my father “that life is measured by the risks you take and the strides you make.”  As I look back, perhaps my arrogant and proud attitude was my down fall, and my injuries was a hard sit down about life, however, I believe that my arrogant, and proud attitude were the reasons for the next events to take place.  As an active young man, I was at a low point in my life when I was told by the doctors that I would not be able to live my life as I did and that I would be need someone to care for me.  I would be a twenty-four year old infant.  As I saw it, my life was over.  However, my family and friends did not see it that way and believed that I had the strength and fortitude to stand up to this challenge and beat it back, just as I did when I was challenged or scared by an adventure.  With much debate and tears, I finally agreed with them and fought to be a man again, perhaps even the man I was.  It took some time and a lot of hard work, but after about a year after the accident I regained movement in my arms and left hand as well as being able to stand and take some assisted steps with a walker.  Since then I continue to work out at Project Walk; the spinal cord injury recovery gym that helped me achieve my goal, as well as the local gym, and I continue to improve and regain strength.  Although some adventures that I enjoyed are a glimpse of hope to be able to partake in them again, and the dream of me being an FBI agent is over, I still hold fast to my sense of adventure and continue to partake in many of my old activities, just with some adaptations to them.  I also went back school, where in the future I hope to inspire young kids as a teacher to believe in anything and to never give up, no matter what others tell them.  My life is challenged everyday now even with the once simple tasks of tying my shoes, but I hold fast to my strength, and I am ambitious to see what the future has in store for me.  I see myself as a stronger person, a man at the age of twenty-nine that views life at a different height, and will roll through life with a stronger concept of family, friends, compassion, and the persistence to improve my life each step of the way. 

            Computers can easily frustrate me when things don’t work out the way they are supposing to.  I use computer devises everyday, and I am an apple fan.  I have an Apple computer, an Iphone, Ipad, and an Ipod.  I would consider myself as fairly knowledgeable when it comes to computers.  My friends think that I am a genius, but they have problems putting pictures on their facebook page.

            I believe the college mission statement has a well thought out point by teaching future teachers how to teach all kids and how to not be judgmental.  As a teacher, there will be many kids that will be in the classroom, and it is the teacher’s job to teach all kids in ways that they will all understand.