Friday, March 4, 2011

Journal # 4


Miriam Vidaurri
Journal #4
 
“It's time to trust teachers with the Internet”   NETS-T: III, VI


Summary:  The article presents a good argument of how schools are affecting the technology education of children. The article is an interview with Meg Ormiston , a presenter of good use of technology in classrooms. The main idea presented is that schools block the internet with the purpose of safety but same time teacher-resources are block. A good example of sites is YouTube, Ormiston mentions that can be bad but mostly can be useful to teach. Ormiston mentions that is necessary for administrators to educate themselves in why is useful not to block internet at schools. Also teachers need to go and explore outside of the classroom websites to later present them why they will be part of their curriculum. Finally, Orminston mentions that blocking websites is not good because students are going to their homes and using the internet without being taught about safety at school.

Q1: What other websites can be use in the classroom?
A1: Another websites useful for classroom purposes is Diigo a bookmarking site where can find interesting and useful websites. Yahoo can also be helpful because you can find news from all over the world in it, or any other site that has news to help students see the outside world. 

Q2: How is a way to educate students and teachers in a low-income district?
A2: It might seem impossible to have any kind of technology in these types of districts. However I think there are grants and people to who you might ask for support. I have heard that you can ask for grants by staying the reasons of how it will help students and how they will help in the future. Also is important to attend the district meetings because that way parents and teachers can demand for more money in order to help the children’s education.

Journal #3


Miriam Vidaurri
Journal 3
Hundred Things that Makes me Happy
  1. Family
  2. Friends
  3. Reading
  4. Making cakes
  5. Going to the Beach
  6. Resting
  7. Cooking
  8. Shopping
  9. Playing with sisters
  10. Visiting my aunt/cousins
  11. Traveling
  12. Going to Mexico
  13. Listening to music
  14. Going to movies
  15. Watching fav. Shows
  16. Scrapbooking
  17. Talking to my grandmas
  18. A day with my brothers
  19. Playing with my dad
  20. Talking to my mom
  21. Taking pictures of family and friends
  22. Eating candies/Chocolate
  23. My computer
  24. Road trips
  25. Parties
  26. Work
  27. Helping others
  28. Learning new things
  29. New adventures
  30. Fixing my room in new ways
  31. Ice cream
  32. My mom’s food
  33. My phone
  34. Play with my roommates dog
  35. Sunny days
  36. Rainy days
  37. Hot Chocolate
  38. Sorority events
  39. My sorority sisters
  40. Purple Things
  41. Internet
  42. Sleeping
  43. Messing with my hair
  44. Going to church
  45. Singing at church
  46. Weddings
  47. Quinceaneras
  48. New facts
  49. Visiting my friends
  50. Birthdays
  51. Lucky Charms cereal
  52. God’s love
  53. My sisters telling me they miss me and want me to go home
  54. Going to see movies with brothers
  55. Talking on Facebook with old friends
  56. Hearing what are up to my friends
  57. Learning something new in a class
  58. Smiles
  59. Christmas
  60. Thanksgiving with family
  61. Making gifts
  62.  Playing games
  63. Facebook
  64. When one of my students tell me Thank you for the help provided
  65. My students getting mad when I don’t go to work
  66. Knowing my students really appreciate my help and care for me
  67. Jokes
  68. Hugs
  69. Clean room
  70. Massage
  71. Roommate Day!
  72. Lunch with love ones
  73. Babysit my little cousin
  74. Money
  75. Having what I want
  76. Hot baths
  77. Seeing sunshine
  78. Seeing sundown
  79. Surprises
  80. Presents that have a meaning
  81. Freedom
  82. Success
  83. Forgiveness
  84. People understanding my decisions
  85. Being healthy
  86. When wearing my glasses
  87. Happy faces
  88. Being able to teach someone a new thing
  89. Teddy bears
  90. Doing Zumba
  91. Ruffles with lot of chile
  92. Flowers
  93. Knowing I am right
  94. When my aunts treat me with any kind of food when I visit them
  95. Helping sisters in their homework
  96. Playing dolls with sisters
  97. Laying in the grass and looking at sky
  98. Helping the environment
  99. In a summer day just laying by the pool
  100. Being able to translate because I am bilingual

Journal # 2


Miriam Vidaurri
Journal #2

“Join the Flock” and “Enhance Your Twitter Experience”       NETS-T V
 Ferguson, H. (2010). Join the flock!. Learning and Leading with Technology, 37(8), Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/digital-edition-june-july-2010.aspx

McClintock Miller, S. (2010). Enhance your twitter experience. Learning and Leading with Technology, 37(8), Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/digital-edition-june-july-2010.aspx

Summary: The first article “Join The Flock” talks about how to start working with twitter. The article presents all the information that you need to know on how to use in an educational way twitter in seven easy sections. It mainly explains step by step what to do next and how to gather information from it. Now, I can understand why people think twitter is a good educational tool, teachers can learn from people all around the world. Mainly, it mentions how to start your personal learning networks (PLN)
The second article talks about how to the author has help having a twitter account. How her students got to know more about Web 2.0 by a person from New Zealand. By this it demonstrates how people from all around the world can cooperate in a same tweet and express their knowledge when it will never be possible without internet. It also talks about saving the information that is important for you because tweets disappear behind more tweets fast. I think is a good thing to be able and save good tweets because it will not be good to have something amazing for a few minutes, and lost it again in the world.
Q1. How teachers can use Twitter for their lessons?
A1. Twitter is a connection of social network all over the world where you can express you knowledge, questions, concerns, and much more. It can be use for lessons because you can ask a question about a topic and people from all around the world is going to provide their ideas. It is a way in which teachers can use ideas from other educators and to identify new ways in which students will learn better.
Q2. Why you need hash tags?
The hash tags are to make your tweet go to more people. In order for it to work you use the # sing before the name of the group you follow and it will be posted for everyone else that follows that group but not you. It is also a way to get more opinions, ideas and knowledge from the world.

Journal # 1


Miriam Vidaurri
Journal #1

“Do Web 2.0 Right”              NETS-T  I,II,III, 

Light, D. (2011). Do web 2.0 Right. Learning and Leading with Technology, 38(5), Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/digital-edition-february-march-2011.aspx

Summary: Daniel Light presents in his article how teachers are using Web 2.0 tools in their classrooms. He explains how are some effective ways and some ineffective to what teachers in his interview told him. The interviews took place in 22 schools to 39 teachers all over the country. The article present to us the information in different parts starting by how is more effective to use them, to what audience present it, and how to teach students to have a good behavior while using them. Some types of web 2.0 tools are blogs and wikis. Daniel mention that for teachers is important what the students think about the blog, some had succeeded others doesn’t. the main reasons is because students are mainly concern of what they are writing and who is going to see it, students participated more if it was a private blog and with debate. The audience needs to be pick correctly because many times student write personal things that do not want to share, is important to ask students if they allow their publication to become public. In the article is also mention how teachers work to make it possible to have a supportive and encouraging environment both on and offline. The teachers worried it might affect the student’s relationship that is why they needed to make sure students were able to deal with other classmates ideas. The whole article is helpful because I can understand more ways to use Web 2.0 in my classroom and in what ways not to use it.

Q1. What do I do if the students do not participate in the blog?
A1. Students might feel embarrass to shared their personal information in the web because they do not want other people reading it. Like mention in the article ask students if they want to have a public blog. If they continue to participate might be they are not into that type of communication or teacher need to improve the ways is using the tools.

Q2. How can a teacher learn how to use Web 2.0 tools?
A1. The easiest way is to ask colleagues if they have use and if can help. Also as mention on other L&L articles the use of the web to search for ideas is awesome, one can be twitter where people from all around the globe and with different ideas and knowledge can help. If the desire to integrate technology in the classroom is everything can be done learn how to use it.