Dr. Alice Christie

The Internet is an important communication tool for teachers and administrators. Educators can take advantage of this tool by learning to create purposeful and well-designed Web sites targeted at their students, the parents of their students, other teachers, and community members. This will be very useful to me when I start teaching because I can post pictures of activities that my students did on the web.
This way their parents can go online and actually see what their children did and actually learned. Web design can also be beneficial to parents as well, they can comment on the activities that their children participate in and see what goes on day by day in the classroom. This would also be a great way to keep in touch with the new technological generation. Students can leave out of my classroom and take information with them that will be beneficial to them for the rest of their lives.

Comments 4Kids

Today I commented on a young girls love for star wars for my comments for kids. Sadly, I had to let her know that I was not a star wars fan, but i would talk to my sister about it because she is.

What I've Learned this year

Mr. Clung talks about how to read a crowd. He says you should let your audience drive your instruction. You should also be flexible, do not dwell on lessons that did not work well for you, just strive to do better next time. Communication is the best medicine. Communication is the pathway to building that much desired rapport with fellow teachers. As a teacher we should try to be reasonable. Our job as teachers is to simply pick them up after they fail, dust them off, and encourage them to try again. As a teacher technology can make a big difference, we should not become overwhelmed by technology and simply give up before we start. We should use the valuable time we have to figure it out. It is important to take interest in the lives of our students. Lastly, a teacher should never stop learning. Use all the available resources to build up on your intelligence. After all we are teachers. Mr. Clung says soak up as much information as we can.
This essay is amazing , and I can really relate to the topics. In order for me to be an effective teacher, I must listen to my students, use technology, be reasonable, and communicate with my students.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia will never be a reliable source because everyone can change the content of articles. If one person adds wrong information, this misleading information affects many people, especially college students. College students are always hunting for information online for papers and etc. Wikipedia will only be a trusted source of information when one person who actually knows their material is the only one who can change information. There should be a way for people to e-mail the owner of wikipedia; if they want to add information or chgange it.

week 3 comments 4 kids

i commented on a students baseball game. He went to a baseball game and his team won. He ate hot dogs and nachos. His team wonand he was so excited

Mr. Pausch's speech

This was a very motivating speech made by a wonderful man. He used many great learning techniques while on this earth. During the lecture, Pausch was upbeat and humorous, alternating between wisecracks. Although Mr. Pausch was dying he made it feel okay to be dying. He showed everyone that just because he was dying, did not mean that he did not achieve his dreams. Pausch found out that he could enable peoples dreams, when he had a student in his class named Tommy Burnett.This led Pausch to conduct a virtual reality class at Carnegie Mellon, to teach others as well as help them realize their childhood dreams.
Mr. Pausch gave insights on computer science and engineering education, advice on building multi-disciplinary collaborations, working in groups and interacting with other people, offering inspirational life lessons, and performing push-ups on stage. Working with other people is a plus in the field according to Pausch. . He makes the point, many times, that you need to have fun in everything you do, you need to live life to its fullest because you never know when it will be taken from you.
I believe that Mr. Pausch wanted his children to have something to remember him by, so he gave his last lecture. Words can not begin to explain how saddened i am by reading up on the life of this influential man. I do not know him personally, but watching this video makes me feel like I do. Mr. Pausch has taught me that life throws many obstacles at you, but you just have to stick it out, for better or for worse.

Did You Know 4.0

It is so crazy how technology is a good idea and a bad idea for some jobs. From seeing this video I can not even imagine how many people have been put out of jobs because of technology. Sooner or later, mail delivery will be cut out permanently; because no one sends letters anymore, they use the Internet to pay bills and send things. I know that as a future educator I will be interacting with technology everyday; whether it is sending emails to teachers, or putting grades in the computer. I just hope we do not have a re enactment of the industrial revolution.