Monday, October 6, 2014

Blog Post #7 How Do We Become Learner's

    As a future educator, it is my duty and my expectation to learn different technology and new learning material. I want to be able to make learning fun and enjoyable for my students. My Strength's: I love learning new thing's to be able to share with other's. I am open to new information so I can be able to teach my student's new and broader things that is going on with the curriculum. I think have an open mind is the best solution to learning new materials to be able to teach the students. My Weakness: I would say I am not broad and computer friendly when it comes to learning and
teaching technology. I believe everything is done old fashion like looking information up in the text book and studying and writing out definition for each chapter. I need to learn how to be computer friendly and get use to learning to use blogs and other different learning style website that would be useful to teach to my student's.
     In the video, How to make an audio QR. Qr code and a audio Qr code is just like making tape recording. It's basically the same thing except it is done on a computer. Teacher's can be able record assignments and also read books so student's can be able to follow alone. This is a great tool for beginners learns that have a hard time and some that struggle with reading and other difficult learning styles. Here are the instruction's on learning how to record your own Audio QR: 1. Go to and click "record" to record your voice. 2. Once you done recording, hit the stop button. 3. Save recording, and bring up the URL. 4. Copy the URL, and paste it to the address bar. 5. Once you paste it, you are going to "Create QR Code" and you will have your own code. 6. Right click, and copy the image of your QR code. 7. Paste the image to a Word Document This is a great tool to be able to interact with student's parents as long as they have them a free QR
code. In the video, iPad Reading Center the student learn how to work their iPad by setting up their own video and learn how to record themselves. This is a great tool for student's be able to video tape themselves reading, and listen to see if they have made any mistakes. I love how the teacher walks around the classroom to encourage her student's that she is  listening to make sure they are on the right track. This is a great listening tool to see if student's will be able to catch their mistakes and learn to correct them. In the video, Poplet this is another great tool that can be based off Project Base Learning. This great tool help's  student's to stay organize and also look up information that they can later go back and search. This tool help them to read a book on the iPad and also teach them how to type and match pictures with the story.
    In the video, Alabama Virtual Library this is a friendly site to be able to use and look up different search engines. The student's can be able too look up the information and watch movie clip's and fill out the activity worksheet that they have for that lesson. They will start adding sentences by drawing a picture of what they learn they will also have to write one sentence for each picture or clip that they watch. In the video, Build A Board In Discovery Education is a video on Discovery Education in the classroom. This friendly tool allows student to research information, images and different videos. Listening to the video I was able to create my own board:
1. Go to the Discovery Education website, and register with a user name and password.
2. Click on "Board Builder".
3. Choose background and title, click on continue.
4. Add.
5. Create Board.
This tool will allow students to add title's and picture's to their Discovery Education database about their topic. This a great tool for student's to be able to look up information, video's and pictures to create their own board.
    In the video, Board Builder Project  the student's had to create a board builder project and present it to the class. The student's were not shy at all they were able to show and describe where they got their pictures and resources from. Also, they were able to tell us why they was raising money for "The Haven". They also impressed me with their large vocabulary word's that they presented in their presentation. In the video, Using iMovie and the ABV in kindergarten is a YouTube conversation video between Dr. Strange, Elizabeth and Daphne. This video is about how kindergarten student's write scripts and use iMovie trailers at ages 5 and 6. Elizabeth talks about AVL, and how you can log on and teach student's basic information and research. This is a FREE site that student's can pull up information and learn from. Many resources are available for students, such as the dictionary, encyclopedia, and also library references. Last but not least, in the video We All Become Learners discusses how teachers teach student's and student's teaches teacher's. So basically everyone becomes learners and teachers. Padlet,  is great tool that can be used as Project Based Learning. The teacher use Padlet to post question's on the board that will be answered from the student's. With this great tool, everyone is able to learn and help each other with information that they may not know.



3 comments:

  1. Shayla, I really enjoyed reading your post. I strongly agree with you!! Great read!
    -Ashley

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  3. My previous comment was removed so that I could add additional examples of mistakes which you made in this post.

    "I believe everything is done old fashion like looking information up in the text book and studying and writing out definition for each chapter. I" If you mean what this sentence says, you are absolutely, totally wrong. I am not sure what you meant to say but I do not think it is this.

    "I need to learn how to be computer friendly and get use to learning to use blogs and other different learning style website that would be useful to teach to my student's." Awkward. Rewrite like this: I need to learn how to use the computer effectively and to learn how to use blogs and other web sites to teach my students.

    "...making tape recording." Add a before tape.

    "Teacher's can be able record assignments and also read books so student's can be able to follow alone." Awkward: A possible rewire: Neither teachers nor students is possessive. No apostrophes! Teachers can record assignments and students can follow what is being read. Students can also record their readings and listen to what they said while reading.

    "This is a great tool for beginners learns that have a hard time…" What? Is this what you mean: This is a great tool for beginning learners who have a hard time…?

    ""Here are the instruction's …" AND " website that would be useful to teach to my student's." AND "Teacher's can be able…" No apostrophe. Instructions is NOT a possessive noun. Nor is students. Nor is teachers.

    Here are more examples of the same mistake: "The student's were not shy..." "...how teachers teach student's and student's teaches teacher's…" Also: students teach, not student's teaches.

    "Once you done recording,…" have finished, not done

    "...the student learn how to work their iPad…" Either students learn or student learns, not student learn Do you understand the mistake you have made?

    I am stopping here. Take this post to the Writing Lab as soon as possible. While there have them call me on my cell phone. The number is on the syllabus.

    Writing is not acceptable.

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