Driving Question

How do you keep a good rounded band in the schools?

Web Quest

WebQuest about WebQuests Worksheet

Your Role: Group One

___Efficiency Expert

___Affiliator

___Altitudinist

_X__Technophile

Your Impressions

WebQuest	Strengths	Weaknesses
John Wilkes Booth	1.Most of the links worked	1.The Link to the booth family didn’t work. It sent me to a prengncy web page. 2.The colors weren’t very good.
Landfills	1.    The lay out was nice.	1.    The highlighted stuff when you would put the mouse over it was the same color as the words
Ancient Egypt	1.    The animation on the front page was nice 2.    The pictures that had animation also worked	1.    The highlighted stuff when you would put the mouse over it was the same color as the words
Creative Encounters	The animations on the front page were nice The colors were different When I put my mouse on the tabs on the side I could still see the words under it. All of the arrows worked	The only think about the arrows it wouldn’t take you back to the first page
Poetry of War	The picture was nice	The red colour was hard to read. Only the one page It was just a poem and that is it.

Bernie Dodge, Department of Educational Technology, SDSU

Google Apps for Educational and the ISTE NETS-T

Standard 1.

Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

The Two Google Chrome Apps I would use is:

Glogster EDU and Pow Toon Edu

Reflection:

I feel like the apps listed above will help the students be able to support creativity and have students think about the "Real World" issues. They will be able to collaborate with other students and be able to plan with them in their creative process engaging learning with students.

Standard 2.

Design and Develop Digital Age Learning 

Experiences and Assessments

The Two Google Chrome Apps I would use is:

Dillster and Exam Professor

Reflection:

I feel like the apps listed above will help the students to be able to adapt to the learning experiences that have them learn about digital tools and promote their learning. It will also have technology enriched learning environments that will have the students setting their own goals and managing their learnin.g

Standard 3:

Model Digital Age Work and Learning

The Two Google Chrome Apps I would use is:

Type Fu and Doremi Free

Reflection:

I feel like the apps listed above will help the students to be able to transfer their current knowledge to the new technologies introduced in class. They will be able to collaborate with students and the teacher. They will be able to communicate relevant information and ideas. They can use the digital tools to analyse their work.

Standard 4.

Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

The Two Google Chrome Apps I would use is:

Grid Club Learning and Learn Spanish: Que Onda Spanish.

Reflection:

I feel like the apps listed above will help the students to be able to use the di

Standard 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

The Two Google Chrome Apps I would use is:

My Study Life and mySchoolNotebook.com

Frog Dissection

Learning Objective for:
SC.O.B.1.1   Implement safe procedures and practices when manipulating equipment, materials,               organisms, and models.


This game is teaching a safe way for us to do a dissection. The kids wouldn't be able to cut themselfs  and it is very safe.

Storybird: No Chores

The link to my story:

I could use story bird as a learning tool. I could give background information on the composers and their lives.

"GoAnimate: Rookie Mistake"

First day since Camp by Nicolle Davis on GoAnimate

Animation Software - Powered by GoAnimation


A way I could use Animation in my class room is to help teach the students drill. Instead of them looking at a drill chart and seeing the dots, I could make an animation for them to watch to see how they fit into the drill. Another way I can use animation in the class is to teach them about a composer we are playing.

Xtranormal Activity: the experience

Educational Gaming: Virtual Frog Dissection

How does this game support development in the 21st century skills?
I think it this game supports this because it gives the students time to do a virtual dissection, because must class periods are not long enough to do the actual dissection.
http://www.mydoctorgames.com/dissect-a-frog/

I would link this to ISTE standard 2a:

2. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS·S.
      a. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity
http://www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/nets-t-standards.pdf?sfvrsn=2

A project that teach's this skill would be from this website:
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2012/06/frog_dissection_goes_virtual.html

"The district's Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum/Instruction, Rebecca Fleck, outlined the decision at a recent school board meeting, saying that a virtual dissection is "a good, if not a better, learning experience than hands-on dissection." She argued that errors made by students in real dissections can sometimes ruin the entire experience, and that more high schools and universities across the country are using virtual dissections in their classes."

We would use with future students to support the content area learning of science.

RA #3

Quote:
"Visual literacy is learned "reading" of the images"

Reaction:
My reaction to this is confused. I don't understand how they think you can read an images. You can look at one and write down what you think about it, but you can not "read" a image. Reading takes words and yeah a picture maybe worth a thousand words, but that is people's opinion. Being a photographer, it is hard for people to understand what you are trying to get across in a picture. I would rather read a book than look a pictures and try to understand what point was the photographer wanted us to understand.



Video:

Magazine Cover

Photo Analysis

Photo Analysis 1a.

People	Objects	Activities
Guy on a boat?	Oil Rig	Guarding
Guy with a blue shirt and a guy with a darker green shirt	Tracker Trailer	walking
More guys on a Boat?	Boat	Guarding
President, guy with light green, a worker, other people behind them	People	Walking

Three things I might infer about the photo:
1. He is on his way from the looking at the oil spill
2. He is making plans on how to talk to the press
3. People are talking to him

Questions:
The title and the caption for the picture are the same. What is the President ready to seize claims process for. It isn't his fault with what happened. Why is the White House in the title, they don't have anything to do with it. The picture looks like it was taken Spontaneous.

New Caption:
The new caption I would pick for this is:
The President Leaving the Area of the Oil Spill.
I feel like the new caption does change the veiw.

Photo Analysis 1b.

People	Object	Activities
President	Left ear, vines, books	Staring
President	books	Stairng
President	shirt
President	shirt

Three things I might infer:

1. He doesn't look upset

2. If he was being briefed I don't think that there would be a camera in his face

3. Are the books in the background the same?

Questions:

His facial expression is hard. He looks pretty angry. I feel like he would be more upset because the oil spill kill cute little animals.

Summary:

The picture that would give me more confidence in the presidents leadership abilities is the first one. He looks like he was coming from the site where the oil spill. He looks like he has talked about everything with people he needs too. He had a smile of his face like someone told him a joke. I don’t think that he needs to be serious all the time, he is a person after all. I do not like the hard look that he has on his face in the second one. That picture looks like it was posed. I don't like that.

Media Literacy meets ISTE-NETS

2. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating 
contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS·S.
a. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that
incorporate digital tools and resources to promote
student learning and creativity
b. Develop technology-enriched learning environments
that enable all students to pursue their individual
curiosities and become active participants in setting
their own educational goals, managing their own
learning, and assessing their own progress


3. Model Digital Age Work and Learning
Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional 
in a global and digital society.
a. Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the
transfer of current knowledge to new technologies
and situations.
c. Communicate relevant information and ideas
effectively to students, parents, and peers using
a variety of digital age media and formats.

Connections

The connections between the Media Literacy and the standards I picked from ISTE-NETS is:

Media Literacy adapts to the relevant learning experiences and that it does use and incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning. Teachers can assign projects to where the student will have to go online, make a video, use music, or power point to create their project. Most students know how to use all of those and have a computer at the house to be able to do that. By having the student do the project using the internet, making a video or music they are learning and having fun with it. The teacher can also use Media Literacy to help students with different learning abilities.

By having the teacher make a power point to help with the lesson the teacher is teaching or if they need to fundraise for either a trip, new uniforms (for a team or the band), or for a teacher meeting, that teacher is showing fluency in the technology systems and are transferring their current knowledge to the new and adapting technology. If they are doing a fundraiser and trying to get the parents involved, when that teacher shows them their use of Media Literacy to help with the presentation they are communicating relevant information and ideas to them. 

Importance

Media Literacy is very important in this technological age because there are so many learning video’s online. The students of today’s age know how to use all the technology and it will help them understand something that maybe a book won’t be to go into that much detail. They can go online and find out more on that subject, which will make them more engaged in the class room. I know that when I become a teacher I plan on using Media Literacy in my classroom.  

Think Aloud meet ISTE-Nets

Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating 
contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS·S.

a. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote
student learning and creativity.

b. Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual
curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own
learning, and assessing their own progress.

c. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles,
working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.

d. Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content
and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.



Explaination:

I think that the ThinkAloud project will help me integrate technology into my future teaching practices that will align with the ISTE NETS Standards because I can use it to show background information on the composers we are playing in the class. I could use it along with a SMART Board and have the students interacting along with it. I can customize the project to help the students with any of their learning abilities. I can also assign an assignment that goes along with what the PowerPoint is teaching the students. I can also have the music on the screen for them to look at it and it will help them understand what is going on around them.

Think Aloud

Article Against Arming Teachers

Article

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/30/states-mull-whether-arming-teachers-will-prevent-another-school-massacre/


Accuracy


Q. Is the information reliable and error-free?                                                          
A. Yes

Q Is there an editor or someone who verifies/checks the information?
A. Yes

Q. Where doubt exists, can the information be cross-checked with a reliable source?
A. yes


Objectivity


Q. Does the information show a minimum of bias?
A. Nope. They  don’t want teachers armed. They think if they wanted to be armed they would have gone into the Police Work

Q. Is the page designed to sway opinion?
A. Well it is Fox News

Q. Is there any advertising on the page?
A. Oh Yeah. But again it is Fox News

Fair Use

1. The difference between Media in Education vs. Media Literacy Education is: Media in Ed. is the use of Youtube, Movies, and music to help teach a lesson or to show a point. Media Literacy Ed. is using a whole movie or something along those lines to entertain the students.

2. We as a society give limited property rights to creators to encourage them to produce culture; at the same time, we give other creators the chance to use that same copyrighted material, without permission or payment, in some circumstances: Is the social bargain at the hear of Fair Use

3. Fair use is important today because, it keeps the Copyright people from, disobeying the First Amendment.

4.The two key questions that Judges use to determine Fair Use:
     1.Did the unlicensed use “transform” the material taken from the copyrighted work
by using it for a different purpose than that of the original, or did it just repeat
the work for the same intent and value as the original?
     2. Was the material taken appropriate in kind and amount, considering the nature
of the copyrighted work and of the use?

5. When a teacher shows "The Lion King" and asks students to notice how the animals in the movie reflect racial stereotypes. it is fair use because, the teacher is using the movies to teach the students about racial stereotypes and how they are wrong. You shouldn't judge someone by their race.

6.The principal that relates most strongly to my digital story is number four, Student use of Copyrighted material in their own Academic and creative work, because the pictures I used were material for my creative work for this class.

7. Yes, there limitations to the amount of pictures, length of music, or video that can be used in a multimedia project.

8. No, you need to request permission from the original creator in order to use copyrighted material in multimedia project for school related assignment.

9.  Yes, should educators try to change the policies in their school if they are not in line with Fair Use doctrine, because they don't want to get in trouble.

10. The thing that surprised me the most about the Fair Use is, the length of time you can use or pictures, music, and videos.

Photo Story 3 Video

RA #2

Quote:

"School is no longer necessarily a place to instill a sense that linguistic rules (or even linguistic consistency) matter." (Baron, Naomi S. 2009)

Reaction:

I am shocked. All I learned in English class was Linguistic Rules. I learned how to make sentences, what a sentence was made up of, and general rules of sentences. I know students now a days are doing the same things. The school board wouldn't allow them not to. Students will still need to know how to make sentences and the general rules. Major jobs most likely wouldn't take them unless they are able to.


My Reaction:

“Whatever the benefits of digital media, it is destroying the ability of young people to construct the basic unit of the English Language...the sentence.”

My reaction to this is I disagree. I believe digital media, such as I-Pads and Smart Phones are helping students with the ability to construct the basic unit of the English Language. Personally, my phone corrects my spelling mistakes and if I don't know how to spell a word, I will pull out my phone and try to figure out how to spell the word. I know how the ability to construct the basic unit of the English Language. I know the students of the future will be able to do the same, if not better than me.

Reference:

Baron, Naomi S. 2009 Are Digtial Media Changing Language



Literacy Instruction with Digital and Media Technologies

By: Diane Barone and Todd E. Wright

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/29126/

Tv and Jocks

VARK Picasso Head

Your scores were:
Visual: 4
Aural: 10
Read/Write: 3
Kinesthetic: 3
You have a very strong Aural learning preference.


Three Ways Technology can help my learning style is:

1. If I am having a hard time figuring out how a piece of music sounds, I can go to Youtube and listen to it.
2. If I am reading a book I can get an audible version of the book.
3. Instead of taking notes, I can record the lesson and listen to the key points of lesson to study.

Wordle

I learned that one of my peers had two fish and they didn't want them anymore so they flushed them down the toilet.

The way I could use this in my class room is to have the students answer a poll by telling me who their favorite composer is. Then I could pick music for them to play based on who they liked.

Poll Everywhere

RA #1

Quote:

"The new classroom should teach the huge array of complex skills that come under the heading of digital literacy. And it should make students accountable on the Web, where they should regularly be aiming, from grade-school on, to contribute to a wide range of wiki projects." (Virginia Heffernan 2011)

Reaction:

I agree with what Heffernan said. Teachers should teach students with digital literacy. Use something like a Smart Board in a math class room, having the kids get up and show their work on the board. In English use tablets and ebooks for in the class room reading. Science and History have the students look up information on the web. I think with the way things are going, teachers will need to know all the technology that their students are using. Like in the music class room, have the students use Garage Band and Finale.

Reference: 

Heffernan, Virginia 2011 Education Needs a Digital Age Upgrade

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/education-needs-a-digital-age-upgrade/?hpRelated

 Resources:

The Future of Work

After watching the video there was three things that I disagreed with strongly was:

 1. That No One is going to pay me for having a degree. First off with most jobs now a days you  have to have a degree to even get the job or at least a High School Diploma/ GED.

2. College is the NEW High School. I don't think that if it was more people would be going to college and that college wouldn't cost the students money. It would be free to them.

3. Competition for jobs is no longer limited where you live. That I was confused about that. I don't understand if they mean like I don't have to compete for jobs anymore or I am going to have to worry about people stealing my job.

So far in college, I feel like it is getting me prepared for working in the future with the new Technology that will be coming out for Music Education.