Post 11

Focus Question: How can teachers use student participation systems as effective assessment methods?
One tool I have used is when a teacher post a question on the board us students are placed into groups and we have a game as to who can answer the question the fastest and correct and how we answer is by using our clickers that we used. Participation is a great way for students to get involved and also to have them repeat what they need to know and what they can learn. Open-ended questions is a great way to get them involved as well.
Photo By Comingstobrazil TechTool: Survey Monkey Its an online survey tool that teachers can use to ask the students questions and that they can collect information on the students and their answers through that. Also when the students have a presentation and they would like to get the other students opinion. Here is an simple example I created that can give you an idea as to what you can create with the survey monkey, Addition and Subtraction.
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Summary:  As gearing toward the end of the semester we are working towards our own e-portfolio and this chapter helps get the students involved in the evaluations and assessing their work in the class. Our portfolio gathers all of our work that we have created throughout this class and we can go and edit what we please and see what we have created throughout the whole semester.  And the chapter goes into detail about how students can do peer evaluation, it talks about how we can use technology such as e-portfolios, presentations and publications of personal and student assessment. This can help students keep track of their own grades and work on what they have created.  We use En grade and that helps us keep track as to where we are in the class and what we need to work on.












Maloy, Robert W. "Chapter 11." Transforming Learning with New Technologies. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2011. N. pag. Print.

Post 10

                                                   Response to "This I Believe"
When bringing technology into the classroom there are so many ways that you can bring into the lesson to get the children excited, For Robert the teacher he wants to get his students excited about writing essays which is already hard to do now in days, and what he wants to accomplish is:"Read and hear different types of the example essays,"2:have the students write the essay,3:having them gain a better confidence in writing . With this scenario he has to introduce the lesson in a creative way to get them excited. And telling them how people have changed the world giving them some examples to read on their own, Everyone loves giving their opinion and discussing so why not get them talking about their ideas and what they want to change. But getting to work for brainstorming they can use Computers to do some research on the idea and to get more correct information on what they "believe". For writing their drafts they can use Microsoft word to help them write the paper a lot of times the spell check is a great use. They can also place photos and little characters into the photos to bring the paper to life. For the revising and the editing the children can just email the teacher the drafts and even email each other if the want peer evaluation. Now what we used for the blogger such as what we are using right now we can have them post their papers on here instead of handing in papers. Also classroom websites, power point,e-portfolios even can make a newspaper with all the headlines. Getting creative about what the lesson is can help them get excited for the papers, fcats and SATS and give them the confidence that they need.  














Maloy, Robert W. "Chapter 10." Transforming Learning with New Technologies. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2011. 302-03. Print.

Journal Post #9

Focus Question: How can Teachers use video resources in their teachings?
It is becoming more popular to use videos,DVD,YouTube and ect. Even what we are going over in class right now about the Instructional Strategies, we are going over on what we use in our class in order to get our students interacting and being involved in the lesson. Students are more about visuals anyone can sit and listen but a video or any video accessories can help the student who learn more by seeing is great for Visual Learners. For an example given in the book Transforming Learning with New Technologies,(pg 271) they say that a successful strategy used was when watching a video with your class you can stop and pause the video to have the students ask and answer questions. This video about teachers using Video sheds light on how videos can help students get involved. 

Tech Tool Link:  Since I am wanting to go into middle school and trying to grab the attention of teenagers will be challenging but the tech tool in the book talks about one of the most popular tools IPODS,IPADS and ect. Now to everyone it is just a way to listen to music but we can get it to play in our favor in the classroom. It talks about how college students are using the ipods in the classroom in order to record and have full and quick access to videos or anything needed for the lesson, since ipods now in days are coming with full wifi and able to almost do anything a computer can do. Even us teachers are using it to record ourselves so we can go back and listen to see what we can improve on. Now the websites they  

Summary: Chapter 9 goes into the way on communication and Power point.  Power point is what we were going over in our class right now and being able to learn and master the power point a huge thing, because that is how alot of projects are done now in days in the class. Just because it is easy for students to get into the project and have them work in a group. I have learned from this chapter because in order to be able to have this in my class is a huge advantage. Cameras was talked about as well since now almost everything is communicated over the phone or online but now we are being able to video chat just as easily. This is a huge help for online classes and for students to be able to brainstorm with students who don't even live in the U.S, such as the blog we did with the students from Australia, if we did use video chat we could of created even a bigger project. And putting this in the classroom we can have the kids in a real life situation because most of the time you wont be able to communicate with your bosses if they live in another country and its easier to communicate with someone if their right in front of you. 

• Maloy, Robert W. "Chapter 9 Creating and Sharing Information with Multimedia Technologies." Transforming Learning with New Technologies. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2011. N. pag. Print. 
• "Resources." Resources. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Nov. 2012. <http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/ntti/resources/video1.html>.