I had fun creating an I Spy with my group yesterday. I was thinking about it last night, and there are so many things that you could do with this activity. For younger students, I thought about using those wooden ABC blocks and creating an I Spy in which students would find different letters in the text written, or even using this activity as a whole or small group when an adult would read off letters for student to spy. Also, children could look at the objects and think about things that rhyme in their picture. As we talked in class today, Thursday, I agree that this activity could be done in so many different ways. I liked this activity because if it engaged me, as an adult, it will engage younger students.
This activity reminded me of an activity that my kindergarten class did while on a field trip. While at Mc Farland Park, the park ranger asked students to look around the woods to try and find different letters. I overheard some of the students say that there was no way that they were going to find the first letter of their name. Within minutes, those students became excited when they had found the first letter of their name. I think this would be a fun activity to do in the classroom. It would be fun for students to take a picture of something in the classroom, on the playground, or in the building. After taking a picture, students could try and find letters within that picture. Older students could try to create words instead of letters with the pictures.
I also enjoyed creating the What is ISU? book using iPhoto. I enjoyed creating the slide show first and then having each person in the group write what they thought about each picture. I liked this idea because it allowed for everyone to contribute their ideas to the iBook. There are so many books that can be made using this activity, for instance, the students could create a book that talks about things they like about school. As a future teacher, I want to use this activity in my classroom to promote collaboration and learning.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Unpacking TPACK
I found today's lesson about TPACK very interesting. I think that it is important to understand the content and pedagogy of your lesson before you add the technology component. With that being said, as Nicole stated in her blog, it is important to make sure that technology isn't the lesson or is absent, if it can benefit your students. I want to be a teacher that tries to innovate technology in her classroom instead of integrating it. Like Matt and Punja talked about today, I feel that technology changes everything, especially today.
I enjoyed using BookFlix today in the classroom. It's ironic because for one of my linked lessons during student teaching, I was going to read A Chick Grows Up by Pam Zollman using the Elmo to the entire class. Well, on the day of that lesson, the Elmo broke, so I decided to use BookFlix to read this book to the class. One thing I didn't notice about BookFlix is that there is an 'Explore the Web' tab for this book. By exploring the web today in class, I found a lot of websites that could have been amazing extensions for my linked lessons. This just goes to show that teachers always need to be learning about technology in today's society so that we can better ourselves as teachers and enhance the learning of our students.
I am excited to see how our Rosie's Walk pictures and books are going to turn out as well as our Eye Spy book. I am excited to learn about more ways to implement technology in literacy so that I can teach my students how to create their own picture books for particular skills throughout the year.
I enjoyed using BookFlix today in the classroom. It's ironic because for one of my linked lessons during student teaching, I was going to read A Chick Grows Up by Pam Zollman using the Elmo to the entire class. Well, on the day of that lesson, the Elmo broke, so I decided to use BookFlix to read this book to the class. One thing I didn't notice about BookFlix is that there is an 'Explore the Web' tab for this book. By exploring the web today in class, I found a lot of websites that could have been amazing extensions for my linked lessons. This just goes to show that teachers always need to be learning about technology in today's society so that we can better ourselves as teachers and enhance the learning of our students.
I am excited to see how our Rosie's Walk pictures and books are going to turn out as well as our Eye Spy book. I am excited to learn about more ways to implement technology in literacy so that I can teach my students how to create their own picture books for particular skills throughout the year.
My First Blog...Ever!
Hey everyone! Welcome to my first blog ever! I don't know about you guys, but I am excited to create these blogs for CI 556. This might just be the first class that I am excited to wake up early for!
As someone who is not necessarily technology savvy, I am excited for this class so that I can learn about technology that will be beneficial for students. I enjoyed using Wordle and creating a word cloud about myself. It's funny because when I went to visit my first student teaching placement last week, they had a Worldle how to page that I was looking at. When I saw this page, I wrote the website down but had not had time yet to check it out because of graduation. Did you all enjoy graduation? Looking back, I wished that I would have went to both convocations.
Why am I talking about graduation you might ask for a literacy and technology blog? Well, it's hard to believe that we will receive our teaching certificates soon. I know that I am ready for my own classroom, but it is nice to be taking a few more classes to help me grow as a professional. I am excited to learn about literacy and technology because I feel that there is a lot that I can learn to keep up with the advancement of technology and today's society.
Within some of my blogs, I am going to share with you times in which I have used technology in the classroom. If you would like, you can share lessons about how you used technology for a lesson during student teaching. In my first placement, we read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle. After we read this book, I had the opportunity to read Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr. to the class. For this small group, I wanted the preschoolers to try and guess the sound that each animal made in the story. To do this, I gathered sounds for each animal in the book and played them to the students before I read the page about that animal. The children loved trying to guess each animal by listening to the sounds they made. With some of the animals, the students were able to use their prior knowledge, for instance knowing what an elephant sounds like, to figure out which animal sound I was playing. I thoroughly enjoyed this lesson as well because I was able to effectively incorporate technology into the lesson.
As someone who is not necessarily technology savvy, I am excited for this class so that I can learn about technology that will be beneficial for students. I enjoyed using Wordle and creating a word cloud about myself. It's funny because when I went to visit my first student teaching placement last week, they had a Worldle how to page that I was looking at. When I saw this page, I wrote the website down but had not had time yet to check it out because of graduation. Did you all enjoy graduation? Looking back, I wished that I would have went to both convocations.
Why am I talking about graduation you might ask for a literacy and technology blog? Well, it's hard to believe that we will receive our teaching certificates soon. I know that I am ready for my own classroom, but it is nice to be taking a few more classes to help me grow as a professional. I am excited to learn about literacy and technology because I feel that there is a lot that I can learn to keep up with the advancement of technology and today's society.
Within some of my blogs, I am going to share with you times in which I have used technology in the classroom. If you would like, you can share lessons about how you used technology for a lesson during student teaching. In my first placement, we read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle. After we read this book, I had the opportunity to read Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr. to the class. For this small group, I wanted the preschoolers to try and guess the sound that each animal made in the story. To do this, I gathered sounds for each animal in the book and played them to the students before I read the page about that animal. The children loved trying to guess each animal by listening to the sounds they made. With some of the animals, the students were able to use their prior knowledge, for instance knowing what an elephant sounds like, to figure out which animal sound I was playing. I thoroughly enjoyed this lesson as well because I was able to effectively incorporate technology into the lesson.
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