Group Project 16

C4K Summary

C4K SUMMARY

C4K 8

Student	Blog Post Title	URL
Jay J.	My Best Friends are Farm Animals	http://kidblog.org/MrsLsAwesome7thgradeclass2014-2014/

Blog Post Summary: My Best Friends are Farm Animals

The student that I was assigned for C4K number eight is Jay. Jay’s blog post it about his best friend who happens to be his farm animals. Jay first talks about one of his best friends named Wheezy who is a cow.  Jay then goes on to tell readers about his other farm friends Chamelia the Sarah the farm dogs. The students writes about each of his farm friends and what they enjoy doing together on the farm.

My Comment

Shelby Jemison (Guest)

April 1, 2015 at 4:33 PM

Good Afternoon Jay J. 
My name is Shelby Jemison and I am an elementary education major at the University of South Alabama. I am currently taking a course called EDM 310. EDM 310 is a class that teaches future teachers how to incorporate technology into the classroom. One of our assignments is to explore student’s blogs. I love this post about how farm animals are your best friends. I am from lower Alabama so we also have a lot of rural areas that have farms and farm animals. Actually my Grandfather lives on a farm and has a lot of cows! I love to walk down into the pasture and see the cows. Like you said many cows tend to run away when you try and walk up to them but I think it is awesome that you cow Wheezy does not run from you. That is really cool! I l enjoyed reading over your blog you are a creative writer. Keep up the good work! 

Thank You 
Shelby J.

C4K 9

Student	Blog Post Title	URL
Paige	Paige’s Amazing Holiday	http://kidblog.org/JHFIClassof2015/

Blog Post Summary: Paige’s Amazing Holiday

My student for comment for kids number nine is named Paige. Paige is sharing with readers about her most recent holiday break. She tells us that she had a great break but also had to work hard. But, she also got to ride on a plane and swim. Another thing Paige shared was that she created an iMovie over her break.

My Comment

Hello Paige

My name is Shelby Jemison and I am an elementary education major at the University of South Alabama. I am currently in a class called EDM 310, this class was built to teach students how to incorporate technology into the classroom. I loved looking over and reading your blog. Your post is extremely captivating and the clip you added was wonderful! I am very impressed with the fact that you created your own iMovie because I had trouble creating one so this was very impressive. I believe you are a good writer, keep up the good work!

Thank You

Shelby J.

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Blog Post #13

Blog Post 13

What Did I Leave Out?

Blog post thirteen assignment is to reflect on all of the previously assigned blog post and decide on a topic that correlates with the curriculum plus is something that we did not cover. Professor Tashbin asked his students to create instructions based on our specific major, then simple do it.

                                                                                                                          

 Blog Post Instructions

Compile a list of FREE apps for elementary education students and teachers. Research free educational apps for the classroom, after you have created a list of free apps summarize each app and rate them based on what you believe is most important 

Rating Scale:     3 GREAT

                          2 OK

                          1 NOT THAT GREAT

FREE APP Name	About the APP	Easy to Use	Educational	FUN
Rocket Speller	Rocket Speller is an educational app that is especially useful in lower level children like kindergarten and first grade. This app is a fun and engaging app that helps students with letters, letter combinations, and spelling along with many other things. It also is very special because it has adaptive assistance technology that identifies what the player is struggling with and helps strengthening it by applying it to the game while they play.	3	3	3
Educreations Interactive While Board	This app is not only extremely useful for students but also very useful for teachers. This app creates an interactive whiteboard for students. It also allows screen recording so that teachers can use the app and work out a math problem then share it through the app with the students so, they are able to see each step worked out on their individual tablets. This also allows them to access the teachers screen clips at home incase they are having trouble and need to view the example while doing their homework. Plus it allows the teacher to check in on the students while they are working on a problem.	3	3	3
A.R Flash Cards	This app is better suited for younger children like kindergarteners and first graders. It works on letters and letter sounds by using animated flash cards. This app makes learning letters fun and exciting. The students are able to hear letter sounds while viewing them on the flash cards making it easy for them to use to practice by themselves.	3	3	2
Haiku Deck	This app is something that students of all ages can use. It was created to help create presentations. Students can use this for group projects that are going to be shared with the class or individual work to organize information. This app also allows students to create graphic organizers. But this app is not only for students; teachers can use this to present lessons or ideas to the class or coworkers. Another plus is that it allows wireless streaming to any smart board or projector so that sharing presentations is easy and fun.	2	2	2

C4T Summary

C4T Summary

Jenny Luca

Lucacept Intercepting the Web

http://jennylu.wordpress.com/

Blog Post Title: Why I’m not suffering from “Technostress”

Blog Post Summary:

            Jenny Luca’s Blog post “Why I’m not suffering from Technostress” begins by explaining what exactly technostress is. Technostress is stress caused by working with computer technology on a daily bases. She talks about using different types of technology in her classroom like Apple TV. But, the main thing that was in this post was a youtube clip called “Tree Change Dolls”. This video is about a woman who takes used dolls and gives them a more natural look by stripping them of elaborate makeup and hair. This is a wonderful video with a powerful message.

My Comment:

My name is Shelby Jemison and I am a elementary education major at the University of South Alabama. I am currently taking a class called EDM 310. This course is to teach future teachers how to incorporate technology into the classroom. One of our assignments is to explore professional educator’s blogs. Automatically just by reading the title of this particular post It grabbed my attention. I have honestly never heard of the term “Technostress” . But I can see how someone could possibly feel this way. As I was reading your post I came to the video. I literally had to stop and look twice. Just by glancing at the paused clip I knew exactly what it was. Yesterday I had just come across this exact video on Facebook and it blew me away! I also posted this video, because of the way it truly opened my eyes and gave me such joy! I love everything about what this amazing family (mostly the mother) is doing with these dolls! I just thought it was crazy that we both posted about this specific video! I loved getting to read and explore your blog!

Thank You
Shelby J. :)

Jenny Luca

Lucacept Intercepting the Web

http://jennylu.wordpress.com/

Blog Post Title: “Google Apps for Education Canberra Summit 2015”

Blog Post Summary:

            This post by Jenny Luca is all about her recent visit to a weekend conference. Jenny Luca got the opportunity to go to Canberra Summit. This was a conference based on Google apps for education. She explains to us about Canberra and the ways she takes notes during conferences. Jenny tweets all weekend using twitter as a way to document what she learns so not only is she taking notes for herself but also sharing them with educators that follow her on twitter so they can benefit from her notes too. She also shares a clip that goes over some of the information she learned at the Google Apps for Education conference.

My Comment:

Ms. Jenny Luca

            Hello my name is Shelby Jemison and I am a student in the elementary education program at the University of South Alabama. I am currently taking a class called EDM 310. This course is to teach us as future educators how to incorporate technology in the classroom. Your blog is filled with wonderful resources for exactly that. I loved reading about your recent conference. The fact that it was an entire conference based on google for the classroom sounds so amazing. I would love to one day get the opportunity to go to a conference like that. Another thing I loved was the fact that you tweet throughout the entire weekend and use the tweets as your notes. That is such a wonderful idea because not only are you taking notes to remember and document things you are learning but you are sharing it with the world (especially other teachers) That is fabulous and I definitely plan on following you on twitter!

Thank You

Shelby Jemison