Final Post

Teacher #4 summary

Mrs Ann's first post was on different websites that could help you as a teacher. they ranged from making your on comic book strips (The Comic Creator)to 8 Google Tricks for Your Classroom that can help you with your google searches.

Mrs Ann's second post was on this cool little website that can help erase little blemishes in

a picture like if you wanted to take out a branch or power line. The website is called WebInpaint. She claimed that it was very easy and most importantly, free.

Final PNL

My PNL has grown a lot over the semester. It started with me not even know what a PNL was to using different aspects of PNL. I have learned how to use many technologies that i think will defiantly help me in the future. I now have and account in Twitter, Screentoaster, and Skype. I am also following several people from teachers to fellow students to sports blogs.

Final Project #16

AA 5

from : Adventures in Pencil Integration

Just solve for x

In this blog he was making his students use metaphors to help understand x and not just solve for x. He believes that if you can teach the student to understand x, the student will be able to solve for x. "Catch a man a fish and feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, you feed him for a life time." I think this would be a great metaphor for the blog. People tend to do better with stuff they know and understand rather just memorized.

Sketchy Portraits: 8th Grade Identity and Pencils

in this blog the writer was comparing the pencil to life. He said that the child's life goes from black and white to gray like the lead of a pencil. He uses several descriptive words to describe the pencil that could also be life or school.
He Just Likes the Class for the Pencils

he talks about how the class room is ran freely when everybody was following the rules but strict when they are disobeyed. He talked about a student that loved this class because the teacher listen to him, respected him, and was his friend.
The Medium Shapes the Learning

He said that we should use other tools like technology in our lesson plans and in the classroom. He said that it doesn't matter what we use, it will shape the life of the student, whether we realize it or not.

Blog #13

According to Bessemer City Schools ALEX is "a project of the Alabama Department of Education, is designed to index and share many types of educational materials and information through a time-saving, one-stop resource for educators, parents, and students."

ALEX is composed of eight different sections: Course of Study, Web Links, Lesson Plans, Search, Personal Workspace, Professional Learning, Podcast Treasury, and ALEXville. Course of Study shows many subjects. Not only can you choose a subject you can also choose a grade level. Then you look up what you are looking for and click on the lesson plans and they can help you with teaching that material. Web Links shows you web links for the lesson that you are teaching. With Search, you can search ALEX's database for information. Professional Learning allows you to work on you profession teaching skills. Podcast Treasury is an archive full of podcast about a lot of different things. ALEXville is where the State makes the announcements.

ALEX can be very useful when you first state teaching. It can help you grasp how to make lesson plans, how to approach the students, and it can be a valuable resource when you need to look a video on a certain topic via the search database or the podcast treasury.

Project 15