Haley B's Final Reflection

What did you get out of this class? Will you use tech in your classes? How will you use tech in your classes? How has this class changed the way you think about teaching? About technology?


-I got a lot out of the this IP&T class. It was fun to be in a class like this with all of the people I'm with like everyday. My favorite part of the class was how close the class became as a whole over the course of the semester. I learned a lot about new technology that is out today that can be used to advance teaching. Things such as the google website, making movies, and Studiocode will most likely come in handy later on. The google site is a cool idea to use because now days students like to be able to go online to find answers to any questions they may have about a class. I loved the section when we made our PSA videos because I really like editing movies, so that was a fun thing to do for me. I think that I will use technology when I teach. Technology is a huge part of everyone's everyday life so I think it would be best if I do use it when I teach. I think this class just made my view of the value of technology even stronger. I think it's important for people to use technology because it's not going away. Everyone should know what they're doing on a computer. 


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Haley B and My Final Studiocode Post

What did I learn about my management? I realized that although the students I had in this lesson were pretty good, it would have been good to have a whistle to use for my signals. I think it would have been good to go over the importance of following the signals I gave. I used signals a lot, which was good and kept students in order. I used good transitions throughout the lesson. I felt like things moved along smoothly and the students understood why we were doing each thing like stretching and a warm up activity. In this activity there was not a huge need for very many formations, but the formations that I used were good and I was happy with the way the formations looked. Overall, I think that my management of this class went well. There were times when kids were off task and I did not realize which can be improved on. 

What did I learn about my class instruction? Equipment collection went really well. I made it clear what the students needed to do and almost all of the students did it right away. There was one student that played with his dot for a bit before he put it down, so before having them pick up the equipment it would have been good to make sure they knew not to mess around with any of it. I give good individual feedback, but I usually only say "good job." That would be something to improve. I am also disappointed that I did not give very much positive feedback to the class as a whole, and didn't give feedback to students who needed help with the dance moves. I think I did the best on going over rules. I made sure they knew what they needed to do, I could have stressed the importance of some rules more, but overall I did well with that.

Improvement. I need to make sure to always have a whistle with me. It helps a lot because the children can hear it easier and they are most likely used to responding to a whistle. I also need to make sure students know not to play with the equipment as they are collecting it. Along with that, I need to make sure that I say when before what so they don't start moving and doing things before I say go. That would create less chaos. I can also make sure that the students know how important the rules are and the importance of following them. The thing I need to work on most is feedback. I need to give more and more of a variety of feedback. Those are a few things that I saw that I need to work on.

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Haley B Struggling with Studiocode

This past week we've been working on studiocode. What, may you ask, is studiocode? I had no idea that it even existed before this assignment. I finally sat down today and did the assignment, and found that it wasn't as difficult as it could have been. It was nice to have that little packet that basically told me what to do. When I had a little spot when that sheet didn't really do it for me/help me, I was able to figure out how to do it on my own. Overall it wasn't too bad, I just thought it was annoying that I had to evaluate myself again when I do it every week.
Ohhhhh well.


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Haley B and Web 2.0!

Q of the week: Were there any Web 2.0 tools that we talked about today that you feel would help further education? How might you use them in your teaching? Also, how might Facebook be utilized in education?


The only Web 2.0 tool that I can remember from class that benefits/helps further education in Wikipedia. I know Wikipedia can possibly have false information at times, but for the most part it is really useful. When people want to learn or know something they can just get on Wikipedia and find information about it. There hasn't ever been a time when I went to Wikipedia and found nothing on the subject I was searching. Also, I don't just used Wikipedia for school, there have been times when I just was curious and read about something of interest on Wikipedia. It's very useful for education people doing school work or helping answer questions. 


Facebook can be utilized to help people be aware of different learning opportunities through the "events" tool. Also, extracurricular groups can use Facebook to help notify group members of educational activities and people outside of the group learn about things that these extracurricular activities are doing. It can also be helpful for parents to keep track of educational activities that will benefit their children if they attend. All of these things can be done on Facebook using the various tools offered. 


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My Video: Be Stronger, Live Longer

This was actually really fun to do. I had fun recording everyone and it was funny what their idea of "strength" is. I didn't have that much trouble with anything because I've used iMovie a lot, so it made it easy for me to know what I wanted to do with my video and where I wanted to go with it. I hope everyone likes it. You can also see it on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-K7jhY4ceQ&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL.


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Haley B and My Video

This past week I have been finalizing my ideas for my video. Basically I'm doing exactly what I talked about in my previous post. I was going to try to think of a few different ideas, but I decided that what I came up with right away is my favorite idea and I think it will be pretty funny. I have just been planning how exactly I want to go about getting random people to be video taped for my video. I decided that I'll just walk around the mall one day and interview people, and walk around campus one day and get what students think. It should turn out pretty good. I just need to start recording.

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Haley B and My Outline for Advocacy Video

The theme for my video will be, "Be Stronger, Live Longer." My idea at this point isn't very mapped out, it's just an idea. I was thinking about what people think of as being strong. Some people think of it as physical strength, having to do with muscles and how much you can lift in a weight room; other people see it as a wide range of many things in life. I think it would be cool to have a recording of me asking people (of all different ages) what being strong means to them and how someone becomes strong. Then have a rap up by a few professors on campus about what being strong would do for a better longer life in their opinion. I'll probably interview Dr. Z because it would be funny. All of the people that answer my question will only have a very short clip on the video, it will be rapid answers. That's basically what I've come up with and am working on make my plan more detailed.