ILP Design Prezi

My First Independent Learning Project is a Black History Month presentation bringing to light a pivotal history that have been monumental for the Black Lives Movement. Prezi is a form of powerpoint presentation that provide a more creative way to present information. I like this form of design because it catches the attention of readers and students. As a future educator I use this system a lot because it is a fun way to add little designs. I centered my topic on the Black Lives Matter Movement because this is a new addition to Black History that will soon be in the history books. We always discuss the same leaders who are very important to the progression of history but I would like others to be aware of new individuals that are helping to pave the way. 

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I visited North Miami School, it is a public school in Miami Florida. This school has been around since 2011 and has been progressing ever since. While looking at the school page I noticed a couple of things like the honor roll, current events that are happening within the school related to parents and students. I also noticed the student council and clubs that are sponsored by specific teachers. Among that teachers explain current things that are going within their classroom that is vital for parents and their kids. Below you will see a screenshot of the mathematics curriculum for their elementary program .

      In the classroom I hope to be a productive educator, in order to do that I would like to utilize my organizational skills within my lesson planning. In order to do this I would like to utilize the Microsoft Suite to use aspects like the presentation tools and the note taking documents along with many other tools so I can make myself as accessible to my students as I possibly can. Also blogging so much everyday has inspired me to create a class blog for students to express their feelings about what is truly going in the classroom without penalties .

       Last week we visited the Sandbox, and there were a couple of things that caught my attention. One of them being the magnetic word game , I believe that is a great way to keep students engaged and learning. Also having the competitive aspect of the game can really encourage students to get involved and win prizes. Another aspect of technology that can be used is the smart board, I feel like so much time can be saved and other things can be accessed with that time . Students can try their creative sides more often and connect with internet while being monitored by the teachers. Thanks again for reading my blog !

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  Welcome back, today express our opinions Web 2.0 tools that are useful to us in the classroom. I find 2 that are very useful and vital to me as a future educator. One of them being power point presentations. I find this to be a great tool for the classroom because it aids students in focusing and it also aids them in following along. It is also a way to get creative with presentations to grab your students attention, this brings me to the next tool I believe is very vital. This is video tools, when I was in high school I loved when my government and science teacher would show me videos on a certain topic, this helped me reference back to the video when I was testing and trying to explain the topic to myself for testing reasons or to generally understand the subject.
   An Web 2.0 tool I would love to use in my classroom is podcast. I want to teach US government, podcast would really change up the day and hold my students attention. Podcasts cover recent groundbreaking news and they also have a recording of history, when I have to revert back to explain old things in history that still impact us in society. I would also like to utilize recent videos in pop culture to explain to my students about government policy and why it is so important to know your rights and be able to educate others on their rights as well. Videos showcasing arrest and court cases from law and order can definitely put things into perspective for my students.
     A technology advancement that I feel holds a lot of promise is correspondence courses. Often times students get sick for a while or it can be the common cold preventing them from coming to school. However when this happens it is easy to get left behind and get quite discouraged. These courses provide books and assignments that were missed for the student through the postal delivery system. This is a way to help students stay on track with their class mates and not feel entirely left behind when they are able to return to the physical school setting. Thank you again for reading !


-BarbarianPoodle

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  Everyone uses twitter, it is a form of communication between individuals near and across the world. This form of communication can be surface level relationships and it can make deep friendships that you never thought were possible. This is done by watching the person tweet things about their day and aspects of life they find inspiring. Finding similar things you have in common and sharing opinions is a great part of twitter.I have experienced this through our EME class conversations and interactions on twitter. It feels great when people retweet your quotes and share the same education ideals as other future educators. I have interacted with classmates and we also retweet each other because we sometimes we find that we use the same quotes which shows how powerful those quotes are and the resonation it has with people in society.
     As we move through the class, we discuss issues such as the digital divide . This is a big issues in a lot of schools. The digital divide is really based on students not having access to technology, although teachers continue to make it apart of assignments. This can be detrimental to a student's success because students in low income families most likely do not have access to computers and articles they need to complete assignments. Causes of the digital divide can be low income family issues, single parent incomes and family issues can come into play as well. This can have an affect how teachers conduct their classrooms because society is becoming heavily based on technology. This can leave students who can not afford technology behind and stunt their education growth within the classroom and also stunt teaching strategies that are needed for a bigger percentage of the class.I as a teacher can provide technology within the classroom for students to be able to complete their homework and assignments that require technology.
Student software can help a lot of students educate and exercise their minds by practicing outside of a lecture based environment. There are two student softwares I would like to incorporate within my class room for 9th grade mathematics. One of them being Math Mechanixs and the other being GeoGebra, I want my students to be able to teach themselves through this software and also make it fun for them by encouraging this type of behavior with technology.

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Barbarian Poodle

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          This week we will talk about ELA technology standards that personally can be used with in my classroom. There are quite a few that I would love to implement with my students. The first would be connecting text to oral and visual representations. I feel like this would be great to implement because growing up in school I found it hard ti focus, however when my teacher would relate topics to visual representations I will truly begin to understand. I also reverted back to these images during my test, it is a great memory tool. This falls under multimedia literature, another aspect under this topic I would like to use would be comparing written story/drama/poem to audio, filmed stage, analyzing techniques such as sound color, camera focus/angle. We can use this in my classroom to also tie back to current media that relates to youth. When things are more personal, individuals tend to remember more and embed it in their memories.

 There is a plethora of technology that can used within the classroom. Specifically technology software/applications. I will provide an example of how it can used within my personal classroom. This class is an english class for high school sophomores, we can learn verbs and vocabulary words through online softwares like scramble or charades. Students love competition and will engage because of prizes and a change of just learning through the textbook. Also using storytelling through the application audible, it can be a great read along for the entire classroom.The age range of my class, tend to loose focus quickly and soft ware and applications such as this can really keep their attention, at least for a little while.

Finally for this week's blog post I would like to address the Newsletter I composed last week. I loved the assignment because I was able to partake in a real educator situation and add my own flare to it. In learned how to make columns and add pictures. I also learned how to make a border which I never knew how simple it all could really be. I would like to incorporate this in my classroom by conducting a monthly newsletter for parents that unfortunately do not have the time to be involved in thier child's schooling as frequently as they would like because of work obligations. An imporvement will be invluding my students masterpieces to my newsletter so it can relate more to the parents . I believe seeing your child's progression encourages the child to do better because they love encouragement from their parents.

Thank you for reading !

Barbarian Poodle