Task 051 Jing Tutorial

Task-029

This is an example of Task 029 editoial image. The picture on the top is the edited version and the one on the bottom is the original picture.

Yodio - SWL-Tasl-F

Task 018 Sara's Illustrated Poster

This is my illustrated poster. I chose a quote from Yogi Berra, then found a picture of Yankee Stadium, a picture of a game at Yankee Stadium and a picture of Yogi Berra to use for my poster.

Final Project Update

Dustin helped me this morning get my Globster on my home page of my Wiki. It looks so much better! Thanks Dustin!

I have been working on my Wiki for my final project. I have had it for several years, but it has not been very useful to my students. I want it to be a site they go at least weekly if not daily. For my project I have added supply list, contact information, a link to hippo campus which a great site for students to get help with homework, and all of the homework assignments and links to notes for my PreCalc classes and I plan to have my Algebra 2 class info posted before school starts. I have also update links to student textbooks, so they can see their textbook on line as well as other resources such as practice problems and practice tests.

I have had several issues trying to update my site. It took me quite a while to figure out how to put links to websites and I still have not figured out how to link my globster that I made for my home page. To get all of my precalc info on linked I had to make sure all documents were either saved as rtf’s or pdf’s so that no matter what software a student has they can open it.

I also figured out how to link an Outlook Calendar so that it can be updated daily which homework assignments, test dates, and any other pertinent information

I hope all of this effort and time pays off in the fall. I hope my students as well as their parents find this useful.

Here is a link to my Wiki: http://slittle.wiki.hoover.k12.al.us/

Skype

I love skype! My husband does interim positions with the American Red Cross. His last assignment he was gone for 4 months. We have set up both of our computers with skype. Today we figured out how to talk to each other with video, send pictures, send documents and also how to share screens. On his next assignment we will really enjoy being able to see each other when we talk.

Final Project

I have added lots to my Wiki. I have added supply lists and class procedures. I am teaching PreCalc for the first time this fall and I have added a page for them with general info and then a page for each chapter for first semester that includes homework assignments, notes, and links to what I will use on my airliner.

I have also linked my calendar. I have gone to Globster and made a home page for my Wiki but cannot figure out how to link it. If anyone can help, please let me know. I also have several other questions about the Wiki so if anyone is Wiki Savvy please let me know.

Lesley Web 2.0

WebQuest

Yesterday was total overload and frustration with our WebQuest. Today it is much better, and our WebQuest looks much better than I thought it would. I think if we created another one it would be much easier.

List all the geometric shapes that you see. Choose one, draw it, define it and list all of its properties. Find another picture of a building that has your shape.

Required Reading #3

Blogging and RSS — The "What's It?" and "How To" of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators- After reading this article, I know blogging and using RSS is going to be more and more prevalent in schools. As teachers, we must be willing to learn and change so that we can try to keep up with the latest technology and also incorporate it into our classrooms. I have not figured out how I will use the blog in my classroom, but I am hoping to attempt one this year. Since we created our blog in the last class meeting this is a good start. As the article says, start small and experiment. I think that is what we all need to be doing.

Required Reading #2

The Learning Power of WebQuests – This article was quite helpful in understanding a true definition of a WebQuest. They are much more involved than I originally thought and will require quite a bit of thought and research to create one. I thought the two question litmus test that was given is quite helpful. First, can the answer be copied and pasted and second do students have to make something new out of what was learned? I find this really difficult for a math WebQuest. The first question is not that difficult but the second one is more complicated. The example of students planning a trip I thought would be a good WebQuest is on the list of what a WebQuest is not. So now I am rethinking our project.

Required Reading #1

YouTube Comes to the Classroom – I agree YouTube can be a great way to motivate students. Most of them go to YouTube daily so we need to take advantage of some of this time to enhance learning. In math classrooms, I can see students creating a rap, song, poem, etc. on many different topics that would help them remember how to work certain problems such as Pythagorean Theorem, properties of parallelograms, completing the square and many others. I agree that students do want a voice and also want to be heard. I can see my students getting real excited if they posted a math video and could see that others have watched it. I know many teachers that will stick their heads in the sand like the article says but if they can see some of us having success with it they might change their minds. My system does allow access to YouTube, but I think if I was going to put a link to a video on my website I would download it so they don’t have direct access from my website to YouTube.

Web 2.0

Luara Hall and I will be presenting http://www.evernote.com and http://www.typewith.me. We will have everyone log in to type with me and list geometric terms. As presenters we will edit the list. We will have everyone create an evernote account on the web. They will search the web and find photographs that represent the geometric terms and save to evernote as a note. They will email it to Laura and we will show how to copy to a group notebook and then share so everyone can see each others document.

What you know about math rap

We read a book, wrote a summary and hyperlinked the summary.

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
by
Mordecai Gerstein



Summary:
The book begins with a Street Performer in New York City who notices the twin towers and decides he wants to tie a wire between them. He and two friends take a string and an arrow and shoot it from one tower to the next. They Walk a reel of cable up the stairs and tie the rope to the cable. They let it drop and then tighten it. Philippe Petit spent an hour walking, dancing, and lying down on the wire above the city. He was arrested when he finally walked off the wire. The judge sentenced him to perform for children in the park as his punishment.
Here is a video of the news when this event took place August 7, 1974. There was a movie made 2008 best documentary winner called Man on Wire. There is a book written by Colum McCann called Let the Great World Spin.

Wordle

We interviewed a classmate, wrote a paragraph in word, copied it into wordle.