My web portfolio link is: mayi325.googlepages.com
Here is the link of my presentation of portfolio.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
copyright, pictures and mashing
Last Tuesday I learned a lot about websites and software that I can get for free on internet. It’s a very exciting learning experience. At the very beginning of the class, Fei brought up one notion “copy right”. I think that’s very important and necessary to put that part in beginning of the class – we have known there are many free resources that we can easily get online, and we have been using these resources for professional use or personal use. But as Fei and other classmates mentioned, most of us didn’t know some resources are “some right reserved”. After learning Creative Commons, I think I should redefine “online resources” – you may easily find a lot of information and get what you want, but before you “copy and paste”, think about “if I am allowed to do that”. I think this is not just a rule for internet users, it’s also a courtesy to internet contributors – only when the certain rules are set and carried out could we can use and share the internet resources in a better way. Otherwise, the free resources will become a big mess for lack of protection.
Since I have learned Creative Commons Research and FlickrCC, I have been using these tools for searching pictures for my researching work. I am really happy to know how to get pictures without violating contributors. I think in the future I will definitely teach my students about copyright rules before I tell them to search information online. It may take a while especially for young kids, but it is an important rule for everyone to know.
I also enjoyed using Google Map and Google Earth. In the past, I only used Google Earth for fun – to find some tourist spots. But the class on last Tuesday opened a new way to use Google Earth and Google Map. The GoogleLitTrip is very inspiring. I think I can try to put some history stories with pictures on Google Map and Google Earth. It will be more vivid for students to remember what happened.
Since I have learned Creative Commons Research and FlickrCC, I have been using these tools for searching pictures for my researching work. I am really happy to know how to get pictures without violating contributors. I think in the future I will definitely teach my students about copyright rules before I tell them to search information online. It may take a while especially for young kids, but it is an important rule for everyone to know.
I also enjoyed using Google Map and Google Earth. In the past, I only used Google Earth for fun – to find some tourist spots. But the class on last Tuesday opened a new way to use Google Earth and Google Map. The GoogleLitTrip is very inspiring. I think I can try to put some history stories with pictures on Google Map and Google Earth. It will be more vivid for students to remember what happened.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
student emails
1) http://mailinator.com/
set up temporary email addresses for students to be able to access other sites you want them to use that require and account with an email address. No personal info.
2) epal?
set up temporary email addresses for students to be able to access other sites you want them to use that require and account with an email address. No personal info.
2) epal?
blog
1) http://hetherington0607.learnerblogs.org/
"The Room 613 Student Blog is a good example of how to facilitate student blogs in conjunction with a teacher blog. It's still early in the school year so this blog isn't in full swing yet but judging by the postings from the previous year I think it would be interesting to watch this develop. I think the teachers also have made good use of creating pages to feature different topics. They even have a page for "Rules for Blogging", which is a great idea to remind students about how to be safe and what is expected of them when they participate in the class blog." Posted by Stein Brunvand at 7:15 PM
2) http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog/2007/09/23/learning-to-be-myself/
"The final blog I want to highlight is by Konrad Glogowski, an eighth grade language arts teacher. His blog is undergoing some redesign at this point but he has used blogs with his students for the past few years and is even working on his PhD and has been studying the use of blogs for his dissertation work. I think his approach to blogging goes beyond the usual idea we have for teacher blogs and I'm curious to see how he uses them with students this year. In reading his post on "Learning to be Myself" he makes a convincing argument for letting his true self come through in his postings and online interactions with his students. I think this can work particularly well with middle school and high school age students. This blog will be worth checking out periodically to get ideas about innovative ways to help students develop their voice within an online community." Posted by Stein Brunvand at 9:58 PM
3) http://guysread.typepad.com/theblurb/
"For this week each day I'm going to highlight a different blog that is being used in k-12 education as a way to show how this technology could be beneficial in the classroom. Today, I'd like to introduce you to The Blurb , which is a blog maintained by a teacher along with a group of students. The Blurb is a newscast type of blog that focuses on different current issues and often invites readers to weigh in with their opinions on the different news stories. It's not updated daily but I like the thought provoking nature of the posts and how the different stories that are covered are giving the authors a chance to explore a broad range of topics. In addition, they get a chance to facilitate a higher level of discussion with a large audience while providing their readers with information and perspective on the range of issues discussed. Check it out!" Posted by Stein Brunvand at 11:01 AM
"The Room 613 Student Blog is a good example of how to facilitate student blogs in conjunction with a teacher blog. It's still early in the school year so this blog isn't in full swing yet but judging by the postings from the previous year I think it would be interesting to watch this develop. I think the teachers also have made good use of creating pages to feature different topics. They even have a page for "Rules for Blogging", which is a great idea to remind students about how to be safe and what is expected of them when they participate in the class blog." Posted by Stein Brunvand at 7:15 PM
2) http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog/2007/09/23/learning-to-be-myself/
"The final blog I want to highlight is by Konrad Glogowski, an eighth grade language arts teacher. His blog is undergoing some redesign at this point but he has used blogs with his students for the past few years and is even working on his PhD and has been studying the use of blogs for his dissertation work. I think his approach to blogging goes beyond the usual idea we have for teacher blogs and I'm curious to see how he uses them with students this year. In reading his post on "Learning to be Myself" he makes a convincing argument for letting his true self come through in his postings and online interactions with his students. I think this can work particularly well with middle school and high school age students. This blog will be worth checking out periodically to get ideas about innovative ways to help students develop their voice within an online community." Posted by Stein Brunvand at 9:58 PM
3) http://guysread.typepad.com/theblurb/
"For this week each day I'm going to highlight a different blog that is being used in k-12 education as a way to show how this technology could be beneficial in the classroom. Today, I'd like to introduce you to The Blurb , which is a blog maintained by a teacher along with a group of students. The Blurb is a newscast type of blog that focuses on different current issues and often invites readers to weigh in with their opinions on the different news stories. It's not updated daily but I like the thought provoking nature of the posts and how the different stories that are covered are giving the authors a chance to explore a broad range of topics. In addition, they get a chance to facilitate a higher level of discussion with a large audience while providing their readers with information and perspective on the range of issues discussed. Check it out!" Posted by Stein Brunvand at 11:01 AM
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
video games in class teaching
Gee and Henry claimed that video games should be used in school education. They believed that schools didn’t offer what students wanted to learn, and even violated the way they learned – but games did. In the speech Gee mentioned that video games triggered a part of brain, which helped people to process information more deeply. Besides, he claimed, video games made students work together as a group and work harder. Students seemed to be more engaged in games than traditional textbooks. With video games and the motivation and monitor of teachers, students would study more productively.
I think it’s necessary and important to add more videos in class teaching. I agree with the professor in the video that the education in schools today should be designed for 21st century. That is, educators should also pay attention to the changes of the society, so the students they teach will be accepted in the future. Actually, I am interested in teaching with technology, especially video and audio technology. That’s the main reason I went back to school and chose this major. In my past teaching, I felt since there was not enough technology support, the teacher had to try very hard to motivate and keep the class interesting. Sometimes I tried to make out simple programs to help students to practice Chinese, but all I could do was very limited. Most of time, I just went to find some resources (music online, videos on youtube, movies) and added them in my class, and I wish I could do better on that part. I don’t think that adding videos or video games would “kill reading”, on the contrary, if the teacher can successfully motivate the students in class (which is usually 50 minutes), they will probably spend more time on the subject back home – that is what teachers want.
Also, I don’t agree that videos will be dangerous for students. I think it’s natural and actually necessary for teachers and parents to worry about that. But the thing is, the society is progressing, and technology will be more and more handy to kids. When cellphones just became popular, parents and teachers worried that students would become hard to control. When internet just became popular, they worried too – some unhealthy information on line would mislead kids. But the thing is, the trend of new technology is so powerful that it has changed the way of people’s behavior. So what educators and parents should do is to be a part of it, and more important, to learn how to use it in wisely. For example, video games are popular among students, and it does improve studying progress, then as educators, we should study how to make good video games to lead students to learn. Luckily, now I am working on a Chinese video game for my department. I believe it will help more and more people to like and learn Chinese language and culture.
I think it’s necessary and important to add more videos in class teaching. I agree with the professor in the video that the education in schools today should be designed for 21st century. That is, educators should also pay attention to the changes of the society, so the students they teach will be accepted in the future. Actually, I am interested in teaching with technology, especially video and audio technology. That’s the main reason I went back to school and chose this major. In my past teaching, I felt since there was not enough technology support, the teacher had to try very hard to motivate and keep the class interesting. Sometimes I tried to make out simple programs to help students to practice Chinese, but all I could do was very limited. Most of time, I just went to find some resources (music online, videos on youtube, movies) and added them in my class, and I wish I could do better on that part. I don’t think that adding videos or video games would “kill reading”, on the contrary, if the teacher can successfully motivate the students in class (which is usually 50 minutes), they will probably spend more time on the subject back home – that is what teachers want.
Also, I don’t agree that videos will be dangerous for students. I think it’s natural and actually necessary for teachers and parents to worry about that. But the thing is, the society is progressing, and technology will be more and more handy to kids. When cellphones just became popular, parents and teachers worried that students would become hard to control. When internet just became popular, they worried too – some unhealthy information on line would mislead kids. But the thing is, the trend of new technology is so powerful that it has changed the way of people’s behavior. So what educators and parents should do is to be a part of it, and more important, to learn how to use it in wisely. For example, video games are popular among students, and it does improve studying progress, then as educators, we should study how to make good video games to lead students to learn. Luckily, now I am working on a Chinese video game for my department. I believe it will help more and more people to like and learn Chinese language and culture.
Monday, October 08, 2007
Social Bookmarks
Social bookmarks
Del.icio.us has offered us a new way to organize and use our bookmarks. We can tag them, save them and share them. Also, we can view other’s bookmarks and get to know how popular their bookmarks are. If the pink highlight shows many people have save the link, then I may want to take a look. I have been using Del.icoi.us for my subject – Chinese teaching. I opened an account on del.icio.us and saved lots of links about Chinese language and culture there. I would love to share these sources with other Chinese teachers. But I have to point out one short coming of del.ico.us though. Since the pool is built up by all the computer users, there may be chances that some good websites haven’t been discovered and saved yet. That means I may need to go back to use Google as a back up.
Social bookmarks can also be used by students. I may ask my students to build up a pool for a certain subject or topic in my future class. Students may work together to find information online, and share with each other. This can be a preparation phase for a big assignment, e.g. final project. Students may use social bookmarks to get the information that they want, and use digital slide show to present their work. I think students may engage more in their homework by using social bookmarks.
Parents usually want to know what’s going on with their kids and what they are doing online. I am sure they will be happy to get updated with what their kids have found and learned online. They can put a RSS feed on their webpage, and take a quick glance at their kids or even classmates’ progress. They can even join the network and give some suggestions –well, if the teacher permits.
Emily's Math Games
Emily's Math Games is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at mayacraft.blogspot.com.
This is a digital slide show about how I used Social Constructivist approach to teach math to a primary school student. I used Movie Maker for the slide show.
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