Blog Post #15 Final Reflection Video

Project #16

IBook
My group, The Accomplishers created an Ibook for our final collaborative group project. Kayla Johnson and Tina Behel were my group members. The content in the iBook that we developed consists of each member of the group’s individual projects including their book trailer, technology tools video, and my sentence video. Also, each member had to either gather ten pictures of a vacation, their family, the campus of USA, or Mobile. The process of creating the iBook was sort of difficult; however, we still managed to complete the project and it looks very good. This was my first time creating an iBook. From my experience, developing an iBook is very fun and exciting. Check out our iBook on the EDM 310 Class Blog.

Project #13

Google Docs
My group’s Smart board presentation was based on an objective that we found in the Mobile Pacing Guide. My group, which was named The Accomplishers, found several vital tools in Google documents that we decided that was useful for our presentation. The group communicated through document expressing our thoughts and ideas that each member had for the presentation. Also, the group communicated through text messages and emails. Finally, we came up with a great idea that we were going to use letter recognition with concentration on lower and upper case letters and how we could keep the students interested by using the Smart board.

Summary of C4T#4

Moving From Newsletters to Blogs – My Presentation-That-Never-Was at #EC0012 was an excellent slideshow posted by Erin Paynter. The points that he stressed throughout his slideshow are really important for teachers that use and the ones that are still undecided whether they want to use Blogger.  The whole idea of this slideshow is to demonstrate how blogging can increase parent and student engagement. After viewing this informative slideshow, I informed Mr. Paynter through a comment stating that he presented good information and that I believe that using blogger can stop numerous situations where parents are confused about grades, assignments, and what their child will be learning daily. Also, I informed him of my experience using Blogger in EDM310 at the University of South Alabama.

The next post that I viewed from Erin Paynter blog was a very interesting post titled, “ Responsive Leadership”. This post was about some of the main ideas that Erin Paynter thought were extremely important that she heard from Sir John Jones speech. She explained that responsive leadership was the one idea that stuck with her from his speech.  She expressed how she was a leader at her school.  Ms. Paynter informed me on how she responds to her staff so that they are the best that that can be. These two things were motivation and capacity.  She informed me on four ways that leaders could support their staff.

The four ways were:

Highly motivated with a high level of capacity results in a leader that create conditions to pursue professional growth, creativity, etc.

Highly motivated with low level of capacity results in a leader that takes on the role of a coach.

Low level of motivation with a high level of capacity results in a leader that needs to inspire his staff.

Low level of motivation with a low level of capacity results in a leader that needs to be more direct in their expectations.

I told Ms. Paynter in a comment that I’m going to share this blog post with a few important leaders that I know and how I’m going to use this post in my future of coaching.

Final Report on PLN

My Personal Learning Network has been constantly growing since the beginning of this semester. I created a Symboloo for my personal learning network and throughout the semester I have found countless ways that this application is going to make my college career more organized.  Symbaloo has made surfing on the Internet easier because of its ability to put websites of your choice into categories. Also, I have met numerous people on Twitter and Facebook. Before taking EDM310, I knew how Twitter worked but didn’t start an account until we had to in this class. However, I’m glad that I finally started using it because it is a great way to get information from professional sources and other people.

C4K Summary November and December

The first student’s blog that I viewed in the month of November was a girl named Mackenzie from Mr. Boylens Language Arts class. Mackenzie surprised me with a very interested story which she expressed excellent details to describe the situations throughout the story. Her writing style amazed me for someone that is a fifth grader. I explain to Mackenzie that she has great writing skills and that she has potential to be anything that she wants to be. Also, I informed her of the success that I have had in writing during the Alabama Writing Assessment when I was in fifth grade.

 The next student’s blog that I viewed in November was ninth grader named Justin. Justin uses blogger in his World History Class. Justin enlightened me with a post concerning Veterans Day. In his post, he informed his readers about numerous statistics and important dates that took place during WWI and WWII. I expressed to Justin how I loved History class and that if I were not so into sports that I would definitely be going to college to obtain a History major. At the end of his post, he stresses that his Uncle Tom served our county in the Vietnam War and how his uncle is still suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. Therefore, I told Justin, that I am thankful for his Uncle fighting for our country. Also, I informed him that I have several family members that fought in the Gulf War and the war in Iraq.

 The last student’s blog that I viewed in November was Selena Hadley from Baldwin County High School. Selena’s video showed me how Baldwin County schools are using technology through video applications. I informed Selena that I went to school in Baldwin County at Foley High School in 2009 and that I was really impressed how quick the school system has made the changes. Also, I informed her that I am taking EDM310 at the University of South Alabama where we learn how to use advance technology throughout our projects and assignments.

 For the month of December, I viewed a student named Bethany from blog post. Bethany had a magnificent blog post about the Industrial Revolution. She gave me examples of some important things that were created during this time period. Bethany stressed throughout her work that times were hard for everyone during that time period and that people lived in harsh conditions. She informed me that the Industrial Revolution changed the way Americans worked, lived their daily lives, and that the revolution also made it possible for mass production. While reading this post, I thought of some of the things that I knew were created during the Industrial Revolution and I informed Bethany in my comment that Thomas Edison created the light bulb during the this same time period.

Project #15 SmartBoard Instruction Part 2 Collaborative Video Lesson