FINAL REFLECTION

I got a lot out of this class. I learned many skills which I can apply into my future profession. I learned how to make a website, and add google gadgets, and other apps onto the website to make it more fun. I learned how to code a video which will be important for my future classes. I will be doing a lot of this, and I know now how to code the video, and see what I am doing well on in my teaching, and what I need to work on. Another thing I got out of this class was how technology can help me in my career, and how it can help me in my personal life as well. This semester we had many gospel insights presentations. Not only did they strengthen my testimony, they also gave me new insights on how I can use technology to enhance my future career.


I will use technology in my class. I will have a class website, and a class blog. This will help in saving paper, and being environmentally friendly. If I have my students submit all their assignments online, I won't be able to loose them either. Besides in today's society children and youth are on computers and using technology more and more. It will be smart to gear my classes towards what my future students will be using. Besides using a blog, and website I will also video tape myself so I can continue improving my teaching. By evaluating my teaching through a video I will be able to see what I need to work on or what I am doing well in my classes.

Mobile Apps

I don't know if I would use mobile apps in my class. They are convenient, but I don't know if I would like to completely rely on technology in my classroom. Technology is great, but I just don't know if I want it in every aspect of my classroom. On the other hand using mobile apps would be great because you would save paper, and assignments would be easier to do let's say if I wanted them to track their diet for a week, or physical activity level for a week. However, I still think I would rather not use mobile apps in my class.

Studio Code

Management is an important factor in teaching any subject, but especially in P.E. Making sure you have smooth transitions is very important in management. Whether or not you have smooth transitions can make or break a class. By having smooth transitions the kids have more time to actually be physically active. Having clear signals is important too. It makes the class more enjoyable if everyone knows what is going on, and everyone is well behaved. Another factor that is important in class management is having effective distribution, use, and clean up of the equipment used in your lessons. Setting the equipment far enough away from the students is important. It removes temptation, and doesn't get in the way when you are participating in activities.
Instruction is also important component of teaching. As a teacher it is important to give meaningful and specific feedback. That way the student knows exactly what they are doing right, and how they can improve. Not using jargon is something I have struggled with, but I am getting better. Eliminating jargon is important, it makes you sound more professional when you aren't using it. Giving and repeating cues throughout the lesson is vital. If you are teaching younger kids it's important to give them simple cues that they can understand, and continue to repeat them so they remember them.
For next semesters teaching I am going to work on eliminating jargon from my speech. I also plan on working on giving specific and meaningful feedback to my students. There are so many aspects of teaching that I have the basics of, but now for next semester I'm going to work on polishing those areas.

Web 2.0 thoughts

There were many 2.0 tools that we talked about that I liked. I don't know if they would further my education, but they do make some things a lot easier. For instance google docs make life so much easier. You don't have to meet together you can all just get on and talk about your ideas, and whatever. It's great. I think that I might use a blog, or facebook in my teaching, just to put up announcements and things. Almost everyone has facebook these days so that would be useful. Just to put out important reminders to all the parents, and even students.

imovie project

This project wasn't so bad. I thought it would be harder than it ended up being. It was still frustrating trying to figure out everything. I had to change my original idea because I couldn't find the little kids I needed for my video. It was a useful skill to learn. I liked doing it. I will definitely use it in the future for school, my classroom, and just in my normal life.
The link for the other video that Krystalee did is: krystaleehazardple.blogspot.com

Movie Project

The aspect of the project that I have focused on the last week is finding the kid Iwant to use for my show. It's hard to find a kid when your at college so I might change my movie story line just alitte bit. Unless, does anyone know of any little kids that would want to be in my movie? If you do just let me know. I'm still not sure that I know how to work the imovie. I guess it willjust take time, and practice.

Movie Story Board

For the movie project our theme for our two videos is promotion of fitness now and throughout life. One of our videos will go like this:
-Little boy on the couch in his home.
-Friend comes in asks him to play soccer.
-He has flash back rembering what his teacher said.
-Goes plays soccer-consequence.
-Doesn't go play soccer-consequence.
-Song from Napolean Dynamite "Always and Forever" plays.
-The end

Internet Safety

I think that internet safety is really important. Especially in today's society. Like we have talked about in class there are so many good things that can be accessed by the internet, but there are also many bad things that are on the internet that can be accessed by children, teens, and adults. Because of all the bad things out on the internet it's important to have proper instruction on how to be safe while navigating the internet. I believe that there should be a mandatory internet safety class that all students should have to take/go to in every school. Meaning that a internet safety class should be taken once while in elementary school, once in junior high/middle school, once in high school, and once in college. Getting these classes in every type of school would be important because you would be kept up to date on the latest way to stay safe while on the internet. I think that this would be a good idea to implement.
I think that there should be stricter rules when it comes to what sites you can and can't get on while in high school, middle school, and elementary school. I know when I was in high school if you ever were in a computer class the kids would be playing games, getting on facebook, my space, basically anything that they wanted. Schools should be more particular in the sites allowed to be accessed by their students. By blocking some of these sites I mentioned earlier, the students wouldn't be distracted by them during class and would be able to pay more attention during class to what the teacher is trying to teach. Now I'm not saying that these sights are bad, but when a student is in school he/she needs to be learning the school material not wasting time on the internet, chatting with their friends in another class room. They can do that outside of school, during lunch, or in between classes.
I gave my internet safety lesson to my roommate. We sat down and I taught her about some of the things we learned in class that I had never known about that I thought was really cool. For example: looking for the "s" at the end of http: to see if it is a secure site or not. Also I taught her looking at the last time the site was published. I also talked to her about getting anti-virus software, and which ones were the best to use. I went over the basics of not sharing personal info with others online. Also not putting up pictures that you wouldn't want your family, and/or your potential boss to see. Another thing I shared with her was this program that I found out about called LifeLock. It monitors social security number, credit card numbers, home address, and bank accounts so you don't have to. It protects against indentity theft. I really thought that that was a cool program to use. We had a good discussion about internet safety.

Website Project

I felt that this assignment went pretty well. I would definitely use this when I am a teacher. I would use a class website to put up announcements, and fun activities that the students can do if they choose. Also by having the syllabus, and calendar online this would save paper, and the students wouldn't be able to loose it. It was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be as well. When you first said that we were going to make a website I was not looking forward to it. However, once I got going it was pretty easy, a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. I could make another website if you asked us to.

My url is: https://sites.google.com/site/krissywrightclasssite/running-walking-class

Problems part 2

Oh technology, I don't like it. I'm usually pretty good with cell phones, but my mom got a Droid this past week. We were trying to set up her email so she could get them from work. We entered all the correct information, it said it was connected and everything, but she wasn't getting her emails. We re did it a couple times with the same result. Again any insights into what might be going on?

Problems

I have so many computer problems. Right now my computer won't connect to our wireless network in our apartment. It's weird. It works in other places but not in my apartment. It says it has excellent connection, but then says it is acquiring the network address. I'm not sure what that means..any answers?

Copyright Laws

I think copyright laws are a good thing. It protects peoples creations, and other works of art. Sometimes it's a pain to work around copyright laws, but overall I think they are good. If people were more honest we wouldn't need the copy right laws, but people aren't always honest and so the copy right laws are needed to protect individuals, and their work. I wouldn't change anything about the copyright laws. I think they are necessary in todays society.

Resources

I would like to start using the google applications. I was really excited to learn about the online google calendar. I'm not good at remembering what is duewhen for all of my classes, so the online google calendar would be awesome to use for me. I especially like that google will send you text messages to your phone reminding you of the things you have to do, or assignments that are due for that day. The google applications specifically stood out to me. I will be definitely using them in the future. These resources would be helpful to me as a student because I would be able to remember more easily what I have to do and when. For a teacher it would be nice just to be able to make powerpoints, and typical documents for your classes. You could pull them up anywhere you wanted. That would be so helpful.

My Tech Experience

My technology experience hasn't been very positive. I'm not what you would call tech savvy person. I can get on the internet and search things ,I'm good with cell phones, but in general computers aren't my friends. I took a computer class in high school hoping I would be able to get more familiar with computers, but that didn't happen. Everything went in one ear and out the other. I didn't retain very much at all. I can do the basics with technology, but that's it.