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  1. Introduction-
     Standard Two is used in creating the introduction video, Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessment. This was a learning experience that involved contemporary tools such as the video aspect of a mobile phone. It gives a persons background and story a creative and more formal touch when it is videoed for a blog. This assignment taught me numerous things. Some of those things including how to upload a video onto the internet, how to use creativity when doing boring introductions and how to speak on a camera (even though this is terrible). When I first did the assignment I could not get the video to play on my blog. It was showing the box but it did not show any media or sound. Dr. Beedle showed me how to fix this by selected a different format of the video and told me that it sometimes saves in different places. It will have "mp4" attached to the end of it, not weird letters. In my future classroom, I think I will use this a lot. I loved how Dr. Beedle sprung this on us and told us to upload it immediately. It kept me thinking on my feet and made me do my best the first time from there on out. This also gives students a new way to introduce themselves to me and other classmates. He also made us share this with the class which also added necessary pressure for us to do our best. Presenting everything in front of the class made everyone try their best and want to look good during their presentation.
  2. Ted Videos (John Hunter and the World Peace Game)
      Standard 2, Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments, is a standard that is met with John Hunter's the World Peace Game. In his teachings, he designs student learning to promote creativity, he customizes and personalizes diverse learning styles and he assesses the students based on how they play out the games. The only problem I saw while watching this was that it was probably really hard to incorporate that today with the Common Core State Standards. John Hunter makes it realistic. He takes a piece of learning and flips it around by making it real life for the students. He made it to where the students would feel as if they were apart of the life in the game. This idea of teaching would be really idealistic in a classroom, but I do not know how well I would do at making up a game like that. I would need lots of help to become that creative and educational all at once. The hands on games make the students think actively and on their toes. Writing pages of notes while listening to someone preach about problems in the world is really ineffective for most people; whereas, the hands on game that puts you inside the actual problem shows the reality of the issue. It shows the students that violence is existent and a bad thing in his case.
3. Concept Map
     NETS-T Standard 3 Model Digital Age Work and Learning was aligned with the concept map because it was a way for us to format a weeks lesson plan with a structured form of digital technology that formats out each day and activity with a creative twist. After doing the concept map, I learned how to organize my information in not only in a creative way but also online. I have never been very tech savvy and this assignment pushed me to make it look good and actually be correct. I had many difficulties while completing this project, including not saving it correctly or text would paste in a weird format and I had to figure out how to change it. The thing that gave me the most problems in this assignment was formatting things to fit and look presentable. I fixed that by just playing around with the different texts and shapes to put the text in. It took me a good couple of days before I learned how to get my information formatted correctly. This will be a good use to me as a teacher by doing the lesson plans electronically and showing them to the class on a PDF or through email. That way the class will always have the outline and details of the assignment with them. It will also get the class more involved on the computer if that was the only way they could look at the assignment details.

4. Do Not Track Me Plus
      Do Not Track Me Plus meets NETS Standard four, Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility. This website is a website that advocates for protection against potentially harmful websites and develops cultural understanding and global awareness of what is happening on the internet. This website is a place for the web to help you instead of hurt you. I learned that there are websites out there that are solely meant to harm and mess up your computer. This website is a place where they can track the people that try to get your information after you look at a certain website. I had no idea that people were looking at what I searched on google or my friend's facebooks. When trying to figure out this website, I accidentally downloaded the wrong one. It was spam and did just what this website is trying to prevent, computer crashes or information leaking to others. A friend helped me pick the right website and see what I did wrong/did not look for. A cool thing about this website is that is has its own app on the iPhone and it can show you who looked at your stuff and whether they were good or not. I will continue to use this  for my future use of my computer. As for other students, the librarian will have to monitor the computers more and tell the students to stay quiet. This website might be a little bit older than your young children readers, because they cannot hear you when they are out in the woods hunting.

5. Augmented Reality
     Augmented Reality in classrooms meets Standard three, Model Digital Age Work and Learning. It is a way to model and facilitate current digital tools for research. For instance, like the woman did in the article, she held up a tablet over an image of a cube and it showed students directly how to draw a cube without having to ask. I think that this way of technology can be effective if it is used the right way. I learned something new by just reading the article. I did not know that you could hold an iPad up to a painting and the app realize it and give you information on it. When reading the article, the only thing that I questioned was the age that the children should be in order to fully understand this and use if for productive things. The author cleared my confusion up when she said that all a student had to do was hold up the tablet and information would pop up. I could use this as a teacher in the future for research on paintings or sculptures or even history words. They could use this more creative way of researching to make their project more exciting and enjoyable. I do not think that I would personally use this for young children though because sometimes that might be more of a problem than it would be helping depending on the child's critical thinking level.

6. Voki
     The Voki that I created was aligned with Standard 2, Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments. With this project we participated as active participants in setting our own educational goals. The Voki assignment allowed each of us to create a profile of said teacher and discuss how we would address parents and students in an introduction to the class. The actual person speaking can look like your appearance and even have your accent, if it is different from the normal. When doing the assignment I ran into the problem of not knowing what was important to the introduction to my classroom and what was not. The Voki only lets you put about thirty seconds of voice recording on it, so you have to be very to the point and specific. I fixed this by discussing a brief background on myself and then saying how excited I was for the upcoming year. I think that this will definitely be on my teacher page that parents look at when they go to find things for my class. Sometimes people do not read everything clearly and they might miss things if they do not read all of the way. I could post weekly announcements in text and on with Voki, in order to add a little variety for my teacher page.

Web 2.0 sites
     The web 2.0 sites coorelate with NETS Standard three, Model Digital Age Work and Learning. It does this by demonstrating fluency in technology and the transfer of current knowledge to technology and situations. In class everyone got information on atleast two websites or apps that we could teach the class about. Each student standing up and talking about each different websites was very helpful for all of us because many of them were websites we see our teachers use often. One problem that the majority of the class had was being able to understand their website enough to explain it to others by using only a trial view. There is really no fix to this, other than the fact that we know now that those websites are not ones that we can trust to work in a classroom without downloading them first. A helpful suggestion that Dr. Beedle gave was that since we cannot use some of these websites due to money or contracts, then we can see other websites that are generally the same and are free and easy to use. I will definitely use some of these sites and I made notes on ones that I might use in my upcoming education classes in order to organize things and make more creative projects. I have already used Inspiration in order to set up creative maps for my sorority.
     My two sites I looked up were Glogster and Audacity. Audacity was a site that was hard for me to understand because my computer would not allow me to get the full version of it. It is a voice recording site that can insert or delete certain affects and blend sounds together. Glogster was my other website and I have already planned on involving in with my future students. It is a website that has different ways to post things such as a poster board or sticky notes for reminders. It is just a cooler way to do projects and stay organized.

Website: cyber bullying
     Creating this website met standard 5, Engaging in Professional growth and leadership. It met this standard because we were sharing research that is helpful to schools and others, it evaluated current research and gave facts and used the technology necessary to achieve the goal of this website. Creating this website made me realize how easy it is to get your information out there and involved in the community. It taught me how to create a website, and use the website in a educational manor. While making this website I had some problems with formatting and getting the page layout correct. Although I was not able to fix all of those problems given the time that we were there, Dr. Beedle showed us how to create tables so that would be prevented when we were presenting our website for the class. I think this project would be great for an upper level elementary student to do a project on. It is a more fun way to show information on research rather than just writing a standard research paper. The website gives the leeway to post videos and pictures and provide more creative titles for articles and pages.
My Movie: Home
     My movie was coorelated with NETS standard one, to promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness. Making the movie involved critical thinking and creativity in order to come up with an idea and coorelate a song to go along with it. We had to gather pictures that all were the same type and create a story. The hardest part of this assignment was creating a story with pictures that I already had and making it interesting. Coorelating a song to the story was difficult at first, but I just had to dig deep and think hard about what story I wanted to tell before I picked a song. I chose Home by Phillip Philips and told the story about my family and move to college. One problem I had while making my movie was getting a song on the movie. Deanna helped me by telling me I could go to YouTube and look up the song, copy the link and post it into a YouTube mp3 mixer and it would save to my computer. I just thought that was the coolest thing and I was mad I did not know that before now. The movie was my favorite assignment we had to do. It gave me the chance to express my life through pictures of my loved ones and music. I will definitely use this movie maker in my future classroom. Although the project did not take long and just involved some creative thinking and application, it told a story about each person and truly showed their style through their movie.


Course Reflection-
     This class started off slow for me but I soon made friends with my classmates and Dr. Beedle. The class was one that I will not forget because of the things I learned. Whether I want to admit it or not, I was not a computer or technology person at all before this class. I learned so many things from creating concept maps and movies all the way to making a website, which I did not think that I could ever do. Honestly, blogging was a big change for me. I have never blogged or even thought about blogging, but the truth is, we are so much better off by keeping up with people or activities through blogging. I had many weak points in this class, considering I was not tech savvy at all, but surprisingly I had some strong points. My weak points were blogging things that were important and not just summaries as well as doing some of the assignments at home on my computer. My strong points were the concept map, Voki and movie. I think I liked those more because I could do my own thing with it and was not restricted as to what I could or could not talk about so that is why those were strong points. My weak points were most likely because I have never blogged before and did not know what to say. Also, my computer is not up to date and I have some viruses ,that I am going to get worked out over the break, that do not allow my computer to do certain things. In the future, I realize now that it is important to keep up with the internet and I may start blogging to get my name out there more. Blogs, if in the right context, are something that could help tremendously with getting jobs in the future. There are many different aspects of this class that I want to take with me when I go to teach. For instance, I liked how we were always presenting and having to show the class our projects. That will make students want to work ten times as hard. Also, the movie maker will be one of my first projects for my kids. Seeing pictures along with a song that they like to tell a story will show me as well as the other classmates so much about that person. I think that blogs are something that should be started young. When I first entered the class I honestly thought blogging was stupid and I did not understand it. Now, I know I will look back to see how far I have come in the process of education and see some of the things we talked about without having to keep up with a binder. I think it would be even cooler to look back on things you learned in school as a child. Teachers especially, could benefit so much by looking back at their own thoughts as a child because as we grow up, we forget how things were and how things change. This class has taught me so much about things that I can use in everyday life with my sorority, my education classes and hopefully my future classroom. I enjoyed this class and I wish there were more application classes like this!





Movie

website- cyberbullying

Five Essentials to create connected students

This article is a very well written, easy to read article about technology in schools. The author is clearly for the idea of social media in schools and says that it can be handled in a proper manner. The author addresses the fact that some students do not have the technology that schools are requiring and does not really mention what they would do in that situation. They list five essentials for well connected students: A connected author, a connected publisher, a connected conversationalist, a strategic diconnecter and a curious, lifelong pursuer of ingenious solutions. This article really stuck out to me because when I first started reading it I disagreed with the author. I don't believe that every student should require social media at school. I think it is very distracting and that is will veer the learners elsewhere. Although I did disagree at first, I can agree with what the author is saying now. Basically, they say that social media can be used at schools if it is going to be equal among the students and it is all educational. My favorite part of this article was the essential number 2. It is being a connected publisher, and in this section the author discusses that we, as educators, are discouraging students to put their strong academic works on social media sites, even though that is the main goal of going to college, to find a good career. The one place people look for references is online. Blogs, facebook, twitter and tumblr are a few examples of places that people could show their strengths online. The author says that by discouraging this part, students will be more encouraged to put their personal lives on the internet, which can be dangerous. This is so true to me because if people think it is weird posting about academics then they will post stuff about the "norm". This causes the bad things on social media that people constantly bring up. If schools started teaching kids how to do the right things at first then their would not be problems in the long run, or atleast less problems.

Web 2.0 sites

Mindmeister is a mapping website is a concept mapping website that you can make a concept map with by creating the bubbles. You can actually make a powerpoint that will zoom in to where you can talk about the individual bubbles. SpiderScribe.net is another concept mapping website that is a little more advance. You can pinpoint location and event times in it so people can see exactly whats going on. More for an older audience. It is good for the teacher but maybe not as benefical for student, they might not understand. Bubbl.us is a concept mapping website, it is alot like inspiration where you can make the concept map however you would like. You can import pictues and text, it is also very simple. linoit.com is a free organizational tool that teachers could use for their classroom. It is a website where you can post notes and word documents, basically like a cute calander type thing on your web screen. A cool thing about this app is that you can do it on your phone because there is an app for it. It could be a good group work website. Students could use this for presenting and working on group work projects at home. Photobucket.com is something sort of like pinterest, it has stuff that is trending and you can connect with people through common interest. You can make it private. You can buy more storage if you run out of space. Quinturakids.com is a search engine geared more towards children. It is not very updated so it is not as widely ranged. It is based only by kids and it will pull only from childrens websites. DuckDuckGo is a search engine like google but is for children. It has a filter bubble which will put all of your information in this bubble. For instance, if you search bing alot and click on wikepedia then alot of your searches will bring up wikepedia GOGooligans.com is an educational and academic search engine. It is not very accurate or easy to use. Did not work when we tried to search the United States. Vimeo is a website that you can look up videos kind of like youtube. It is free and does not really have a filter for students. It is just a video search website. Wordpress.com is a blog site where you can find other peoples blogs and search things under tags to make it easier. Alot of people use wordpess because it is very flexible and has more creative things to do. You can follow peoples blogs and like and share them. Evernote.com is a a website where you can take notes and search for certain words in your notes. It is a very organized place to keep all of your stuff in one spot. You can have different folders kind of like documents for your computer Compflight is a website that is a ittle like google images. It is used for locating images, for blogs and for research. It gives you a better selection for images and it makes them more of a varied selection. Diigo.com is a place where you can organize and share information that youve found. You can highlight things and add sticky notes. Blabberize is a site that you can insert and image and create a mouth for something that is not your face. For instance, you could record your voice acting as George Washington and put his face on the screen saying what you said. Easelly.com is a place that you can create and share your information in cool ways such as a timeline or map. Animoto You can choose your own theme to upload pictures or videos. It is not free. The free trial only lasts up to a few seconds. You can add text and images. It is kind of like a powerpoint Bookbuilder is a website that you can go to create, share, publish and find books for things. Easy for kids and good for kids. Weebly.com is a place that you can make your own website. You can sign up using facebook, which lets you get to know who else has sites on Weebly.You can insert audio and video more easily. Storyboardgenerator has a group of videos that you can choose from in order to teach a class. It has a feature on it specifically for education that has videos of personal stories. Tagul clouds is a place where you can create word clouds. Similar to wordle. Edmodo.com is like a facebook for teachers. It is a place where all teachers get together and post pictures and status' that could help them with their teaching. They can ask questions on how they could use certain things in their classroom. Socrative is a website that teachers can use quizzes, fun educational games and record scores. PodBean.com is just like itunes. It is a music website where you can download songs and/or create your own. Pigskin is a site that you can create comic strips iCloud is a place for an apple product to keeps its apps and programs. It automatically updates apps and stores all your information on your phone so if your phone crashes or gets stolen then you will have your stuff on your iCloud account. Infogr.am is basically a place where you can create charts and graphs in order to have a cool way to store your information

Evolving Classroom Education: Where is K-12 Technology Headed?

This article discusses the use of higher technology in schools and how important it is for teachers to realize the good in this change. BYOD is shorter term for Bring Your Own Device, and this is being implemented in schools everyday. Whereas teachers used to tell students to hide their phones or tablets, they are now being told to bring them to class. Schools are also using the NUI program (Natural User Interfaces) and this is a program that is targeting the physical/social aspect of children. For instance, devices like the Wii. PLE's will also be a key component to this technology change going on in schools. PLE is another term for personal learning environment and basically is a way for the student to go at their own pace and learning ability. I somewhat disagree with the article in the sense that they say that new teachers don't understand this technology movement. They claim it is working but really I think that students are just getting to "play" in class with a terrible excuse. They are doing TOO much technology. Now I could understand how the BYOD could be affective maybe once every few weeks or something but I don't think it should be an everyday thing. I think that schools are trying to be more lazy and make everything so robotic instead of pulling out their own creativity and making it work.

Voki project

Cyber Bullying

Cyber Bullying is a problem that goes unheard of most of the time. It is swept under the rug. It's just "kids being kids" on the computer. But what we don't know is that it can cause depression, serious social anxiety and even suicide. I personally have never been cyber bullied but I have been bullied in person so I cannot imagine what hurtful things could be done over the internet, after all, people are more confident behind a computer screen. With all of the new technology I can imagine that cyber bullying could be getting more common. This is a serious matter that needs to be brought to the table more often. I once watched a Lifetime movie called Cyberbully and it was literally life changing. This girl was super popular until one day her little website that was popular at the time got hacked and the person was posting things that were completely false about her. Long story short, she finds out it was her "best friend". Most of the time it is a close friend. I think a good way to stop it would be to inform students, mainly girls, that girls are mean and they don't always have your back. Its not always the case but I think friendship should be preached to these students and I think they should also stay away from bad websites. I think that the web is the most dangerous place a young student could be. Parents should keep track of it more, especially with technology growing the way it is. I think cyberbullying should be just as important as some of the other things they teach in school these days. And I think it is time that we recognize it.

21st Century Skills: Why They Matter, What They Are,and How We Get There

Ken Kay writes an article about how modern skills (21st century skills) would benefit students today and why it is important to have this kind of stuff taught in schools. He says that in the past skills like finances, business aspects and global awareness have not been very necessary because the society has not been moving that fast. Now that it is, writer Malcolm Gladwell says that it is important to teach students these type of skills. He says that their has been research and lots of thought into what will be taught and hopes that people will catch on and start implementing this in classrooms. Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) was a test that showed most Americans score lower on skills like these because they involve world knowledge and critical thinking to be successful. He says there are 3 reasons that these skills should be necessary for 21st century knowledge. Number one, the skills are rarely taught in schools and since they aren't made a big deal, they don't "matter" to people. Second, it is critical for all students in today's world to achieve this knowledge. And last, employers are specifically looking for these skills in order to succeed in the workforce. He says we need to be more organized with our teaching and more competitive. 

I think that this article is important for many reasons. One of those reasons if when I was in school, I always wanted to know how to survive in the real world but instead I was being taught geometry when I wasn't even going into a field that dealt with high math skills. I was being taught literature (which was important) but not necessarily. I needed to know how to be writing papers for college and other stuff. This article seemed to be nothing like the common core. This is something that is very well researched and thought out. The students are not the bait in this process. These educators will see how students react and work with this kind of change and work around that. Whereas the common core, I feel like, is using the students as bait to figure out if it will work or not. I think implementing 21st century skills into education could only help students in the long run. 

Why Tough Teachers Get Good Results

For class we had to read the article "Why Tough Teachers Get Good Results". This article talks about a teacher, Jerry Kupchynsky, who would be fired today for teaching the way he used to. But it says the students loved him. It says that being strict and mean are two different things. Statistics show that a little constructive criticism only helps children. It also says this is why other country's test scores are higher than us, because we are too easy on the kids. Another thing it mentions is that failure is good sometimes. Sometimes it can help the students realize that failure is supposed to occur in order to succeed and it will make them want to succeed the next go round. 

 This has been by far my favorite article. I have been wanting to know statistics on this type of research for sometime but I never got around to looking them up.  I loved this because I had a coach in high school that I was terrified of but I loved going to practice for some reason. He yelled at us, drilled us until we couldn't do anymore conditioning, and made us practice until perfection. But that was just it. Perfection. It was there. Everytime we competed for 2 years straight we won first or second place in our competitions and I was one of the best cheerleaders on the team because of that strict coach. I agree with this teaching style. Now I just need to find a way to approach it without being considered mean and disliked. 

Do Not Track Me Plus

When I went to the website at first I did not understand how it worked but once I figured it out I started to surf the web. The first site I went to was Facebook and only one person was tracking me. The website that was tracking me was named "doubleclick". Well that was a very smart name for a website and I did exactly that, I double clicked it and it allowed the website to follow me. I noticed and blocked them again. Next, I went to Pinterest and I looked up Tri Delta, and I immediately had 2 followers. These were weird names that weren't any interest to me, so I just ignored them. I went to blogger.com next and I am all clear of trackers on this website! This is a very cool thing to have on your computer. I think I might keep it on here, although it is kind of creepy that people "track" me. I researched more on it and it is very weird, yet strategic, how they pull you in. They will use the ads that interest you or target your exact interests for you to click on them. After that they will blow you up with information about their website and try to get you to buy from it. These website owners are very creative and strategic about how they do things. This program is very interesting and I hope to look more into it.

Inspiration Comments

Erika- Erikas use of pictures were really good and her blog was well designed.
Some of the activities were not as good as some others that she has.

Jacqueline- I think that her ideas were really good along with her standard. The way she incorporated a dress up day was really unique.
I think that her actual concept map could have been more mature looking, although purple is just a childish color.

Jennifer- I really like the theme, biomes were my favorite part of elementary science.
Powerpoint might be too difficult for this age, but not if it was done in class.

Amanda- I thought the Who Wants to be a Millionare activity was very creative and i think students would enjoy it alot.
I don't think that the song was the best choice for this activity, it sort of threw me off.

Jordan- I like how Jordan incorporated different types of a presentation. I like how she used posters, powerpoints, and other types of activities they could do.
I dont think having the students bring materials for the assignment would work. But it is a very fun idea.

Jonathon-Jonathon was very creative for being a boy. His concept map didnt even look like a school project, it looked really fun.
I dont think a quiz is a very fun first activity though.

CONCEPT MAP- Corduroy

Corduroy

Students will write an opinion on a story they read/listen to and they will include a beginning middle and end. They will also have to have a concluding statement to sum up everything that they wrote.

STANDARD: Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.

              STORY TIME!

I will introduce the story to the students by showing them a teddy bear with buttons,talk about their special "friends" they have at home and then show them the book. I will read it aloud to them and have them raise their hands and answer questions about the beginning, middle and end.

A. Have students come to carpet time and talk about the characters and introduce the story.

B. They will participate in active listening as I ask them questions throughout the story and at the end.

   MOVIE TIME!

The students will open the link on their screen and watch the story corduroy with headphones on in groups of three or four.

A. Students will get in groups of three or four and they will watch the story on the computer.

B. After finishing the movie, students will answer 5 short questions and write a summary on their favorite part.

  Super Why Comic Book Adventure

Students will help Super Why stop the evil eraser from erasing words out of the book and they can make the story go in order from beginning to end.

A.    The students will play this game on the computer to work on their comprehension skills.

B.    They will actively work with the character Super Why to help find missing pieces of the story and add them back in.

  Find that button!

Children will take home the bear that they cut out and put together in class and find him some buttons just like the bear did in the story.

A.    Students will have mixed pieces of a bear, cut them out and pin them together.

1.    They will have help making sure the arms and legs are pinned in the right spot so the bears arms and legs can move.

B.    They will take the bear that they glued home and find him buttons for homework..

1.    The students will find objects at home, for example, fruit loops, pennies, ect.

    Eyesight Challenge

When finished with all of their activities, they will play this game and look for the items in the picture, just like Corduroy went through the department store looking for his button.

A.    Students will go to the website and play the game to find the hidden objects.

B.    Each time the level will bump up and they will have less time to find the items.

The pedagogy wheel would be extremely helpful as a teacher because it gives examples of websites or programs on the computer that you can use for different activities for your classroom. I would use this wheel often when trying to figure out how I could use technology with some of my lessons. It makes it easy by just looking at what activity your trying to accomplish and then looking at the links or websites it gives to go by.

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy is a list of key terms that can be transformed into verbs that have technology to do with them. For instance, creating is the first key term and I could look at that word and know I want my students to create something but how could I have them do that just by thinking of that word? I could look at this outline and see that blogging is one of the ways my students could create something for a project. Many people have trouble thinking of different ways you can incorporate technology in your teaching skills and this Taxonomy would help people incorporate it with their lesson plans.

In the Identity Theft test I was at about medium risk to be stolen from. I do many of the obvious things, but I don't do things like shred my paper before I throw it away, I just never thought someone would dig in a trash can after me. I guess you can never be too safe.
The next test I did was the online lottery or sweepstakes one. I do get a lot of those emails from people in different countries telling me I won some enormous prize, but I completely disregard them. Therefore I am at low risk.
The authentic or counterfeit test I was at no risk at all. I work at a place that gives me a work check and I don't think I would ever except a money order.

The malware drive by download was all about how your computer can be attacked without you even knowing about it. It says that malware is a program that is "designed" to help you but it also hurts you at the same time. It will mess up your computer and then show you ways that they can get your money so they can fix what THEY messed up in the first place. It also shows ways that you can tell your computed is being attacked, so that you can know you have a problem and your computer is not just slow.
 
This video was interesting to me although I did not like the mans voice and he did not really pull me in to what he was saying at all. The one thing I did like about what he was saying is that this system is like a robber. Basically it will rob you and mess up your stuff, run away and then come back saying that they know what the problem is and if you pay them they will fix it. I can see a lot of computer programs doing this. Most places just want your money and they will actually hurt your computer in order to get it. This video was not the best one I have seen yet, but it was informational.

1. Facebook, Linked IN, BlogSpot
2. Children could possibly be tracked by someone else that could harm them, they lose sleep and become different people because of it, they can lose the opportunities for jobs or anything in life for that matter if they have something bad on their page.
3. Sexting- this is the exchange of sexual images, words, or videos through social media.
    cramming- the act of charging someone for something they did not agree to pay for
    cookies- website stored in web browser
    Trojan horse- a malware tracking program
    Phishing- trying to invade privacy of others and find out personal info
    Spyware- A program that is there to protect your computer.
    rootkit- a software that hides processes from being seen by the user
    zombie- a dead creature that comes back to life and haunts people
4. The screen names these people have chosen are seen by everyone they talk to or come in contact with online and with dirty or inappropriate screen names such as these they will be treated like their immature name.
5. Your screen name should represent you and what you stand for, so if you don't want people getting into your personal life then your screen name should just be your name. Having these ugly screen names, for instance, IMAHottie might target the wrong crowd of people, like men or immature and perverted guys.
6. A students last name should not be given, or too much information about what that student is involved in because anyone could find you.
7. i8sushi2- poor, not professional whatsoever
   Soccerstar- good, it does not reveal too much info and it is a hobby
   Puppygirl1234- decent too immature
   KeKe1995- bad- this gives out way too much info
   Bookworm- good, not too much information
   2BorNot2b- no idea what this means so I would say bad
   Choco-holic- bad, I think this refers to much of an "addiction"
   CapitlOfens- bad, sounds like a criminal
   AmrcanIdol2- good, not to much info
   BellaIsabella- if this is not a full name then I don't see a problem with it
   DarkAngel666- has to do with the devil. no.
   Karla-love-1996- whole name should never be included or year of birth. bad
   SimplyMe- I think this one is good
   gUn4hiRe- this is not appropriate
   babyfaceLA- its weird but not bad
   Watup?-  Weird but not a bad one
8. lildog92
    cmcchic
    love2cheer
9. My password is strong.
10. Most common- a password cracking program is used
      Least Common- Other students see the password as students enter it

   

In the article titled "Use Arts Integration to Enhance Common Core" the author thinks that art is an important part of school and discusses ways to gradually implement art into the Common Core State Standards. He starts by agreeing that it is a difficult task to complete, integrating arts with Common Core, but it can be done. He thinks that art is going to be a big deal in children's future and it is vital for them to learn hand in hand with the standards. He goes on to talk about how to integrate art with the standards and says that it is naturally appealing to students so it would be a successful subject if taught right. The problem, he states, is that teachers are to afraid of getting deep in their own creative minds and stepping out of boundaries to make this happen. In order to implement art in a proper way the teacher would have to make sure it is on the students level and would coincide with the world around them. Basically, teachers would not teach on a painting from the 1800's that has no relevance to the students whatsoever. He ends his article by giving different examples of ways you can implement this with students doing mirroring exercises, looking at paintings and music techniques.

This article was very helpful to me after I read over it a couple of times. At first, it was hard to grasp what the author was trying to get across but I think I understand now. I liked how he did recognize that some teachers are not as creative as others and cannot just think of ways to incorporate art and the standards. I would not have thought of any of those exercises to do with kids that incorporate the standards. I also think this article was a good one for me to read just because it helped me to realize that stepping out of the box is not always a bad thing, even when you do have strict guidelines to follow. Children still need their imagination and taking art away and just teaching standards would hurt that tremendously. The title of this article threw me off a little considering I thought that it would be discussing actual art in schools. All in all though, after realizing what it was about, I really thought it was helpful and hit on points that I would not have thought of before.

John Hunter and the World Peace Game

John Hunter came from a family who encouraged him to get an education so that he could get a job in life. He says that he went to a school hoping for the job but not expecting it. He says that he immediately got the job teaching gifted children. One thing that stuck out to me in his speech was what he asked the teacher when she first told him that he was hired "what do I do?" Her response was the best thing he could have asked for. She opened up his imagination of teaching to a whole new level. She said "what do you want to do?". He did not have to follow certain rules or guidelines, he could teach the class as he pleased. He discusses all types of different games that he would play with his children to help them learn. He specifically stated that he does not want his students to be reading straight out of textbooks and doing worksheets, he wanted interaction. John Hunter had a lot of times where he thought he was not teaching right and was loosing control of his classroom, but other times his students really showed him that he was doing a great job and through their actions they showed that they knew the information. He gave them lots of life lessons and used those ways to interpret the point he was trying to make.


The objects and games he has taken his own time to make really makes a difference on the kids. For him to be able to take FOURTH GRADERS and run with those kind of ideas is crazy to me. Crazy in a very good way. One thing that stuck out to me is when he talked about all his children running around the room and he says what if a principal walked in? The principal would not understand what was going on but really those students were learning more than even Hunter thought. The creativity in his work brings the students to a whole different level of learning. John Hunter is a very intelligent man who had creative strategic ways to teach kids. 

The Biggest Fallacy of the Common Core Standards- this article talks about how the Common Core is so unfit for the states at this time. The author says that students will not be able to pass these ridiculous tests with the practice rates showing 5percent students with disabilities and only 17 percent of the African American race passing. This is asking for drop out rates to sky rocket. Also the author explains that the government has basically drilled into the states heads that they need the money and program if they want to be economically stable in the next couple of years. The author states that there is no known "person" behind all of this nonsense other than the government forcing a program that they are ignorant about.

I think this article was well written. It was easy to read and touched on different aspects of the common core. It didn't focus so much on the problems it will cause, it focused more on why we acquired it and how shady the whole process was. The author got my attention when they talk about "...why is the nations major corporations and chambers of commerce now swear by standards that they have very likely never read". It is like some unknown source (most likely the government) has done something to make these people all of the sudden agree with something they don't necessarily know will help the nation. After reading this article, I want to go do some research on this because it all seems a little sketchy to me.

The Common Core's fundamental trouble article is an informative article on how people are viewing the Common Core coming into schools, who thinks it is a positive thing and who thinks of it in a negative manner. Although the author mentions why people think that Common Core will be a success in schools, his main focus is on the problems with the program. One of those main problems being that the No Child Left Behind reform was initially put in play in order to "help" children with test taking and have them practice grades 3-8. The fact of the matter is, all NCLB act did was make for a lot of failing schools. Common Core is basically just making these tests even harder for children which will eventually lead to many more failing schools and an incredible increase in drop out rates. The author basically has a fear, along with many others, that these test are going to be almost impossible to pass and the "failing" rate of students will increase dramatically.

I think that Valarie Strauss does a wonderful job of explaining the Common Core by starting off with a non biased opinion. She starts her article giving us good reasons that people have to be excited for this program coming into the school system. She very quickly moves on to the problems of it though, real problems. She talks about how it has not been tested properly and incorporates the NCLB act that was a failure when schools tried it. She also talks about how "extremely challenging" some of these tests were and says that even after being in school and receiving  many degrees, she still may not be able to pass it. This article gave a solid explanation of her opinion on this topic. She did a great job using supportive examples and facts as well.

Fred Sitkins article How Teachers Are Integrating Tech Common Core talks about how Common Core is now introducing technology in the program. He says that the iPad and certain other new technology advances are perfect for children to learn more in depth. He says that with the internet access they can learn to look up how to pronounce words and find their meaning. Throughout the article he showed through his examples and enthusiasm that he was very positive about this coming into the common core.

I think this article is very biased on how technology is coming into the Common Core program. His examples of first graders using technology was weak, in my opinion and he did not give enough examples of how this could be a positive thing for students. One thing that I would have incorporated would have been the use of technology in the world today and how fast it is advancing. Advancing technology is obviously something that is a positive for children learning technology so early.

Introduction

My name is Mary Kathryn Lauderdale and I am a junior Elementary Education major at The University of Southern Mississippi. When I graduate I hope to move somewhere in Alabama and teach second grade in a nice school system where I spent my first couple of years. After seven years in Alabama, I moved to Madison, MS and was enrolled in yet another, awesome school system. If the Alabama school system does not work out for some reason I plan to return to Madison and teach at Madison Avenue Lower Elementary; but for now, I still have two more years in left as an undergraduate student in college. In my spare time, I work with a family after school and spend time with my sorority sisters. The children I keep after school are ages 3, 6 and 9 and they are very fun and exciting to be with every afternoon. My love for children and teaching will hopefully be key to my future career as an elementary school teacher.