Week 5, Paper's future

I do agree with the authors view that paper/printed matter is becoming a thing of the past unfortunately. I love to read and there is nothing like cracking open a book and the feeling of getting lost in a story. I do this to step out side of my own life, for information purposes, and to keep up to date with current/world events. I agree that newspapers are becoming a thing of the past because there are not newsstands as far as the eye can see as when I was growing up. Every corner had a stand it seemed. I could however do with out the print of newspapers because of the waste factor. But literature I do not see it disappearing. I hope not anyway. The death of print will affect me personally because I love books. I have many, many boxes of books. I plan on having a room full of books as I saw once when in high school I was at a friends house. Her parents had one room totally dedicated to walls and walls of books and two fat comfortable chairs in which to read them. I was forever enthralled with the experience of reading. It is a pleasure and a luxury to be able to set and read.
As far as which one is more important, I believe that is equally important for children to read and listen.. They learn by both methods. I see this in my 9 month old son. He watches my mouth as I speak, sing or read to him. He also is almost always listening to me. He likes to look at his books as I read to him at suppertime as well. With the first graders that I tutor in reading, they read every night. The school system has not given up on books because it a very necessary part of their learning process. And they seem to enjoy every minute of watching,hearing and reading a story unfold.

Week 5

My first website of a school using blogs in the classroom is from Mrs.English's classroom blog Room 104 in Aurora High School, Aurora, Nebraska. Click on room 104 to see their classroom blog. The site is regarding her 12th grade class. It focuses on her literature and her class of college composition students. The blogs focuses on students creating their own literature blogs to discuss various books. There is also a section aimed at her college composition class with responses from students about their assignments. Here is a picture of Aurora High School in Nebraska.

The second website is A classroom blog for an 8th grade American History class. Mr. Langhorst's Web Classroom blog can be viewed HERE. This is a very exciting website for students. It is chocked bull of pictures, resources for students and teachers, activites, games, links, and heavy into community involvement. It is a true history students dreamsite. I will be using this as a resource for my future classroom. See this link for pictures to view.

ALEX IN THE CLASSROOM

I plan to use ALEX for lessons plans in my kindergarten classroom. I will also use ALEX for professional instruction

ALEX

ALEX stands for Alabama Learning Exchange. This is an online resourse for educators. ALEX includes lesson plans, courses of study, workspace for teachers, web links and personal learning for educators. It also provides distance learning and search within thinkfinity.org which is a organization founded by Verizon. It is a digital learning platform designed to improve educational and literacy achievement for students. ALEX offers access to Alabama Virtual Library. AVL is available to all students, teachers, and all residents of Alabama.

ACCESS Resources

ACCESS stands for Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide. It is a distance learning through the Internet through the Alabama Department of Education that provides web based opportunities of high quality instruction to all Alabama public high school students. For example there are a variety of courses from English, Latin and Math.
Courses are taught using Interactive Videoconferencing or IVP. For students ACCESS offers a variety of courses which include, mathematics, English, Social Studies, Foreign Languages, Health, and Art History. Courses also include electives such as career/technical coordinated studies, psychology, writing and global studies. For educators this allows for new and innovative ways to motivate students, expand their teaching knowledge and share their expertise with students statewide. For parents, this may be the way their child may benefit fro Advanced Placement or college level courses.

Creating Links and Adding Pictures to a Blog

To add a link to a page we can either write out the html code or use the tools that Blogger has built in. The tool to add a link looks like a link of a chain. This is a link to The Fischbowl a blog used in training teachers in technology at the Arapahoe CO High School in Littleton , CO.

This is a picture of Arapahoe High School

You Tube Response to Globalization Video

Shift Happens; Globalization
Even though globalization is a natural occurence in industrial countries and an inevitable consequence to social success it is nonetheless frightnening to me the actual concept of change, global change. One aspect is how fast change happens. The fact that a half of the information acquired from a four year degree will be half outdated is also shocking. Even though it is the nature of technology. It seems that the creators of the technology average bears like myself could just buy "inexpensive" add-ons rather than having to completely repurchase a system would sure be a kinder way to progress.

Maria's Power point presentation

Hello Class!
My presentation if music was available would be "These are a few of my favorite things." No not when a dog barks but to begin with is a picture of my son. I am a first time mom. My son, Laurence Alexander, will be 8 months old on Sept. 5th. Pre-Louie I traveled when possible and I also lived in Berkeley, California.
First off, I traveled to Spain thanks to my sister being in the Navy. My step-father is from England so I was able to visit my grandmother there. While there we drove northeast to Scotland's Edinborough Castle. I have also included pics of my favorite friends and favorite pastime, wine tasting in wine country, C.A., also my favorite and first trip to Marin Headlands, Point Reyes. When someone tells you the pacific is cold and blistery believe it. The wind is like ice. My first time skiing was a few years back in Snow Mass, Colorado. I am not able to enjoy these things at the moment. My son and school is priority now. Even though I am devoted to my son, I will enjoy these things when I finally graduate. Afterall, now my reason for returning to college after so long has more meaning which will benefit our futures together. I look forward to all of my classmates presentations. Maria Sangilan