Behaviorism

I remember in my second grade class my teacher had a card system. The system had a green card, a yellow card and a red card. If the teacher told me to pull my card that means I had to pull my green card and put it behind my red card so that my yellow card was showing. The yellow card was the teacher giving me a warning, meaning that if i had to pull my card again that day then i would have to sit out of recess. I always remember being so upset when my teacher told me to pull my card. Looking back at this now I realize that this is an example of negative punishment because my teacher is taking something away because of my bad behavior. I have also realized that this was a very successful strategy to keep the class in order, especially me.

Metacognition

    Metacognition is essential for good learning because it helps a student to take the best approach to help the student learn the material and retain the information. By using metacognitive strategies such as self-planning and self-monitoring a student can become aware of the different ways that help them succeed. If a teacher provides examples of metacognitive strategies to the students, the students could be more apt to using metacognitive thinking. As the students use metacognition they will not only improve their success in the classroom but also improve their learning capabilities. 

Here is a video of metacognition in mathematics Video.

Webquest

Over the past 3 weeks we have worked on our webquest. Webquest is a great tool in the fact a teacher can manipulate it to create projects, reviews, quizes, and test for thier students. It is very efficient for a teacher because once the teacher has created a webquest the students have the task, proccess, and how they are going to be evaluated all in one place so there is no confusion.
Here is a link to my Webquest

The webquest applies to teaching standard

3a. demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations.

Having a teacher create a webquest allows them to test the students on what they know and create a project for the students to learn more about a certain subject. It also allows the students to advance their experience with new technologies and researching based on what the teacher incorporates into the webquest.

Voki

Today we created a Voki and then costomized an avatar. We used this avatar to speak some of our educational philosophy. Here is a my Voki video

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Todays assignment addresses teaching standard

2a.design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.

By using Voki in the classroom I could possibly attract the students attention by them hearing a different voice rather than mine but still presenting the information I want. This could also could be used as a tool to teach a lesson online without me having to explain it to them with me in the room.

New Survey

Today we learned how to create another survey the one major difference in using this survey is we created an answer key and once people take the survey it is self-grading. Here is a link to my survery

Surveys and collecting data

Today we learned how to create web based forms such as a survey. When creating the survey there are 6 types of questions we can use. These 6 different types are text, paragragh text, mutiple choice, checkboxes, choose from a list, and scale. We also had a few of the students in our class take our survey and we learned how to view the results in the spreadsheet and the summary of the results showing bar charts, graphs etc. You can take the survey that I created by clicking here SURVEY  Here is a link to google docs forms to try it yourself. Also here is a link to the spreadsheet with the results from my survey.

New Free Tools

ISSUU is an online PDF viewer. It is a free tool that you can use to view books in a magazine format. This allows you to zoom on different parts of the page all without having carry a textbook around.

Prezi is a free web based tool that allows you to view presentations and create presentations. In Prezi you have one slide in which you put all your imformation and it zooms in on the different pieces of text and images on that slide.We also learned that in Prezi you should group your information so your not zooming all over the slide and making your audience motion sick. Here is a link to to PREZI 
Here is my sample using Prezi

First Prezi on Prezi