Project #16

Additional Assignment #5

Just Teach Them to Solve for X:
This post was about teaching a math lesson. It talks about letting students use metaphors when learning. He says that metaphors are how we make sense out of the abstract. I believe using metaphors is math is a great idea. If a metaphor can help a child learn something, especially in a hard subject like math, it should be encouraged.
Sketchy Portraits:
This post was about eight graders. Everything in this post was very true. Older children, especially ones in eight grade, will test their boundaries. They want to be adults and children at the same time. It is our jobs to try and let them be this. Everything in the life of a child that age is constantly changing.
He Just Likes the Class for the Pencils:
I loved this post. It was my favorite! This post was about a metting with a child, parents, and some other teachers. The child had been acting up in all of the other classes but his. The other teachers say that it is because of the "pencils". This is not true at all, the child likes to be in his class because the child trusts him. Trust is such an important thing, especially for children. We should take time for each of our students, so that they can trust us.
The Medium Shapes the Learning:
This post was about him and his students. They were on a tour of Edison's film studios. He talks about how teachers think that they have the power to unchange a lesson with a medium. Actually, the medium shapes the learning.
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"Five Little Ducks" Project 15

Blog Post #13

ALEX stands for Alabama Learning Exchange. This is a project of the Alabama Department of Education. It is designed to share many types of educational materials and information. This website allows teachers to share ideas and plans with other teachers
Through ALEX, you can look at lesson plans, listen to podcasts, and look at courses of studies. I will definantely use this website when I begin teaching. I think it would be silly not to. You can log on and look at lesson plans specific to subject and grade. ALEX also gives you links to professional learning programs. I believe ALEX will be very helpful to me when I become a teacher.


ACCESS stands for Alabama Connecting Classrooms Educators and Students Statewide. ACCESS's vision for the state of Alabama is to, provide equal access to high quality instruction to improve student achievement through distance learning.
The goal of ACCESS is to continue to meet objectives of the ACCESS plan, expanding the availability of ACCESS Distance Learning to all public high schools in the state. ACCESS provides students with advanced diploma courses and additional courses. It provides teachers additional multimedia and tools to enhance instruction. ACCESS wants to provide a 21st century distance learning classrooms for every Alabama high school.
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Summary Post for Form

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From this survey, I learned that most people want to become teachers becuase they love kids and want to make a difference. I thought all of the 18 people that answered would also put that they wanted the benefits but only two people put that. I thought that was surprising. Another thing that was intresting was that 16 out of the 18 will graduate in 2012 and only two will graduate in 2013. I learned alot from this survey!

Progress Report On Final Project

My group consist of Stephanie Belletty, Leah Davis, and myself. For this project, we have decided to make a movie. In this movie, we will go around and ask a few professors the pro's and con's and what they think of the Smart Board.

Blog Post #12

Watch the video and discuss how you will teach these children, when we dont know how the future will look!