Final PBL

This is a picture of my grandparents. My great grandmother I talked
about this is her son and we are very close. 

For our final group project we did a project around family tree.  We wanted the class to begin to understand why family is important.  I could really relate to this.  I love to crochet I have been doing this since I was little my great grandmother taught me.  There have has been so many things I want to learn to do with crocheting, knitting, and sewing but I will have to learn on my own she has now passed away and she took all  of her techniques and trick with her.  I have missed out and can not get that back and that is hard for me.  Yes I have taught myself so many things with crocheting and complete taught my self to knit but with out her way and the stories that go along with it.  This is what we wanted to get across to the class. There are thing that I would have like to do different I would have like the class to have more of a discussion not as much lecturing because this PBL was design for fourth graders. I do have to say I disappoint that some people choose not to do the homework  I did every thing that was asked of me for all the groups and learned so much.  I will miss The Short and Sticky Ones very much we did a great job of working together.
 

Interactive WhiteBoards

These are the items' web pages that  I walked about in the video.

Mimio Interactive White Boards
http://www.mimio.dymo.com/

uBoards and the Duo Pen
http://www.penandfree.com/

HP Tablet - my touchsmart is first generation
http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/touchsmart/#/TouchSmart-Tm2




Here are other interactive boards I have used in the classroom.

Smart Boards - I used in high school
http://smarttech.com/us/Solutions/Education+Solutions/Products+for+education/Interactive+whiteboards+and+displays/SMART+Board+interactive+whiteboards

Promethean Boards
http://www.prometheanworld.com/

Collaborative Tools

Google Doc
http://www.google.com/google-d-s/documents/

Google Video Chat
http://www.google.com/support/chat/bin/answer.py?answer=159499

Skype
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/features/allfeatures/video-call/

Technology in the Classroom - Lincoln Elementary

           In CCA we went to a school were the administrator have been open to technology. We went to the school to see how the teacher are using interactive white boards in the classroom. We were able to see a demonstration done by a younger classroom. It was amazing to see how the teacher was sitting back and letting the student run the class. I was able to see the advantages of having this interactive white boards.  The students not just sitting and listening to a lecture about numbers they were doing it.  The interactive white boards that Lincoln was using are called the Mimio (picture to the right). This is a bar that is attached to the white that sends out an sound wave and turns the white board into a interactive board.  At Lincoln the teachers also used a amplification system. This allows the teacher to he heard throughout the class.  It was nice, when I first heard of this idea I thought it would sound like she was speaking from the ceiling but school had it set up so that is sounded like she was next to you, it was comfortable.  We also got to see an older class using Google sketch up in a math class.   Some of the items that children where coming up with was great.  Dr. Z asked a girl if it was ok that a teacher did not know everything about the software they are using in class and her responds was that she hate teacher who are know-it-alls. I think being honest with student about your knowledge on something is great then they seen that you don't need to know everything but you show them that learning is taking place all the time. You also show then good learning techniques, about how to find the information you need.   Another great thing to see about Lincoln is the relationship between the teachers and administrator. It was great. Other schools can really learn a lot from Lincoln and I can only hope that I will be able to work in an environment like this. 

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