My comment: Hello, my name is Anh Nguyen, and I am a student in EDM310 at University of South Alabama. I enjoyed your video about how to editing the video on Youtube. The video explained very detail and clearly directions how to use it. I like how they have all different transitions for picture and front for the text. I am using the iMovie to editing my video in EDM310 class, but after watched your video, I think Youtube have more features than iMovie to edit the video. I will try editing my video on Youtube next time and thank you for posting that video.
Saturday, April 26, 2014
C4T #4
My teacher for C4T#4 is Ken Halla. In his latest blog post called "Editing in YouTube", there was a video about how to editing a video on Youtube. . In this video, it shows everybody how to use different transitions for picture and the front for text,etc.
My comment: Hello, my name is Anh Nguyen, and I am a student in EDM310 at University of South Alabama. I enjoyed your video about how to editing the video on Youtube. The video explained very detail and clearly directions how to use it. I like how they have all different transitions for picture and front for the text. I am using the iMovie to editing my video in EDM310 class, but after watched your video, I think Youtube have more features than iMovie to edit the video. I will try editing my video on Youtube next time and thank you for posting that video.
My comment: Hello, my name is Anh Nguyen, and I am a student in EDM310 at University of South Alabama. I enjoyed your video about how to editing the video on Youtube. The video explained very detail and clearly directions how to use it. I like how they have all different transitions for picture and front for the text. I am using the iMovie to editing my video in EDM310 class, but after watched your video, I think Youtube have more features than iMovie to edit the video. I will try editing my video on Youtube next time and thank you for posting that video.
C4Ks for April
My C4K#9 was Seini. In her blog, she post a picture of Pohutukawa and seven questions and answers about the Pohutukawa. Here are seven question of her post:
1. Who is the pohutukawa important to?They are important to the animals.
2. Why do people think of it as the New Zealand Christmas tree?Because the red flowers bloom in december.
3. What makes the pohutukawa special?Because this tree provides habitat and food for many creatures.
4. How does the pohutukawa grow?They usually grows faster in warm places.
5. Explain what nectar is.nectar is sweet water that many creatures like to eat.
6. How have pohutukawa trees been used in the past?They got used for shipbuilding and also burnt down to make farmland.
7. What is project crimson and why do you think it was named this?It is a colour and the colour of rata.
My comment: Hello Seini, my name is Anh Nguyen, and I am a student in EDM310 at University of South Alabama. I enjoyed reading your post about the Pohutukawa, and never see that flower before, but after I saw your picture, I think pohutukawa is gorgeous flower. I like how you given questions about pohutukawa flower and the answer for each question. From your blog, I learned about pohutukawa flower and I love it. Great blog!
My C4K#10 was a kid name Phaezon. In her post, Phaezon was talking about the life cycle of butterfly. Phaezon posted a chart about butterfly such as special adaptation,graphic, audience appeal, and clarity of message. Phaezon also created a video about butterfly too.
My comment: Hello Phaezon, my name is Anh Nguyen, and I am a student in EDM310 at University of South Alabama. I enjoyed reading your post about life cycle of a butterfly. The chart is really detail about the butterfly. After reading your post, I learned many new things about butterfly. Great blog.
1. Who is the pohutukawa important to?They are important to the animals.
2. Why do people think of it as the New Zealand Christmas tree?Because the red flowers bloom in december.
3. What makes the pohutukawa special?Because this tree provides habitat and food for many creatures.
4. How does the pohutukawa grow?They usually grows faster in warm places.
5. Explain what nectar is.nectar is sweet water that many creatures like to eat.
6. How have pohutukawa trees been used in the past?They got used for shipbuilding and also burnt down to make farmland.
7. What is project crimson and why do you think it was named this?It is a colour and the colour of rata.
My comment: Hello Seini, my name is Anh Nguyen, and I am a student in EDM310 at University of South Alabama. I enjoyed reading your post about the Pohutukawa, and never see that flower before, but after I saw your picture, I think pohutukawa is gorgeous flower. I like how you given questions about pohutukawa flower and the answer for each question. From your blog, I learned about pohutukawa flower and I love it. Great blog!
My C4K#10 was a kid name Phaezon. In her post, Phaezon was talking about the life cycle of butterfly. Phaezon posted a chart about butterfly such as special adaptation,graphic, audience appeal, and clarity of message. Phaezon also created a video about butterfly too.
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Blog Post #13
For this week, my blog post #13 is create an assignment for a blog post. I create a blog post with apps to help the elementary teachers to use in their classroom. I believe this post will be useful for all of us as future educator. Research for website have games in different subjects for learning is really helpful for teachers and students. The games should be in different subjects such as math, social studies, language art, and reading. Each of games has to have a brief description for what purpose of the game. 
For mathematics: Power your racecar by adding fractions and win the race, this game uses adding fraction and win the race. Students need to adding fraction as fast as they can,the speed of the car will increase if the students adding fraction correctly and fast. After the game, it will give the student the results of time and math problems. Most of boy students will love this game, it will make their learning fun while study and practice.
For reading,The color green reading comprehension, this game have a passage about something, after the students reading the passage, it have few questions about the passage. If the student shoos the wrong answer, it will give a student second chance to pick out another the answer. I think this game help students' reading comprehension getting better.
For social studies,US symbol matching game, there are 50 states with their flats and symbol. A student need to choose the flat or symbol for the state given on the question. The game give sound feedback for right and wrong answer.This game helps students be able to remember symbol for each state and the flat of each state.
For language art, using correct form of to be , this game has 10 questions for form of to be, each question has a blank for students to choose the correct answer. After the students finish, they can view their report for the game. This game will be useful for all students to practice their language art skill.
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For mathematics: Power your racecar by adding fractions and win the race, this game uses adding fraction and win the race. Students need to adding fraction as fast as they can,the speed of the car will increase if the students adding fraction correctly and fast. After the game, it will give the student the results of time and math problems. Most of boy students will love this game, it will make their learning fun while study and practice.
For social studies,US symbol matching game, there are 50 states with their flats and symbol. A student need to choose the flat or symbol for the state given on the question. The game give sound feedback for right and wrong answer.This game helps students be able to remember symbol for each state and the flat of each state.
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Blog Post #12
In the video Teaching Math to The-Blind, professor Art Karshmer at University of San Francisco introduced to us the idea how blind person can do math. His idea is to build the advice to lay the simple math problem using small block have Braille in the front and visual number on the phone, and they can read on the grid by using their finger to solve the problem. As a educator in the future, I learn that this idea will be really useful for my classroom if I have disabilities student such as blind student in my class. I think I can show the blind student to do math with their finger, but with larger number, I think the Braille system is really helpful. Mathematics is a hard subject for the blind person to learn, but with this system, I think blind student will be able to learn and do math like other students.
In the video iPad usage for the blind, I learned a lot of useful information about the blind person using a iPad to read book and others things. Whenever the blind person touches the screen, the voiceover will give them the navigation and direction to where they want to go. However,Wesley Majerus demonstrated how to use iPad to read book on iBooks. The voice gives Wesley Majerus options to what he wants to do, if he wants to go to the library in iBook, he has to double tap, so the iPad will take him to the iBook library. I think iPad becomes a friend for blind persons, it helps them read book and others situations.
In the video iPad usage for the blind, I learned a lot of useful information about the blind person using a iPad to read book and others things. Whenever the blind person touches the screen, the voiceover will give them the navigation and direction to where they want to go. However,Wesley Majerus demonstrated how to use iPad to read book on iBooks. The voice gives Wesley Majerus options to what he wants to do, if he wants to go to the library in iBook, he has to double tap, so the iPad will take him to the iBook library. I think iPad becomes a friend for blind persons, it helps them read book and others situations.
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Blog Post #11
In "Back to the future",what did we learn from watching Brian Crosby? From watching his lecture we learned that he makes students accountable for their own education. He makes and assigns fun projects to keep his students interested. A fun project he created for his students was the High Hopes Project. This project allowed the students to take full responsibility and complete this project independently. They had to contact other students from other different schools through only blogs. One of his main points from his lecture, was to empower students to learn on their own. He mentioned that throughout a classroom, there is always a way for students to not only learn but participate as well. The most important thing we learned from Mr. Crosby was him lecturing about high test scores. He believes that high test scores do not mean a more fun and better classroom, or education. He believes that a great education comes from birthright. Rather than students attending a school with high scores.
In Blended Learning Cycle video, I learned that there are 5 E’s to learning science: engage, explore, explain, expand, and evaluate. The five E’s can be blended with online resources and classroom instruction. The learning blended cycle is created by combining the blended classroom and the 5 E’s. The video instructs us that it is okay to stop and make sure we have an understanding of what is going on. As a future teacher, we want our students to be able to take what they have learned and apply it to daily experiences. Mr. Paul Anderson states that blended learning is taking the techniques of online, mobile, and classroom learning and blending them together. Two things were presented in this video. One was the power of the question and the other was the power of learning. There are many ways to do it, such as start with a good question and/or hook. You have to have something that will get the students attention right off the bat. Next, you want the students to investigate, experiment, and use inquiry learning. You have a video, elaboration, review, and summary quiz. Mr. Anderson had several good points in his video. We think the Blended Learning Cycle is a great tool that will be very helpful in the classroom. It is a great approach for students to learn something and to help the students who are not so engaged in learning become more engaged.
After watching Mark Church's video on "Making Thinking Visible," we have learned that by giving students a driving question to focus on is a great way to begin a project. I believe it is very useful to actually give a question and have the children research and collaborate as a group. I really like how Mark Church had each group come up with a headline and share it with the class. By doing this, it allows the students to hear from each other and look into the topic in different perspectives. I also think that by looking at their headline two weeks from the beginning of the project really let's the student focus on how things change after hearing more about the subject. I believe it is a very good learning tool for students to have an idea about how something will happen, and then when the lesson is over they get to look back and make a new conclusion on the topic presented.
From Sam Pane's video, we learn how to be a Super Digital Citizen. I like how he used Superman as he began his lecture. It is very important to begin a lecture and capture the students attention. We can do this by associating the topic with something they all know about. Sam Pane really got his class involved when he used a Superman quote at the beginning of his lecture. The students in this 5th grade class are asked to create their own Super Digital Citizen comic character. From Sam Pane, we can learn that it is important to talk about internet safety with the class before a project like this is started. He incorporated internet safety into a Super Hero character. We can also learn that it is important to create your own Digital Citizen to show the class how to prepare one before setting them loose on their own. I agree with Pane in that using the students own picture gives them a sense of ownership with their comic. By building comics, students can analyze structure and really build a complete narrative. We can learn that it is important for the students to be able to go around and look at their peers to get ideas about their own citizen. I really enjoyed watching this video, and we can learn a lot about teaching from Sam Pane. Some take home messages from this video include: analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to text, write narratives to develop imagined experiences or events, and ask and answer questions.
In the video, Project Based Learning, we learn in the beginning that the students were having a tough time engaging in their work and were disinterested. The teachers do not have enough time to cover all the necessary material. Using Project Based Learning, they get a deeper understanding of the material. Prior to using Project Based Learning the teachers ran into several roadblocks while teaching their students. These roadblocks include trying to cross curriculum. As explained in the video, Canadian History and Canadian Literature should not be hard to do, but due to limited time the teachers could not go into enough detail on these subjects. Incorporating Project Based Learning into the classrooms the teachers were able to spend more time with their kids. By combining curriculum, the students gained more time in the classroom and were better able to go into detail about their projects. This made the students engage in their work and produce something they could be proud of. The students also learned a great deal of Canadian culture that was not a part of the curriculum. For instance, the students learned about poverty, giving back to the community, and how to become a better citizen.
I agree with the teachers in this video about the fact that the time in the classroom is limited and that as teachers we have to get our students to enjoy the subjects we are trying to teach. Project Based Learning is a very helpful strategy that should be incorporated into all the classes. It allows the students to work together and do the research, and really go into detail about the subject.
According to the video, Roosevelt Elementary’s PBL program, PBL consists of five different things: in depth learning, integrated thematic instruction, based on a real world problem, research based, project and presentation. The teachers at Roosevelt Elementary collaborate together to come up with projects for their students to do. They always make sure to use the state standards as guidelines for what they want their students to learn. On top of that, skills such as teamwork, doing research, and developing real world problem solving skills are learned. That is what makes PBL so successful and special to the students. The parents of these students really like this program and think that it is a very good program for their kids. The PBL program at this school also allows their students to make their own decisions about how to do their project. All students learn in different ways and allowing them to make their own decisions, allow the students to think critically on their own and learn the material their way. The teachers also incorporate public speaking into the presentations. They recognize that in the real world, being able to communicate with one’s workers and speak correctly in front of them is a great way to get a job or a promotion. Getting the kids to be able to speak correctly in front of people at such a young age will only benefit them in the future. All teachers agree that PBL gets all the kids involved in their school work. They all agree that PBL is much better than having students sit in their desks for hours on end. Using PBL they get involved in a subject and with each other. They find out that other students have different learning styles, and the learn how to work together. PBL is also a good way to combine the curriculum of different subjects. For example one topic might include a state standard from the writing section, reading section, history section, and speech section. This allows more material to be learned in a smaller time frame and the students seem to enjoy PBL more. All the parents that send their kids to this school agree that PBL is the best way to teach them is through PBL. I really enjoyed hearing about the success that PBL is having at Roosevelt Elementary. It is inspiring to hear about these kids dedicating themselves to their school work and learning as much as they can. I believe that PBL is a great teaching strategy, mostly because it can incorporate different subjects into a small time frame. Also within the small window, the students learn how to work together and put together presentations.
In Blended Learning Cycle video, I learned that there are 5 E’s to learning science: engage, explore, explain, expand, and evaluate. The five E’s can be blended with online resources and classroom instruction. The learning blended cycle is created by combining the blended classroom and the 5 E’s. The video instructs us that it is okay to stop and make sure we have an understanding of what is going on. As a future teacher, we want our students to be able to take what they have learned and apply it to daily experiences. Mr. Paul Anderson states that blended learning is taking the techniques of online, mobile, and classroom learning and blending them together. Two things were presented in this video. One was the power of the question and the other was the power of learning. There are many ways to do it, such as start with a good question and/or hook. You have to have something that will get the students attention right off the bat. Next, you want the students to investigate, experiment, and use inquiry learning. You have a video, elaboration, review, and summary quiz. Mr. Anderson had several good points in his video. We think the Blended Learning Cycle is a great tool that will be very helpful in the classroom. It is a great approach for students to learn something and to help the students who are not so engaged in learning become more engaged.
In the video, Project Based Learning, we learn in the beginning that the students were having a tough time engaging in their work and were disinterested. The teachers do not have enough time to cover all the necessary material. Using Project Based Learning, they get a deeper understanding of the material. Prior to using Project Based Learning the teachers ran into several roadblocks while teaching their students. These roadblocks include trying to cross curriculum. As explained in the video, Canadian History and Canadian Literature should not be hard to do, but due to limited time the teachers could not go into enough detail on these subjects. Incorporating Project Based Learning into the classrooms the teachers were able to spend more time with their kids. By combining curriculum, the students gained more time in the classroom and were better able to go into detail about their projects. This made the students engage in their work and produce something they could be proud of. The students also learned a great deal of Canadian culture that was not a part of the curriculum. For instance, the students learned about poverty, giving back to the community, and how to become a better citizen.
I agree with the teachers in this video about the fact that the time in the classroom is limited and that as teachers we have to get our students to enjoy the subjects we are trying to teach. Project Based Learning is a very helpful strategy that should be incorporated into all the classes. It allows the students to work together and do the research, and really go into detail about the subject.
Friday, April 4, 2014
Thursday, April 3, 2014
C4T#3
My first C4T#3 is the blog of Mr.Brendan Jones, he is a PE teacher. "Stimulator?Assimilator?" is the title of Mr. Jones's post. In "Stimulator?Assimilator?" post, Mr. Jones talked about how do you go about planning and implementing your ideas for school. Mr. Jones's idea is to integrate Google Apps as an approach to support innovative teaching. He was looking, research, study, asking questions of others and reading amazing blogs for useful information to give him good tips to finish his planning. Mr. Jones love to read about other people, places that have done things similar to what I plan to do, from there he can get more information and experiences to make his plan better. Mr. Jones also talked about how people copy someone's ideas will end up with conflicts and tensions.
My comment: Hello Mr. Jones, my name is Anh Nguyen. I am a student in EDM 310 at University of South Alabama . I complete agree with you that copy someone else’s ideas , we will end up with strains and frays. I also like how you used an example of buy local coffee on holiday , and the coffee is not taste the same at home. Like us, if I copy someone’s ideas, it sounds right, but that ideas have no especial thoughts for it; I copy it because I like it same with you buy a coffee because you like it.
My second C4T#3 is the blog of Mr. Brendan Jones again. This time, " GoPro in PE" is the title of Mr. Jones's post. In this post, Mr. Jones showed us how to use the camera to recording his students performances to help make a school promotional video. Mr. Jones stated that camera is a very usable device for physical activity.
My comment: Hello Mr. Jones, my name is Anh Nguyen, and I a student in EDM 310 at University of South Alabama. I really the idea that you use the GoPro camera in your classroom. I think If we are using camera and record students' performance , they can see it later and know what they did good and bad, so they can do it better for next time. On another hand, we can use the video we recorded for experiences and show other students how to do it.
My comment: Hello Mr. Jones, my name is Anh Nguyen. I am a student in EDM 310 at University of South Alabama . I complete agree with you that copy someone else’s ideas , we will end up with strains and frays. I also like how you used an example of buy local coffee on holiday , and the coffee is not taste the same at home. Like us, if I copy someone’s ideas, it sounds right, but that ideas have no especial thoughts for it; I copy it because I like it same with you buy a coffee because you like it.
My second C4T#3 is the blog of Mr. Brendan Jones again. This time, " GoPro in PE" is the title of Mr. Jones's post. In this post, Mr. Jones showed us how to use the camera to recording his students performances to help make a school promotional video. Mr. Jones stated that camera is a very usable device for physical activity.
My comment: Hello Mr. Jones, my name is Anh Nguyen, and I a student in EDM 310 at University of South Alabama. I really the idea that you use the GoPro camera in your classroom. I think If we are using camera and record students' performance , they can see it later and know what they did good and bad, so they can do it better for next time. On another hand, we can use the video we recorded for experiences and show other students how to do it.
C4K for March
C4K # 5 is Dillon's blog. In this post, Dillion talked about getting new beat headphone. Dillion got new headphone few days after Christmas at BestBuy. Dillion's favorite colors are blue, green and read, and Dillion decided to get red headphone. Dillion choose the solo HD headphone because he likes the sound, and it is $100 cheaper. Two months later, when Dillion went sleepover at his friend house, he was mad because he broke his new headphone. However, Dillion called BestBuy, and they gave him another new headphone for free. Dillion recommended beat headphone for everyone he knows.
My comment: Wow! Dillon,it is nice to know that you get another headphone for free. Red is my favorite color too.I do not have any beats headphone, but after I saw you recommend these headphone to everyone, I think I will get one soon. You did good job on your blog, and I hope to see more of your post.
My C4K#6 is Faauiga blog, and " Faauiga's Ambury Farm Story" is the title of her post. In the post, Faauiga made a video and talk about her farm story. Moreover, she created a picture of herself and her chicken.
My comment: I really like the story about your chicken. I wish I can have a chicken, so I can feed the chicken and get some eggs from them like you do. You did good job on the picture , I really like it. I hope to see more of your post.
My C4K#7 is Puawai's blog. "My personal goal-2014" is the title of Puawai's post. In this post, Puawai made a list of her goals for 2014 such as read more book and get higher level on her AR, learn to do division, timetable and learn more maths strategies, have the right attitude and get better behavior.
My comment: Hello Puawai, my name is Anh Nguyen, and I am a student in EDM310 at University of South Alabama. I really like the list of your 2014 personal goals. I think it is a great way for you and everybody to make a list of our goals and try to get it done day by day. I think I should make a list of goal like you, so I can keep up with what I doing and make it better. Great blog! Keep up with the good work.
My C4K#8 is Milaiah's blog. In Mikaiah's post, she told a story about the morning in her bedroom. When Mikaiah's alarm beeping to wake her up in the morning, she pressed the power button six or seven times to turn it off. Mikaiah's mother made breakfast for her and her brother to eat before they going to school.
My comment: Hello Mikaiah, my name is Anh Nguyen, and I am a student in EDM 301 at University of South Alabama. I really like your story about your morning. I am the same way as you, every morning when my alarm ringing, I hit the snooze button 5 or 6 times before I get up. Wow! You are lucky, your mother making breakfast for you to eat before you go to school. I enjoyed reading your post. Great blog!
My comment: Wow! Dillon,it is nice to know that you get another headphone for free. Red is my favorite color too.I do not have any beats headphone, but after I saw you recommend these headphone to everyone, I think I will get one soon. You did good job on your blog, and I hope to see more of your post.
My C4K#6 is Faauiga blog, and " Faauiga's Ambury Farm Story" is the title of her post. In the post, Faauiga made a video and talk about her farm story. Moreover, she created a picture of herself and her chicken.
My comment: I really like the story about your chicken. I wish I can have a chicken, so I can feed the chicken and get some eggs from them like you do. You did good job on the picture , I really like it. I hope to see more of your post.
My C4K#7 is Puawai's blog. "My personal goal-2014" is the title of Puawai's post. In this post, Puawai made a list of her goals for 2014 such as read more book and get higher level on her AR, learn to do division, timetable and learn more maths strategies, have the right attitude and get better behavior.
My comment: Hello Puawai, my name is Anh Nguyen, and I am a student in EDM310 at University of South Alabama. I really like the list of your 2014 personal goals. I think it is a great way for you and everybody to make a list of our goals and try to get it done day by day. I think I should make a list of goal like you, so I can keep up with what I doing and make it better. Great blog! Keep up with the good work.
My C4K#8 is Milaiah's blog. In Mikaiah's post, she told a story about the morning in her bedroom. When Mikaiah's alarm beeping to wake her up in the morning, she pressed the power button six or seven times to turn it off. Mikaiah's mother made breakfast for her and her brother to eat before they going to school.
My comment: Hello Mikaiah, my name is Anh Nguyen, and I am a student in EDM 301 at University of South Alabama. I really like your story about your morning. I am the same way as you, every morning when my alarm ringing, I hit the snooze button 5 or 6 times before I get up. Wow! You are lucky, your mother making breakfast for you to eat before you go to school. I enjoyed reading your post. Great blog!
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