Internet Safety Sharing

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For the internet safety awareness project I talked with my mom, who is in her late 40’s. It was beneficial to talk with her because my brother is in third grade, and is always on the computer. Even though he is not quite into chatting online and using technology all the time now, it soon will. I told my mom about the scariness of sharing passwords and what it can possibly lead to. I shared a few stories from the frontline PBS documentary about cyber-bulling and how it begins. I reminded her how important it is to make sure you talk with your children even when going through hard times. I also told her about chat-rooms and how online predators can find out information about them, even if they don’t share it. It was a positive, easy conversation as she was interested in hearing what sources and information I had learned.

Internet Safety Assignment

1. What article did you choose to read for your fourth article?
Leave It Alone, by Elder H. Burke Peterson, Emeritus Member of the Seventy

2. What were the most important things you learned from the readings?
Many times we watch or hear “unclean” media such as movies, music, or t.v. shows as a relief from the troubles of the world, but in reality it is just relieving us of our spirituality. This article was about staying away from “filthy” media in all forms. Elder Peterson explained that even if we take part in a little bit of this un-cleanliness it takes away from our light. By watching, or listening to these things it lets even just a little bit of darkness into us, and therefore takes away from our light. When some of our light is taken away he reminds us that we are more alone and less happy.

3. How will what you have read influence your actions as a parent and/or teacher of children and youth?
After reading this it makes me want to be even more careful when watching movies or t.v. shows. I do not want to get “caught” becoming immune to the filth out there, and even more importantly I do not want children to think that is normal or okay. I want to keep my children and the children I teach as clean and pure as possible. I want them to keep the light and to not be darkened by any source of media. I know I cannot choose what my students are surrounded by at home, but I can provide uplifting media for them to engage in. I will be even more careful in choosing internet sites and films for my students to watch.

4. How can you use what you have learned from the reading to have a positive influence on family and friends?
I can have a positive influence on my friends and family by being strong and helping us not be passive about what we are entertained by. I can help provide quality entertainment and stand up for what is good and clean.

Learning from SlideShare Presentations

I am very glad I was able to watch other students' presentations on their teaching with technology. The first thing I learned about was that many other schools had Smartboards or Prometheanboards in the classroom. I did not see Smartboards being used in the classroom because our school did not have them. But I was able to learn different ways to use them, and I am excited to use them in my class hopefully. The other thing I learned from the others' presentations was a great website for online tools, games, and technology to use in the classroom. One girl did a lesson on reviewing spelling words, and used a short story to illustrate them. It seemed like a very effective lesson and I am excited to find and use effective tools from this website :

http://www.edzone.net/~mwestern/stuff.html

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Technology Reflection 07

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After looking at other students' power points I realized any lesson at all can include technology and become more interesting to the students. Even making words and things that are not complete lessons can incorporate technology in some way and greatly benefit the lesson.

Technology Enhanced Lesson

I have already done one lesson that used technology in my classroom. I have been put in charge of one of the guided reading groups in my class. For one of the guided reading lessons I had a book on Astronauts. My lesson plan was to introduce and teach new vocabulary words about space. To begin this lesson I wanted to let the students become familiar with the vocabulary words. I made a powerpoint with the vocabulary words as pictures. This way the students could connect the word with an image they may have seen before. I showed the powerpoint to introduce the vocabulary words, and then we read the book. At the end of the lesson I put up the powerpoint again to review the new words they learned. I will also use this powerpoint in a few days to review the new vocabulary and see if the students remember the words.

Week 10

While being in the classroom everyday, I realized I have access to an overhead with a pull down screen. This screen covers the white board and is visible by the whole class while they are at their seats. An idea to enhance a lesson with technology is to use the overhead while teaching a math lesson. In second grade they deal with two digit addition and subtraction. I can use the overhead to display regrouping and borrowing. There are colored chips to put on the overhead and they can symbolize the tens and ones separately. The students can help place chips on the overhead, and solve problems for the whole class to see. Not only is this good because it uses technology, but it also uses manipulatives. Anytime a student can have a hands on experience, they are usually more excited and can understand the concept better. Using technology and manipulatives will always be a great asset to my math lessons

Classroom Technology Inventory

As I begin my Cohort 1 experience in a second grade classroom I am amazed at how much there is to learn. It is interesting to see what is available to students and the school as a whole. I am in a non-rural school that is fairly nice, but has been around for 30 years. My cooperating teacher has her MacBook, laptop, everyday where she enters students grades and other personal information. The teachers all have access to wireless internet. My classroom has one computer in it, used most specifically for students to take AR tests. I have only seen the students get on the computer to take these tests, and nothing else. The office can contact the teacher through an interactive intercom. The teacher can simply talk back and communicate. My school, Sprucewood Elementary, has one computer lab with about 35 computers (only about 30 workat any given time). We have two mobile labs with 15 computers on each set.Some software that is available in the computer lab is Pages (which is kindof like Word), Kid Pix, Graph Club, Garage Band, Graph Master, Kidspiration,and Inspiration. The students at the school each have a 30 minute time once a week in the computer lab. There is a little bit of open time in the lab that teachers can sign up. Other digital technology at Sprucewood are digital projectors in every room except the portables, 3 document cameras, 6ELMO machines (like a flex cam), several digital cameras, a digital videocamera, blue clickers, overhead graphing calculators. Sprucewood's technical support is one 17-hour a week computer lab assistant. I am excited to get into the classroom and actually have my own students and use what is available to me. There are so many options with technology today, and I am anxious to try new things as a "tech savvy teacher."