Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Welcome to Our Class Blog
The purpose of this blog is to share with each other this week. Please post at least once each day of class. I will help kick things off each day by posting a reflection question at the end of class. Do share any difficulties, frustrations , "that's useful", or moments of joy!
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All these new sites make me giddy in a happy AND anxious sort of way! If only the world knew about all the things we are expected to do as teachers and how much time it takes to create engaging lessons and activities for the 'digital native' students we have in our classrooms! I am especially excited about Animoto. I see my fourth graders being able to use it to show what they know from a unit with the right kind of teacher modeling and support. I'm looking forward to the rest of this week!
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you are giddy over these sites. I love these web 2.0 tools too! I know how time intensive setting up these activities can be! You sit down and start working and the time slips away. Take what fits your curriculum and your life and let the rest go. Remember, we are only shooting for 3 sites on our list for 2011-12.
ReplyDeleteIf you finish what we are working on as a class at any time, go ahead and investigate what is on the wiki!
I hope we can figure out what the problem is on the Blogg.
ReplyDeleteToday I went to WISC-TV. I enjoyed the tour because at school during the year I feel so removed from the connection of teaching students to be productive in the real world. Lately, I have to admit, I am teaching to the standards most of the time and not thinking about how what I am teaching is going to be used in the work force.
I kept hearing over and over again that the employer needs people who have good communication skills, and works well with others. I know this sounds simple but after working in an elementary school I realize this is a tall order.
The field trip visit that I was on this morning was great. I went out to Monsanto/Agracetus to see how they genetically manipulated various crops. It was a very eye openning experience. As a biology teacher I have a pretty good understanding of the basics of the technology they are using so there was no real suprise there. However, the scale and volume at which they have to manipulate, sort, transplant and test plants to create a single new variety is what I found mind blowing. On average it will cost 10 million dollars or more over 10 years to produce a modified plant that can be sold to farmers. That modified seed stock will come from a single seed that was selected and sorted from millions of other seeds that went through the same process. Its hard to believe that all of that time, effort, and money was spent trying to find "the One" seed that had been transformed genetically in just the right way to give it such great value - it's unbelieveable!
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