10th Blog

  I really like the ALEX site. This is going to be very helpful when I become a teacher. There are so many lesson plans that actually stick to the standards of Alabama. Also, as an elementary teacher I will be teaching multiple subjects to one class, so the fact that ALEX has many different areas of study is very beneficial. Not only do they have lesson plans, but they also have podcasts you can listen to with teachers and even students teaching and talking about the lesson play they used.
  If you go to the ALEXville tab, you can communicate with other teachers using the website and those that are doing the same lesson plan as you. It doesn't just give you Alabama standards but college standards as well. This helps prepare your students for their future. I also like how you can save lesson plans to your workshop. That way if you don't need to teach it right now, you can save it for a later day. The lesson plans also tell you the tools you are going to need, in order for you to teach this lesson to your students.

9th Blog

  My students got the answers correct very easily. If I was their teacher, I would think that I made this video to easy for them. With the questions being right after the video gave the answer, it was a given. I would give them a questionnaire on the video, to see if they actually retained the information, and have an activity ready for them to do. Maybe make a mask they think the people would wear during the medieval times or have them make a pumpkin by using orange candy blocks.

8th Blog

  As a teacher, I plan on talking about a holiday that is happening each month. Whether that be Halloween, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, etc. Since we are in the month of October, I thought to teach the history of Halloween. This makes a fun history lesson for students, while also getting them excited to go Trick or Treating. I really enjoyed how many videos EDPuzzle had to choose from. It took a lot longer than planned to choose a fun, but interesting video. I wanted to teach the students but also make them have fun with it. I chose a video that was upbeat, had music, and good graphics.

  I learned that I should have probably made the questions a bit further away from when he said the answer, rather then right after. That way the student would at least have had to think and remember the video. This would be such a fun lesson for a class though! 

7th Blog

   This group project was a lot of fun! It was a bit difficult trying to coordinate our schedules so we could edit and video all together, but I think it turned out good. We were all very aware of each others schedules. Most of us worked, had kids, or had class on days one of us would be available. We knew what our video was going to be about in the beginning, but as we got more into it, we realized that this video was actually taking a different turn. Instead of making a video about non-traditional vs. traditional classrooms it ended up being about traditional teaching compared to non-traditional teaching with art integration. 

    I learned a lot about how I want to teach my classroom. I know that kids learn in a variety of ways and I want to be able to incorporate each way of learning in my room. If a child is a visual learner, then I will have lessons that apply to them, or if they are a hands on learner, I want to have experiments or class activities to help them fully comprehend what I am teaching. I also, really enjoyed watching other groups videos in class. It was neat to see how people had the same topic, but approached it in different ways.