Reflection Jan 31

What?

Wednesday in class we had a presenter from the Utah Education Network. We set up our own account and I saw all the benefits that he presented. I was so grateful to be able to find all that could be used on UEN.

So What?

This means so much to me as a student right now because it is really going to benefit me in all of my classes. I will be writing so many lesson plans this semester and the UEN website provides so many tools that will help. Just going underneath the Health section it gives all different games and ideas in all the different areas of Health. It gives me so many sources that I will be able to use to write my lesson plans. It is such an awesome source for this coming semester. Its going to be so useful as a teacher. I know we are learning this to use in our own classroom. I think parents will be more understanding with this website then a google site. Some parents are a little nervous about websites so having UEN as a education website they should be okay with it. I think its just a little bit safer to use then google sites.

This technology is definitely going to be used in my classroom. It really means a lot to me and its going to be very easy to use in my class. However, I am still a fan of google sites. I think UEN does have so many sources that can be used, but I just like more of the set up with google sites. However, I might not have parents like it so I might need to use UEN as my website.

Now What?

This is going to benefit my future students. I will actually be able to use it for assignments as well. On the website under Health there are many different games that students will be able to play to help them learn. I could use that as a tool for the students to gain more information on the subject we are on, while having fun. It definitely did change my schema, when I found out that some parents might not want to use google sites. I had no idea that some parents wouldn't like it until the guest speaker said sometimes they do. I honestly hope that I can use google sites, but UEN is another option.

I am so excited about this new tool to use for my students. I am going to be a better teacher because of it. The more technology I have the better I am going to be. This website is going to benefit my sources as well. The more sources I have I will be better too. I am so grateful for this tool and I am going to use it! Even if its not my website, I am still going to have my students play all the games on it.

Video

That video was so straight forward. It really enforces how we need to make sure we reach out to our students using technology. It is the 21st century and we need to teach our students because that is what they relate to. I want to be that kind of teacher that is in on technology. That is why I have loved this class so much. It is really expanded me in technology for my future students. I can't wait to use it all. This video truly inspires me to get hooked on technology. I really want a iphone now for my future.

Reflection week 3

What?


Class was so beneficial for me. We learned how to create our own class website, with seven different pages. Our assignment was to complete our own website.

So what?


This gets me so excited for my future classes. That one thing that I have loved so much about college is having blackboard. Having access to all my classes online made everything so much easier. The professors that had their material online helped me out so much. It just made everything in their classes so much accessable. Now that I have learned that I can be more of a help for my future students. This is also going to benefit my colleagues. Seeing how we are each setting up our curriculums is going to be so helpful. We will always need new ideas. With each of us having a website it will be so easy to just go and look at it online, especially if you lost your contact information with them. Having our own websites is definitely going to improve secondary education.


I know we are learning this to help my students have easier access for my class. This is going to help my students to have more access to me along with their parents. This website will so nice that all of my classes will be able to access everything about the class. I feel that that this has made me so much more effective with technology. I have always wanted to be one of those teachers that is up to date with technology. Now, thanks to this class I can be.



Now What?

As a teacher this website is going to be amazing for all my students. High School students have so much on their mind now a days, how are they supposed to remember what assignment I gave them? Having my website easy for access at their home or any computer will keep my students more engaged in my class. Not all will turn in their homework assignments, but I know that atleast they won't forget to do it because they forgot what it was. My students should do better in my class with this website. I am just so grateful that we got to learn it.

This honestly has got me so excited to start teaching. I dont' know what it is, but having my own website just thrills me. It will be so easy for my students that miss class too. I can just tell them to look on the website, instead of going over everything with them. How much faster is that going to be for me as a teacher. I will probably be getting home earlier too because I will be able to access my lesson plans online with my file cabinet. This way I won't have to stay late hours into the night, when I need to be making my husband dinner. I know it won't take all the late nights at the school away, but it will hopefully take a few. I am just thrilled that everything is going to be online for me. Technology is making our world quicker and quicker and its about time that I catch up with it.

Video

The video was awesome this week. Kids today go home get on facebook, myspace, youtube, twitter, and doing this with the television on. Throughout the school day they are sending and receiving text messages and making calls. The video gave the exact statistics and it was all so true. With all the technology used today, teachers need to start getting intune with technology. Why aren't we using technology with these students? If this is the way kids communicate and spend their time during they day, then how can we expect them to listen to us lecture in the classroom for 60-90 minutes? As teachers, we need to be update with our technology and the way the world communicates. I am going to be one of those teachers. This video was a true inspiration.

Reflection week 2

What?
In class we learned how to use many new technologies that we have because of our gmail accounts. We learned how to use iGoogle, Google docs, Google presentations, and Google calendar. We were given group assignments and we made a welcome letter in a google doc and a google presentation of our ten classroom rules.

So What?

As a student, knowing these technologies is going to be very beneficial this semester. We have to do many group projects with all my education classes and now it will be so much easier to do them. Before it was very hard to get everyone together because of our many different schedules, however now with the google docs, and google presentation we can just be at all our homes working on it all together. Its going to be so awesome for all of my classes! I wish I would have had it last semester. As a teacher, it is going to make me so much better. I am going to be so much more organized thanks to google calendar. I have a planner, but having an electronic one will never get lost. I had an old one and it was great, until I lost it. Google docs and google presentations will be so great for my classroom presentations and also to be able to communicate with my other health colleagues. We will all be able to help put presentations together instead of only one person doing it. Its going to be so so so AWESOME!

Having these many new learned options is only going to make my class so much better! This technology is a great tool to keep organized and to contribute with docs and presentations so much better. This generation is so much faster with doing everything and as teachers we need to be that way too. I really could have used this technology last semester. I would end up doing powerpoint presentations by myself when it was a group project and then my group would never see it until the day of the presentation. However, now they can actually see it and even fix it! Its going to help out so much in the rest of my classes! I am so so excited!

Now what?

The technology is going to be great for my future students. I believe that google calendar is going to help me so much if students make appointments with me because I will put it in my google calendar and it will remind me with a text message! How cool is that! I will never miss any appointments with any students! Google docs and presentations are going to be very helpful for students who missed class because I can just give them a url and they will be able to go online and see that class notes for the day. That will be so easy instead of getting their email and sending it. Its just making everything so much faster! Its so funny to because it has really changed my personal schema. I have never been a technology person at all, however now I want to learn more and more about it. I even want to show my students how to use it when I assign them group presentations. It might be a little bit advanced, but I dont' think so. Each generations technology is getting more fascinating by the second. Why not teach my students how to do it when they are young because I could have used it all four years of college and not just my last semester! I will probably give them an assignment to do it on how to do a google doc and a google calendar to force them to get to know the technology and use it. Students should learn how to prioritize as well and google calendar is a huge help with that. Plus, now a days everyone almost has a cell phone so students could even set it up so the events they put into google calendar will go to their cell phones! How cool would it be for them to be able to take that technology into the rest of high school and college! I think they would love every second of it! I am going to be such a better teacher with the many faster options I will have now.

This technology will help me be such a better colleague because I will be able to fix another teachers stuff or even have them fix my presentations just over the internet! I am thrilled to be able to implement this new technology into my classroom! I feel like I am finally getting out of the old school routine! I have such a strong passion for it and its going to make it easier as a student as well! Plus, I noticed with the education department teaching us all this we are saving so many more trees! I think that is so fabulous because being a Health Education teacher, environmental health is very important to me! This technology has so many benefits! I can't wait to use it more!


Video

This weeks video was very different from last weeks. It was actually the 2009 Winner of the "I am what I learn" contest. This boy comes from a rough family life. His father is in jail for physically abusing his mother and it looked as if they didn't have that much money, but the boy really emphasized how to make the best out of every situation. I really enjoyed seeing that a student is finally taking their own responsibility in their learning. That is something very rare in a classroom. However, I don't think that they need to be solely responsible. I think that as a teacher, I can be more responsible for those children in my classroom. I need to be able to recognize if they have a rough home life and reach out to those kids that need me. This child who won did a fantastic job of being motivating for kids to make the best out of every situation, but if teachers are looking for those struggling kids then they can motivate them too. Not many people learn to make the best out of situations until they are later on in life. This child is very motivating, but I still think that as teachers we can do all we can to help motivate those students as well. I want to be one of those teachers that reaches out to many kids! I want to motivate them that they can have a better lifestyle if they choose. Those kids need to be a little bit of a push to get them started and I can do that!

Video: Do you believe in me?

This video was so insperational and motivating to be the best teacher I can be. It really made me think about how I can touch so many lives of this young generation, but it all starts on how hard I work. Dalton has truly inspired me to be great each day of my teaching! He made me feel like each day I should be putting my whole heart into every lesson and into my students. I know I am going to have bad days, but he has inspired me to not even show it! I want to believe in all my students to become anything! Even if there is a student that lays his head on the desk and doesn't want to participate, "I WILL STILL BELIEVE IN HIM!" I will believe in him and help him in anway, because just like Dalton said, "You're not only affecting me, but my children as well!" When I look at the students in my class, I am looking at millions of people in the next generation. If I work as hard as I can to have some sort of connection everyday with my students I will know that I am atleast trying to believe in each one of my students!

Thanks so much for that video Dr. Waters! That was so motivating and inspirational! I just want to be inside a classroom now to be there for all of my students!

Ideal Classroom

My health class is one of the brightest looking classrooms in the entire school. As you walk into my classroom there will always be a different quote on the door that my students will see as they walk in. It will be something inspiration or just something to make them smile. The carpet is blue and the walls are white, but when I put up all my fun stuff for the unit I will be teaching up, then they won't be white anymore. The unit that I will be teaching during that time will be covered all over the classroom. For example, for my nutrition unit I will have the big food pyramid poster, which is covered in all colors. I will also a poster that says on it "You are what you eat!" On it will be two different body shape outlines of someone who is fit and healthy compared to being overweight. Inside the fit and healthy body outline will be the many nutritious foods that your body needs. In the overweight body outline, it will be filled with all different kinds of junk food that is nutrient dense and high in calories. There will also be a physical activity section on one of my walls during this unit. There will be some kind of quote that will help motivate my students to get active, and then I will put many pictures of professional athletes around it with big smiles. With all the different posters my room will be nice and colorful and it will be that way for all my other units as well. My room will be so colorful and happy that there is no way you couldn't smile if you walked in it.

My students will be so excited to come to my class. There will have bad days, but they will feel a sense of comfort when they walk in my classroom and they receive a big smile from me. My students will be very participative, because health is such a fun subject to learn. They will even get a chance to be humorous because of the many fun topics. If by chance any of my students fell asleep during my class they will wake up with quite a surprise, which I haven't decided yet, but it will be good. During my human sexuality unit, the students will start off being a little shy, but I will make it a lot more entertaining for all of them. This will help them be open up so much that they will be enjoying every minute of learning about human sexuality. Overall, my students are going to be very entertaining for me.

The parents will be always be very helpful. They will always be asking how their child can do better in my class. They will also help my students apply what they are learning in my classroom. For example again on the nutrition unit. They will strive to make healthier meals because of what their child is learning in class. However, if this was really going on at home then there wouldn't be so many obese children, but that is my ideal parents is that they are very helpful with their child.

The colleagues that I will mainly be working with is the other health teachers. Each one of them is just a fun bright personality that loves health as much as me. We love eating lunch together and talking about what lessons worked and what lessons didn't. We give each other many different ideas on how to teach different lessons. Anything we come up with, we share it! We all work so nicely and are vert helpful with each other and we become close friends and just love our chats all together.

I will use the many different teaching techniques that I learned in Educational Psychology, but the main one will be creating a community of learners. The students will be teaching me as much as I am teaching them. We will all be actively involved in everything we are learning together to make it a happy environment. I will also use all of Gardner's multiple intelligence theory in my lessons. The first day of class I will handout a multiple intelligence test and figure out what ways I need to teach for each one of my students. After finding all the different intelligences I will be able to use all of them in every lesson. This way each child is learning by using different mulitple intelligence techniques. This will make it a very active class that will be enjoyed by all of my students.

The technologies that I will use are for sure going to be a class website. I will probably use blogger.com to list everything that will be going on in the class and what we will be learning about each day. I will also be using dvds, projectors, and powerpoints that will benefit my different lessons. The students would be able to e-mail me whenever they needed help or had any questions.

With my content being health my class goals would be to mainly make a comforting environment for my students. To many kids today don't have the best homelife and I want my students to feel like that they can come to me for advise, help, or even if they just need to talk. They need to feel so much love from me when they walk through my door. Especially since I am a health teacher because the students could be struggling with many different health problems and they want help, such as alcohol, drugs, or even sexual activity. My ultimate goal is for my students to feel like they can come to me with any problem.

Overall, I hope to teach my students the basic health standards of life. With the knowledge I will give them they will be able to live a long, healthy lifestyle that will improve their quality of life forever.