Final Project 5106

Here is the link to my final portfolio for ECOMP 5106
http://stoller5106.weebly.com/index.html

5106 Brochure - Science Court

http://msstaciestoller.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/5/132513/5106_brochure_stoller.doc

My Final Project Reflection

http://msstaciestoller.weebly.com/

I created a Class Website for my final project. This was much more time consuming then I had first anticipated but I had so much fun. Searching through websites of other teachers I found what I liked and didn't like. There were some websites created by teachers that were not very user friendly and some that didn't seem to serve much of a purpose. I decided that I wanted my site to be easy to use and a site that my parents could actually benefit from.

After talking with Ellen and looking at her site I decided to use Weebly as my host site. Weebly was easy to use but I did run into a few problems. I didn't like the look of the attached files. I tried to change this but was unable. I would have liked it to look more like a list as opposed to the generic looking icon. My plan is to eventually link all of my worksheets,power points and test reviews for each unit in both Math and Science. My Reading curriculum is still "under construction." We are reading the Westing Game, which the kids love, but I still have not implemented the Math strands of Reading. I will link sites as I find them.

The most exciting part of creating my website was when I was able to find the HTML for different widgets and horizontal lines. I've learned so much from this class. Blogging, creating websites, RSS feeds, Bloglines, TeacherTube, Wikki, WebQuests, HTML and PortaPortal are just a few of the things I've learned. My friends are benefitting from me taking this class as well. Leann, a close friend, had been searching for a job for several months. I taught her how to create a blog and showed her Mashable which lead her to LinkedIn. Linkedin is the site where she ended up finding her current employer.

I wrote a proposal for the technology committee at my school and it was approved. My proposal suggested that to better utilize the interactive white boards in our school, we should have teachers apply to have them in their classrooms. It will be like applying for a grant. There has to be a plan and the teacher will have to keep data. The data can be pre/post test or anecdotal data.

project

http://msstaciestoller.weebly.com/

Geocities Website

Here is my "practice" website.

Weekend at the Beach with the Girls

Yahoo!!!!!!!!! Next weekend Julie, Sue and I are headed to Hilton Head to see our girl, Aimee!!!!

Web-Based Bookmarking Site

MY BOOKMARKS

I used PortaPortal because I liked the visual layout of it. It was more time consuming than Furl but I am a very visual person so it was worth putting the time in it.

A future fiction

Warlick, D. (2004) A Future Fiction. Library Media Connection. Retrieved May 26, 2005 from http://davidwarlick.com/ff_article/.

Ok, after hearing many of you talk about this article I finally read it tonight. I have many thoughts about it.

1. Finance- where is the money going to come from to create these type of classrooms and media centers?
2. media chips- I don't really like that idea of media chips tracking where everybody is....a little too "big brother" for me.
3. BOOKS - less books in our media centers?? Can you take a laptop to the beach for trashy novel reading? I'm all about saving the trees by using less paper but I also love books. One of my most special memories of being a child is sitting with my siblings while Mom read to us.
4. PRIVACY- We all NEED a little more of it.
5. Technology- I am loving learning new technology teaching tools HOWEVER we can't use only technology.

It is an article I will share with others....I think my friends will get a kick out of it.

I LOVED working with Dreamweaver today!!!

Web Presentation

Mary and I won't be searching macro invertabrates today but we will be presenting our site to you. Hopefully you will like the tech tools we will be showing you.

Time to go to Bed!!

It's way past my bedtime and I have to get up early for class, but I am still up working or maybe playing with all of the different sites we were introduced to tonight. I hope that I am not the only "geek" that gets so excited about all of this stuff.
My favorite thing of the night is - www.msdewey.com
I even called a couple of my friends tonight and told them to check it out. Click on the "best of". HILARIOUS! Not something you could show your class but very funny for you and your friends. See y'all in the morning :)

Web Evaluation

Mary Barkley and I will be presenting Biology4Kids.

Required Reading

Schrock, K. (2002) The ABC’s of Web Site Evaluation: Teaching Media Literacy in the Age of the Internet. Classroom Connect. Retrieved February 22, 2004 from http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/pdf/weval_02.pdf

Nothing like waiting until the last minute....
After reading this article I realize that I need to look more at the Biology4kids website that Mary and I are evaluating.

When choosing a website in the past to use with my students I never checked all of those things. I know now that I need to. Kids as well as some of us adults tend to believe everything that we read on the internet.
I'm interested in the WebBuddy http://www.bluesquirrel.com/products/webwhacker/
I'm not quite understanding what it's all about but want to look into it for my webquest.

Required Reading and Math Tech class

This morning I attended a training session on the technology associated with our new series of math books. The resources available online to teachers and students is amazing. I am excited at the MANY possibilities. My next little project will be putting together a "How To" power point to the math teachers at my school. I am so excited to use one of the Teacher Tube videos as my "hook".

Required Reading #1 http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan04/richardson.shtml

Blogging and RSS — The "What's It?" and "How To" of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators by Will Richardson, Supervisor of Instructional Technology, Hunterdon Central Regional High School

Mr. Richardson does a great job of explaining not only what it means to "blog" and RSS but he also gives different ways that teachers can use these tools to enhance learning. I liked the examples he gave, especially the example of the teacher in Ohio who had her students blogging as a book talk and included the author.
My plan this year is to have students and parents use RSS to subscribe to my blog. As a special education case manager I often hear parents make excuses for their students such as, "He can't read his own handwriting, so he didn't know what the homework was" or "the teacher didn't sign his agenda to make sure that he wrote the homework correctly". These excuses take the responsibility off of the student and onto the teacher which is only perpetuating the problems most of my guys struggle with. If parents and students have access to my blog on a daily basis these excuses will hold even less weight than they do now. Anyway that I can encourage and support my students to be more responsible young people I will.

Check this one out!

You must check this blog out as soon as you get a chance!
Mashable.com

This blog is updated several times a day and has an unlimited amount of information about technology. Warning: You can get lost for several hours in this black hole of information.
Have fun!!

I'm a blogger newbie.

Wow!! There is a whole new world out there!! The BLOGGING world!! I have just spent the past several hours browsing and adding many blogs. There are so many amazing ideas, thoughts, resources and people out there. Being an "insider" now to this blog world I feel that my job will be somewhat easier. My goal is to differentiate more and implement technology....there are oodles and oodles of resources and people out there to help me do this!! Yahoo!!!!!!

Here are some of my favorite-
http://gwegner.edublogs.org/--- great math ideas links, wonderful technology ideas and help.

http://teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk/ ---cool resources, including some fun sound effects

http://makeitinteresting.blogspot.com/ - super duper ideas for math..check out the "unproject"

http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1013&ft=1&f=1013 - a place to find "All things considered"