Follow-Up Session September 13, 2014

Today was an exciting day seeing fellow teachers and sharing classroom ideas, technology and activities.  Some teachers explained that some were useful and others that are not working as expected in the classroom.  Learned some new ideas on creating a newspaper using google drive with everyone sharing ideas at one time.  Using the animoto seems to be exciting, interesting and fun.  Can't wait to see everyone next year. 

Day 20

Last day of the session.  Fellow classmates displayed their weebly page.  It was full of interesting, exciting and motivating ideas to use in your classroom.  Today was a good day to fellowship with each other by sharing ideas and eating together.  I'm going to miss the workshop but not getting up early and driving to State.  Overall, the month was joyous and benefical to me.  I really enjoyed it very much.  Thank you all so much for having this workshop and inviting me to participate.  Hope to see you next year.   

Day 19

Today's session focused on the class presenting their lesson plans.  I learned a lot from my fellow classmates and their subject area.  All of the presentations were informative, exciting and interesting.  My fellow classmates gave me many valuable ideas to use in the upcoming year.  Overall, a wealth of information that needs to be digest to fully understand it.

Day 18

Today's session was on finalizing lesson plans and portfolio.  We also talked about classroom accommodations for students in your classroom.  The tour of T.K. Martin was amazing.  This was my first time seeing a facility of this nature.  The different types of wheelchairs were surprising I never gave any thought that a wheelchair had to be customized for an individual.  The computer center was awesome to see the different types of technology used in the computer room.  Today was the last day for art.  The presentation was nice to see all of the fantastic artwork.  Overall, the day was great.  

Day 17

Today's session on infographic and audio content were very informative and a nice idea to use in the classroom.  I can see using infographic with comparing and contrasting different areas in history or geographic locations in geography.  By using infographic, the finish product would be colorful, meaningful and interesting to the students.  Also by adding the audio would be a great plus to enhance the infographic.  Ms. Cannady's session on copyright or copywrong was very informative showing us ways we may being doing wrong.  My Weebly is coming on nicely along with my art project.  I basically finished today and will present tomorrow.  Overall, I had a great day.

Day 16

Today's session on canvas had a lot of details.  I think it is helpful on the college level for online courses, but on a high school it would be hard because of the need for technology, but if I was teaching an online course it would be great I learned I lot of valuable information.  Dr. Beriswill's session was very interesting.  She showed us a lot of tips on PowerPoint.  Even though I do a lot of PowerPoint, what I learned today was all new and I will use in the classroom this upcoming year.  Art today still not finished, hopefully tomorrow I will be done.  Once again, today was a great day.

Day 15

Today for show and tell a lot of interesting websites were used www.makebeliefscomix.com and www.engageny.com that would be helpful in the classroom.  The sessions of Prezi and ipad were interesting and good to use in the classroom.  The session could have been better if we could have had computers to go along with the Prezi presentation and also iPad for that presentation as well.  It was a little hard to keep up and understand as they went along.  In art today, I cut glass which is bringing my project to a close.  Overall, a great day today.

Day 14

Today's session started with classmates giving a show and tell about technology they have used in their classroom.  I use a site called neok12.com because it has quizzes, puzzles, videos and interactive games for each subject you teach.  Mrs. Sawyer gave a helpful hint on saving youtube videos in case the internet goes out known as keepvid which is very useful.  Mr. Silence gave an interesting site on coding which can be useful also showing a video on coding.  It was surprising how many people are using coding today.  Dr. Lee gave a lot of information today on the different websites adding to yesterday's canvas.  Wiki leaks was very useful and it is something I will use in the classroom sort of what Dr. Lee did with show and tell sign up.  Also new today was Storify.  It was good implementing websites into actual debates you can have with your class.  Also popplet and padlet are good to use in the classroom.  Overall, this week was a lot of information to grasp.  Its going to take some time to think about what websites I can use for the upcoming year.

Day 13

Today's question is what did I learn new today?  Canvas was totally new to me, but with Dr. Lee's help it went smoothly.  This is something I may try to implement in the classroom.  By using canvas, I can put my syllabus, homework and assignment in tabs easily for students to understand and follow.  Scoop It was new.  Basically it was a type of bookmark but much easier with all the websites on one page just a click away.  Our speaker Mr. Segalini talked about common core which made it easier to understand.  By using photo analysis to cite primary sources and showing evidence of the research was a plus in understanding common core better.  Art almost finished.  Overall, a great day.

Day 12

Today we gained some useful information on free free free stuff.  First we found sites for teachers to apply for grant in order to get free stuff such as computers and laptops for their students. Our class discussion was on free trips one particular one was for Washington.  This may be something to look into for next year.  Our next speaker, Mrs. Bennett and Dr. Green from the Federal Reserve Bank and MSU Economist was very interesting, informative and entertaining.  Mrs. Bennett was great with here information on the bank and also relating it to common core research, evidence and technology.  Her demonstrations were tired to real world experience which was very nice.  Dr. Beriswell video conference with Dr. Chao talking about the Taiwan  culture was nice, interesting and entertaining.  My art project is coming together hopefully finishing up on Friday.  Overall, today was a great, informing, and exciting day looking forward to tomorrow.

Day 11

Today was a open session with sharing ideas of school policies that you would liked changed in your school district.  The first one was device policy such as cell phones in the school.  Many expressed that their school had BYOD where others were forbidden.  The schools with BYOD some had written policies in the handbook, but others didn't.  Some of the rules our group came up with was to allow students to bring their devices.  Smartphones allowed at the teacher's discretion only.  The teacher would also reserve the right to take the phone when not used for educational purpose.  All teachers and administrators  would enforce the policy.  Lastly, parents would need to be educated on the policy as well.  Overall, today was a very informative and interesting today.  In art today, really getting the hang of what the project entails.

Day 10

Today was a wealth of knowledge.  Ms. Kimberely Lane was very interesting, exciting and helpful with her websites and information.  I thought I knew a little technology, but she had so much to see today I soon became lost.  It's going to take me awhile to digest all the information she gave us.  I think the best information today was opening a twitter account.  This is something I will use faithful.  The session on Prezi will also be something I will use in the classroom.  The site on 22 digital skill was very helpful also.  I will use the livebinder and screencast-o-matic also in the class.  Overall, everything today will be used in my technology class some way or the other.

Day 9

Today we started off with our show and tell portion.  This was a opportunity for fellow classmate to share their ideas they find helpful in their class.  Larry's show and tell was great having students make a poster cutout about a country or the state of Mississippi.  Cindy's show and tell was great also with the cutouts that could be used as a study aid or vocabulary review.  Our speaker today from the Highway Safety was an eye opening about drunk driving.  He used highway glasses for simulation that helped get the feel of drunk driving.  This will be useful to have to come to school to demostrate.  Overall, the day was great with information to take back.
 

Day 8

Today, I guest speaker was Dr. Becky Smith.  She was very enlightening about economics and service learning.  The powerpoints and videos were interesting and exciting to really understand this subject better.  Our next speaker was Dr. Cade Smith and his concentration was on service learning.  This was my first time really hearing about service learning.  In a way its similar to community service but a little more involved.  I thought it was interesting for students to go on field trips for a week to discover the Delta part of the South.  Dr. Heiselt also talked on service learning a little more.  Dr. Shaffett session on personal finance was very interesting.  I didn't know that the extension services covered some many counties and offered so many services.  One being reality world for students which our school is doing now.  The web conference with James Wilcox was interesting telling us about scams and frauds geared at senior citizens.  Overall, today was very interesting and exciting. 

Day 7

Today was fun! fun! fun!  It was about games and simulations.  Two things I learned today that are readily applicable are the board game and smart board interactive game.  The board game and the smart board can serve as a review in history.  The smart board can be easily loaded with a chapter review of Jeopardy, Family Feud or Who Wants to be a Millionaire?  The teacher can easily divide the classup with boy against the girls.  The smart boad can also be used in geography as an reinforcing tool with continents and states.  Dr. Beriswell gave a lot of tricks and tips concerning working with excel which was very helpful.  I really enjoyed her session.  Art today was fun, starting to get the big idea of what we are doing.  Overall, very fun and exciting today.

Day 6

Today was a lot of group activities which was fun.  The first activity was kind of an ice breaker with Dr. Huang giving us a list of words to look at for two minutes afterwards we had to remember as many as possible.  Only one person remembered all the words.  Her tip was to make sentences out of each row of words.  Our group activity was nice having everyone brainstorm and write it on post-it notes and discuss with the rest of the class.  Today we also learned some neat websites such as dipity and poll everywhere.  Art today was interesting.  I'm not good at art at all, but today it was fun and easy.  

Day 5

Today, we received a lot of information on common core and understanding by design.  Two things that were helpful today were the websites on  mind mapping and web portfolio.  I will definite use the mind mapping to outline the chapters and to also use it in a review type of game.  The web portfolio was new to me, but will come in handy for using it to put assignments, homework, test and quizzes.  I think by using these technology, this will make students more motivate to stay on top of school work by using their phones or computers and make parents more aware of this technology to become more involved in their child's school work.

Day 4

Today was a very busy and exciting day.  Starting with hiking for fossil, I not much of a outdoors person, but it was so so but interesting.  The TP exercise was fun when I realized what we were doing.  It was surprising to see the timescale events on a roll of toilet paper.  The scavenger hunt was fun and exciting good to do in a classroom.  Touring the museum was nice to see the ancient remains from the Old and New World.  Our guest speaker today on the Civil Rights Movement was very interesting.  The links to several websites was very helpful and informative learned some new things today.  The Found Poem is something to incorporate into a classroom to make the lesson interesting and exciting.  Overall, the day was great.

Day 3

Today was a busy and exciting one.  First, I felt like I was on the Amazing Race.  it was fun and exciting looking for clues with your group, but unfortunately my group came in last due to another team hiding certain markers.  The tour of the museum was very interesting, by listening to our tour host I was unaware of how little I knew about Ulysses S. Grant.  He seemed more exciting after leaving office.  Our guest speaker today was interesting and informative.  He talked on Native American Indians.  I enjoyed how he explained how people stereotyped the Indians.  I liked how he used cartoon clips to incorporate the stereotypes.  Finally, using google earth was exciting.  I had used it long before, but now with the many changes and features it will be exciting to use in this upcoming school year.  Overall, today was very informative and fun.

Day 2

Day 2 was very interesting and informative.  I really enjoyed the review of the five theme of geography.  The exercise on creating your own country was very nice.  This is something I can have my students create that will be fun and interesting to them.  Our guest speaker, Mr. Spears, from the state department was very informative about the requirements for common core this was very helpful.  Dr. Morris's lesson on graphs were great.  I will implement more on graphing and charts.  Duolingo sounded great, but I was unable to hear will try it at home.  Overall, the day was very informative and interesting.

Day 1 GAETI

First day of GAETI, it was an interesting and exciting day.  Good to meet fellow teachers around the state.  I enjoyed the tour of State it has been awhile since I was on the campus a lot has changed.  I also enjoyed the Library segment on new references to implement in the classroom.  Overall, today was a good day.