IPT Sept 22-28
I really liked looking at how other classmates did their Tech Savvy Teacher Assignment. Putting the pictures in a slideshow was a great idea. I liked the pictures and postings that showed enthusiasm and personality-it made it more interesting to look at. We were trying to do a screen capture in our program to use as one of our pictures, but we didn't know how to do it right off so we just took a picture of it with our digital camera, which didn't come out as clear. I noticed other classmate's had them on their postings. I just saw the instructions of how to do it on our classes site, so I will be able to do it next time. It was fun to look at everyone else' s sites and see how different they all are. I am really enjoying learning about technology. Now I just wish I could figure out how to do everything myself and not get frustrated by it when what I want to do won't work.
Tech Savvy Teacher
Technology 
can be used to make science fun for your elementary kids. A digital thermometer is a great tool for students to learn first hand about data collection, observation, and making scientific prediction. It is simple and exciting for students to use!
can be used to make science fun for your elementary kids. A digital thermometer is a great tool for students to learn first hand about data collection, observation, and making scientific prediction. It is simple and exciting for students to use! Simply plug the thermometer into the USB port and op
en the program Logger Pro. You will see that on the left side of the screen is a table with the seconds in one column and temperature in the other. At the bottom of this table is a temperature box where the children can read the current temperature. The majority of the screen is a graph which will show the changing temperature.
In this lesson, students will learn that friction and light can produce heat Standard 5, objective 3).
First, have the children take the room temperature for 10 seconds and record it. Next, have them hold the thermometer in their hand for 10 seconds and take that temperature. Now, have the childr
en rub the thermometer between their hands and take that temperature. Finally, the children can put lotion on their hands(which will reduce friction), rub them together and take the temperature. The same experiment can be repeated using wood and rubbing sandpaper against it. For the last measurement students can hold the thermometer next to a light source and predict if the temperature will go up. They can predict throughout all the experiments if the temperature will go up or down after increasing or decreasing friction.
This is a great way for students to observe changes in temperature and to become more technologically savvy to boot!
en the program Logger Pro. You will see that on the left side of the screen is a table with the seconds in one column and temperature in the other. At the bottom of this table is a temperature box where the children can read the current temperature. The majority of the screen is a graph which will show the changing temperature.In this lesson, students will learn that friction and light can produce heat Standard 5, objective 3).
First, have the children take the room temperature for 10 seconds and record it. Next, have them hold the thermometer in their hand for 10 seconds and take that temperature. Now, have the childr
en rub the thermometer between their hands and take that temperature. Finally, the children can put lotion on their hands(which will reduce friction), rub them together and take the temperature. The same experiment can be repeated using wood and rubbing sandpaper against it. For the last measurement students can hold the thermometer next to a light source and predict if the temperature will go up. They can predict throughout all the experiments if the temperature will go up or down after increasing or decreasing friction.
This is a great way for students to observe changes in temperature and to become more technologically savvy to boot!
IP& T 287 Sept 15-21
TPCK is Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge. This approach attempts to integrate all three components of knowledge. This week I learned about why copyright rules are important and why teachers need to be sure and follow them. I was not sure about all of the rules so it was a good review. I loved learning about science and technology in class, it was fun to learn about all the useful sites. I especially liked being able to see the constellations at http://www.stellarium.org/. I also am excited to use the microscope at http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/vlab/. My dad was an electron microscopist for NASA, so I can't wait to tell him it is all online now.
IP& T 287 Sept 8-14
This week we learned about shared reading lists and created a goodreads account on goodreads.com. It was a lot of fun adding friends and seeing what books they like. I found out that I like many of the same books as my friends but I was surprised at some of their reviews. We also learned how to add rss feeds to our blogs. I think this will be a good resource for our future students so they can go online and actually have fun doing something worthwhile. I am also trying to learn more about blogs. I am glad some of the things I tried to add worked. I am still struggling with other things though. I wish I knew how to do HTML because I am getting frustrated with doing headers and backgrounds. I can't get the sizes right. I can say that it is not very user friendly. I was glad that my sister Kelly showed me how to add music and a special little counter. I feel so cool now.
IP& T 287 Sept 1-7
The purpose of this blog is to record things I learn about in the Instructional Technology for Elem. Education Class (IP&T). Also, it is to write down any other ideas or thoughts that I have about subjects covered during this class. I also want to include any other ideas that would be helpful for teachers. I am really excited to be taking this class, because there is so much that I want to learn about technology. I have no idea how to do a blog so it will definitely be a work in progress.
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