Blog Post 7

How do we all become learners?

When planning a lesson with project based learning, I need to find ways to find subjects that can create projects, activities, and ways of engaging my future students. I think it will be fairly easy to find or make activities that are project based learning approved. I will not know till I am in a classroom how difficult it may or may not be to keep the kids attention. Finding ways to keep their attention and the way they learn is going to be a challenge because I have to watch and learn how the kids learn and what interest them. I will also need to find ways to incorporate technology into my lessons to. Technology is the future of the teaching world.




1. How to make an audio QR code
 Go to www.record.MP3.org to record yourself talking. A lot of teachers will record themselves reading a story and play it back for the students. This kind of makes the teacher become a tutor. When you begin recording, do not start talking till you get to 1. Click save recording that then creates you a URL. Then go to www.qrcode-monkey.com to create a QR code. Then put the code into word, duplicate it and save. Parents should get a free QR code scanner online.

2. IPad Centers
In the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iezQjGbTpm0&feature=youtu.be the teacher has created different stations for the students to participant in. The particular station in this video is called the IPad center. She has the students setup the IPad where it will record them reading a story. They then play it back and listen to themselves reading, where they can then correct themselves in the process.

3.  Poplet as a center
 The teacher created a station for the students where they used the iPads. She had a app called Poplet. The teacher would find books that where on the kids grade level that were about different careers. IN this video the kids choose a book about veterinarians. They would put the title in the center of the poplet. Then they would proceed to take pictured from the book and place them in the web. They would add a description of the picture. This station also them to read the book but also work on their typing skills.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ophIZhNs2s4

4.  Alabama Virtual Library as a Kindergarten center
The teacher allowed the kids to log on to the Alabama Virtual Library app. They click onto student resources then elementary schools. They type in the search engine the category they are looking up, in this case it is bicycle. The students research about bicycles an watch/listen to videos or just audio. They then draw a picture of the item they looked up. The following week they write a sentence with there picture.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvgz8efzKLA&feature=youtu.be

5. Mrs. Shirley's 1st grade class: How to use and build a board in DE for project based learning
The students created a PDL about the moon. They watched a video about the moon and wrote down facts. They then proceeded to make a board, choose a background, and titled it. Add facts about the moon as well as a video or image. The students added narratives about an adventure to the moon. Then Karley(the student) shows us how to find pictures or images to add to their board. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS7DMH7FqXE&feature=youtu.be

6.Students Sharing Board Builders Part 1
These to young boys shared with us their board about whales. They took a virtual field trip to glacier national park in Alaska. They found their pictures for their board on safari and saved them to the computer. They are from Gulf Shores Elementary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TyrmP3OL18&feature=youtu.be

7. Students Sharing Board Builders Part 2
These three girls are showing us their small board about The Haven. They are collecting money for the animals. Their driving questing was, "why is it important to collect loose change for haven." They looked up on safari an found big vocabulary words on a website. They also found their images on safari. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxAs2ffAysQ&feature=youtu.be

8. Using IMovie and the Alabama Virtual Library in Kindergarten: July 7, 2014
Students in elementary are using IMovie just like the College students in Dr. Strange's college class. The students are eager and engaged in the movie making process. They do not want to quit. Dr. Strange's class has problems with wanting to be so engaged, they are just ready to get it over with. The teachers do not completely show the kids how to work IMovie, they will just give them the basic mechanics. AVL allows students to be engage an research things that interest them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRNvyhTmcck

9. We all become learners
Using devices changes the dynamics of teachers teaching students, students teaching students, and students teaching us. Everyone in a classroom are teachers and learners. The elderly lady shared an experience with us that one day in class she was unsure of how to use the camera in a certain app. A kindergarten student came up to her very serious an told her, "I know what to do, ill show you". She also talked about students learning how to use poplet by taking pictures of themselves and posting them. WE ALL BECOME LEARNERS! When going to Gulf Shores Elementary School the students are always eager to show you their work. Some teachers can and will rely on their students to teach them the new dynamites technology.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5TAWgwv9O4