Blog Reflection #6

The purpose of my podcast was to share my story on my journey of become an entrepreneur I’m learning as an entrepreneur that your income seldom increases your personal development quote Jim Rohn. This state to means that you have to be a lifelong learner in what every field you are in. The podcast can be a powerful tool because it can involve visual learning. I was able to come up with the content of my podcast. I used the Cinch site to facilitate my podcast recording.  After watching the video, it was really simple to record the podcast.  I look forward to using podcast to enhance learning in my life as well as the classroom.

Reflective Week Five

The MAPping information activity was a great exercise. I learned how to filter through websites and use different search terms and quotation to minimize search results. I did a search on the California vector site. I notice when I used the different search engines the same warning sign came up. This site contains fictacus information.  When I use the www.easywhois.com, I notice the site was not registered. This was a red flag that this may be a personal website because it contained the forward slash.  In viewing the www.archive.org, I notice the website was linked to several sites within the last ten years. 

Now that I have some tools and resource I am now more comfortable when looking up information on the website.  As a future educator, I have to make sure students are equipped with these skills and tools to make sure they are retrieving valuable information or research from the web.  Teachers may have to get parents involved when having students use technology and research outside of the classroom to ensure they are obtaining the right information.

The social bookmarking is a tool and resource I will definitely use. This is a great way to organize bookmarks and categories them.  I am in the process of become an entrepreneur and starting my own business. I know personal development and networking are key parts of having your own business. I would use the bookmarking site to share video of some favorite speakers such as Jim Rohn and john Maxwell.   I would also bookmarks some there quotes and books.

http://delicious.com/sford1913/

Reflective Blog 4

I’m not currently teaching in the classroom, so I can only relate to my own personal experiences when I was in school. After reading the article I can relate to assessment for learning should recognize the full range of achievement of all learns. Growing up, I can attest that when I was in school my assessment was of learning. My teacher asses us to make sure we had the basic skills to pass the state required test. This article made me realize as a future educator when assessing your students it should be a for learning experience. Allow students as young as Kindergarten have an active role in their learning and communicating in small group discussion at an early age. Teachers should have an active participant in your students learning connecting their interests and learning needs that are developmentally appropriate for their grade level.

I have a different outlook on this e portfolio. At first I was only doing it because it was a class requirement.  Now I can see the benefit of it. I can share my learning story digital or by writing a blog.  The creation of the E- portfolio for this class has really opened my eyes to create one on my journey of becoming an Entrepreneur. I will continue to research and read more about portfolios and assessments

Reflective Blog 3

When I read the article 7 things you should know about Wikis, there were many ways I felt I could use it.  I’m involved in many groups and organization. I thought this would be a great way of communication for my step team, book club or Committee member to use Wikis to minimize emails, especially when we are planning meeting agenda and Calendar for the year. This would be a great planning tool. I choose to create a Wiki for our book club members.  The advantage of using the Wikis is the editing and collaborative features.  The Wiki would be a great opportunity for digital natives and digital immigrant on a school camp to interact and share ideas. This will show digital immigrant another outlet to engage students in learning and technology through cooperative groups.  I believe many students are technology savvy or Digital natives as the article states and would really enjoy using wikis. Web 2.0 can consist of Google docs, Wikis, Facebook, blogging and twitter to name a few. They allow users to share information worldwide.  User can join groups, share information and collaborative ideas in a social networking environment using the Internet and technology.   The social site LinkedIn was something that I explored throughout my Web. 2.0 search.  This something I will further explore.