This course has taught me a tremendous amount of professional development to increase my knowledge of integrating technology into my classroom. This class has truly inspired me to be a better teacher. I search the Internet to see what digital tools that I can integrate into my lessons on a daily basis now. I love finding and implementing new ways to digitally teach. I can do this so easily with my interactive 3-M board. I have gained the knowledge and inspiration to use digital tools!
Technology not only is a great tool for this information age, but also to implement so many other skills into our learning. Incorporating technology in lessons will allow students to work collaboratively with others, think critically and creatively, problem solve, etc. It is an easy way to reach all different types of learners and make it fun at the same time!
There are so many great resources on the Internet. I am looking forward to incorporating all of the NETS standards into my life and curriculum so that I can safely integrate so many of the tools that I have learned about in this course. I am also looking forward to sharing many of the ideas with my colleagues.
There are so many tools that I have learned to use such as delicious.com, blogs, evaluating websites, moodles, web 2.0 resources, wikis, webquests, eportfolios, etc. Most importantly, our classmates shared many tools and resources together. We collaboratively shared with each other about new and updated technology and technology tools that were effective in his/her classrooms. As teachers we are life-long learners and need to update ourselves with new technological advances to teach to the best of our abilities.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
week 7 discussion - Technology - Jacquie Bussen
Technology has had a major impact on my educational setting and will continue to impact my classroom even more in the future! As I looked back at the last 10 years, I pictured no home computers to dial up internet to high speed internet to wireless. I pictured myself in the library researching out of textbooks to now having the internet at my fingertips. Students will have the internet at their fingertips with immediate up-to-date information available. I have seen chalkboards change to dry erase boards to interactive smart boards and 3M boards. I can only imagine what the next 10 years will bring. I imagine that there will be online networks of teachers that teach lessons as teachers supervise. There will be distance education with satellite communication and video conferencing. I think students will each have their own hand held computer devices. Their assignments and homework will be completed and turned in electronically. The students will use their thumbprint to take attendance in the building and purchase food in the cafeteria. My husband had to use his thumbprint to enter and exit his CPA testing site. It is crazy to think how much the school systems have changed the past 10 years and will change the next 10 and then the next 10 years!
There have been many positive types of technology such as my 3-M board, document camera, and student lap tops with wireless internet, etc. provided in my classroom. I can do SOOO many interactive things with my students! There have also been many negative impacts such as many frustrations with servers and technology not working when that is what was planned for the class period! Also, there aren’t as many face-to-face or phone interactions with colleagues and parents due to email. The article by Doug Johnson brought up many negative impacts that I have experienced using the internet at school. Internet sites are blocked when you search. For example, in 8th grade, the Holocaust was very difficult to research due to most of the websites blocked. Also, there are many sites that are not blocked that should be. Topics seem to be under or over blocked! I had a 3rd grader search “sexy hot women” this year. Due to personal log-ins and filters, we knew he was searching this.
I would have loved to have had the many resources on internet safety and cyber bullying when I taught middle school. I would have many talks about this, but the videos and websites would have been very beneficial to me. I will pass this along to my middle school colleagues.
Some websites that I use are organized by subject area on my delicious page tabs. I linked them below if you are interested.
http://www.delicious.com/mrsbussen/languagearts
http://www.delicious.com/mrsbussen/math
http://www.delicious.com/mrsbussen/poetry
http://www.delicious.com/mrsbussen/reading
http://www.delicious.com/mrsbussen/writing
There have been many positive types of technology such as my 3-M board, document camera, and student lap tops with wireless internet, etc. provided in my classroom. I can do SOOO many interactive things with my students! There have also been many negative impacts such as many frustrations with servers and technology not working when that is what was planned for the class period! Also, there aren’t as many face-to-face or phone interactions with colleagues and parents due to email. The article by Doug Johnson brought up many negative impacts that I have experienced using the internet at school. Internet sites are blocked when you search. For example, in 8th grade, the Holocaust was very difficult to research due to most of the websites blocked. Also, there are many sites that are not blocked that should be. Topics seem to be under or over blocked! I had a 3rd grader search “sexy hot women” this year. Due to personal log-ins and filters, we knew he was searching this.
I would have loved to have had the many resources on internet safety and cyber bullying when I taught middle school. I would have many talks about this, but the videos and websites would have been very beneficial to me. I will pass this along to my middle school colleagues.
Some websites that I use are organized by subject area on my delicious page tabs. I linked them below if you are interested.
http://www.delicious.com/mrsbussen/languagearts
http://www.delicious.com/mrsbussen/math
http://www.delicious.com/mrsbussen/poetry
http://www.delicious.com/mrsbussen/reading
http://www.delicious.com/mrsbussen/writing
Monday, April 11, 2011
week 6 discussion - Google Apps - Jacquie Bussen
I have made a class website with Google Sites due to this class motivating me to finally make a class website. My students and parents are using it to stay connected with daily announcements and homework updates. They are also accessing my delicious page from my class website to find sites and games from my tabs. https://sites.google.com/site/mrsbussensclass/
I have downloaded Google Earth to also use in my classroom. This will allow me to show my students places around the world using Google Earth on my 3-M board when we are discussing or reading about any place/topic. I am so excited to use this with my class.
I have heard a lot about Google Docs and can't wait to research this over the summer and sign up.
On a personal note, I stumbled across igoogle when playing around and customized my google homepage. It now has the following: date/time, calculator, cnn updates, youtube, baseball updates, scholastic teacher book wizard, and weather. It is all at my fingertips right on my igoogle homepage:)
I have downloaded Google Earth to also use in my classroom. This will allow me to show my students places around the world using Google Earth on my 3-M board when we are discussing or reading about any place/topic. I am so excited to use this with my class.
I have heard a lot about Google Docs and can't wait to research this over the summer and sign up.
On a personal note, I stumbled across igoogle when playing around and customized my google homepage. It now has the following: date/time, calculator, cnn updates, youtube, baseball updates, scholastic teacher book wizard, and weather. It is all at my fingertips right on my igoogle homepage:)
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
week 5 discussion - PLN - Jacquie Bussen
I enjoyed researching the many links in the lecture and the week 5 discussion here on Professional Learning Networks. I bookmarked so many sites! I can't wait until summer break so that I can learn more of the many things to use as a teacher with Google. I bookmarked the Jefferson County Tennessee sites...they seem great when looking for lesson ideas, PowerPoint, activities, etc.
I joined the teachers.net mailring. I chose this site, because I could personalize what I wanted to subscribe to. I was a little confused, because I had to then go into my email and get a password. I don't know if I will have emails sent to me or I will have to sign in with the passwords. I received a different password for all of the different subscriptions. I chose: MO teachers, grade 4, learning centers, brainbased learning, and arts and crafts. They were all topics that I want to learn more about.
Technology truly helps teachers to learn new ideas to use in our classrooms! Things are always changing. I hope that through this subscription and my professional learning throughout my career, I will stay updated!
I joined the teachers.net mailring. I chose this site, because I could personalize what I wanted to subscribe to. I was a little confused, because I had to then go into my email and get a password. I don't know if I will have emails sent to me or I will have to sign in with the passwords. I received a different password for all of the different subscriptions. I chose: MO teachers, grade 4, learning centers, brainbased learning, and arts and crafts. They were all topics that I want to learn more about.
Technology truly helps teachers to learn new ideas to use in our classrooms! Things are always changing. I hope that through this subscription and my professional learning throughout my career, I will stay updated!
Monday, March 21, 2011
week 3 discussion - Web 2.0 - Jacquie Bussen
Skype is a useful tool that allows people to communicate by text, voice, and video. It can be used on phones, televisions, or computers. It could be useful for us in this online class by showing classmates how they navigated a site or created something by seeing it and not just reading how a student did it in the discussion board.
I found this really cool site http://sqworl.com/mm2u21 that gives tons of cool sites to choose from. Really check this site out…site to make comics, publish books, timelines, etc. One source that I found was http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm I will incorporate it into my classroom by using it in my upcoming poetry-writing unit. My students will just type in the words to the field boxes and it creates the poems. Another source is http://www.google.com/earth/index.html I will incorporate it into my classroom by downloading it and then searching to show my students the places that we are reading about or talking about in all subject areas. This allows them to see the actual places and visualize them. I have done this some with just pictures I find online and my students get so much more motivated and pumped up about learning the topic!
Web 2.0 is a term used to describe sites on the Internet that are services and not just articles. The sites have ways to create something, collaborate, and share content via the Internet. It is a combination of technology integrated on a website to communicate in some way. I bet the web based graphing tool in the textbook article for this week was a web 2.0 website. Using web 2.0 sites are ways for students to be creative and think critically by people working together in technology like the creativity article discusses. Using these tools is a new way to collaborate together and exchange ideas. Some examples that I use in my personal life are craigslist and facebook. Some examples that I found to use as a teacher are www1.teachertube.com and http://www.curriki.org/. I used teacher tube the other day looking up Dr. Jean’s cheers because a colleague told me that they are very effective to use in the classroom. I am going to try a few cheers in my classroom. I found curriki while looking to write this post. This is a site where teachers come together to collaborate and share curriculum- lessons and activities.
I found this really cool site http://sqworl.com/mm2u21 that gives tons of cool sites to choose from. Really check this site out…site to make comics, publish books, timelines, etc. One source that I found was http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm I will incorporate it into my classroom by using it in my upcoming poetry-writing unit. My students will just type in the words to the field boxes and it creates the poems. Another source is http://www.google.com/earth/index.html I will incorporate it into my classroom by downloading it and then searching to show my students the places that we are reading about or talking about in all subject areas. This allows them to see the actual places and visualize them. I have done this some with just pictures I find online and my students get so much more motivated and pumped up about learning the topic!
Web 2.0 is a term used to describe sites on the Internet that are services and not just articles. The sites have ways to create something, collaborate, and share content via the Internet. It is a combination of technology integrated on a website to communicate in some way. I bet the web based graphing tool in the textbook article for this week was a web 2.0 website. Using web 2.0 sites are ways for students to be creative and think critically by people working together in technology like the creativity article discusses. Using these tools is a new way to collaborate together and exchange ideas. Some examples that I use in my personal life are craigslist and facebook. Some examples that I found to use as a teacher are www1.teachertube.com and http://www.curriki.org/. I used teacher tube the other day looking up Dr. Jean’s cheers because a colleague told me that they are very effective to use in the classroom. I am going to try a few cheers in my classroom. I found curriki while looking to write this post. This is a site where teachers come together to collaborate and share curriculum- lessons and activities.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
week 2 discussion - Moodle - Jacquie Bussen
Moodle was a word that I unfortunately had never even heard before. I learned a lot from the YouTube videos and the links provided. It is a learning management tool that is online to enable teachers to run his/her class interactively on the web with any content delivered. It is exciting that there is a free site for regular teachers to set up online classrooms like college level online classes. It is another great way to organize my life as a teacher by putting notes, PowerPoint, tests, websites, videos, links, chats, etc. on one site. I basically view the Moodle as a class website that is interactive.
Unfortunately due to the lack of technology resources in my current building, I will not use this now. I can see this being a great resource to use in the future. We only have about 75 computers in my building for 500 students. We have 2 labs. One lab is used for computer class and the other to sign up and use. Then each classroom has a student computer. I also have about half of my class without home Internet access. I enjoyed learning about a Moodle. This is really the future of our classrooms. Our world is turning digital and this will be the new classroom someday. It is so difficult to keep up with the advances in technology!
I really enjoyed reading the “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” article. I feel that I am in between a native and immigrant being 28 years old. I have attributes of both. I am open to new technology advances, but it just takes some getting used to. I need more time and imagination to truly turn to a teacher fully meeting the needs of digital natives. I was shocked that the article was written in 2001. Ten years ago and teaching hasn’t changed much. It was interesting to read that students’ brains have physically changed. Their thinking patterns are different. It was also interesting to admit that digital immigrants have an “accent”. It is just such an entirely new way of teaching and speaking in terms of language. Like Moodle for me, I just learned this word today! Back to the point of students’ brains being different as a result of the digital input they receive, we as teachers need to change our methodology and content of teaching to meet the new brains needs. I liked how Marc Prensky wrote about having to teach a combination of legacy and future content…there is a happy medium. I think there is a need for a balance so students can reflect in face-to-face discussion and think critically together. I also found it so interesting that CAD software for engineers created video games to help them learn the new program! How cool! After reading this article, I am more motivated to integrate more digital ways of learning into my teaching to meet the needs of my digital native students. I think this would also decrease misbehaviors in my classroom. I feel that it is my job to have a better fit to my approaches when lesson planning.
I am looking forward to completing the evaluation project this week. I tend to just Google sites on the spot due to lack of plan time. I then use them in my classroom on my interactive 3-M board. I know that I need to be taking the time to evaluate them. The dlhmo and mlk sites that were not educational also shocked me. WOW! I really do need to be evaluating sites before using them with my students. I will add sites to my delicious.com site to use once I know they are safe and effective to my learning objective.
Unfortunately due to the lack of technology resources in my current building, I will not use this now. I can see this being a great resource to use in the future. We only have about 75 computers in my building for 500 students. We have 2 labs. One lab is used for computer class and the other to sign up and use. Then each classroom has a student computer. I also have about half of my class without home Internet access. I enjoyed learning about a Moodle. This is really the future of our classrooms. Our world is turning digital and this will be the new classroom someday. It is so difficult to keep up with the advances in technology!
I really enjoyed reading the “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” article. I feel that I am in between a native and immigrant being 28 years old. I have attributes of both. I am open to new technology advances, but it just takes some getting used to. I need more time and imagination to truly turn to a teacher fully meeting the needs of digital natives. I was shocked that the article was written in 2001. Ten years ago and teaching hasn’t changed much. It was interesting to read that students’ brains have physically changed. Their thinking patterns are different. It was also interesting to admit that digital immigrants have an “accent”. It is just such an entirely new way of teaching and speaking in terms of language. Like Moodle for me, I just learned this word today! Back to the point of students’ brains being different as a result of the digital input they receive, we as teachers need to change our methodology and content of teaching to meet the new brains needs. I liked how Marc Prensky wrote about having to teach a combination of legacy and future content…there is a happy medium. I think there is a need for a balance so students can reflect in face-to-face discussion and think critically together. I also found it so interesting that CAD software for engineers created video games to help them learn the new program! How cool! After reading this article, I am more motivated to integrate more digital ways of learning into my teaching to meet the needs of my digital native students. I think this would also decrease misbehaviors in my classroom. I feel that it is my job to have a better fit to my approaches when lesson planning.
I am looking forward to completing the evaluation project this week. I tend to just Google sites on the spot due to lack of plan time. I then use them in my classroom on my interactive 3-M board. I know that I need to be taking the time to evaluate them. The dlhmo and mlk sites that were not educational also shocked me. WOW! I really do need to be evaluating sites before using them with my students. I will add sites to my delicious.com site to use once I know they are safe and effective to my learning objective.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Reflection - Jacquie Bussen
Integrating technology into the classroom is so important. It is essential for preparing our students for this global society. As a teacher, I have many strengths and weaknesses. I feel that it is a ultimately a collaborative effort with incorporating technology: the school district providing the technology financially, myself being open to using the technology, and professional development being provided to effectively use it. Technology will help all types of learners become engaged in learning and acquire the skills needed in the real world. Technology helps learning to become more meaningful and fun!
My strengths in technology are email, WORD, basic Power Points, using a 3-M board, and searching the Internet. Yes, I stretched this as far as I could to have some strengths:) I am now feeling confident with blogs and delicsious.com due to only one week of taking this course.
My weaknesses in technology are learning new things. I am open to this, but just don’t have the time to learn it on my own. I wish the school district would provide the time and professional development to effectively implement our current and new technology in our classrooms.
According to the Hallmarks of an Effective eMINTS Classroom survey, I am proficient to advanced with teacher-facilitated learning, student-centered learning, unique teaching pedagogy and learning strategies to implement standards-based curriculum, community of learners, and assessment of student performance. I am transitional in project-based learning, use of technology for learning, and professional collaboration.
According to Grappling’s technology and learning spectrum, I am in between the adapting uses and transforming uses. I would like to fall into the transforming uses category in the future. I want to be using technology as complex learning and thinking tools, assessment tools, and productivity tools. I most hope that my students will initiate technology uses as they create their own learning experiences learning together.
According to The Levels of Technology Implementation (LoTi) Framework by Dr. Chris Moersch, I am not near as advanced as the other scales. I am in level 3 – Infusion stage. Students use digital tools and resources to carry out my teacher-directed tasks that emphasize higher levels of student processing. The higher levels in 4 Integration are 4a-Mechanical and 4b- Routine. They both involve students being engaged in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems. Then 5- Expansion involves collaborations with other diverse groups. Finally 6- Refinement involves instruction curriculum to be ENTIRELY learner-based. I have mixed feeling on the final level of instruction being entirely learner-based. I feel that there needs to be a balance. Some students benefit and need that direct instruction from teachers.
According to the NETS-Teachers Rubrics, I could be categorized about the same as the other rubrics, levels, scales, etc. I am the upper half, but still have a long way to go. I hope to move up on the scales throughout this course and learn new ideas to actually use in my classroom. I already use delicious.com daily now.
I plan to improve my implementing technology into my classroom by learning and applying my knowledge from this course. I plan to try my best to learn new advancements in technology and carry them over into my classroom. I most need to improve on inquiry based learning with technology to organize and synthesize information. I hope to learn new ideas in this technology course to implement into my curriculum that foster the inquiry-project-based learning method while incorporating technology at the same time.
My strengths in technology are email, WORD, basic Power Points, using a 3-M board, and searching the Internet. Yes, I stretched this as far as I could to have some strengths:) I am now feeling confident with blogs and delicsious.com due to only one week of taking this course.
My weaknesses in technology are learning new things. I am open to this, but just don’t have the time to learn it on my own. I wish the school district would provide the time and professional development to effectively implement our current and new technology in our classrooms.
According to the Hallmarks of an Effective eMINTS Classroom survey, I am proficient to advanced with teacher-facilitated learning, student-centered learning, unique teaching pedagogy and learning strategies to implement standards-based curriculum, community of learners, and assessment of student performance. I am transitional in project-based learning, use of technology for learning, and professional collaboration.
According to Grappling’s technology and learning spectrum, I am in between the adapting uses and transforming uses. I would like to fall into the transforming uses category in the future. I want to be using technology as complex learning and thinking tools, assessment tools, and productivity tools. I most hope that my students will initiate technology uses as they create their own learning experiences learning together.
According to The Levels of Technology Implementation (LoTi) Framework by Dr. Chris Moersch, I am not near as advanced as the other scales. I am in level 3 – Infusion stage. Students use digital tools and resources to carry out my teacher-directed tasks that emphasize higher levels of student processing. The higher levels in 4 Integration are 4a-Mechanical and 4b- Routine. They both involve students being engaged in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems. Then 5- Expansion involves collaborations with other diverse groups. Finally 6- Refinement involves instruction curriculum to be ENTIRELY learner-based. I have mixed feeling on the final level of instruction being entirely learner-based. I feel that there needs to be a balance. Some students benefit and need that direct instruction from teachers.
According to the NETS-Teachers Rubrics, I could be categorized about the same as the other rubrics, levels, scales, etc. I am the upper half, but still have a long way to go. I hope to move up on the scales throughout this course and learn new ideas to actually use in my classroom. I already use delicious.com daily now.
I plan to improve my implementing technology into my classroom by learning and applying my knowledge from this course. I plan to try my best to learn new advancements in technology and carry them over into my classroom. I most need to improve on inquiry based learning with technology to organize and synthesize information. I hope to learn new ideas in this technology course to implement into my curriculum that foster the inquiry-project-based learning method while incorporating technology at the same time.
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