Day 27 April 27, 2010

I learned the relibality of sites. And how to tell if they are bias or not. This meets 1B which states engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.

Day 26, April 22

From my peers I learned that smart boards can be used for a variety of subjects. The science presentation showed me a lot about disecting animals, which is great for science classes.

Day 25 April 20, 2010

I think that smart boards are a good investment for teachers. This technology would help to engage students in lessons. Students would want to learn and be attentive when using this type of technology.

Day 24. April 14, 2010

Using smart boards helps students meet INSTE Net Standard 3a. This states demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations.

Day 23, April 13

A peice of evidence that helps prove Smart Boards are helpful to students is that they appeal to both Intrinsically motivated students and Extrinsically motivated students. For intrinsically motivated students volunteer to demonstrate knowledge on the interactive whiteboard in front of their peers as a means of showcasing individual achievement. For extrinsically motivated students are enticed by the wow factor of the technology and can become motivated learners as a result of the enjoyment they experience from using the product. This makes smart boards a good investment because then students want to come to school and motivates them.

Day 22 4/08/10

Today in class we continued to work on our WebQuests. As students complete webquests they develop concepts that might be boring if taught in lecture form. Students are given a chance to express themselves in creative ways and also express themselves orally because they have to sometimes explain what they create. This meets the 21st century skills of creativty and innovation skills, critical thinking and problem solving skills, and communication and collabration skills. These skills are met because students create things, explain them and think through what they learned to create their projects.

Day 21 April 6th

Today in class we started working on a WebQuest. Using a webquest helps a teacher to provide students with multiple was of assessing students. A webquest also helps to engage students and make them want to be more involved in wanting to learn.

This meets INSTE NET standard 2D which states provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.

Day 20 4/1/10

Color Crazy

This WebQuest is about animals using their color in surviving in the wild. I would not change very much. I dont think that I would have the students find a coloring page to color an animal. There is already a step that has the students create an animal and use colors to make it camouflage. I would also use different colors for text.

The teacher used the following standards and skills:

SKCS1. Students will be aware of the importance of curiosity, honesty, openness, and skepticism in science and will exhibit these traits in their own efforts to understand how the world works.
SKCS5. Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly.
a. Describe and compare things in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion.
b. Begin to draw pictures that portray features of the thing being described.
SKL1. Students will sort living organisms and non-living materials into groups by observable physical attributes.

b. Group animals according to their observable features such as appearance, size, motion, where it lives, etc.

SKL2. Students will compare the similarities and differences in groups of organisms.

a. Explain the similarities and differences in animals. (color, size, appearance, etc.)