An Open Letter To Educators...

I too feel that education as a whole needs to be reconstructed, we are still using learning style from before I was born. Times have change and the students are learning in new ways, and as teachers we need to understand that and try to teach the way the students learn. Everything is changing; the way they work and do business. Our world is suffering, do to the amount of uneducated people in the world, for example IBM who just moved a plant out of the US because of the uneducated work force. We as teacher and future teachers need to educate so the student will learn the proper tool so they can be successful people in the work force. The blog and video have shown me the value of a good education, and how our children need to be taught the way they can learn, but the children need to have the will to learn. If the children have the will to learn and the teacher incorporate a new learning style the workforce will begin to improve.

Comments4Kids

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ALEX...

ALEX, Alabama Learning Exchange, this is a great website for teachers. It give state standards for each grade and explains each standards, also it gives the standards for each subject. This will be help when writing lesson and unit plans, because you must state each standard that you will be using on each lesson plan.

I've used this website a bunch in other classes for writing lesson and unit plans. I also use to look up lesson plans for my PE class and see what and how they are presenting their lesson to the students. It has helpful websites for teachers, it also has podcast. Its a great website to join and keep bookmarked.

Future Teachers Questionnaire Results!

I asked 6 questions. Here are the results by question.

I had 56 people responses.

1. Will the use of Technology be a big part of your Teaching Style?

41(73%) -- Yes

1(2%) -- No

14(25%) -- Depends on the Subject

2. Will you be open to new Technology?

54(96%) -- Yes

1(2%) -- No

1(2%) -- Depends on the Subject

3. Will Blogging be used in your Classroom?

43(77%) -- Yes

13(23%) -- No

4. Will Podcasts be used in your Classroom?

42(75%) -- Yes

14(25%) -- No

5. Public or Private School? Why?

This question way split with Public, Private, and Doesn't Matter.

The ones who said Public said that; That's where I went to school so I want to Teach in a Public School, a few people said the pay and benefits are better at a public schools, and some said that Public schools are more open to Things(Technology, Methods of teaching).

The ones who said Private School said that; Private School is what they went to, and thats where they want to teach, the class size is smaller so better interaction with the students, safety issues, and some said depends on where they live at the time or who ever offer them a job.

The ones who said It Doesn't Matter; they just want a job.

6. Do you think you will be prepared to use Technology in your Classroom?

55(98%) -- Yes

1(2%) -- No

Thank you for answering the questionnaire.

Last Lecture...

Wow!! What a great video. First of all, if I had 3 to 6 months live, I would be giving lecture. I would probably be laying in bed thinking about all the stuff I didn't do. I love the use of pictures in his presentation. This made the presentation easier to follow. I also enjoyed the mottos, he said throughout the the presentation. Being an athlete, I've heard a ton of mottos or life lesson throughout the sport career, today i try to incorporate these sayings in my life.

In this presentation, I like the use of subtitles and pictures throughout. I would love to be in Mr. Pausch's Class, he is very excited about teaching people, he keeps people attention durning is presentation. He has a lot of good stories about life in general. He's just a funny person, he keeps you drawn in the whole time.

I bet, when he worked as an imagineer, he found many useful thing and way for people to learn. One for example is the headset that he used for his games. Some how get that technology for student to block out all outside distractions. I hope most of my childhood dreams come true, like most of Mr. Pausch did. He had some cool jobs throughout his life. I really enjoy disney quest, its a 5 story arcade, with each floor have different styles of games. I would love to have a job were I could create a place like that.

Its so cool seeing what you have started being used all over the world. So I now see how teacher think, when something is so good the teacher just say "guy you can do better". Overall, I enjoy going above and beyond what was ask of me, just like what Mr. Pausch ask of his students. I enjoyed this video, and all the cool things I saw and learned. How cool would this be if we could create a classroom like this were students could interact with other student from different countries.

Does South Alabama have a high technology class?

Comments For Kids

Sorry, I did know we were suppose to add a post for comments for kids, until Poppy emailed me, So Thanks for the email. This week I commented on Henry's Blog he is from Arizona. He talked about the Loc Nes Monster, and why he believed it is a tall tale.

Questionnaire... Please answer

FUTURE TEACHER QUESTIONNAIRE

Skype...

The past few weeks I have used Skype as a way of contacting Jackie Gorski, my Podcast Project partner. I also use Skype to talk to my sister and niece who live in Atlanta, Ga. For my project Skype was very useful for contacting Jackie, and talking about our project, and the direction we wanted to go with the project. Skype was a great tool because it was hard to find time for Jackie and I to meet up and work on the project, so most of our work was done via Skype, Google Docs, and Email. We meet on Sunday and put the finale project together. So, Skype was a big help for us.

Archive.org

Archive. org is a website that allows you to upload big files(Podcast, Videos and anything over 10 minutes) to the website. It's like youtube, but archive allows you to upload larger files. All you do, is create a profile just like any other website that allows you to share files, after you have created a profile, then upload you file. After its uploaded, your file now has a url, this allows you to a hyper link or the link itself in you blog or website so other can listen or view the podcast or video. If you plan to upload it to iTunes you must have a url. Its really simple to upload to iTunes, just go to the iTunes store, click on the Podcast tab, then on the right side of the podcast page click Submit Podcast (may take 24 hours to view on iTunes). If you have any questions please feel free to contact me( to do this look on the right hand side of my blog under Contact Me). I hope this information is helpful.

My PLN at Work

As Jackie Gorski and I worked on our Podcast Project, we've met a few new people, Mike Fletcher, a Math Teacher a Davidson High School, and Eric Langhorst, a History teacher who use podcast in his classroom. We found Mr. Langhorst from Mr. Chamberlain. We emailed Mr. C, asking him a few question about Podcast, he answered them, then replied to us, giving us Mr. Langhorst's blog and email. Mr. Langhorst has been very helpful during this whole process, I have learn a lot from about Podcast.

Chech Out http://mathisgorski.blogspot.com for information on the process and information about Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Langhorst and Mr. Chamberlain. Also this blog has information about " Can Podcast be Useful in the Classroom?"