LEP- presentations

Today was it-3210's first day of presenting our lep's. I felt as a class everyone did a great job in presenting and working on their Lep's. It has come to my realization that although many of us want to be teachers , teaching and being in front of a class is not that easy. But I am very thankful for this class. At first I thought it was a lot of unnecessary work , but I have learned to appreciate every lesson I have done this semester. It was a lot of work , but I know this is all for the betterment of my future career as a teacher, Thank you Mrs. Davis and thank you IT-3210. I also want to wish everyone the best of luck on their presentations, their finals and the rest of their college matriculation at Georgia State.

God Bless!!,

Sabrina Parker

my -LEP-

Mrs.Davis I would just like to thank you for everything i learned In this course it was alot, but it was well worth it. I also want to thank you for all your patience throughout all of our lessons and our LEP's. Here is my link to my LEP-presentation.
http://www.student.gsu.edu/~sparker12/eportfolio/LEP_Sabrina.html

Greatful for IT 3210

As the semester is coming to an end I can really say that I enjoyed using the many resources in this class. It has both been interesting and a help to my future career as a teacher. There are so many web pages and resources that can direct you and open your mind to many new ideas . I can honestly say that this class is something that I can fall back on withhin my carreer. Im very thankful!.

Final Reflection Paper

Final Reflection Paper

Now when entering a classroom I feel a lot more comfortable with using technology. After using various kinds of resources and technology in this class I know that I have a lot more confidence and I am a lot more familiar with the various technologies. I have even thought of many ideas of implementing these technologies in the classrooms I will be teaching in.
With these new levels of technologies I know that not only can I teach a lesson with technologies like Microsoft Power Point and Excel I can also keep my students remain interested and I can also make learning fun with theses technologies. The technology for me can be an Ice breaker if I ever get a little scared when I start teaching and it can also be a quick guide on where I’m going next.
Technologies can definitely help teaching and learning. For a teacher, technology can be like a layout or guide if they ever loose track on the next step while teaching. It can help build a teachers confidence, through the resource of overheads or pictures. Also with overheads and pictures, this provides the students with a visual of what their trying to learn. This way learning can be a lot easier for those who have a hard time paying attention or who are visual learners. Another way I’ve learned that technology can be a help with teaching and learning is it can help the child who is struggling in school because of socioeconomic problems like low income. Through technology it can help both the parent and the student become more involved and become closer emotionally. It can help the student have better grades and become successful in his or her academic achievements.
As I move throughout my teaching career I will make it my duty to always become updated or informed of any new technologies. This way my students can be right on the same level on what their supposed to be learning. Also the newer and more advanced the technology the better this is for the students. This not only allows the students to learn more and maybe even achieve more than local schools on their level it also, presents a challenge for the students and helps them to strive to have success over these challenges.


Sabrina Parker
IT 3210-
April 14, 2005

Broderbund

The website I viewed was http://www.broderbund.com/jump.jsp?itemID=788&mainPID=788&itemType=PRODUCT&path=1%2C2%2C8%2C67&iProductID=788.
This web page had a lot of interesting software products. I found it encouraging to see what the different types of software have to offer for students and even parents of all ages. I hope that these kinds of software can be a help to improve and build children's education.

Low- Income and Technology

I had the pleasure of reading the article on low income parents and the effect on their children's education. It is very clear that in some homes, parents have to work two and three jobs just to put food on the table. It is also very clear that because of this , the parents have less time to spend with their children. The child is not getting that time with his or her parent for them to monitor their school work, the parent because less involved in the child's school work and school life, and as a result of this the student's education development will can and will fail.
Throughout this article I learned about a program called Computers for Youth (CFY). The goal for CFY was to help low-income students become engaged learners and thereby succeed in schol and in life.This program provided computers to many low income families with in the local neighboorhoods. As a result of this program , parents began to spend more time with their children doing various activities on the computer and the students educational development seemed to increase. Also through the use of the computers the families have become closer emotionally. One student reported that the computers have helped us take on task as a family and helped us become closer as a family .
CFY is a great program and I hope that it is continued and it continues to help better families throught our world.

Facts about the east coast

Project Name: Learning all about the East Coast

Description of Learning Goals and Standards: My goal from this lesson is for the students to first find out information and to be able to plot it down in a table.By the end of this lesson the students should have learned all about the East Coast and they should also be able to answer questions relating to the information about each state.
QCC:
Grade level: 4th
Title: Facts on the regions of the east coast.
Annotation: The concept of this lesson was for the students to use the facts they discovered for each state and plot it in a table to be able to use it for future activities.

Rationale for Technology: The implementing of this technology has made it easy to categorize different kinds of information into different categories. This is also a chance for the students to have a visual of the information in the table. The advantages of this topic is that it broadens the students mind to want to find out more information about the rest of the states of America. The disadvantages is this particular lesson only includes the states of the East Coast.

Description of Lesson Implementation: While creating this lesson I came up with the idea of listing information on the states because I knew a lot of information could be found. Through many resources all of the information on each state was found. Some obstacles I encountered while doing this lesson was finding out different topics of information to list. If other teachers or parents want to use this lesson they should make sure they find a good resource of information and take time out to make this table with patience. They can also present this too a class and put students in groups of no more than two and assign them a state. Then the student can say present information on their state in front of the class or with a parent in front of the family. Some good questions that can be asked to the students are: Which state was established first? Which states have the same state flower? Which state has the highest population?

Assessment : By assessing this lesson this opens students to the idea of tables and learning how to make their own tables in the future

Other Places to Use this Solution: This solution can be used in the classroom to present a lot of information. This can also be used at home to categorize information like menu's on the family meals.

What I Learned and What I would Improve it Next Time : I learned that their is a lot of interesting facts about each state within the United States as well as enough information to make the states unique in their own way. In the future I would like to include information on the rest of the fifty states.

References/Resources Used :
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.askjeeves.com
http://www.teachers.com/share/states/index.cfm

Blooms Taxonomy Celebrates St. Patrick's Day

Knowledge: List everything you know about St.Patricks day and anything you would like to know
Comprehension:Compare this holiday to all the other holidays you and your family celebrates.
Application:Interpret why you think St.Patrick's day was made a holiday

Analysis:Detect any problems with making this special day into a holiday,keeping in mind other people's cultures.

Synthesis:Develop other ways this holiday can be celebrated

Evaluation:Decide is this an appropiate holiday and recommend other ideas for holidays.

Weather with Microsoft excel

Project Name:Georgia's temperatures in 2004

Description of Learning Goals and Standards:This particular project was used to introduce students to collecting information and to calculating averages, additions and subtractions. With a charity used the topic of weather because it seemed simple enough but at the same time interesting for the grade level. This is important so that in the future the students may be able to understand the differences in weather throughout the year.
QCC'S:
Grade level:3rd grade
Topic: Numbers and the weather
Standard: Students will learn how to input different temperatures of the weather on a chart, throughout the year.

Rationale for Technology: By using this technology my goal of introducing and getting the students familiar with plotting information in a chart can be accomplished this is more of better visual,through both the chart and the bar graph, for the temperatures of the weather of the advantages is the chart can plot as much information as needed The disadvantages of this lesson is that if you plot in any wrong information it can mess up the whole entire chart when calculating information like the average or a subtraction formula.

Description of Lesson Implementation: While thinking of a project/ lesson to do with Microsoft excel, I thought to do something simple that children would find interest in doing. So I thought, what is something that students talk about almost everyday in school, the weather. Through some resources I found out the temperatures for 2004 and recorded them. This lesson can show students how the temperatures change throughout the year because of the time of year and the position of the sun is also a good way to help students compute different calculations like the average, and subtracting different numbers. A parent or teacher can easily do this project or one like it by finding the information needed and plotting it on a chart. But we as teachers and parents need to make sure to allow the students to plot the information thereselves because this gives the chance to learn how to do it and it is good practice for future projects.

Assessment:Through this project I can assess students learning by allowing to plot information down whenever they have an activity with numbers, this way throughout the chart and the bar graph they can visually see the differences in the numbers, while at the same time finding different calculations.

Other Places to Use this Solution: This solution can definitely be used in the classroom when plotting information and calculating different formulas It can also be used at home just for fun and practice with a lot of numbers .

What I Learned and What I would Improve it Next Time: This lesson has opened my mind to different ideas and options with Microsoft excel, in the future I will definitely use excel in my classrooms. I also learned that with Microsoft excel requires patience to plot in all the information.

References/Resources Used:
http://www.yahoo.com
http://msn-weather.com
http://www.google.weather.com

Easter and Microsoft publisher

Project Name: Happy Easter
Description of Learning Goals and Standards: Through this project students should become more interested in Easter and what its true meaning is. Students should begin to ask more questions and also they should learn a little something from this newsletter what Easter is about.

QCC's :
Topic: Holidays
Standard: Identifies and list holidays and their meanings through various activities .

Rationale for Technology: By using a newsletter to implement Easter into the classroom, for those students who like to read this newsletter would be of great interest to them. Not only would they have the opportunity to read about themselves,and their school they also get the chance to learn something while doing it. Through this lesson I was hoping to show a different way of learning where the children feel a sense of freedom and individuality in the newspaper

Description of Lesson Implementation: Through this lesson I was hoping to show a different way of learning where the children feel a sense of importance,and freedom throughout this newsletter. This lesson was a chance for the students to feel important reading about themselves and their school. So that in the future they can get excited about learning and having an input . I had a lot of options as to what to do for this activity, but I choose Easter because it only fit right for the upcoming holiday activity can also be used at home to introduce many other topics as well as in the classroom. This can also be a chance to introduce the students to the daily newspaper and what it's all about.

Assessment:
After introducing this activity it can be a chance to learn about the daily newspaper and what it's all about. Also maybe this activity will interest students in making their own newsletter about topics they feel are of great interest. This can also be a chance to get students involved in school related activities.

Other Places to Use this Solution: This solution can definitely be used in the classroom to introduce many topics of discussion and presentations for the students to perform theirselves . Also this can be practice for the students on how to write up a newsletter. This solution can be used at home as well for kids to do presentations for the parents.

What I Learned and What I would Improve it Next Time:
I learned that a newsletter doesn't always have to include boring bad news. It can consist of a lot of interesting ideas, topics and discussions. Next time I would try to include some activities for the students to do while reading the newsletter, just to keep them interested.

Resources:
http://www.holidays.net/Easter/
http://www.goggle.com
http://www.askjeeves.com