March 12-Homework

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Alabama Learning Exchange
The Alabama Learning Exchange website is excellent for new teachers on the rise. It supplies you with varies tools to help with your lessons. Alex has course studies, lesson plans, professional studies, and much more.
Teachers from all over put their lesson plans on this site. I feel this is very resourceful for me and others due to the fact that we will have a guideline as to how and what we should know and teach.
Also this site has a place for your own personal workspace. A place that only you can go and do things you need to get done.



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March 7- Assignment

Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Achieving your childhood dreams.
This video was one of the most powerful and inspiring videos I have ever seen. During the entire lecture, he talked about his past life. His childhood dreams, being at zero gravity, playing in the NFL, an author in the World Book Encyclopedia, and a Disney Imagineer. At the beginning of the clip he tells us that he has only a few months to live, from that moment on I knew this man had something important to tell us. He had knowledge that he wanted to share, not only to us but to his kids also. The reason for the whole lecture was to get his points across to his kids. He kept me interested to the lecture. I was hanging on his every word.
I was really impressed with him about his classes he held. He put them in groups and they came up with projects using virtual reality. The groups went beyond his expectations.
Also I noticed on YouTube he had over 11 million viewers.

February 28- Assignments

This is how we dream 1 & 2 by Richard Miller
He tells us how we have change with technology. We no long work with books but now we carry our laptops. Sitting down in the library is not any more for just reading a book. You can now go on the web and explore the world. He talks about the pedagogy we use. Teaching with technology is the way the world is headed. We need inspiring teachers with the will to learn as they tech their students.

The Networked Student by Wendy Drexler
I like the simple way the author uses the drawing to bring her point across. The student learning about technology on his own and going further into technology. The 21st century student is technology savvy. But what does he need with a teacher. She is there to help him when he comes upon things that he can tackle. She can also guide him in the right way to use the computer.
Toward a New Future of Whatever By Michael Wesch
This video was informative. How the generations have changed over the years. How technology started with TV and has progressed beyond wonder. It is going to continue to grow beyond wonder. I understood when he used the simpson cartoon with the word "eh" and in 2001 how it changed to "meh". We are change with the times and we have got to keep up with what is going on.
At the end of the video he has people from everywhere display on their hands different saying of "one planet". Some in different languages but all meaning the same.

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