Week 12 - Assignment 2:

Edmodo: 

There are many great ways that a teacher can use edmodo to enhance her classroom here are a few:

• Teachers can give homework assignment to be done and uploaded onto the classes Edmodo group. This way student can't lose their homework as it's uploaded on their account. Students can also easily contact their teacher if they have any questions about the assignment. The teacher also doesn't need to be busy checking who gave in their homework and who didn't as the computer automatically records it all.
• Teachers can post notes and helpful study sheets to help the students prepare themselves for any upcoming tests. 
• Teachers can send reminders to the students about any upcoming events, such as a reminder to bring their library books, gym uniform, smock for arts and crafts, etc... 
• Students can post their work so that all of their classmates can see, and they can comment and critique on their friends work.

I really like the idea of using edmodo with ones students, I feel that it is a great tool to help the teacher and students have contact with each other if they ever feel the need for clarification. It's a great way to teach the children how to use technology the proper way for things that are important like homework and studying for tests.

Week 12 - Assignment 1:

How to use Google Maps
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SJzBiiemO8L9p5aK4qcC6fKdqDZgF-JdTGJoYlVrpa0/edit?usp=sharing

Week 11

My Google Maps Lesson Plan
https://docs.google.com/a/nyit.edu/document/d/1QeKPne0jxxI1hh-C_x_sNXf-Lkk-XeabbHWa0H9088I/edit?usp=sharing

Week 10 - Assignment 3

HAVE FUN!!! :) 

Week 10 - Assignment 2:

Minesweeper:
1. This game requires a lot of concentration and number skills. There's no reading involved, just determining where a bomb may be based on the number that appears.
2. To finish the whole board without clicking on any bombs.
3. The board is filled with squares and it is unknown what is under each. Some are empty, some have numbers, and some have bombs. I you click on one and its a number, you now know that there is that amount of bombs in any of the squares are that specific number, therefore you need to be careful when clicking on each square so that you dont click on a bomb which will explode.
4. There isn't really a scenario design in this particular game.

Week 9 - Assignment 2: Technology Intergrated Lesson Plans

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16iS2ADjwtA7GYNY1tkWdn9Zcg-3X3lU-QvtgZk30I7U/edit?usp=sharing

Week 8 - Assignment 2: Math Lesson Plan

Math Lesson Plan
https://docs.google.com/a/nyit.edu/document/d/1YXjKmKBKw56VSXuku_ACKH8opl0YkENI9Ja9SpStcvI/edit?usp=sharing

Week 7 - Assignment 2: Discussion Lesson Plan

Strategies for Student Centered Discussion Lesson Plan

Week 6 - Assignment 3: Writing BD Lesson Plan

Backward Design Writing Lesson Plan

Week 6 - Assignment 2: Reading BD Lesson Plan

Backward Design Reading Lesson Plan

Enjoy!!! :)

Week 6 - Assignment 1: Analyzing ELA instruction

I really enjoyed watching the video of Emma Coufal's Kindergarten class. It's obvious from the way she runs her classroom that her goal is to have each of her students become confident readers.
Ms. Coufal created an environment in her classroom where each of her students are out to help one another by having them read in partners. She encourages them to be a good partner by helping their peers and reading together.
I really like how Ms. Coufal gave her students special pointers to put on their fingers. It's such a cute and fun way to get the children be enthusiastic to read and point along to each word.
The workshops that Ms. Coufal does with her class, models support to all of her students, especially ELL's. She has her students read books that are on their level so that they can continue to learn and gain better reading skills. It is clear that all of her students feel safe and comfortable in her classroom as she makes each child feel welcome be encouraging them to go on. I noticed how she focuses a lot on positive enforcement, which motivates the child to try again.

Week 5 - Lesson plan and Rubric

General Learning Outcomes:

• ·         Students will able to interpret and introduce texts that are related to the experiment at hand.
• ·         Students will be exposed to words, diagrams, charts, graphs, images, symbols, and mathematics related to the science lesson.
• ·         Students will be read and understand the required literature.
• ·         Students will be involved in using the internet- search-engine, word-processing, spreadsheet, desktop-publishing, digital-map-database
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Specific Learning Outcomes:

• ·         Students will identify the main factors that influence the quality of water
• ·         Students will be able to explain how human activities can alter the balance of a water ecosystem and affect the survival of organisms.
• ·         Students will identify the relationship among factors affecting water quality.
• ·         Students will explain how a factor affects the living organisms in a water ecosystem.
• ·         Students will use credible cyber resources for the data collection
• ·         Students will use ICT’s in order to facilitate the process of identifying scientifically testable questions and locating valuable and accurate information.
• ·         Students will use ICT’s to support data organization, data analysis, and data presentation, and draw conclusions.
•         Students will use ICT’s to communicate findings to the learning community using various media formats.
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Day 1

Begin the lesson by asking the students to go into small groups and to brainstorm lists of the factors affecting water quality and human activities that change the balance of water ecosystems. This will help you to determine the students prior knowledge on this topic. Guide them to come up with answers by giving them questions pertaining to the topic to discuss and think about.

When they finish have each group search on Google News to find a article about water quality and its effects on organism. Have them do a thorough research (they may need guidance in how to type in key words… etc) and come up with enough information. Have each group orally report the article they discovered with citing their source.

Day 2:

Guide students in how to interpret and collect data and examine the correlation between the two factors. Students should work in small groups and try to briefly figure out the relationship between the dissolved-oxygen and water-temperature data. Students should place the data they find on a chart spreadsheet, and explain how the chart aided them in answering the research question.

Day 3:

Help your students develop scientifically re-searchable questions that can be answered using the data from online databases. Ask questions to formulate a hypothesis. Students will work mainly on their own by creating their own lab-report that documents their questions, and all the other requirements.

Day 4:

Students should be familiar with how to form their own research question and a hypothesis. They will complete the work in groups by writing a report that summarizes all that they have learned in the past few lessons.

http://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?code=MX7C748&sp=yes

Smore lesson plan

Here's my backward design lesson plan. Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed teaching it to my students!!!
https://www.smore.com/3edvr-short-a-sound

Short "A" Lesson

Objective: Students will be able to read words with short "a" vowel sounds.
Method: Frontal teaching, writing exercise, video
Assessment: After students put together a mini short "a" word book, they will read it individually to the teacher.

Assignment #2 Affordances of Educational Technology

Voki
Features:	Affordances:
1.       User  Friendly	Easy and fun  to figure out how to use so that users can get started right away.
2.       Free	Anyone can create their own Voki with no cost.
3.       Voice recorder or Voki automatic voice.	Users can choose to either record their own voices our use one of the automated Voki voices.
4.       Fun effects	Many choices of different exciting backgrounds, faces, and accessories. Big selection so that the user can make her Voki look as real as can be!
5.       Easy to save	Various ways to save Voki, like email it, put it on You Tube, or save as a video file.

Screencast-o-matic
Features:	Affordances:
1.       Easy to use	Very clear tutorial that helps user get a quick start on their video.
2.       Voice Recorder	Allows user to easily record voice while videoing the screen.
3.       Free	Download is free of charge.
4.       Web Cam	Users can also access their web cam while videoing the screen so that you can view the screen and the narrator at the same time.
5.       Many ways to save file	Various ways to save Voki, like email it, put it on You Tube, or save as a video file.

Blogs
Features:	Affordances:
1.       Free	Users can create their own blog account free of charge.
2.       Unlimited blogs	Users can make however many blogs they wish all in one account that’s easy to access.
3.       Fun Templates	Many different templates and layouts to choose from so that the user can make their blog as fun and creative as they wish
4.       Quick way to  send out messages	Blogs are a great way to reach out to a large group, whether its family, friends, or classmates. All users can see your blog you posted.
5.       Easy to comment	All members of the blog have quick and easy access to commenting on other users blogs.

Assignment 4 - Lesson Plan

Assignment 3 - How do People Learn?