Fall 2015 ELED 300

What a great class!!

Your Smore - be creative!!!

Consider making your own video - starring yourself and/or your family/friends.........or using Animoto........Blabberize......PowToon.....find many more ideas here:   http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Presentation+Tools


example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr_zh0_AMYA

Smore

Thursday February 11, 2015

Minutes for our ELED 300 class:   https://todaysmeet.com/minuteseled300


 Dallas ISD  Uptown Funk  -While so many students out there are whining about how boring their lives are, how racist/classist/or divided the world needs to be to fit their uncivilized worldview, or how no one interacts anymore due to technology, here we have a diverse school body all celebrating together in a one-take stretch of choreography that gives some Hollywood routines a run for their money, using technology to proudly share their accomplishment.





Yoga balls as classroom chairs............??

News story on yoga balls in a 3rd grade classroom





TEA ELL Portal   http://www.elltx.org/videos.html

videos:  Affective, Cognitive, Linguistic - - in math, social studies, science.......

Also check out Project Share:  http://www.projectsharetexas.org/

Interactive Journals

Starting our Interactive Journal for ELED 300

What a Great Class!!

More interactive websites: 

Classifying triangles. http://www.math-play.com/classifying-triangles/classifying-triangles.html

Students can go to the NCTM website and use online geoboards to investigate geometric concepts.   http://www.nctm.org/standards/content.aspx?id=33187



Google interactive websites Texas history..........or interactive websites Alamo..........etc.


More technology ideas   https://sites.google.com/site/technologyideasbybecky/

Active Learning

Microteach ideas

 

 

video and other technology ideas:

 

  http://farrahmackie.weebly.com/microteach.html

 

http://christina-gutierrez.weebly.com/microteach.html

Thursday, October 2, 2014

A bit more on Whole Brain Teaching......

https://wiki.rockwallisd.org/groups/medwards/wiki/cc5be/TEXAS_AM_COMMERCE.html


Bloom's Higher Order Thinking Skills
http://ctl.iupui.edu/OnlineTeaching/Course-Organization--Planning/Learning-Outcomes-Goals-and-Objectives/Blooms-Taxonomy

Blooms-Taxonomy Learning Domains: cognitive, affective and psychomotor http://ctl.iupui.edu/OnlineTeaching/Course-Organization--Planning/Learning-Outcomes-Goals-and-Objectives/Learning-Domains  

Bloom's Interactive Description Words
http://www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching-resources/effective-practice/revised-blooms-taxonomy/


practice: http://ctl.iupui.edu/OnlineTeaching/Course-Organization--Planning/Learning-Outcomes-Goals-and-Objectives/Blooms-Taxonomy-Activity  

Ausust 15, 2014

Thursday, February 20th........

Flipped Classroom Video    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-y9vR7YTak

Tuesday, January 27, 2014

Classroom Management -

Harry Wong - rules & procedures .....




More information on rules & procedures........

http://managingyourclassroom.wikispaces.com/Establishing+Rules,+Goals+%26+Expectations



Whole Brain Teaching

https://wiki.rockwallisd.org/groups/medwards/wiki/cc5be/TEXAS_AM_COMMERCE.html

http://www.wholebrainteaching.com/  

Final Class Meeting ELED 300 Fall 2013

ELED 300 is a very "different" kind of class...............not a "memorize the material" kind of class..........it's a class to help you learn to think creatively - outside the box.............

 

Questions on the PPR using videos - starting Fall 2014

Learning by Leading

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/learning-through-experiences

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Student Motivation begins with the TEACHER...........a happy teacher = happy & motivated students.

Habits of Happy People.....




Active Learning........vs.........Passive Learning

 

 

 

 

The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown

 

 

 

 



Thursday, September 19, 2013

Website with TExES review sessions and study resources:
http://www.tamuc.edu/academics/colleges/educationHumanServices/educatorCertificationAcademicServices/texes-reviews.aspx

For PPR, ec-6 generalist and 4-8 practice sessions (discussing each competency with practice questions on each), sign up for PACT (Performance-based Academic Coaching Teams)  here (free to you as our student)  https://tap.tarleton.edu/pact/  (You will click on the link that says:  Click here to Register.........then you'll put in the last four digits of your SS#..........then it will ask some general info (email address, etc.)............when it asks you what program, be sure to select Texas A&M-Commerce......and when it asks you what role, be sure to select "candidate".  This approval process usually takes 1-3 days or so - you'll receive an email when you've been approved.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Smartest kid in the class...........??.............

It's a great day to be a LION!!!  

Ted Talks...............   www.ted.com

Flip video lesson for today:  http://ed.ted.com/on/Xda3akVt

Here is the link for instructions on how to create your own....
http://blog.ted.com/2012/04/25/flip-it-a-new-way-to-teach-with-video-from-ted-ed/

ELED 300 Thursday, Sept 5, 2013

ELED 300 Thursday, September 5, 2013

Links, etc........

Sample of professional e-portfolio (in format to send to a principal):

http://rhandijohnson.weebly.com/index.html

http://maciewade.weebly.com 






ActivInspire Tutorial - you do NOT have to download the ActivInspire software on your computer to do the free online tutorial.

vInspire Online Tutorial (software that goes with the Promethean Board (interactive whiteboard)

To start a free account - go here: http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en/ and click on "sign up - it's free" on the right side of that webpage.............

For the ActivInspire software tutorial, follow these instructions after you have created your free account and after you are logged in ........click here: http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en/professional-development/promethean-academy/free-courses/ ........then click on "free course - Introduction to ActivInspire".............then under "enroll now" click on Studio ages 11+ then watch the short (about 3 minutes) video called "Introducing ActivInspire Video".........then begin with #1 Introductory Tutorials - and follow through each of the steps - then under Assessment - take the quiz (you must make 100% to get the certificate)...............

Once you have the certificate displayed on your computer - you can use the Snip-it tool to take a picture of it - then save it as a .jpeg - then upload it as a picture on your e-portfolio (weebly)
Note: you do not have to have the ActivInspire softward downloaded in order to do this tutorial - this tutorial is all web-based.

You will put your certificate of completion in your e-portfolio (weebly) - due in weebly Sept 19th at 11:00 am).

If you'd like to download the free software to your personal computer (optional - - you do not have to have this software on your computer in order to do the tutorial) - instructions are here:http://blogbybeckyadams.blogspot.com/2010/06/promethean-board-information.html




Becky's Technology Ideas website is https://sites.google.com/site/technologyideasbybecky




Wiki - Marcus Edwards - middle school science teacher  https://wiki.rockwallisd.org/groups/medwards/


Check out www.ted.com 


What makes an "effective" teacher?
 **bring a list of what effective teachers "do" to class on Tuesday, Sept 10