Friday, April 30, 2010

Until we meet Again=]

Class E it has been a real experience. We have laughed together, complained together, and worked together. It is safe to say I wish I had of done my work on time because this week as been a rat race to catch up. I have enjoyed and gained much from the experience. Have A Great Summer and Good luck with you academic and future endeavors.

Link to Professional Blog

Please view my professional blog HERE.

Final Blog Assignment: Honest Reflection of EDM 310

As I "honestly" reflect over my weeks in EDM 310 I reflect back to the first day of class. Listening to Dr. Strange and Mr. Sullivan explain the course was fuel to my fire. I was excited. Blogging seemed simple and it was just a tad bit time consuming; more so than I realized. The Google Document assignment was fun because for me it was much like using PowerPoint Microsoft all of which I was familiar with. The podcast was too fun because I have a BA in Communication and audio and video is a passion of mine. Uploading pictures to my blog was simple but adapting to the insertion of links was a difficult task to complete. Finally, the insertion of links was engraved in my skull and now I like to add a link to every blog. Safe to say that is something I enjoy and will continuously do. I must admit I am not into podcasts and I University. Perhaps because I am a very traditional learner and I can get what I need from classroom experience. However, I see how Pod casts and I University will help some especially if their audio learners. The posts, you tube video's, and professional blogs really enlightened me as a person and a educator. Some of the posts really made me think of my purpose as well how I can become better. One post in particular made me extremely appreciative and grateful for the opportunities life has bestowed unto me.
I enjoyed audacity. That program made me feel professional with voice audio intertwined with music. AWESOME! I especially enjoyed Google Earth that is after I established what to do. It took me out of reality and for the time I was exploring my destination and I actually felt like I was traveling. If nothing else it was a technology task new to me and I think I just may have mastered it. I recommend this project to all history teachers. I think kids would love working within Google Earth.
Comment for Teachers and for Kids was enlightening to see what my co-workers and kids the age of my son are actually constructing. Academically, the U.S. is way behind and commenting for kids inspired me to teach my six year old things that will enhance him academically.
Prior to this class I thought I was technologically literate. I was not. I knew of the basics but this class exposed me to so much more. I know I will incorporate all of these into my personal classroom. All of which I have learned will empower my students and give them a sense of academic independence. My students will grow and enhance. I will definitely stay engaged
with all of these programs and in hopes I will grow and enhance while finding different and easier avenues to complete each task.
The one major flaw I had with this class was knowing whether or not I had a correct understanding of each task. I often wished not that the work load was lighter because seeing as how I was so far behind and manage to catch up and complete each assignment only determined that the work load was not difficult. However, I often wanted the instructors to walk us through the assignments so that we knew what to look for and an understanding of directions. Without the understanding and direction the assignments became foreign and time consuming. I am currently working on my professional blog which is a tad bit difficult and time consuming yet I am so excited to complete.
The one thing this class was not was boring!
I would change one thing about EDM 310. More student teacher interaction, less instruction, and more educating. There is a huge difference in teaching and educating. One whom educates appeals to all individuals within the class based upon, race and gender. This class did not do such and this is an problem within the educational system that steadily exits.
Have a Great Summer!

Comment for Teachers

I enjoyed seeing the enthusiasm in many teachers around the world. I was more honored that I could be a fuel to their academic endeavors I unfortunately did not copy my comments to post to my personal blog however you can contact DR. STRANGE here for a list of my teachers and there you will retrieve the comments posted from me to various teachers.

Comment for Kids

I enjoyed seeing the enthusiasm in many kids around the world. I was more honored that I could be a fuel to their academic esteem. I unfortunately did not copy my comments to post to my personal blog however you can contact DR. STRANGE here for a list of my students and their you will retrieve the comments posted from me to various students.

Project 12: Google Earth

To reach my Google Earth Project 12 CLICK HERE.
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Project 7: VoiceThread or Vocaroo

I absolutely loved voice thread through audacity. If one has audacity you may view the the work I have done with voice thread HERE.

Project 6: Report on Skype Use

When I discovered Skype I felt it was one of the most useful tools in technology. I love it. It has allowed me to communicate with my family that I do not get to see often it has also saved me much gas and money. I am now able to collaborate with my classmates at anytime and just about anywhere. I encourage everyone who have not discovered Skype to please discover it and put it to use. Skype is an amazing tool in technology.

Project 8: Teaching someone using technology

Here is my video of how to conduct a professional interview. I hope you are able to obtain knowledge on how to conduct a professional interview and how to speak articulate and clear. CLICK HERE.

Project 5: Survey

I conducted a survey on Personal Evolution of maturity. There were only 9 responses to my survey and the responses were all in sync.

5 people felt as if it all depends on the individual in regards to maturity
3 felt like age was a great factor in maturity
1 felt clearly age did not determine an individuals maturity

All nine participants agreed that a large part of maturity takes place between the age 20 to 30 years of age.

5 people felt one should be mature between 2o to 25 years of age.
4 people feel one should be mature between 25 to 30 years of age.

6 people feel outside influence encourages individual maturity
3 people responded that parents influence is what promotes individual maturity.

One of the response was not sure when they matured. Strange! However, two of the people responded they matured as teenagers. One was 18 and one was 19. My apologies, a young lady responded that she became married at 17 and shortly after she became a mother. She does not regret her experience for anything. She felt as if she had no other reason but to grow up. The other 5 were 21 and older and basically recall moving out on their own or life's circumstances forced them to mature.

My personal reflections are it takes many situations to mature. Different strokes for different folks. I am 29 years of age and I am at my most mature to the date. I take responsibility for myself, my loved ones, and my endeavors. Yet, I have a best-friend that is 21 years of age that is my mother and keeps me grounded when I become sparatic. I enjoyed all the responses and personal views. If you want to view my survey CLICK HERE.

March 12, 2010 Blog Assignment

Alex is a website that provide information and resources for teachers to guide them in their teaching career. The way you gain access to this in log in on the website, click on new user and setup an account. It is free and computer guided. The website allows you to submit lesson plans to be reviewed and revised and also used by other members. It provides you with your personal workspace so therefore it can be added as your Personal Learning Network.
The resources available for teachers on Alex include, courses of study, weblinks, lesson plans, search engine, personal workspace, professional learning development, podcast treasury and a help search engine. With these resources teachers can find information that will help them throughout e their professional study. As a future teacher, I plan to use the website and resources to get additional ideas on my lesson plans and to also get feedback on my progress as a new teachers. The website is for technology illiterate and literate teachers and it may also teach the illiterate teachers how to become technology literate.
The Access Program is to provide equal access to high quality instruction to improve student achievement through distance learning. The Access DL plan provides Alabama students with access to quality instruction and coursework by blending three regional support centers to hire, train, evaluate, and support e-teachers. Access is also a technical infrastructure to deliver approved web-based courses and connect IVC labs via a statewide network.
The goal of Access is to continue to meet objectives of the Access plan, expanding the availability of Access Distance Learning to all public high schools in the state. It provide access to advanced diploma courses. Access provides access to Advanced Placement and dual enrollment,dual credit courses. It also provides access to remediation and supplement resources. This is a great website for teachers to visit to get information about Alabama high school Advanced Diploma Programs.

March 7, 2010 Blog Post

I really enjoyed the lecture by Mr. Pausch. He touched on some great topics about achieving success in life. Mr. Pausch speech was much about in all that you do in life make sure you engage in helping others. Always try to find something to do that involves doing something to brighten someone’s day. He also made a great point about how to teach someone something hard. He stated you have to have the person think they are learning something else.
The speech also was very inspiring because he motivates you throughout the speech about following you dreams. He does not feel anyone should not have dreams and not follow their dreams. He feels everyone should try to be happy everyday of their life and keep the negativity out of your life. He encourages everyone to strive hard at what ever dream your pursue and be the best you can at whatever you be.
Through his speech he tells many stories about his parents and how he blessed to have had such great, inspiring, and caring parents in his life. He talks about how strong and encouraging his father was. His father always talked to him about be the best you can be and to always find a way to help others. He also was told by his father to put others first. His father taught him to love and care for his family and to put God first.
Mr. Pausch was giving his last speech to an audience who was under the impression the speech was an inspirational speech for them but in turn it was intentionally given for Mr. Pausch children. This misinterpretation goes back to what Mr. Pausch stated in the beginning of his speech about when you are trying to teach a lesson have your audience think they are learning something else and in the end they will have learned the intended lesson.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

April 25, 2010 Blog Post

Personal Learning Environment
This 7th grader is very much in tune with her technological abilities. I barely knew of a typewriter in the 7th grade. The most important thing I noticed is how organized her thoughts were. Organization plays a big key to academic success. I have always been strong academically but I have to focus for organization. Plus, not any science class I know requires no book and pencil. Learning for this young lady is enticing and their is nothing foreign about her scenery. It is when you take a child from a textbook environment to a electronic environment is what proposes a difficult task in change. I definitely need to increase the organization of my personal learning environment and my academic task may possibly be complete on time. To view this video click here.

Two Questions that Can Change your Life
I loved this movie. Made me think. What is my sentence? Was I better today than I was yesterday? I quickly thought about my sentence. I feel like my sentence is positive but it can always be better. The second sentence is one I live by. I feel like every individual should seek the answer to the second question. It is detailed personal evolution. It is a sure way to derail failure. Well done! To view this video click here.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Link to Class Blog

I am a second degree seeking student at the University of South Alabama. If you are interested in viewing my EDM 310 class blog then click here.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

April 18, 2010 Blog Assignment

I chose the questionnaire created by Dr. Sullivan, "Honest Reflection." As a student of class E, I was/am very behind. Within the last couple of days I have made strong attempts to catch up which only makes me realize that I could of hustle the entire semester. Instead I made excuses. Some of the material was very unknown. I chose not to network with my classmates and assume that eventually we would discuss these matters in class. My assumption was wrong! It forced me to communicate more effectively with other classmates. However, there is some responsibility to the the instructor. I am very visual, tactile young lady. I do not take online courses simply because I need the interaction. Well, for me this class was basically an online class where I taught myself.
It was valuable reminder that anything can be traced through a PC, desktop, or server. Is there a need to lie; not at all. I just feel individuals such as myself feel better to see an allusion of structure in writing. It is almost an confirmation of failure to affirm to not completing assignments. No one wants to except being a slacker or being behind. Yet, honesty is always the best policy. No one blog, class, or seminar will change all groups of people associated to the topic but change is an option. I start the change with me. I fell behind in class. I did not put my all into every assignment but the assignments of interest I put great effort into. If I knew how to complete the assignment I attacked it head on. If the assignment was foreign I made an excuse to avoid. I appreciate all the deadline extension by Dr. Strange to allow me an opportunity to get caught up.
Yet, as an instructor, Dr. Strange I request that you allow more visual instructions and visual instructions. Some individuals need that. If the students are the main objective; as educator then it is our place to appeal to all students and not just some.

Humbly Submitted!

Saturday, April 10, 2010

The 3rd attempt to post my April 11, 2010 blog post

THe last paragraph in has a link that is incorrect. I will make an attempt to redo the last paragraph and assure the link works correctly. Thanks.

My most favorable video was Student Video Messages to President Obama. This particular link will guide you to personalized videos to the President Barack Obama. These students are from Amherst Middle School in Buffalo, NY. The amazing part of this video is their middle school students and they have done more with technology than I have done as a second degree seeking college student. The tape was in depth and the students seemed enthused to create it. The students along with their awesome technology teacher, Rob Zdrojewski was instrumental in creating a sight which link these students to me and others including the president himself. After watching this film, I can help but to wonder has the president viewed this film and if not then he definitely should. Seeing as how the president and I are twitter friends, I am going to inform him of this link.
[I noticed after I posted my April 11, 2010 blog that my links did not appear so I am re posting this blog in hopes that my link work properly and if not then I will continuously try until I get this right.]


I absolutely loved the cartoons about The Zax's. It is unfortunate that their are individuals actually that stubborn. The world was very mediocre and familiar to the Zax's but the world kept growing and growing until an entire city was established around the Zax's stubbornness. This is an representation of educational growth. Whether we as educator's want to believe it or not; we can either keep up or we as an system will be left standing in one position while education enhances around us. One can view this link at.

I take it that I don't value the need for kids to use blogs, twitter, or other networks. I know it reflects how I was raised and educationally brought up. I see the children choir sing, "Landslide" and it was nice. I actually did not get an overwhelming feeling. Many groups since the composing of this song as reinvented the musical aspect of the song. This assignment made me seek other ways of posing audio posts or video posts as of importance. I came across a film I visited earlier on in the class , a Vision of Students. The video was actually created by college students and their interpretation of a college experience. During the film I mentally compared past educational method such as books and black boards to modern education such as smart boards and web pages. I need to catch up within my mentality because our system is a definitely changing strictly for advancement.

I came across Education Today and Tomorrow. I love this film and it reminded me why technology is so important. In every profession to date one must have technological abilities. It is hard to understand this from a observant standpoint but the film was a cup of coffee. Times are a changing. The film showed a 430 pound juke box with 503 songs and compared it to an I pod only a couple of ounces with over a thousand songs. Go Figure! If that isn't an reflection of the change of times then what is.

My most favorable video was http://www.SchoolTVmadeEasy.com . This particular link will guide you to personalized videos to the President Barack Obama. These students are from Amherst Middle School in Buffalo, NY. The amazing part of this video is their middle school students and they have done more with technology than I have done as a second degree seeking college student. The tape was in depth and the students seemed enthused to create it. The students along with their awesome technology teacher, Rob Zdrojewski was instrumental in creating a sight which link these students to me and others including the president himself. After watching this film, I can help but to wonder has the president viewed this film and if not then he definitely should. Seeing as how the president and I are twitter friends, I am going to inform him of this link.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

April 11, 2010 Blog Post


I absolutely loved the cartoons about The Zax's. It is unfortunate that their are individuals actually that stubborn. The world was very mediocre and familiar to the Zax's but the world kept growing and growing until an entire city was established around the Zax's stubbornness. This is an representation of educational growth. Whether we as educator's want to believe it or not; we can either keep up or we as an system will be left standing in one position while education enhances around us. One can view this link at

I take it that I don't value the need for kids to use blogs, twitter, or other networks. I know it reflects how I was raised and educationally brought up. I see the children choir sing, "Landslide" and it was nice. I actually did not get an overwhelming feeling. Many groups since the composing of this song as reinvented the musical aspect of the song. This assignment made me seek other ways of posing audio posts or video posts as of importance. I came across a film I visited earlier on in the class , a Vision of Students. The video was actually created by college students and their interpretation of a college experience. During the film I mentally compared past educational method such as books and black boards to modern education such as smart boards and web pages. I need to catch up within my mentality because our system is a definitely changing strictly for advancement.

I came across Education Today and Tomorrow. I love this film and it reminded me why technology is so important. In every profession to date one must have technological abilities. It is hard to understand this from a observant standpoint but the film was a cup of coffee. Times are a changing. The film showed a 430 pound juke box with 503 songs and compared it to an I pod only a couple of ounces with over a thousand songs. Go Figure! If that isn't an reflection of the change of times then what is.

My most favorable video was . This particular link will guide you to personalized videos to the President Barack Obama. These students are from Amherst Middle School in Buffalo, NY. The amazing part of this video is their middle school students and they have done more with technology than I have done as a second degree seeking college student. The tape was in depth and the students seemed enthused to create it. The students along with their awesome technology teacher, Rob Zdrojewski was instrumental in creating a sight which link these students to me and others including the president himself. After watching this film, I can help but to wonder has the president viewed this film and if not then he definitely should. Seeing as how the president and I are twitter friends, I am going to inform him of this link.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

April 4, 2010 Blog Post Assignment

As I viewed the different films I immediately thought of why is cyber connection so significant when it has been done for awhile now. I have been active through different internet networks since 2006. It was interesting to view different opinion of different individuals and receive a glimpse into their lives. Picture are attention getter and most of the time a picture answers questions or creates them. Network safety to me is Russian roulette per SE yet isn't driving a car. There are dangers in everything we do. A change that is! Safety, cautions, and precautions are just a way of life and not to be taken lightly. Why must so much go into twitter, facebook, myspace etc.? Is it really that significant to all or is it a luxury I have clearly taken for granite.
I take voicethread, blogging, and network real lightly. Is that wrong? I don't see how this will help my classroom nor enhance my student academically. All will definitely enhance technically but how sufficient is that. I don't see voicethread being used much professionally and blogging is an exchange of ideas or more so keeping a journal of your thoughts. One blog is nor more sufficient that the rest. Certain topics interests certain people so not that I read my own thoughts I can see some benefit of networking. Yet, how much of this networking is true and how much is false?
I seek that someone reading this blog will point out the plus to the twitter episode with the man, his daughter, and the different schools. I seek clarity with voicethread. Other than different nationalities coming together and gaining knowledge of a different way of living I am unable to see the benefit.