Week 5

I think that Wikis a very usful tool. I might use it in the classroom; the reason that i say i might is because someone could accuidental make a mistake on the information...and that mistake would be past on.

I know that learning by conversing is more effective than traditional learning. I say this because I am speaking for personal experance; students tend to zone out when they are told something. When students get to the chance to interact, they ge more involved in the topic, hence learning more. Also by using conversing in the classroom, the teacher will be able to tell if the students are getting, what you are teaching, and you won't have to find that out when the test grades come in. I, myself have seen that by conversing in the classroom is more effective that traditional instruction. Again speaking from personal experence, I have observed the differences in two classrooms where one teacher is doing the traditional teaching and the other leaning more toward conversation in the classroom. The students are more interactive, and are pertistingpating more; where the other class the students are just taking notes, and are as silent as the grave....not asking question, just sitting there.

Yes i do beleive that students have different learning styles because everyones different. On the personality test it said that i was a care giver, and that is quite accuate, but I don't know that if it would help in knowing my students better. I say this because I do not know if the students would accuately take the test. But if they did i can see how that could help me, it would help me get to know my students better...the student that's under the shell, not the one they want everyone else to believe they are. I say this because everyone has some sort of shell, and getting under the shell is the trick part.

Spreadsheet

Well, what i think about spreadsheets is are very helpful and pretty alsome. Before this class I never thought that i could use spreadsheet and make them into a worksheet, that is so cool. I would differently use this in a class; making examples, and in when it comes to the grade book.

Well as a going to be teacher the reason i would use spreadsheet would be that it keeps everything together and it would be a hole lot eaiser to enter infomation. The adventage of spreadsheet over a calculator is that it would be a whole lot earier grading. Instead of entering grade after grade to find the average in a calculator; in spreadsheet you would only have to highlight that role or col. to find the avg. I do agree that storing, calculating, and presenting information are the biggest functions in a spreadsheet. The only thing that comes to mind is that come to mind other than those 3 function is, as i said before worksheets.

Assignment 3 Inspiration in your classroom

After watching the video an Inspiration, I think that it could help a whole lot in all subjects besides math and art. I think this program would be best for subjects like science and history. I think this program is kind-of has the same layout as a website. Well in my class room I would probably use this program because it would help layout how the website is going to be function.

Inspiration could help in all sorts of writting assignments, but with the biggest would probably be brainstorming and organization. Wriiting is an activity that benefits form multiple revisions and high-quality feedback. A way teachers could have there students to help each others is have them to get into groups and revision each others papers. When they do this they will get better at grammer, and there paper will also be in better condition in grammer wise. Also there will be another persons feedback so that the person paper will be total understandable. This process is call SWoRD.

Assignment 2

I really like blogging because it's a whole lot easier to stay in touch with people. Also blogging is good for people that have a hard time speaking out in class; this really give the other people an opportunity to hear those thoughts. If a person said that blogging was a waste, I would probably tell them what i have already said earlier.

Well, there are tons of ways of using blogging and technology in schools; for instance class discussions. In class people tend to be more fearful of speaking out;...they don't want to people to think that there stupid. So blogging for a class discussion really does come in handy, because people tend to speak their mind, and offer different opinions. There are a whole lot of different ways in using blogging and technology in school; Commuincating with parents, School Newssletter, and actually getting the school community commuincating.

Rejuss Jenkins

Assignment 1

Well, my name is Rejuss Jenking. I am 20 years old. I came to A&M commerce to become a Web Mastery Teacher. This is my Second Year here. In my family I have two older brothers, and I the youngest in my family.