Cheap and Easy! I had a excellent time establishing a Viemo account and uploading a video on the free web based program. I tried to email the video to my email account but my Iphone said that the video was too big. So I uploaded it directly. From there I put the video onto my computer then went directly into my Viemo account and uploaded. I put a title on the video with a brief description. Its great! The only thing I do warn that it does take some time, uploading and viewing a video for the first time, so plan ahead of time that you need it.
Today when I was at Wilson High School in southwest Portland the health teacher and I got into a discussion on incorporating technology in a health classroom. I showed him my blog, and he loved it. He is now allowing me to teach a few lessons using the technology we learned in class. Thus this class turned out to be useful in such a short amount of time. Thank you Barry!
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
#8 Google spread sheet & class data
I had a good time re learning how to use a spread sheet. In high school I had some experience using the Microsoft Excel program but never with Google Spreadsheet. I love Google and I love it even more with a the tool they called Spreadsheet. To define Goggles Spreadsheet, I would say you can save a ton of time and energy when collecting and organizing data, a great tool in analyzing numbers and to see progress. I started by setting up my own spread sheet and copying the raw data to my new sheet. From there I just followed the videos step by step and linked and embedded.
I had the great experience of learning how to use a spreadsheet!
Link to spread sheet & data
The data shown below are the scores of the students who were struggling during the first part of the semester. I took the last 5 weeks of test scores to see if improvement was evident. We do see that the test average does go up in the last couple of weeks. Test 6 had a test average of 161.33 on the test while on Test 10 had a average of 191.83. The student most improved was Vincent, Test 6 he had a score of 175 compared to Test 10 he had a score of 215, giving him a difference of 40 points. While Scott was the least improved, improving only 10 points between Test 6 and Test 10.
As a result of these test scores, I would seek out the students who had minimal gain and ask them about the material. I would then figure out what other ways can I express this material in such a way that they will be able to relate to it. I would then offer some strategies as to how they can study for the material so that will will also stick with them in the long run.
I had the great experience of learning how to use a spreadsheet!
Link to spread sheet & data
The data shown below are the scores of the students who were struggling during the first part of the semester. I took the last 5 weeks of test scores to see if improvement was evident. We do see that the test average does go up in the last couple of weeks. Test 6 had a test average of 161.33 on the test while on Test 10 had a average of 191.83. The student most improved was Vincent, Test 6 he had a score of 175 compared to Test 10 he had a score of 215, giving him a difference of 40 points. While Scott was the least improved, improving only 10 points between Test 6 and Test 10.
As a result of these test scores, I would seek out the students who had minimal gain and ask them about the material. I would then figure out what other ways can I express this material in such a way that they will be able to relate to it. I would then offer some strategies as to how they can study for the material so that will will also stick with them in the long run.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Post #7 Multi-Media Project
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Hello hello and welcome to my personal experience with Voicethread. With Voicethread you can present all sorts of documents, videos, and pictures with audio to help explain concepts of what is being displayed. While you are presenting information, the creators have came up with five different ways to comment on what I like to call the focal point of the presentation. This is a great tool in a educational setting, students can really work together and collaborate on final projects. This tool is a very reasonable for any subject matter, students can add pictures or supplemental video to help express concepts or ideas. Another great feature is that as a teacher you can have your students have control of who can write comments and see comments. I like this product because I can see students really taking ownership in their school work with this service. Attached is a little video I made expressing somethings that are in my live. This slideshow presentation has pictures with my voice giving a brief description.
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Hello hello and welcome to my personal experience with Voicethread. With Voicethread you can present all sorts of documents, videos, and pictures with audio to help explain concepts of what is being displayed. While you are presenting information, the creators have came up with five different ways to comment on what I like to call the focal point of the presentation. This is a great tool in a educational setting, students can really work together and collaborate on final projects. This tool is a very reasonable for any subject matter, students can add pictures or supplemental video to help express concepts or ideas. Another great feature is that as a teacher you can have your students have control of who can write comments and see comments. I like this product because I can see students really taking ownership in their school work with this service. Attached is a little video I made expressing somethings that are in my live. This slideshow presentation has pictures with my voice giving a brief description.
Click here!
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Post #6 Google Docs Group Project #2) Picasa
The purpose of this project was to get familiar with with the google application called Picassa. When getting to know Picassa, we where asked to think about how we as future teachers can apply this service in our classroom to improve student learning. Here is the link to the google doc assignment
Google Doc.
This is the link to the web album.
https://picasaweb.google.com/106686590980043277740/CoachHock?authkey=Gv1sRgCIap_qLe2-HmYg
After using this product I can see many potentials for using in the classroom to enhance student learning. Teachers can share what is going on in their classroom to administrators and local state officials, to demonstrate learning is happening in his or her lesson plans. Students can use photo albums and collages to advocate for a selected cause. Students can use this program to show as evidence that they are meeting specific standards to pass a program.
I had trouble with this program. Im sure if I spent more time with it I would get the hang of it but in my defense, blogging was new to me, cloud computing was new to me, every single day in this class is a new and challenging experience. I normally dont take any pictures as compared to my friends who have hundreds of pictures of themselves on the internet, so this was a new concept for me. I had difficulty finding how to edit my pictures and still having trouble creating a collage. But I did ad a wine bottle to a picture, however Im still trying to learn how to make the collage. Personally I will make a good attempt to use this program personally in my life, because I do like how I can save my pictures to another source besides my computer. I also really enjoy looking at other peoples pictures from across the world.
I personally contributed to the group by providing, exploring the application, providing examples of how this program can be applied to student learning, I made a web album and began to explore how to edit photos, and provided links to docs and web album. At the end was also a brief section on my reflection.
Google Doc.
This is the link to the web album.
https://picasaweb.google.com/106686590980043277740/CoachHock?authkey=Gv1sRgCIap_qLe2-HmYg
After using this product I can see many potentials for using in the classroom to enhance student learning. Teachers can share what is going on in their classroom to administrators and local state officials, to demonstrate learning is happening in his or her lesson plans. Students can use photo albums and collages to advocate for a selected cause. Students can use this program to show as evidence that they are meeting specific standards to pass a program.
I had trouble with this program. Im sure if I spent more time with it I would get the hang of it but in my defense, blogging was new to me, cloud computing was new to me, every single day in this class is a new and challenging experience. I normally dont take any pictures as compared to my friends who have hundreds of pictures of themselves on the internet, so this was a new concept for me. I had difficulty finding how to edit my pictures and still having trouble creating a collage. But I did ad a wine bottle to a picture, however Im still trying to learn how to make the collage. Personally I will make a good attempt to use this program personally in my life, because I do like how I can save my pictures to another source besides my computer. I also really enjoy looking at other peoples pictures from across the world.
I personally contributed to the group by providing, exploring the application, providing examples of how this program can be applied to student learning, I made a web album and began to explore how to edit photos, and provided links to docs and web album. At the end was also a brief section on my reflection.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Post# 5 OTEN Conference
For the last few weeks of September I had the opportunity to attend a conference put on by the Oregon Technology in Education Network at Willamette University. The keynote speaker was Joe Morelock, Director of Technology & Innovation for the Candy School District, and his presentation was titled Reaching All Learners. The other two showcased sessions that will be mentioned in my summary are Infusing the three R's with the four C's: Transforming schools to equip students for tomorrow's careers and communities by Willamette University's assistant professor Jennifer Roberts and New Forms of Instruction Materials Support Common Core State Standards by Drew Hinds of the Oregon Department of Education- Office of Educational Improvement and Innovation.
Link to my voicethread.
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Link to my voicethread.
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Post# 4 My Favorite Web 2.0 Tools
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| www.youtube.com |
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| www.facebook.com |
How can these tools inspire learning in my classroom?
Collaboration! Personally in my health and physical education classes, I can use the Web 2.0 services to have my students share what they are doing to improve their health! Students can document and share to the community what they are doing to be healthy people. Allowing encouragement to a growing population of sedentary lifestyles. In a traditional health classroom students journal what they are doing, and then the teacher is the only one who reads the journals. That methods does serve a purpose but I find it flat out boring! Lets use technology and share what we are doing in a classroom.
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| www.delicious.com |
How can these tools inspire learning in my classroom?
Easy access! If I want my students to work on a project using may different resources or websites, its one stop for access. I can create a list or websites, and make them public to my students. Boom shocka locka!
Monday, September 19, 2011
Post#3 Assignment 1 Google Docs Project.
The next assignment was to do a extensive review of Google Docs. By working on this assignment I was able to explore all the different benefits and options that Google Docs has to offer. The other part of the assignment was explore the benefits of incorporating this service into my teaching life. This is the link to the assignment click here.
Review:
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I was very nervous to use this program only because I was new to Google Docs, and also new to the blog scene. However once I began to explore and use the tools provided, I caught myself saying, this program would have made my undergrad projects a whole better by saving time.
This program helps with student collaboration on project, allowing easy access to documents and real time working availability. Students can work on a project at the same time from different locations. Teachers can provide instant feedback on a project versus waiting one or two days to see the student and another day to read the material and to write feedback.
For the project I provided the tools and features, I had no clue as to what was going on, but both my partners help me out and did a great job explaining to me the process. COLLABORATION!
Post #2 Blogs
Communication has allowed humans to co exist. Recently through the birth of the internet we are now communicating on a global scale, allowing humans to come together and work harder, faster, and more efficient than ever before. Internet allows more information at our fingertips than any previous resource. With the internet comes a new tool that we can use in the classroom as educators, blogging.
Blogging can provide many opportunities for learning in our classrooms, having the opportunity to share thoughts and ideas is a big advantage in community learning. Also with students collaborating and sharing ideas in their blogs, students have time to read information, self reflect, and then write as many times as they want to. Doing this allows work to get more work done faster and efficient. For a student researching information out of a book, this might be thought of as boring and motivation levels might be down, but through blogging and the internet students can be more motivated thus increasing more opportunities to work on their reading and writing skills. Teachers can use blogs to communicate with their students on assignments, and provide examples through links, saving paper and other costly expenses that normal classroom work has.
The rest of the world is moving toward getting work done at extremely fast pace. With blogging as a tool in the classroom we are teaching our students some skills necessary to compete at the global the global level.
Blogging can provide many opportunities for learning in our classrooms, having the opportunity to share thoughts and ideas is a big advantage in community learning. Also with students collaborating and sharing ideas in their blogs, students have time to read information, self reflect, and then write as many times as they want to. Doing this allows work to get more work done faster and efficient. For a student researching information out of a book, this might be thought of as boring and motivation levels might be down, but through blogging and the internet students can be more motivated thus increasing more opportunities to work on their reading and writing skills. Teachers can use blogs to communicate with their students on assignments, and provide examples through links, saving paper and other costly expenses that normal classroom work has.
The rest of the world is moving toward getting work done at extremely fast pace. With blogging as a tool in the classroom we are teaching our students some skills necessary to compete at the global the global level.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Post#1 About me.
Hello my name is Jacob Hockett and I live in Portland, Oregon. I am currently working on a masters degree in the Arts of Teaching at Willamette University. I hope to one day be teaching health and physical education in a middle or high school setting. I will be working towards a ESOL endorsement as well. As of this vary moment my dream job would be teaching in a inner city. Some places in mind are Portland, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, or Boston.
I grew up in Salem, Oregon and then attended Western Oregon University. I received a Bachelors of Science degree in Exercise Science. While in college, I coached baseball and football at a local high school in Salem for three years. For baseball I was the head freshman coach (2 years) & head junior varsity coach (1 year), and for football I was the varsity wide receivers coach.
Working on my fitness and eating healthy foods is a top priority in my life. I currently run and cycle to improve my cardiovascular health. I also do functional strength training to improve my muscular structure.
I recently am exploring different genres of music and learning about different musicians. I also am becoming more appreciative of art, and the amount of time and effort artist put into their work. The level of creativity of these individuals I envy. Growing up I hated reading, now I have found books that I am interested in and enjoy it.
Jacob's Perfect Day:
I wake up early in the morning and go for a run, then come home to eat a healthy breakfast. During breakfast I am drinking a cup of coffee and reading the The New York Times. After breakfast I work on homework or whatever needs to be done around the house while listening to music. After that is done, I head of to the gym to improve my muscular strength. After the trip to the gym I come home, fire up the grill and call a few of my friends to come over. While eating dinner I start the bon fire then relax the rest of the night.
I grew up in Salem, Oregon and then attended Western Oregon University. I received a Bachelors of Science degree in Exercise Science. While in college, I coached baseball and football at a local high school in Salem for three years. For baseball I was the head freshman coach (2 years) & head junior varsity coach (1 year), and for football I was the varsity wide receivers coach.
Working on my fitness and eating healthy foods is a top priority in my life. I currently run and cycle to improve my cardiovascular health. I also do functional strength training to improve my muscular structure.
I recently am exploring different genres of music and learning about different musicians. I also am becoming more appreciative of art, and the amount of time and effort artist put into their work. The level of creativity of these individuals I envy. Growing up I hated reading, now I have found books that I am interested in and enjoy it.
Jacob's Perfect Day:
I wake up early in the morning and go for a run, then come home to eat a healthy breakfast. During breakfast I am drinking a cup of coffee and reading the The New York Times. After breakfast I work on homework or whatever needs to be done around the house while listening to music. After that is done, I head of to the gym to improve my muscular strength. After the trip to the gym I come home, fire up the grill and call a few of my friends to come over. While eating dinner I start the bon fire then relax the rest of the night.
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