Reflection

I had the roughest time with this right at the end. For some reason my computer started freezing on me and I accidentally deleted some voice over and clips. When I went to undo I realized that my new edits were undone as well. Overall I enjoyed creating the movies and becoming more familiar with the process. 

ETC_Final Project

http://www.viddler.com/explore/NSelby/videos/10/

PE5_Twiducate

Here I have the ability to add and delete students in my class.

With teaching teachers, I'll be able to show how to add students. Then I'll show them what the student's page looks like. The functionality of both the teacher and student pages and how they interact.

I then logged on as a student, Roslyn, and responded to the post....You can see that she has not created an avatar nor completed a bio. This is where I will have the teachers, I'm training, log in after I've given them their password. During a training workshop, I'd propose a question like this to gain an initial response. Since we all have good students but somehow the real bad ones are the ones we seem to remember the most. Then usually we find out later as to why they were the way they were. Many times it comes from not being understood.
Using twiducate can allow a private session on chat instead of being seen walking up to tell the teacher something. How about sending a chat message to ask to use the restroom, go to the nurse, or just ask a question(post). Parents will be notified of their child's password so they have access to check on student and teacher. I'm going to be having fun creating topics to post for trainees!  

Here is last weeks important date. Notice students had a fun friday event! See the importance of this tab! This can also be a weekly reminder or Student Praise area!

Here's the most recent important date.This is where it is located on the Home page. This site is very teacher friendly. I mean since many are on Facebook this is an easy transition. Now that many schools and businesses are restricting usage of Twitter and the prior, twiducate is the perfect thing for school systems everywhere. This usage brings all students on the same level. I have seen many Special Education students more computer savvy than many Regular Ed. students.

The public page is where all teachers on twiducate can post from all over the network, all over the world. There are so many ways to connect classrooms from school systems throughout the country. Twiducate is going to be a great tool to help me with my Program presentation.

PE4_Twiducate

I logged in to my twiducate and the home page comes up. My page is a little drab so I decided to dive into this and spruce it up and get ready to introduce this. I have many teacher friends in the area and so I recently asked a couple if they knew about twiducate.com. They didn't so I know this tool is going to help me get my ideas out and heard, especially in Delaware.
If you notice on the home page is the Class Bookmarks.....Mr. Selby's Blog. This takes my learners right to my blogspot. Here is the page to Add Bookmarks for the class.

 I had to edit my profile to make it more teacher friendly.

 Then, I had to make my Avatar something student friendly. I decide to choose something not associated with the "norm" of a teacher, and something about my spirit and energy towards life!

 

Now That I have created my school and teacher info. I need students......

I went to the Students tab at the top of the page and created students. Now as soon as a student's name is entered a password is created and stored for the teacher. Each student will be given their passwords to access twiducate.com. It is up to each student to create their own avatar once signing in.

I have yet to look at this from a students view but I'm about to do that in a few.

I created another post. This post is geared towards teaching not only how to use twiducate.com but also how to use "motivation topics" to understand the students better. This will make instruction better!

 

BP2_Shuffler.fm

Through my researching of www.go2web.com, I found a site called Shuffler. This site is actually an internet music site made up of music blogs. This is an appropriate site for helping teachers understand the music aspect of their students’ social lives. The bloggers create the play list based on musical genre.

            I am going to be reaching out to teachers, students and school districts to create a better learning environment for all involved. The music is a very big component of my program. The students want to have a connection between them and their teachers, other than school assignments. For teachers to feel as if they are not breaking proper teacher/student etiquette, sharing an understanding of non-threatening subjects, such as music, will gain proper trust and comfort during the learning situation.

            The Shuffler site opens with the a page of

different pictures of different musical artists. Each one of these pictures has a genre of music specific to the artist. Once you click on a picture, the site then goes to a music blog of that style of music. The music is from different generations. After a picture is chosen, immediately, music starts to play while a blog post appears. The artist is on top of the page in a playlist box, allowing play and pause functions. Next to the box are left and right arrows, which allow access to other songs (blogs), of the same genre. There are six pages of pictures and genres to choose from.

This bridging the gap of music helps teachers be able to use as a down time activity, as well as other projects. Teachers can also upload their own blogs. My main objective with using http://shuffler.fm is to get teachers to understand the importance of music in education but also to show a way to gain a student’s trust without really trying. This tool will aide in student motivation inside and outside of school.        

BP7_One MinuteVideo blog

Here is my video I hope you guys like it! Here's the link to my video.

BP6_Alonzo's Blog

Follow this link to my comments on Alonzo Moses' Blog. I originally commented on Catherine's blog but figured I'd look at around and comment on another. This is specific on a tool in Alonzo's blog.