Detailing parts of a photo

Photo #1:

The title says that it could "strain Obama", which explains why he looks extremely stressed. The caption states that he is brief which we could see that he doesn't want to talk about it much. Looking at the photo and reading the article and title; it shows the details and explains the details of the photo.

People	Objects	Activities
Look pretty determined	American flag	Helping America
They're all smiling	Ocean	Trying to fix the oil spill
Ready to solve issues	Oil	Smiling/ having fun
Dressed casually, not really looking to get their hands dirty	Oil spill equipment	Seem optimistic (their body language)

Photo #2:
The title of the article states that "Obama is ready to seize the claim process", but in the picture, I observed that he's smiling and having a good time and not looking ready to work out a problem. When you look at the details of a picture in a category, you tend to see a lot more of what the photo is trying to portray.

People	Objects	Activities
It's Obama! He's leaning in and looking like he's being serious about something	Looks like there are books in the background maybe outside	Looks like he's thinking pretty deep
He looks concerned	He's got a good looking shirt on	Looks almost worried about the oil spill
His body language is negative	The backgrouns seems to be outside, which would be because its  about the oil spill	Looks nervous about the oil spill
He seems to be stressed	Background is blurred out, and the focus is on him.	Looks like he may be doing a deep discussioned interview about the oil spill

Question:
Which picture gives you more confidence in the presidents leadership abilities? Why?
-Definitely the first one (the one above), his body language shows that he is confident in what he's doing, while in the second photo he looks negative and concerned about a certain issue. This makes America nervous if our president looks stressed and negative. 

Digital Stories and how they're effective in the classroom.

Describing:
The digital story project was effective because it allows you to show the knowledge about something in a unique manner. I feel that students would enjoy this more rather than just learning from their textbook or through a lecture. This activity will show the students how creative they can be; it will also show the teacher as well. Digital storytelling is a way to let the teachers see how well the students are learning and putting their skills to the test. Not only is this a fun activity for the students, but it allows the teachers to see the ability of the students, and it’s certainly more entertaining than grading papers.

ISTE NETS-T
ISTE is a International Society for Technology in Education. Digital Storytelling is a connection with this because it allows the students to promote, support, and model creative and innovativeness. It allows students to engage with digital tools, and show their creativity.

Lesson Plan:
I think the Digital Story activity would go great with a history lesson, say knowing the all of the US presidents. This would probably be for 4th grade students; students could search the web for all the US Presidents in order, and then create a digital story on them. Then, at the end of showing all the presidents they can describe which one is their favorite and say a fact about that particular president. This would be a fun way to recognize all of the presidents; it would be effective as well with Digital Storytelling.

Copyrighting and how it works in the classroom

Group #2 Copyright in an Eletronic Enviornment


Quote:

"Students may use portions of lawfully acquired copyrighted works in their academic multimedia projects, with proper credit and citations. They may retain them in personal portfolios as examples of their academic work"(Information Technology Evaluation Services).

Response:
This is something that all students need to keep in mind, you must ALWAYS cite something that isn't yours. It's extremely important that you have a citation page, wheater it'd be a video, photo, or a quote. If students were not to follow these rules, they could eventually get caught for plagiarism. Plagiarism is taking someone elses work and using it as your own. The consequences are very intense if you get caught plagiarizing, so do whatever you can to avoid it. 


Copyright Questions:

1. Can students upload their multimedia project to YouTube?
2. Are the limitations to the amount of pictures or length of music or video that can be used in a multimedia project?
3. Do you need to request permission from the original creator in order to use copyrighted material in multimedia project for school related assignment?

Copyright Answers:


1. Yes, with the proper citations, credits and permission.
2. Yes, there are certain limitations for a multimedia project. "Multimedia selections falling within the above guidelines may be altered to illustrate a specific technique or to support a specific instructional objective.If more than one person has created the multimedia presentation, each principal creator may retain only one copy. Also, Notation of the alteration should be documented within the presentation itself"(Information Technology Evaluation Services).
3.For certain projects you need permission. It's always safe to ask for permission rather than submitting it and maybe having the risk of getting in trouble. "Educators or students need not write for permission if their presentation falls within the specific multimedia fair use guidelines; however, "educators and students are advised to note that if there is a possibility that their own educational multimedia project incorporating copyrighted works under fair use could later result in broader dissemination, whether or not as commercial product, it is strongly recommended that they take steps to obtain permissions during the development process for all copyrighted portions rather than waiting until after completion of the project" (Information Technology Evaluation Services).


References:

• Information Technology Evaluation Services, Public Schools of North Carolina, 1997
• YouTube Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2AR5-sDfbU&feature=related


Relate able material:
This is relevant because this video actually shows you how important citing is and the consequences of plagiarism is. Even though its for another college. We can still learn from it! Enjoy. 

Video with credits!!

Digital Storytelling

Quote:
 "Through creating narratives, students develop the power of their own voices and become heroes of their own learning stories" (Ohler 47).

Reaction:
I chose this quote because I completely agree that digital story telling is a positive activity in the classroom. I feel that it expresses students creativity, and imagination rather it'd be their own story or an assignment from the class. Having students create stories helps not only with their technology skills, but with their grammar skills as well. By the time I have my own classroom, I'd like to see more of this in class assignments. I feel this activity would get students excited about learning, it'd be an activity where they'd be learning different skills at once without even realizing it. Doing these stories would allow the teacher to view students individually, it'll show their strong points and weak points, which will help in the classroom. I feel that this activity would be effective in any grade, it's something fun and creative but at the same time you can be learning from it as well, and the teacher can benefit also!

Refrences:
Ohler, Jason. (2011 September 14). The World of Digital Storytelling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKZiXR5qUlQ

Related Resources: 
This is relevant because, it shows you just how to make a digital story!

YouTube Video Assignment

Heres my video, enjoy!

Mine and Nathans 21st century comic!

Enjoy!

Texting Abbreviations

Quote:
 “And so it is rather bizarre that the first widespread change in how people spell English words appears to have come from a group of (largely) young people sending text messages to one another with cellular phones and other electronic devices.”

I agree with this quote because we text and use abbreviations so much, we really don’t even realize we do it! It is bizarre because when we text our peers we all understand the language we use, wheatear it’s “brb” “btw” “bc” or “ttyl” we all understand the language. I feel this has been such an impact in our language because its so much shorter, we are always looking for shortcuts. I feel that it’s not dumbing us down by any means because it still allows us to think about the abbreviations we are sending.  Abbreviations have been around for quite some time, but now we just have to 

technology to use them more often. 

Citation:

Ammon Shea is the author of “Reading the O.E.D.: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages.” He is a consulting editor of American dictionaries for Oxford University Press.

http://lmg.letmeget.net/blog/texting-symbols-list-facebook

Related Sources: 

Heres a few examples of texting abbreviations! 

Learning Style Test Results

I received the results of VARK (visual 4, aural 5, read/write 3, kinesthetic 4) I have a multimodal learning performance. I agree with my results, I feel that I most definitely am a visual learner. I like to see what I'm learning, I feel it makes more sense to me and is more organized in that way. I learned that I like visuals even more than I thought, but before taking the test, I had a feeling I was more of a visual learner more than anything. My strategies are to learn from PowerPoint’s, diagrams, graphs, and photos. I feel this is so much better to learn this way than to learn from someone just SAYING what to do, instead of a visual. I feel that this test was very accurate, and I feel that it complimented my thoughts very well. I enjoyed taking this test!

 Guess what kind of learner I'am!

Shalee

Fun tools: Wordle & Poll Everywhere!

Wordle and Poll Everywhere are fun tools to use in the classroom, they make learning fun and enjoyable for any student. Poll Everywhere is an audience response system, it allows you to give polls and see other peoples opinions on what you are asking in your poll, this allows you to know your students on another level.Wordle is a text analysis tool that allows you to have a screen shot of all of your poll results, this is shown in a very creative way. In my particular poll I asked, "Who is your favorite celebrity" as you can see the results are on my previous post made with Wordle. This activity allowed me to know more about my peers and out of 26 students no celebrity was the same, which was very interesting.

Wordle Lesson Plan:
Give students the ability to use Wordle as a studying tool, for all the United States presidents. This would be a fun and creative way to show the students who all their presidents are. To not get them confused, you could number them before you put all the names in Worlde. I feel this would be a fun and effective way for them to know their presidents instead of just giving them a boring study guide to look at and study. This could be for any grade and any class, but I feel the younger generation would love it because they can be putting their technology skills to the test while studying.

Poll Everywhere Lesson Plan:
This tool is very useful to teachers, because you can turn your lesson plans into a poll! You could ask, "Who is your favorite president and why?" This allows you to know your students better, and it also will show if they know their presidents or not. Students should love this activity because its not the usual pencil and paper activity. This allows students to get more excited about the lesson you are teaching and will allow them to get the knowledge they need for that particular lesson.

ISTE:
Technology in education, this is changing our views of the classroom and learning systems. This all allows students to want to learn along with Wordle and Poll Everywhere activities. I'd love to see classrooms use all of these for learning tools, I feel they could be very effective in the classroom!

Is social networking and texting damaging our creativity?

Quote:
"Yes, young people sometimes accidentally slip a btw (by the way) into a school essay. But a recent study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project confirms that middle school and high school students understand what kind of language is appropriate in what context (Lenhart, Smith, & Macgill, 2008). What's more, scholars of new media language, such as David Crystal and Beverly Plester, remind us that the new technologies encourage creativity, which can spill over into school writing (Crystal, 2008; Plester, Wood, & Bell, 2008)."

Reaction:
Me being a person that uses social networking and texting every day, I feel that this is helping us instead of hurting us. I feel that the quote I have chosen compliments my thoughts very well about the digital media changing our language. I feel that it is for the better! We have technology that helps us with spellcheck and grammar, this allows us to realize when we've misspelled a word and will help us with our mistakes. This allows us to become better at grammar and spelling, what's so bad about that? Adults I feel have the wrong opinions of texting and social networking, they feel that it's dumbing the younger population down, but in reality it's doing just the opposite. As for social networking, I feel that it helps our communication skills, it allows us to become closer than ever before with our friends and family. This is 2011, we ALL must accept this and embrace it so text, Tweet, and Facebook away it's actually doing good for your mind! So, the answer is no, its improving our creativity and allowing us to become better more educated people.

Reference:

Baron, N. (2000). Alphabet to email: How written English evolved and where it's heading. New York Routledge.

YouTube.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SuNx0UrnEo,2011. September 1, 2011.

Related Sources:
I feel this video is appropriate because it shows us the effects of soical networking and how much it's an impact on our society and how many people actually use it.