Scaling graphs

Today in class we did an activity that compared testing scores. We compared WV testing averages and national averages. Once we scaled our graph that helped prove our point and then made a graph we also created a small executive summary saying that since WV's testing scores are so much lower then the National standard we need to raising funding to help boost these test scores.

Here is a link to my exectutive summary and graph :)

Kid Zone :)

Kid Zone is another kid friendly website that you can make and print free graphs!

Here is a link to my GRAPH!

Crappy Graphs

Crappy Graphs is a free website that you can make free graphs. Here is a LINK to Crappy Graphs!

Here's a LINK to my Crappy Graph.

Google Forms

We created a assessment in Google Forms to go along with my webquest. Below is a link to this assessment. These are very helpful to assess the progress that your students have made after the activinty you have done.

Link :)

Rubrics :)

A rubic is some form of a scoring guide that is used in the assesment of some kind of task.

Here's a link to my RUBISTAR

Google Site :)

Here is a LINK to my google site about slavery. Enjoy :)

Jing!

Jing is something that you canuse to do screen castings and you can also use it for doing image castings!

Here is a LINK to Jing so you can try it out yourself!!

WebQuest :)

Today we continued to work on our webquest activity. We added new headers to our sites so that we can begin adding all of our information into the site for the webquest!

Prezi!

Today we signed up for an online presentation too so that we can move away from powerpoint and still be able to present information.

Here is a link to PREZI :)so that you can create your own account!

Click HERE to view my Prezi Presentation

Slavery: To Be or Not to Be? on Prezi

Video

Here is a LINK to my video on youtube :)

Photostory

1. MPS = Microsoft Photo Story
2. What is Photo Story 3 for Windows and how do I get a copy?
-Photo story is a program that allows you to make digital movies by using images
-click here to download a copy of MPS

3. What is the file type for a MPS project?
.wp3

4. What is the file type for an exported MPS movie?
.wmv

5. Where do MPS projects open?
Windows Media PhotoStory

6. Where do exported MSP movies open?
Windows media Player

7. Can you do transitions between images in MPS project?
Yes

8. Describe the image editing options in MPS.
You can edit the colors and effects also you can edit trasitions.

9. Describe the image viewing options in MPS (include motion path over images)
You can decide when the image starts and ends and how each of the slides transition. Also you can set the time alotted for each slide.

10. How do you turn a PowerPoint presentation into images?
Save your presentation as other formats and then save them as some form of image such as .jpg

Webquest!

The things that make a good webquest are that they require high levels of thinking not just question and answer, they must be appealing to the eye with colors that coorinate with each other and appropriate graphics so that students are interested in what they are doing, and it should include good links to other sites and resources to help the students to answer the questions in the webquest.

Web Quest Project!

The web quest that i will be creating is going to be on the day in the life of a slave. I would like the lesson to be centered around how the slaves got to the colonies and what they experienced once they got to the colonies. Students will understand the hardships that these slaves experienced. Also I would like the students to explore why the slaves were so essential to the stability of the colonies and what reasons that the slaves were brought from Africa to the colonies to work.

Slavery Project Presentation

Framing Questions

Today we started to develope the essential, unit and content questions that we will be using as a base to developing our lessons for this project.

March 1!- Google.Site

Today we continued to get our site together. We created links to all the different types of content standards that pertain to our projects. We also learned more about editing our sites and how to add new pages and how to change the names of existing pages on our site.We are also starting to think about the type of lessons that we are going to be doing for this project.

Intel Thinking project- Slavery: Why are People Purchasing People?

We have stared working on our Intel lesson project. We also started creating a website for our project. We continue to add to our websites and gather more sources. Click here to view my website.

Fourth Grade History

Topic: Slavery: Why are people purchasing people?

Lesson 1: Why and where did Slavery start?

Lesson 2: The Underground Railroad.

Lesson 3: The Abolishment of Slavery and Abe Lincoln.

Links to Lessons:
About Slavery

Slavery

Project!

We continued to discuss our project that we will be doing and view Dr. Pierce's powerpoint on the project that he did so that we could understand more of what we will be doing.

Class 2/15/2010

Today in class we discussed out Visual learning project. Also we talked about our new project that we will be starting and began to gather ideas about what we each were going to do our project on!

Visual Ranking Project: Geometric Shapes!

My visual ranking activity is called "Geometric Shapes". I listed 5 shapes that need to be put in order from largest to smallest according to the number of faces that each of the shapes have and their size.

Click HERE to view my project, you will need the three things listed below:

My ID:sshuck

Team ID's:Team1, Team2, Team3, and Team4

Passwords: password1, password2, password3, password4

Habits of Learning Taxonomy

Applying Bloom's Taxonomy of Thinking Skills

Situation:
Two glasses are filled half way with soda- one with cola and one with lemon lime. A small amount of lemon lime is removed from the glass and put into the cola glass. The glass is stirred thoughly so that the lemon-lime is completely mixed into the cola. Then the same amount of the mixture is removed from the cola glass and put into the glass with lemon-lime.

Question:
After the soda has been exchanged, is there more cola in the lemon-lime glass or more lemon-lime in the cola glass? Look over the problem and predict which of the followwing is most likely to be correct:

• More cola in the lemon-lime
• More lemon-lime in the cola
• The same in both glasses

After thinking about this problem, i feel that in the end both cups should still have the same amount of liquid in it.

Strategies and Processes used:

• Understand
• You first must understand the problem before trying to figure it out
• Apply
• You must apply what you know already to try and solve the problem
• Analyze
• Think about what you know and put everything ot together to know the answer
• Execute
• Finally yoou figure out your answer

*All About Me*

I used Animoto to created an introductory video about me!

View my VIDEO

Intel

Today we learned how to use two of the three thinking tools within the Intel program:

• We applied for an Animoto account to create a short introduction video.
• We also created visual ranking tools to create maps.

Storage Issues

Four Places that an Electronic Document can be Stored:

Flash Drive:

• The pros of this is that you can easily take this with you where ever you go to access your information. theses are also cheap and avaliable and there are not many restrictons to it.
• The cons of this is that these are easily lost of left behind so you lose all of you important info. They also break very easily so you could lose all your information.

Network Drive:

• The Pro of this is that all of your information is backed up so if something would ever happen to the computer you would not lose you information. Also you can get to this from any computer that is connected to the network.
• The Cons of this is that you must be logged in on the network computers to access it and that you must be connected to the internet meaning that you can not use this drive when logged onto wireless internet.

Desktop:

• The pros of this is that it there is a lot of space and information can be easily stored in this place.
• The con is that sometimes when you log off and log back on you information could potentially not be there.

Google Docs.:

• The pros this is on the internet so that all you have to do is log on an you can access this no matter where you are.
• The con is that you must have internet access these documents so that could cause limitations to when you can access them.

Publishing a Document :)

• We created a document in Microsoft word
• Uploaded that Google Docs
• Shared/published the document to a web page
  
  Click Here to view my web page!

Monday Jan. 25 2010 Class

What we did in class today:

• Signed up for a social bookmarking service called Delicious

First blog post CRN 1400

Click to see Home Page

Instructional Technology!!

January 22, 2010

Savanna Shuck