Voki Assignment

Today in class we created a Voki account.  This also included making an Avatar to go along with our text for the assignment.  The assignment was to create a document that addresses a teaching philosophy for our content area.  Here is a link to my philosophy and my Voki Avatar.

The ISTE standards used for this activity were #2 and #5

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S. Teachers:

a.	design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
b.	develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress.
c.	customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.
d.	provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.

5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers:

a.	participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning.
b.	exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others.
c.	evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning.
d.	contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community.

Online Survey

In today's class Dr. Pierce showed us how to do and create online surveys.  I created a survey pertaining to my content area.  Please click on this link in order to take my Quiz.  Music Quiz.  You can also click on this link in order to see the results of the quize/survey. Music Survey/Quiz Results.

The ISTE standards used for this activity were #2 and #5

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S. Teachers:

a.	design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
b.	develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress.
c.	customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.
d.	provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.

5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers:

a.	participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning.
b.	exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others.
c.	evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning.
d.	contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community.

Texting

Taught Dr. Pierce how to text to wiffiti.com. 

Step 1:  In the to area put in 87884
Step 2:  In the subject/message area put txt@wif45802 and the message that you want to send. 
Step 3:  Press send.

Dr. Pierce also showed us an online site that allows us to send text messages from the computer using the website http://www.txt2day.com/

Online Graphing Tools

 This activity was to create and publish two online documents (Google Docs), containing a heading, executive summary and chart.  There are two links available for the documents created in Google Docs.  One for 4th grade and one for 8th grade.  Link to google document 4th grade chart  and Link to google document 8th grade chart.  The graphing tool used for this assignment was from Kid's Zone and can be found by using this link Kid's Zone   There is also a link for where the Data was collected and can be found using this link.  NAEP Data for statistics.  The outcome for this activity was to purposely create, integrate, publish, interpret, and discuss graphic images using line or bar charts.

The ISTE standards used for this activity were #2 and #5

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S. Teachers:

a.	design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
b.	develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress.
c.	customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.
d.	provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.

5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers:

a.	participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning.
b.	exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others.
c.	evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning.
d.	contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community.

Prezi web based tool

Learned about another online tool that can be used.  This tool is called Prezi.  We created a Prezi account and learned how to turn our PowerPoint Presentation into jpeg images and import them into this tool.   From there, we used the tools provided within Prezi to complete this project.  I think I like this more than PowerPoint and will continue to use this for other presentations.  Here is a link to my presentation.  Prezi Presentation

Music Staff on Prezi

ISTE NETS T

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:

a.	promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
b.	engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
c.	promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
d.	model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.

PhotoStory

Have been working since last week putting together my PhotoStory that corresponds to the PowerPoint presentation completed for class.  I created a PhotoStory account, and uploaded my PowerPoint presentation into this application.  After uploading the presentation, I narrated my PhotoStory using my voice to record the presentation.  Once finished, I uploaded the video to YouTube.  It can be found using this link.  PhotoStory link to YouTube

ISTE NETS T

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:

a.	promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
b.	engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
c.	promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
d.	model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.

PowerPoint Presentation for Instructional Technology Class 10/29/2010

Music presentation for instructional technology

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This is the PowerPoint presentation that I will be presenting to the class tomorrow 10/29/2010.  It was supposed to be a 5 minute presentation for the class pertaining to our certification.  

Classwork on 10/25/2010

Discussed our PowerPoint slideshow.  Worked on animation and different ways to use PowerPoint to show our slides during our presentation.

ISTE NETS T

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:

a.	promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
b.	engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
c.	promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
d.	model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.

Claswork 10/27/2010

Today in class we learned some additional features in PowerPoint.  This included labels, grouping, triggers and motion path.  We worked on the slideshow we created in PowerPoint to include these features.

ISTE NETS T

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:

a.	promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
b.	engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
c.	promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
d.	model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.

October Assignments for 10/20

Continued to work on PowerPoint assignment.  The presentation I chose to do was on general informaiton on the Music Staff including names of the Lines and Spaces as well as the order of Sharps and Flats on the staff and how to determine what the key signature is according to the number of sharps and or flats in the signature. 

October Assignments for week of 10/18

Received assignment via e-mail concerning a PowerPoint assignment.  Researched PowerPoint assignment information that was given from Dr. Pierce.  Read required readings as well as the videos that showed PowerPoint presentations.  Will continue to work on my presentation on Wednesday. 

PowerPoint Presentation

Music power point presentation

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Worked on a PowerPoint presentation for my Instructional Technology class.  Signed up for a free Slideshare account in order to upload my presentation.

ISTE NETS T

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:

a.	promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
b.	engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
c.	promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
d.	model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.

Virtual Field Trip

The topic of my Vitrual Field Trip is Ralph Vaughan Williams.  He is a composer raised in Great Britain.  We will visit several places including where he has born, lived, Colleges/Universities that he attended/worked for a couple other notable places during his lifetime as well as where he is buried.  This will go along with a Unit used in the classroom on composers of the 20th Century.  To take the virtual trip, please click on the link provided link to map.  Hope you enjoy your virtual tour of Great Britain and several places associated with the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. 

ISTE NETS T

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:

a.	promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
b.	engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
c.	promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
d.	model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.

The skills used in this activity relate to the 21st Century Skills ICT Skills.

ICT Literacy Apply Technology Effectively

Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate and communicate information
Use digital technologies (computers, PDAs, media players, GPS, etc.), communication/networking tools and social networks appropriately to, access, manage, integrate, evaluate, share, and create information to successfully function in a knowledge economy.

We input our information.
We created our own maps (using Google Maps)
We published this information to our Website



Social Bookmarking

Today in our Instructional Technology class, we created a way to store our links and bookmarks by using an online produce.  The product we used was Diigo.  We created a Diigo account.  It allows to archive and share my URL favorites online.  This also allows me to display my bookmarks in my Diigo Library which can be found by going to this link http://www.diigo.com/user/gman1996.

ISTE NETS T

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:

a.	promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
b.	engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
c.	promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
d.	model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.

This tool was new to the majority of the class.  I think it will be a good tool to use in the future.  This can be used to grade students work in class when using the computer and will enable me to place notes for corrections and highlight areas that may need improvement.

Google Earth

Today in class we met virtually.  We were given discussion questions to answer pertaining to our teaching certuification and Google Earth.  We were given a spreadsheet by Dr. Pierce titled "poop" where we incorporated our personal information containing our name, mailing address, blog address, web site and our e-mail addresses.   We then went to BatchGeocode.com and copied and pasted the information from the spreadsheet and mapped out all of the students locations that are currently taking this class. Here is the web address to view the map created in class http://www.batchgeo.com/map/c4b9d3cf93a5cd74e00ffd3e760364eb


ISTE NETS T

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:

a.	promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
b.	engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
c.	promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
d.	model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.

The skills used in this activity relate to the 21st Century Skills ICT Skills.

ICT Literacy Apply Technology Effectively

Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate and communicate information
Use digital technologies (computers, PDAs, media players, GPS, etc.), communication/networking tools and social networks appropriately to, access, manage, integrate, evaluate, share, and create information to successfully function in a knowledge economy.

We accessed a shared document (gdocs by email invitation.)
We input our information.
We created our own maps (using Batchgeo)
We also discussed the lack of experience and exposure to mapping tools such as Google Earth and Google Maps in previous classes.

Google Websites

Today in class we learned how to make a website through google.  The site used was https://sites.google.com/.  We uploaded our resume and created a calendar for our website.  My website address is https://sites.google.com/site/practice123zzyyy/.

ISTE NETS T

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:

a.	promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
b.	engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
c.	promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
d.	model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.

Very few people in the classroom knew hot to create a Website.  Once in the classroom, this would be a good tool to use with my students.

Midterm Assigmnent

Today in class we performed a mid term assignment showing how to use excell spreadsheets.  We used formulas and/or functions to perform this task. This was the assignment:

In Excel, use formulas and/or functions to answer the following questions:

How many 1) males, 2) females, 3) traditional 4) non-traditional undergraduates, 5) graduates 6) in-service graduate student that are currently teaching, and 7) total respondents.
What was the average score for each category above 3-6 (trad, non-trad, grad, inservice grad)?
Create a column chart of the averages by group classification (1-4) and move it to its own worksheet. Rename the work-sheet Averages by Group.  Make sure your chart has added data labels to show the values and a heading.
Do a ttest between the highest and lowest average and determine if it is statistically significant.  When conducting the ttest use a 1, 2 for the tails (1) and type (2) fields of the ttest function as we did in class.
Upload, share your doc with me ricpierce@gmail.com, and publish your spreadsheet in Google Docs.
Create a blog post that summarizes the learning and link to your published spreadsheet document. 

ISTE NETS T

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:

a.	promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
b.	engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
c.	promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.

Drawing Tool Graphic

Today in class we used a Drawing Tool Graphic.  I used Goodle Docs to create my graphic for this exercise.  I used a flow chart to show how I used this tool to create my graphics.  You can view this by going to my Frequently Used Links.

The ISTE NETS T standard used for this assignment would be #2.  Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments.  I utilized parts A and C in order to meet these standards.  This allowed me to show how I use Google Docs in order to make a flow chart to show the process used to perform this activity.  Students should be able to effectively use this flow chart as a guide to perform the same task.

Poll Anywhere

Created a new tool to create polls to be used for class.  http://www.polleverywhere.com/

Jing Screencast

This video shows how to change your profile picture on Facebook.

Link added "What am I supposed to be Teching"

Added a link to my frequently used links to a web site that shows Content, Standards and Objectives for my particular subject matter.  My subject matter being taught is Music Education and I am certified to teach Music K-12, General, Instrumental and Vocal Music. 

Screen Capture using Jing

Here is a link to the image I captured using Jing in class today.  http://screencast.com/t/NTJmYjk0YzQt

The ISTE NETS Standard used for this exercise was #2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S. Teachers:

a. design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.

By using this tool I was able to use a picture to associate with a key signature for a piece of music.  There is one sharp (#) in this piece which makes this key signature the key of G because there is only one sharp in this picture. 

Friday's task!

Today in class we used the snipping tool to upload an image to our blog. 

Snipping

Used the tool in Vista to snip a picture and post it to my blog post. 

Update

Today I worked on updating my Blog page a little.  Changed my profile pic to my dog.  Her name is Moxy.  I also changed my background design.  Added a little personal information about me and made easier link access to specific links that we will use on a regular basis in class. 

Resume

I performed an activity to post my Resume to my blog. 
ISTE NETS T.  The Standard used for this exercise is Model Digital-Age Work and Learning.  This exercise enabled me to demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations.  The standards can be found by going to ISTE NETS T

Instructors Blog Link

Here is a link for Mr. Pierce's Blog.

http://ricpierce-fsu.blogspot.com/

Internet Connection Speed Test

Today I performed an Internet Connection Speed Test.

Results were as follows:
0.48 Mbps download time
0.36 Mbps upload speed

The link for this speed test is:
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/