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Blog Post # 9

Mr. McClung 4th and 1st years of teaching

During his fourth year Mr. McClung stated that he committed a Junior High like sin. Going back to a time where peer approval was most worried about. He also said that he had to come to himself and look at the big picture. What mattered most wasn't the way his coworkers looked at him but the success of his classroom. That in the end his ability in his classroom would speak for him. Keeping his mind on who he is there for would keep him on the right path.

He also spoke on challenging yourself that when time pass and you’re in the same place teaching the same thing you get comfortable. Every educator will get to the point where they can get comfortable and when that happens the teaching it suffers. We will always have the decision to cruise or to make our classroom interesting for our students. Mr. McClung realized that sometimes teachers get so occupied with pleasing superiors that the student is forgotten. With stress coming from many areas it's not hard to lose focus. Reading the crowd as he called it was something that he developed in immensely.

Also we have to be flexible; he states to us that there is no such thing as a perfect lesson plan. That being able to work around problems in the class with a smile making the best of any situation is needed. Establishing communication, which connects with not only students but also teachers? He continues to say that we all know that communication is important, but ends up being the harder skills to develop. I enjoyed Mr. McClung response called" be reasonable. It says that teachers can sometimes have to high of expectations for the students. Not saying that expectations or bad but if they are not reached, our job as educators or to pick them up, dust them off, and encourage them to try again.

Techonology,Listening,and never stop learning

Something I hear and see all the time, was mention in his post. That grown adults or afraid of failure. That because of wanting to have the perfect class it makes trying things outside the norm something we don’t do. New technology is scary to teachers the thought of not being able to do it right the 1st time is scary. We must be able to show our students that we are not afraid to try again when we fail. As we push them to do. Listening is one of a teacher’s strongest tools. Connecting with students to help build a relationship outside of the books help you better understand the student. Teachers are supposed to teach, but they also can never stop learning. Mr. McClung states that it's never too late to change your way of thinking, learning or style. Teachers work in a learning environment, so while we can we need to soak up all we can.Mcclung Worlds

Project 8 Podcast

Project 8 podcast

How we Dream.

This is how we dream moved from an explanation of how we write, and look at things that have been written.  The video shows us what Mr. Miller calls incremental changes in the writing and the reading field.  How technology is yet moving forward through the writing perspective. Written documents are no longer just books to be in a library. But Through the internet many forms of knowledge have been open to anyone that seeks to find it.

As I listen to the video Mr. Miller mention, that he did not have to go to the library to find information. He did not have to leave the comfort of his computer but everything he needed was already there. When leaving to go search for information was a time taking process. Now everything that you would like to know can be found at your finger tips. Another point I enjoyed that he made was being able to share. He said that now we can share knowledge infinitely.  There is no time table on how long it will be until you recieve. But at the press of a button the unknown can easily become known.

Even though, information is so assessable for peoples use. That fact still remains that it’s usually only text.  Making something easy to reach is only half the job. Now the other half is making it interesting.  He spoke on incorporating new ideas into text only documents. Like the incorporation of sound, images, and video into a document will soon become a new way to make the reader more insightful. Leaving from Microsoft word, to form documents that or more exciting and pull more readers into your writing.

Carly Pugh blog post.

I really enjoyed carly post I found it truly to be very inspirational. Even if I’m not inspiring to be an English teacher points that she made had me thinking.  It’s something to have thoughts on what you want to do, but to put them on paper and act on them becomes a new adventure. In her writing she speaks of wanting to include the internet and its many utilities into her classroom.  I recognize this want and need to express use of technology in the class room falls in line with Mr. Miller.

The Chipper Serious and the Edm 310 for Dummies report.

I must first say that I found the chipper video very funny. I would like to participate in a video about hard work. I believe that a central theme for this video is to stay on task and on time. This video actually helped me see myself slowly falling into a chipper serious mindset. But I defiantly have to stay on task, turning work in when is due is better than turning it in late. Edm 310 for dummies was very interesting also. I think everyone experiences the crazy feeling at the begging of the class. What I was left wondering was this book real.

Learn to Change, Change to Learn

I enjoyed this video. I believe that the arguments made by each person were substantial to the future were moving forward to. I really like Stephen Heppell he and he also has a website.  I actually went and looked at one of his personal videos called stephen heppell learning without frontiers Which I truly enjoyed.

LECTURE

During the first part of Mr. Pausch lecture he mentioned football. When speaking about making his dreams reality, football was a part of the dream even though he didn't make it to the NFL football taught him something. Fundamentals and hard work is something he said that stuck out to me. Knowing that if you don’t understand the fundamentals that the extra things added want be effective. Pressing the need for students to exercise hard work in the beginning of learning their fundamentals, gives them a strong background in understanding that basic first fancy second.

Ways that help people realize how great they or. Showing people those things they do can make other people happy. Being able to achieve your dreams and show your ability to others induces encouragement. Encouragement is a wonderful tool that boost students excitement to do there best. Achieving your dreams helping you become self reflective is a where we want to be.

The best ways to teach someone something is to let them think that there leaning something different. Keeping a student entertained and enthused while learning something hard is the legacy that Mr. pausch did not mine leaving behind. Once you start something it begins to take a part of you to make you want to achieve bettter. He often mentions things called brick walls. Telling us that brick walls don’t come to stop you but they come to push you harder. They separate the ones that want it badly from the people who don’t want it badly enough.

He would always say this phrase "head fake". My definition that I receive from his phrase was the best things taught or taught unexpectedly. As a teacher of any kind I believe that this should always be in the back of our mind. That just because you put a student on a specific task does not mean that, the task is the only thing they will learn. That what you really need is the ability to push through different situations.

Randy Paul Last Lecture