Blog post 15

My Reflection of EDM310

Final Project 16

Yasmine's Wordle

I was also able to comment on Yasmine's wordle in replacement of blog post 14! It's very inspiring to see a student blogging and so passionate about her peer's responses! She has a great opportunity to express her thoughts and share them with not only her classmates and teachers but the world! I hope that she is very encouraged by EDM310! I saw a comment that Mr. Chamberlain posted on her page and he simply said that she was experiencing both the joys and pains of sharing thoughts. That is such a true statement because when we share our thoughts we aren't guaranteed that people agree with our idea or are even attracted to what we think; but it doesn't negate our liberty. Yasmine's blog was very nice and I think that she definitely has a lot of potential and will be able to apply all that she is learning!!

C4K 8-11

11- We were also able to comment on student's blog pages from Mrs. Haugen's 6th grade class. I got to read a summary about a book Gracie has been reading called Canterwood Crest: Take the Reigns. She was very detailed in her description and I enjoyed reading her summary! She did a great job of explaining the plot of the story and giving the overall point of it in a very clear way.

10-I was able to watch a video posted by room 7 in the Little Voices, Little Scholars! The video was phenomenal and was played in a cinema in New Zealand. The video was made especially for the Manaiakalani film festival. The screen effects that they used were very creative and the ideas were very captivating. The kids definitely have big potential and it's very challenging to see kids create such a phenomenal video.

9-I also got to comment Ben's blog post and he created a very cool kerpoof  picture to help him remember all the planets.
His acronym for memorizing the planet's was
My
very
evil
mongoose
sprayed
Uncle
Nut.
This is his Kerpoof project:


The Kerpoof was very cool and creative and I think it is probably a very helpful visual in remembering the planet order!

8-I was also able to read Ali's blog! She is a high school student and her blog was very thought provoking. She began her blog with a very challenging thought by William Feather who said, "Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke." She was a very inspirational student because she displayed the desire to actually learn and not just "get through" school with a grade. Her post was discussing constructive criticism and how it helped her see where she made mistakes but also strive to be better. 

C4T #4

This was by far my most favorite assigned teacher's blog to read and comment on! The blog written by Jenna Bently was challenging, thought-provoking, inspirational, and eloquently put. In her post, Jenna asked the following question: “If we had people as radical as the Founding Fathers of America in today’s day in age, and they wrote a  new declaration of Independence that would withstand another 200 years, could you even imagine what that would be like?”  Asking such a question begs the reader to stop and examine life as it is and life as it was in the past. Her blog was entitled United as One. To some up her post she was discussing how nation wide catastrophes often unite people because in those situations each person looks out for the interests of each other rather than simply promoting their own individualistic goals. In doing this unity occurs within a nation. When a nation works together it progresses, and when they work against each other it is counter productive.  Her perspective was very interesting and definitely provoked me to think. I enjoyed it because it was not just talking about technology but discussing the world we live in and how we can make a difference by joining together by really being one nation. She discussed radical people like the founding fathers who made a great difference in our nation and how those with the most heart and most will come out on top. She didn't leave just discussing radicals of the past but she called for radicals of today who were willing to take a stand when she left us with this:  Now we just have to find the radicals who will fight for a new day.

I really enjoyed it and all of the comments of the students who read it and were as challenged by the post as well. I will definitely follow the blog! 

PLN Final Report

This is my final Personal Learning Network or Symbaloo . I added several more tiles and actually found many more assets on Symbaloo that has been very helpful. In the beginning  I had no idea that you could create your own tile but as I learned more about the system I realized you could so I was able to at U.S.A. to my webmix and also make an EDM310 tile. Just adding these two to my network has been very helpful because I have all my essential links grouped together. I was also able to add the apple tile and a few sports tiles for my favorite teams. Besides those additional tiles I have all the same as the last time I posted. I tried to keep it divided as best as possible between educational on the top left, social on the top right, sports on bottom left and then travel/news/business on the bottom right. The symbaloo is such a great network to work from, everything I need is in one spot. It makes everything more accessible, convenient, and definitely more organized.