Personal Learning Network

I started my personal learning network as a coach, which I teach young girls the skills of volleyball. Being a coach has introduced me to alot of great people. Since I want to be a physical education teacher, these people are great to know. Currently I work at the University of South Alabama as a graduate assistant for the volleyball team, which I got by networking through the late athletic director of South Alabama Joe Gottfried. The head of the volleyball team is Nicole Keshock, she is a great coach and I have learned alot from her. She allows me to further my career in the sports world, by letting me run practices at times and being involved with the day to day affairs of coaching a Division I volleyball team. In the spring I also coach a club volleyball team and talking with the other coaches in the club I use them as references when I need help in thinking of ideas for drills to use in my practices. Facebook is a great way for me to communicate with the other coaches since we have different schedules and don't get to see each other that much. Another person I have in my PLN is the volleyball coach at LeFlore Magnet High School Barba McCovery, I help her in the summer with her volleyball team. She is also a P.E. teacher at LeFlore, so she answers any questions I have about physical education. My personal learning network is going to continue to grow the more people I meet through out the years.

Project 11: You Tube vs. Teacher Tube

My group's topic was You Tube vs. Teacher Tube. Jessica Debose, Frederick Patterson, Jahmarkus Rabb and I learned alot about You Tube and Teacher Tube. We showed how You Tube is a place for any individual to post a video, of any content for the world to watch. Teacher Tube is a place for teachers to go and find great videos about education related issues. This site is made for only educational videos to be posted, which is a good idea since most schools block teachers from visiting You Tube on school computers. To visit You TubeClick Here and to visit Teacher Tube Click Here

Goodbye EDM 310

I will truly miss my teacher and classmates of EDM 310. This has been one of the best classes I have taken. I hope we keep in contact with each other because I would love to see what everyone will do with their teaching career. Adding people to my personal learning network would be a great way to keep in touch with each other. So long for now:)

Summary of EDM 310

I learned so much from this class and I will be using those things from now on. When we learned how to create a blog I liked that because I always want to know how people did that. The thing that I will use when I become a teacher is iTunesU, it was a great place to find things for students to learn and do. The best thing was google, I have used google before, but I never new that they offered so many different options beside their search engine. Google docs, forms and iGoogle are great to use as a teacher or a business professional.
The one thing I wish we would have learned but didn't was how to create our own website. Google got me interested in learning how to create my own website, when I was playing around on my iGoogle page one day. I have started a website for my wedding that I am planning by using google.
Everything I have learned in EDM 310 will be used when I become a teacher. I will not forget what I got out of this class. The more I use what I have learned, the better I can teach it to other people.
I wasn't excited about EDM 310 because I use a computer everyday. Being showed things that I have never used on the Internet was what I like the most.
I can't think of anything in EDM 310 that was intellectually challenging. Sometimes when I had to post something on my blog about a site we visited, I had difficult sometimes trying to think of something to write.
EDM 310 never had a boring moment for me, I always had something to do. This class was interesting so it made me want to keep up with what was going on in the class.
I don't think I would change a thing about EDM 310, it was a great class to take. One thing I'm sure future students might like is more instructional videos to help them with the assignments.
At the moment I am technologically literate, taking this class has made me learn alot more about technology. I will be using what I learn in this class to stay technologically literate by using it at my current job and in other classes I take at south Alabama.

New Classroom Rules/7 Brilliant Things Teachers Do With Technology

The three list had some good topics that are important. I picked one from New Classroom Rules by Education Innovation. The one rule I picked said, "come to school everyday, unless you would rather just go online." I liked this because I wished as college students we had the choice to go to class only when we needed help. It would make it easier for students who work, have a family and go to school. The next one I picked from 7 Brilliant Things Teachers Do With Technology by Doug Johnson. The topic I picked said, "use the kid's own devices to teach them." This is something that I agree with as a future teacher. Why not let the kid's bring their own devices to school because I am sure they use it at home, where they do most of their work. Some devices allow the kid's to collaborate with others, make their own videos and have access to the world wide web.Click HereTo visit New Classroom Rules and Click Here to check out 7 Brilliant Things Teachers Do With Technology

At The Teachers Desk

I found some great topics on this blog. Most of all the post were on topics that were important to know. Having collaborative professional blog's is a good idea. It allows people to post articles that are important and might effect other peoples lives. As a teacher, it would give teachers the opportunity to keep it touch with some new things other teachers are doing in the classroom.Click Here to view the blog

Toward A New Future of Whatever: Michael Wesch

This was a very interesting video. The two books about 1984 were books I have never heard of. The media does shape our way of life, my generation has grown up with cable, internet and radio. I don't know what we would do with out technology, it shapes who we are like Michael Wesch said. The more the world grows, the more things will change and shift do to the media. Classrooms in the future will be different and students will learn with technology as a main tool. YouTube is just the beginning of things to come. I am glad I can say that I was around when YouTube was launched and got to experince the excitement that evolved around it.Click Here To check out the video