I just watched the coolest clip on You Tube. My reaction summed up is WOW! My husband walked in towards the end and was reading the statistics and we started it again so he could see the beginning. We were just amazed with some of the numbers. There are really too many for me to name that really amazed me but I did jot down some as I was watching. Some didn't interest me as much as others but over all, very interesting! There was the question, "Did You Know?" and I would have never have guesse how extreme some of those numbers were.
The amount of text messages exceeding the population of the PLANET is crazy! ALso, 2.7 billion Google searches just this month, thats a lot of searching. I have a myspace account along with almost everybody I know so I thought it was interested that 230,000 people joined myspace just TODAY, and if myspace were a country, it would be the 8th largest in the world. Awesome clip! Oh, the college graduates for India was about three times as many as the U.S. Really enjoyed the clip and suggest that everyone watch it on You Tube or go to Did You Know
Saturday, January 24, 2009
ACCESS
ACCESS stands for, "Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students State Wide" or "Distance Learning." "Providing classroom courses and teachers via technology" is what they are all about. At the site ACCESS you can find out ingo about ACCESS and the courses offered. There is a link for students, educators, and also for parents. If you would like to contact ACCESS for any reason, there is also a contact us link along with help link and a Resources link. At the above site there is an online course login and registration
I found the powerepoint ACCESS to be very informative. I found it interesting about the problems that are attempting to be a thing f the past with the help of ACCESS. The powerpoint stated that, "Many rural and low-income schools have limited course offerings for students." Some schools can not even offer an Advanced Diploma which is actually required by law but apparently is just disregarded. " The vision is that "The state of alabma will provide equal access to high quality instruction to improve student achievement through distance learning opportunities. The Misson, goal, and what ACCESS can provide is also found within this powerpoint. "Distance Learning" is defined and the modes aof delivery are listed. There is a web-based mode and a video conferencing mode. These can also be blended.
I found the powerepoint ACCESS to be very informative. I found it interesting about the problems that are attempting to be a thing f the past with the help of ACCESS. The powerpoint stated that, "Many rural and low-income schools have limited course offerings for students." Some schools can not even offer an Advanced Diploma which is actually required by law but apparently is just disregarded. " The vision is that "The state of alabma will provide equal access to high quality instruction to improve student achievement through distance learning opportunities. The Misson, goal, and what ACCESS can provide is also found within this powerpoint. "Distance Learning" is defined and the modes aof delivery are listed. There is a web-based mode and a video conferencing mode. These can also be blended.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Alabama Learning Exchange
The Alabama Learning Exchange, also known as ALEX can be found at ALEX. This is a teacher resource site. It has many helpful resources for the Alabama school teacher, grade K-12. You can find any course of study, weblinks for teacher, adminstrator, or student. There are lesson plans available and you can also set up an account where you can create your own personal workspace. There are resources for professional learning and also distance learning info. If you have any trouble, there is a help tab.
Under the Course of Study tab there is a search feature to access courses by grade, level, and keyword. The courses of study with available resources are: English Language Arts, Math, Arts, Career tech, Driver and Traffic Safety, Health, Scinence, Social Studies, Foreign Language, P.E., and Technology Ed. There are resources on this site for any type of teacher. There are all subjects for elementary school teachers like me and specific subjects for secondary ed. teachers as well as p.e. and foreign language.
If you were to click on one of the course of studies, for example, "English Language Arts," You would see that you could select from K-12. You would then find guidelnes of what to do for your students and how to approach getting these things done. I selected Kindergarten to find out what was expected in the Language Arts area for that age. Some examples from the list were to, "exibit awareness of concept of story." In order to do this, one thing that is suggested is to, "associate written words with a story. " These different guidlines are outlined with suggestions.
The "Lesson Plan" link can be used to create your own personal lesson plans, or you can find an ALEX lesson plan by author, title, school, or by subject. By setting up an account, you can creat your own personal workplace where you can store and submit lesson plans and web pages.
Under the "Professional Learning" link you can find site on professional develpment opportunities, teaching, learning tools, news, and practices. You can also visit pages to find educator resources for proffesional growth and communication. For anyone interested in distance learning, this info can also be found on the ALEX website.
If help is needed doing anything on this site, help can be found under the help tab. You can find help setting up your ALEX account, and how to create and submit lesson plans. From exploring this site, I believe it will be a very helpful resource tool when I begin teaching. Everything was very simple to find and explore through and get back to. No matter the grade or the course of study, this site is loaded with resources and so easy to use.
Under the Course of Study tab there is a search feature to access courses by grade, level, and keyword. The courses of study with available resources are: English Language Arts, Math, Arts, Career tech, Driver and Traffic Safety, Health, Scinence, Social Studies, Foreign Language, P.E., and Technology Ed. There are resources on this site for any type of teacher. There are all subjects for elementary school teachers like me and specific subjects for secondary ed. teachers as well as p.e. and foreign language.
If you were to click on one of the course of studies, for example, "English Language Arts," You would see that you could select from K-12. You would then find guidelnes of what to do for your students and how to approach getting these things done. I selected Kindergarten to find out what was expected in the Language Arts area for that age. Some examples from the list were to, "exibit awareness of concept of story." In order to do this, one thing that is suggested is to, "associate written words with a story. " These different guidlines are outlined with suggestions.
The "Lesson Plan" link can be used to create your own personal lesson plans, or you can find an ALEX lesson plan by author, title, school, or by subject. By setting up an account, you can creat your own personal workplace where you can store and submit lesson plans and web pages.
Under the "Professional Learning" link you can find site on professional develpment opportunities, teaching, learning tools, news, and practices. You can also visit pages to find educator resources for proffesional growth and communication. For anyone interested in distance learning, this info can also be found on the ALEX website.
If help is needed doing anything on this site, help can be found under the help tab. You can find help setting up your ALEX account, and how to create and submit lesson plans. From exploring this site, I believe it will be a very helpful resource tool when I begin teaching. Everything was very simple to find and explore through and get back to. No matter the grade or the course of study, this site is loaded with resources and so easy to use.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
First Post
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Hey everybody! My name is Heather Averette. I am an Elementary Education major. I plan on continuing my education after finishing my bachelors and get my masters in counseling. I'm sure I will teach for a few years while finishing my masters but counseling is really what I want to do.
Eventually I would like to counsel all ages, not just elementary school students but for now I want to work for the school system so I can have time with my own children. I have been married for five years now and have two children. My daughter is five and my son is two.
It took me four years to receive my associates degree in liberal arts because I wasn't able to go every semester. I went to Faulkner State Comm. College most of my associates and then transfered to Bevill State Comm. College in North Alabama. We lived in North Alabama for eighteen months where my husband was the Pastor of a small church in a small town, really small! We had only one red light!
We are now back in south Alabama which is home to both my husband and myself. We both graduated from Theodore High School, myself in 2002 and my husband in 2003. I hope to be home for a while but another move is a strong possibility in our future and is something that I am willing to do in order to do what we've been called to do.
Hey everybody! My name is Heather Averette. I am an Elementary Education major. I plan on continuing my education after finishing my bachelors and get my masters in counseling. I'm sure I will teach for a few years while finishing my masters but counseling is really what I want to do.
Eventually I would like to counsel all ages, not just elementary school students but for now I want to work for the school system so I can have time with my own children. I have been married for five years now and have two children. My daughter is five and my son is two.
It took me four years to receive my associates degree in liberal arts because I wasn't able to go every semester. I went to Faulkner State Comm. College most of my associates and then transfered to Bevill State Comm. College in North Alabama. We lived in North Alabama for eighteen months where my husband was the Pastor of a small church in a small town, really small! We had only one red light!
We are now back in south Alabama which is home to both my husband and myself. We both graduated from Theodore High School, myself in 2002 and my husband in 2003. I hope to be home for a while but another move is a strong possibility in our future and is something that I am willing to do in order to do what we've been called to do.
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