Week 8 - Assignment

I completed the Virtual Tour. 

Week 7 - Assignment

Virtual Tour of the Inca Trail

The content comes from the UEN Social Science Curriculum.

Standard 2: Students will understand cultural factors
that shape the community.
Objective 2: Explain how selected indigenous cultures
of the Americas have changed over time.
C: How indigenous people maintain cultural traditions today.

The pedagogy is going to be more towards the cognitive domain. The student will receive knowledge by recalling facts, terms, basic concepts. S/he will be able to demonstrate understanding by comparing, interpreting, and extrapolating the main ideas. They will be able to use that knowledge to solve problems in new situations.

The technology best suited for this purpose is Goggle earth simple because most of the students won't be able to visit that foreign land. 

Advantages: The trail won't take several days to complete (unless you have a very slow internet connection). People don't have to climb 2000 meters. It is suitable for people who suffer from altitude sickness or vertigo.  You don't have to carry your own food. You won't get sick by drinking contaminated water, etc.

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1.Cuzco-Machu Pichu	Write a journal entry. How altitude affect people.	Geography of el Cuzco * Distance * Altitude
2.Train ride from Machu Pichu to Km 88	Describe types of transportation to get to the Inca trail	Picture and information of Km 88
3. Huayllabamba - Place of Good pasture	Compare the types of housing	Pictures and information
4. Dead Woman's Pass	Describe the weather	Pictures of the trail descending, information

5. Pacamayo river	Explain how descent of elevation affects people.	Pictures and information about river
6. Runkuracay - Pile of Ruins	Explain what was the job  of the couriers	Picture and information of this site.
7. Town in a steep place	Explain different ways to get there.	Picture and information of Sayacmarca
8. Cloud Level town	Describe the engineering of the Inca people	Picture of engineering structures.
9. Huinay Huayna	Explain the bath ritual of the Incas	Picture and information of Huinay Huayna
10. Intipunku	Describe the colourful butterflies and the change of weather	Picture of the Gate of the Sun.
Details of image overlay / path / polygon:

Week 6 - Assignment

My Fist Digital Story

Week 5 - Assignment

Voice In Writing Through Poetry

What is the content you'll be using in your lesson?
I will be using the Utah Standard Curriculum - Language Arts - Third Grade

Standard 8: Students write daily to communicate effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences.

Objective 2: Compose and write a draft.

b. Use voice to fit the purpose and audience

What is the pedagogy you'll be using and why is it a good fit for the content?
The pedagogical techniques that I will employ in the classroom will promote student involvement and will increase interaction between the students and the teacher. It is my believe that this leads to better learning.
I will start by having students participate in an activity. This will help to "break the ice" and quickly assess the enthusiasm of the students for writing.
I will ask many open-ended questions to bring out diverse viewpoints.
I will show them my work in the computer.
I will give them a task to write a poetry using their own voice. This will be done using active and collaborative learning. I will divide the class in groups of 2-3. By doing group activities the students will practice collaborating with peers - a critical skill in writing; they will also help each other to construct new knowledge.

What is the technology you'll be using and why is it good fit with the content and pedagogy?

The technology that I will be using is STORYBOARD with audio and music. By doing this the students will hear the author of the poem recite, sung and shout his own work, thus showing the students that his voice in his writing fits the purpose and the audience.

Week 4 - Assignment

The Tech Savvy Teacher

Since science is a way of knowing, a process for gaining knowledge and understanding of the natural world, as the newly converted third grade Tech Savvy Teacher, I would like to answer the most important TPACK questions:

1. What is the content you are focusing on in your science lesson?

      In my particular lesson I am focusing on:

    Standard 2: Understanding that organisms depend on living and 

                           non-living things within their environment.

    Objective 1: Classifying living and non-living things in their 

                           environment.

         a. Identifying characteristics of living things

        b. Identifying characteristics of non-living things

2. What is the pedagogy you are using and why is it a goof fit with 

      the content?

    Since the students can't gain an understanding of science by reading textbooks or by lectures with the help of technology the students are going to be able to gain knowledge by observing , questioning, exploring, and comparing living and non-living things.

     

3. What is the technology you will be using and why is it a good fit 

      with the content and pedagogy?    

      I will be using two QX5 computer microscopes, a laptop, and the smart board. I think that this technology is a perfect fit for the lesson because all the students, at the same time, will be able to observe very closely the difference between living and non-living things. 

In this lesson the students will be able to go outside and bring one object that they think is a non-living and another object that they think is living. They will be able to observe what is the difference between living ad non-living things. The students will be able to make a short video of their living objects. I will be able to publish them in my blog and the students can access them and observe as many times as they want to. This is important because this will prepare them to understand how living and non-living things interact in an environment.  At the end of the lesson they will be able to list the characteristics of living and non-living things. 

Shrimp eggs

Honeybee wing

Wool

Ant

Week 3 - Assigment

TPACK stands for Technological Pedagogical And Content Knowledge. By understanding this framework it helped me think in a variety of ways that I can integrate technology in the classroom.

One of the experiments that I really liked was to observe under the microscope drops of ice melting. I also was able to find how the constellations were lined up in La Paz, Bolivia when I was born. It was very interesting to use Stellarium. Definitely I will use this type of technology to teach Sciences. 

Second Week Assignment

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a method for online publishers to share and distribute their content directly to other websites or individual Internet users. RSS allows me to display the latest content from other websites. With this feature I can collect RSS feeds from my favorite websites and use special software known as "RSS readers" to receive the latest content from these sites without having to visit them one at a time. This is of great value because it makes it easier to prepare lessons.