Monday, September 26, 2011
Photograph Modification
I used a photograph of a mountain to illustrate the plot elements to my students. They can see how a plot follows a mountain shape. I added the text at the different relative locations, giving each text a different color. I used GIMP for this assignment.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Standards..
My content area that I will focus on this semester is language arts for 6th grade and the SOLs standards are:
6.4 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of fiction, narrative nonfiction, and poetry.
a) Identify the elements of narrative structure, including setting, character, plot, conflict, and theme.
b) Use knowledge of narrative and poetic structures to aid comprehension and predict outcomes.
c) Describe the images created by language.
d) Describe how word choice and imagery contribute to the meaning of a text.
e) Describe cause-effect relationships and their impact on plot.
f) Use information stated explicitly in the text to draw conclusions and make inferences.
g) Explain how character and plot development are used in a selection to support a central conflict or story line.
h) Paraphrase and summarize the main points in the text.
Language arts are one of the content areas that gives you a space to try different learning styles and create a wide rang of activities and ideas to transfer the content to the students. For the reading I will try the group work by dividing the students into groups and distributing a piece of literary work and ask them to identify the theme, characters, and setting. A Blog would be a great idea for language arts where the students have the opportunity to reflect on things being discussed in the classroom. I would use video and audio clips that would help for better understanding of the story or the poem. I would also use a PowerPoint presentation that contains mapping and analyzing of the characters or the theme and ask the students to do a concept mapping by using Microsoft word or power point of the characters
Teddy Bears Go Blogging
It’s an interesting project that makes the education process more fun and effective, epically for younger student in theses days where the Internet has a dominant role in people’s life. I believe blogging is a great and very effective way of communication between teachers and students. And as Brenda Sherry states in her article it is very easy to use unlike traditional websites. Blogs are easy to create, flexible in design, and very convenient for student to access and use.
I think it takes the teacher and students beyond the traditional boundaries of education and encourages the students and give them the opportunity to discuss topics and share their opinions and thoughts outside the classroom. However, it is very safe where the teacher can control and manage the blog. I like the idea where the parents can participate and be involved in their children’s education in such a creative way.
It is wonderful the way blogs connect students from different cultures and gives them the opportunity to exchange thoughts and culture.
As a teacher this is defiantly something I will consider in my classroom.
The blog I liked
I really liked the following blog: The Innovative Educator, by Lisa Velmer Nielsen.
Reading through the blog, I found her talking about the popular entries in her blog for this week. Some of the topics were really interesting, and for someone who visits the blog from time to time, this is a very convenient way of finding out what’s new and interesting in the blog.
What's Popular This Week on The Innovative Educator
In another entry, she talks about Homeschooling. She discusses the topic from different points of view, such as legal, social and academic. She also provides references and resource that can help the parents evaluate a homeschooling situation.
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