Marching Band is over

Well Simeon's first year of  marching band is over. It is kind of sad but it has been a great year. Goodpasture finish second out of 27 schools in division I. Basket ball is starting up right on the heel of band. Plus all of my classes makes it vary challenging. Samuel is not playing any sports right now. But he will be starting basketball the first part of the year. Both boys are doing great in school. I will try to keep up on my posts. I have been enjoying this semester. It has been fun going to Moore, and Byrns Darden. I will let you know it does take its toll on you  having to set up lesson plans for different children. I cannot wait to get my own class. It will be easier when I will only have to make one lesson plan.

One week of rest

Welcome back. I have just finished my Children's Literature class. I was unsure of how it would turn out. I do like to read but I do not usually read book. Let me till you that was the best class ever. I have found that to enjoy reading you must find book that might interest you. Some times I read a couple of chapters and stop, but most of the time I just keep reading. Not knowing what your schedule looks like let me give you a quick list of some that I read this month.

Chapter Books
One Crazy Summer
The Graveyard Book
The Higher Power of Lucky
Run, Boy, Run
Firegirl
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Hunger Games

I know that this list seems long but you do not have to read all the book. These are just the ones that I thought were great. It is that time again. Time to make some coffee and relax and read. I hope that your summer has been a great and I look forward to seeing you in class.

Prep for Class

Time seems to be flying by faster then I would like. Classes are getting ready to start, and baseball is getting ready to end. I have been keeping busy with many projects. I have taken the Praxis and hope that I passed. Last semester turned out great. I passed all my classes. I received my AS degree from Volstate. The boy's and I have been fishing a few times. They have caught some fish, I still have not but it has been fun. Simeon and I just returned from a mission trip to Mountian top. Well I must go for not I will try to update the blog more often.

Thing # 23.5 A Look Back

When I started this journey 23 things ago I never thought I would be sad to see it end. But then I guess it never really ends. There were many activities that I enjoyed. Flickr, Google calender, Picnic, YouTube, and LiveBinder. I still have not figured out how to use LiveBinder completely but I have the rest of my life to figure it out. This has changed my lifelong learning goals in that I will now look for new ways to use technology in the classroom. The 23 things was great but I also learned so much from the rest of the class. If I could make a change to how the 23 thing could be done differently I would cut back  the number of 23 things to 16 things. One for each week of the semester. There were many times that I would have to do a task but never felt that I had learned how to do it like it should be done. I would also let the students know that they will need to sign up for about 20 different sites. Tell them to keep a log of their passwords. I have learned that in order to keep up with new developments in web 2.0 I should keep up with the blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. Teachers who use web 2.0 Tweet about new thing that they learn. I know that I can also go to Teacher Pop and get the newest info from Dr Wall. This is just a short list of what I have learned. If I write any more no-one will read it. My goal is to post to this Blog every week. I hope that you keep following me on my journey to become a teacher.

mangotreemusing.blogspot.com

Thing # 23 Creative Commons

There are many examples of how the APSU 2.0-23 things was taken from another piece of work. Here are two picture from two different sites. One is APSU, the other is PLCMC. This shows that both of these school will borrowed from the web site 43 things. The difference is that their program last for a full year. After creating the Creative Commons Power Point for class I know that I would be taking advantage of the CC. It will give me the chance to use and change someones lesson and make it fit to my class. As a future teacher it is important for me understand how to use this as a way to save money. This will also help me to use my creative abilities and come up with lesson that others will be able to use.

Thing # 22 Keepin' It Together: Livebinder

Well I went through the process of signing up. I tried to get this site to work for me and had nothing but trouble. I had to cut and paste the url. I tried to see my book but could not get it to open. So I was not able to link it to my blog. I did put in about five different articles dealing with differentiated learning strategies. I was looking forward to this task. I know that I will be using this site in the future. having the ability to save all the different links that I go to will make it easier to track the information down when I need. I will try again later to get the problems worked out and get my folder posted to be seen. I do not feel confident. Well I was able to place a picture to show that I did do the task even though I was not able to link the site.