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Week 10: The Thinking Stick
This website by Jeff Utecht titled The Thinking Stick is very interesting because he covers a lot of new and future information. By this I mean, most of his posts are related to something that has...
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Week 10: K12online Conferences
K12 Online is a website that has all sorts of posts not just for teachers, but I believe students could find some of these posts very helpful as well. What really stuck out to me about this one is...
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Week 11: Slideshow Tools
We used several slideshow tools this week to make slideshows of pictures of ourselves in an attempt to demonstrate how these tools could be used for student projects in future classes. They’re pretty...
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Week 12: The Clever Sheep
This blog, by Rodd Lucier, is about how one can use modern technology to focus on education and just general ways to use modern technology to one’s advantage. I like his insight on QR codes, and agree...
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Week 13: Two Exemplary Blogs and Two Podcasts
The first podcast that I found useful was about marching band. This was from a website entitled BandTalk and this specific podcast was one of the more relevant ones I listened to. They discussed a...
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Week 13: Voicethread in the Classroom
Voicethread is a really awesome app where you can add pictures, videos, sound, and text together in one file. It’s very easy to use and figure out. I decided to do a voicethread on basketball pep...
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Week 14: Teachers, Throw Away the Old Playbook
I cannot think of anything more frustrating than when I get to a class at the beginning of a semester and learn that the teacher is going to stand at the front, reading from the textbook, not take...
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Best Web Tools for Teachers
I’ve never heard of two of the tools on the second webpage, The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You. FotoFlexer, an image-modifying program, is a tool that I’ve never heard of. I’m sure...
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Final Semester Favorites
I had three favorite resources that we covered this year, that I’d like to place here: 1: Wordle Wordle is a great tool for projects or assignments of any kind, really; it is a fun way to make...
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My Wow Moment
I haven’t really had a Wow moment this semester. I didn’t learn anything about the internet/working with computers that I didn’t already know, but I guess if I had to pick something that came close,...
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Standard 1
Kansas Music Standard #1: The teacher of music has skills in teaching and evaluation techniques for vocal, instrumental, and general music. Knowledge: The teacher understands repertoire appropriate...
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Professional Development: NAfME Approach
NAfME’s website provides a strong outline of how a teacher should go about improving their teaching, increasing their students’ acheivements, and retaining colleagues. According to their website,...
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Standard 2
Kansas Music Standard #2: The teacher of music has skills in improvising melodies, variations and accompaniments. Knowledge The teacher understands how to perform written accompaniments on the music...
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