Photoshop.com Album: 9-28-2010

What I feel about copyrighting...

I think copyrighting is necessary, but hard and very time consuming. In the future I will not ever copyright my own pictures, but I will not steal others photos without citing the picture. The most difficult part was adding the photo and link to Blogger because every time it would not work! 

Copy Right!

This is the photo I copy righted at creative commons! You can view my picture and the copy right information at: http://s660.photobucket.com/albums/uu322/struness/?action=view&current=DSC08152.jpg

When I have a blog for my classroom....

 Photo Attribution:
"After View of My Classroom"
Liz (perspicacious.org)'s photostream
By: Liz Marie 


Someday when I am a teacher I would love to have a class blog. I would use a picture similar to this, but of my real classroom and maybe with my students in their chairs and I will be teaching. I would use this picture to make my blog to the parents more personal. I want parents to be able to go to the blog to keep up on what their child is doing in my classroom.

Tweetdeck!

I am really enjoying my tweetdeck and I use it everyday! What I like most is that it is really easy to update my facebook or twitter status. I also like how you can update both facebook and twitter at the same time.

One thing I do not like about the tweetdeck is that it can sometimes get annoying because every time someone updates a status it pops up and makes noise. I am sure I am change that, but I haven't looked at the settings or anything yet. 

Inclusion

Today I went to Averill Elementary School for one of my field placements. Overall I really enjoyed it and at first the kids were shy, but eventually they started opening up to me and me to them. There were only about ten kids in her classroom either in first, second, or third grade. They either have a learning disability, a cognitive impairment, or an emotional impairment. These students only come to the special education class for reading, writing, and spelling help. They are in the general education classes for math, science, social studies, gym, music, and art. Then in the afternoon the teacher has kindergarten students. I was surprised by how smart these students were and how motivated they are to learn. When the students were giving words to sound out they kept saying, “Give me a hard word.”

Child Study!

It's my junior year this year and it's the first year I am doing a field placement! I am excited to finally be teaching kids, but nervous that I am not going to be very good at it. I am working with a child who recently moved here from Iraq, but knows English pretty well. She has cognitive impairments, but does a great job reading and writing all the letters.

The first time we met up we did a few writing things and we read a book together. I look forward to giving her more assessments and figuring out what level of reading she is at. My goal is for her to learn and to benefit from working with me. I am nervous that I will not be good at teaching her, but I am going to try my best.