Thursday, October 15, 2009

Quiz week 7

Words
Act 5
1. mortifying
2. cursedly
3. confoundedly
4. gibbet
5. rebuke
Act 3
1. impudent, confounded, brazen, stammering, sullen

Act 4.
laurel, rogue, coxcomb, haspicholls, izzard

Act 2.
impudent, brazen, dissembler,hypocrisy, inoculation

Act 1.
paltry, superfluous, stoutly, tedious, facetious

Marlow
Hastings

Questions:
1. This activity is used to help us as a group learn from each other and start to grasp the concept of technology.
2. It helps students get familiar with hyperlinks, and also the play " she stops to conquer". It also helps with learning how to place pictures into our blogs.
3. A workshop model like this helps students acknowledge what the student needs help with but also what the student is familiar with. This helps the teacher understand where the student struggles and what areas need work in.
4. This provides a way for flexible grouping by not having us place specific pictures into the blog. This gave us the freedom to choose which pictures we would like in our blog.


PODCAST


What kind of activity is this?
This is a technology activity, where we are learning how to use podcasts. This is also a group project where we can learn from each other, to make things a bit easier. This is also an example of differentiated learning and also a multimedia activity.

How does it challenge you?
This activity challenges students because most students are unfamiliar with using podcasts. This challenges students to grasp the concepts of podcasts from learning from others.

What background knowledge are you using to complete this activity?
I'm familiar with the video camera on my computer so it made this activity a bit less difficult.


Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Learn n Serve # 1



My first day at Learn n Serve was very stressful. I was helping this student write her paper, while another students needed help with a paper as well. I had the two of them sit next to me, so I could help both. While I was helping one of the students, the other one was being so rude, calling the student hurtful names. Then the student took his pencil and was "stroking" my hair with it. So when the teacher saw this she said it was considered sexual harassment, so she told me to write what the student had done, and that it was going to be reported.

The student calling names and stroking my hair was in need of attention. In the text, it is stated that ADHD students typically gets distracted very easily, talks excessively, can't sit in chair and wonders around classroom, and dislikes activities such as school. It never occurred to me that maybe this student had ADHD. I honestly thought he was just a child who didn't get enough attention at home, that he felt the need to act out in the classroom in order to get that attention. This makes perfect sense and I hope that this student gets tested for ADHD soon so it will help him in the long run.