Internet Safety Google Site NETS-T 4

In order to advocate ethical digital use, and respect copyright I created a website with a group with googlesites. My website was composed of six sections some of the main sections are cyber predators, cybersafety, and identity safety. This way, our website would model and teach safe digital navigation.

Newsletter NETS-1

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The Newsletter fullfills NET-S 1 in sharing work in a blog he Newsletter enabled me as a student to be creative importing pictures and incorporating new components such as the dropl etter.

IMovie NETS-T 3

CSUSM from Nancy Aguayo on Vimeo.

iMovie is a great way to encourage students to be creative. Creating imovie enabled me to research on CSUSM facts and learn how to edit a movie. Lastly, I got to share my video in my blog.

Journal 10 “I Can See Me” Timothy J. Frey NETS-T 1 & 2 & 3

The “I Can See Me” principle is that children can actually see themselves and realize what they are doing right or wrong. The main idea of this principle is for students to reflect on their work and improve what they do in their mistakes.  In “I Can See Me: Webcams in the Classroom,” suggests that by using webcams, students can watch themselves so that they can see what they do wrong. Then the video is taken to be reflected between the teacher and the student so that they teacher can point out issues that the student didn’t see. Then the student is sent to reflect and watch the same video again, but this time also considering the issues pointed out by the teacher. This method has proven to improve reading skills and posture skills as well. When high school students find themselves having to do a speech in front of people, they are intimidated because they don’t know how they look, that is why this is a great method again.

Does this method change high school student’s perspective of speech as a high school student?

Ultimately, the “I can see me” method does change High School Student’s perspective because they are less intimidated of getting in front of people and show what they have to present. The issue is that students find themselves freighted by the fact of talking in front of people, but with the webcam they have the opportunity to see themselves and see what the audience would see in a presentation. They also have the chance to improve what they don’t like about their speech skills. But most importantly children have the opportunity to do it individually or with only a teacher, then they can do the real thing, meaning in front of other students. Practice another very important thing to do in speeches.  Frey reflects on that webcam usage in class does improve their student’s opinion and skills of speech.  

What else is there to Webcam and “I can see me” principle?

In addition to the fact that has the chance to improve what they don’t like about their speech skills, they also have the opportunity to share and incorporate this video in different places. The purpose of sharing their video and the information is for other institutions to use the method and realize that it’s a great way to encourage their students to use the digital tools that are available to them. Communicating this great tool also enables other students and peers know a way for them to improve their speech skills and a way no to be freighted when it come to performing speech. If I can sum this article I should say that this principle can “ enhance our instruction and add a new effective technique for teachers. The ability to easily capture, store, and share digital video will lead to many exciting educational opportunities for our students and teachers.”

Frey, F. J. (2010, November). I Can See Me. In Learning & Leading with Technology (L&L). Retrieved November 30, 2010

Journal 9 ---Teach Your Students to Share Using iCyte NETS-T 1-3

Huston, D. (2010, November). In Teach Your Students to Share Using iCyte. Retrieved November 30, 2010


Huston, reflects one the way teachers have their students research. He states that teachers give out topics and lets them loose without telling them the main point of research. He implies that research should not just stay in paper. He believes that research found should be shared through network such as iCyte by creating a bigger social bookmarking. He explains that there are other networks such as Delicious, or Diigo, but iCyte is better because students and teachers unite in a type club for a same interest. When there is a same interest search become easier for anybody. Bookmarking research helps other students in their research.

In terms of research, what bookmarking engine is better for students?

According to Huston, iCyte is the best bookmarking engine because it is the only one that saves different categories of research for different fields. Huston says that other bookmarking engines don’t have different categories to make the search easier. I thought that Delicious was great already the way it was, but now that I know that iCyte is better, is great. I didn’t know it could get better. Teachers should begin using this search engine and teach their students to use it as well. I think that in order to expect good research h from students, tools have to be delivered to them in order to make it easier for them. This way they can actually enjoy the assignment.

What is the best way to make research easier for our students?

The best way to give an assignment is to teach students the best way to teach them the best way to search for the information that we as teachers are looking for. If we have big expectations we should supply them with search engines such as iCyte. Currently iCyte is not very commonly used, but with in time it will be used because it is a great search engine, great for social networking with same interest students, and a great way for students to collaborate with other students and even teachers. iCyte is a great way to teach students how to collaborate and even to save their research so that other students see the research.

Web 2.0 ......Wiki Collaborate Tool "Love your body" NETS-T 4

In Web 2.0 under collaborative tools there is a website called Wix.com. This website enables anybody who has a free account to use different website templates to create a new one using the information they want to use.Wix.com enables us as students to learn how to use different tools that serve to make our education easier and more creative. 

Journal 8 --Save the World with Web 2.0 NETS-T 3 & 4

Lauren Cifuentes explains how Web 2.0 can save the world. With this term she means that the current young and children can learn the importance of becoming ethical people and with professionalism they can save the future world. Cifuentes believes that teachers and students can mutually learn to be people with strong ethics, concern with poverty, collaborating in causes to help other countries, and understanding the importance of balance in the government.  After all of the information is conveyed both ways, the most important is to know how to collaborate and share the information through the web like in facebook, twitter, and delicious. Communication tools are imperative and take a huge role in Web 2.0, because that us the best and fastest way to get to more students than just a classroom. The student’s responsibility is to go to other students and communicate the importance of ethics.

How does language enter in the plan of saving the world?

Language takes a role in the plan of saving the world because in Web 2.0 there are sites that support the importance of learning more than one language. Language is a big issue now a day and it has been since diversity existed. Tolerance is a huge problem in this world, and if teachers are able to teach students the importance of diversity and accepting other language, we can have a world without wars and hate. On the other hand, if the teachers themselves don’t believe in the importance of diversity then there is no way for them to teach the importance of diversity. This job of saving the world with Web 2.0 is not simple, we need to start from the roots meaning that we need to teach teachers and then teachers need to teach students and the students can communicate to their friends.

How is involving students going to change their perspective of life?

Involving children in projects such as aiding people on poverty will let them know the need that many people are into and that way they will want to do something when they grow up. Additionally, as part of Web 2.0’s plan, students need to be taught the important of balance in the government and the distribution of money in the world. With projects like this, children will understand that the distribution of power is imperative and when vote time comes they will make the right election. Also, if many students are taught about the importance of ethics, when they stand in the white house with a high position, they will make the right decision thinking of other people.

Cifuentes, L., Merchant, Z., & Vural, O. F. (2010, November 1). Save the World with Web 2.0. Learning and Leading, 34-36. Retrieved November 7, 2010

Inspiration NETS-T 4

The Inspiration 9. satisfied NETS-T 3 and five because I put all the NETS-T three together and reflected what we all as a class have done. Additionally, NETS-T five underlines the importance to exhibit leadership and demonstrate a vision of technology, and build the technology skills of others. All the examples can be visually seen in this post.

Journal 7: My Personal Learning Network NETS -T 5

In journal 7 we had the opportunity of meeting educators through Twitter. I met with educators from Connecticut and New Jersey and many more people. I also added educators to my delicious account. Then I wrote a reflection of who I added and why I added them. I described the great experience I had in the chat meeting as well. It was very interesting.



My personal learning network is combined with a twitter, delicious, and Educator’s account. These accounts convey an informative world of educators who share their knowledge. When educator share their knowledge it is easier for teachers to teach, and for students to learn and collaborate with other students as well. As a teacher my PLN will help me to know different ways to help my students study and learn in a classroom environment. Through the network I will be able to learn from teachers, students, and my community.

In my Twitter account, I added other people to my network in order to learn from them. The people who I added were people who are dedicated to the world of education. The sections that I searched were education and landed on elemchat. The topic that was discussed was what are your favorite tech tools for the classroom. Topic: What are your favorite tech tools for the classroom.Some of the tools mentioned were the DreamBox , dashboard, but internet access is needed. A mom mentioned that her daughter plays at home 15 minutes a day, and at school twice a week in the lab. Other tools mentioned were, Skype and Mixbooks, www.sitepal.com for voice, and voki. Through the Twitter chat I also realized how popular it is to teachi with Macs I also learned that Diigo.com is similar to delicious.com

For my Delicious account one of the people who I elected was Jedipooh. Jedipoo, in addition to be very involved with his delicious account he is into computers which is great for me! I need to stay in the technology side! Things are moving fast and I need to keep up. He will be a good search engine for me regards technology. The other people who I chose were also very involved in tagging in the education such as new ways to teach students to listen and much more.

In the Educator’s website I found a great contributor named John Burrell. John seems like a very dedicated educator who keeps up with the education updates as far as teaching. On October 31, John posted a blog called Flip-Thinking. The title seemed very interesting to me and what I found out from the post was even more interesting. The direct url to his blog is http://edupln.com/profile/JohnBurrell. I recommend other students and educators to read his postings because as I mentioned he is a dedicated person to his career. The way that John explained how the Flip-Thinking works in his classroom. Teaching our kids first in class and reiterating the information with homework or an activity to take home is a great way to keep the students warm on the subject. The best way to make sure that your students learned the information is by asking them a few questions after the homework is done.

Journal 6 Interview-Change Agent, NETS-T 2& 5

Will Richardson is an example to follow. Will, as an educator is googleable, but he would like more teachers and professors to become as well. Richardson’s mentality of a world involved in technology is currently on it’s highest I believe, but there is much more to be done. I agree with him in that “there's no one teaching them about the nuances involved in creating a positive online footprint.” Students now a day are so involved in myspace and other networks that are not really helping themselves in their education. Students need to get involved by their teachers, and supported by their parents to try to novice activities in their computer.

Why do we blog?

Richardson is a critical thinker. Like he says, educators and other blog users should ask ourselves why we use a blog. The question correlates on the fact that we use it, but many of us don’t know why we use it. The purpose of a blog is to collaborate and communicate with other bloggers around the world. For example, in blogspot.com, the one I use is great because I get to collaborate and share information with other students in my class. In my education class we get to do activities in the web and then we get to reflect on them on our blog. As one of our assignments, we also have to comment on our classmates which is a great way to help our classmates acknowledge their great work. Richardson also brings an important point to his interview which is that we have wasted enough time trying to learn how to improve our computer skills and it’s time to finally think why is the reason we are trying to learn this ‘stuff.’ The key points are collaboration and communication!

What is going to take for Educational Institutions really get up and start engaging in their student’s education?

In order for students to engage in their own education, educators need to engage first in their profession. I believe that is one of the issues missing from educators. I believe the best way to engage students in their education are by introducing them to novice activities in where their educational interest will awaken. Engaging students in their education reminds me of NETS –T five because if we teach our students the importance of learning technology. But also passing it on to others and the most important is remembering it for the rest of your life because it will help you in professional jobs. Richardson seems like a teacher who engages really well with his students which will help his students have a better technology life!
Change Agent (2010, October 12). In Education Week Teacher PD Sourcebook. Retrieved November 3, 2010, from http://www.edweek.org/tsb/articles/2010/10/12/01richardson.h04.html?cmp=clp-edweek&intc=bs&sms_ss=delicious&at_xt=4cb7dc75d0303b73,0