About my practicum so far

So far the practicum has been pretty fun!  I've helped grade a few different projects so far, so I'm getting used to grading so far.  The class had to do a reading test, and I read the questions aloud to a group of students as an accommodation to help them comprehend the questions.  That was pretty cool since I got to see how an accommodation is implemented in a classroom so far.  I also got to grade those tests, and got to see how the test is laid out.  The test that was given out had a sheet that had all the questions on them to assist with grading.  All the questions were labeled with what the question was asking about, so

Reflections on Google Apps training

http://edutraining.googleapps.com/Training-Home/module-1 This website is an excellent training module for how to use Google Apps in a school. You can set up email for all of your students and faculty and have some fairly easy to use tools to use. For example, you can set a group of emails for students and set a rule so that no profanity can be in emails, or only allow students to send emails to other students and teachers. It’s free to use, and very easy to setup. Plus, it would be a good introduction for students to learn how to manage an email account. You can teach them how to check email regularly, or how to write a respectful email. These are useful skills to teach, and getting assignments out is easy if all the students are in one email listserv!

Reflections on Copyright

This week we’re talking about copyright issues, and the websites provided are all about good ways to teach copyright to students. One of the websites, http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2012/03/06/15-copyright-rules-every-student-should-know/, has 15 basic ideas to keep in mind as a basis for copyright. This is a pretty good summary of what you need to know. Another good website we were shown was http://www.teachingcopyright.org/, which is way more student-friendly than the huge list of info in other site. This one has some good videos about copyright would be much better for teaching kids about what they need to know.

Winter

Today's Blog prompt: Winter! It's October 4th, and we've got out first snow. It's the ugly, messy snow that's more slush than anything that melted pretty quickly, but snow nonetheless. Snow is great when it's nice, dry, and doesn't freeze all the roads, but this slop? I'll pass. That's one of the two things I dislike about winter: slush, and -10 degree mornings. If we could find a way to get rid of slush and any temperature below -5 Fahrenheit, winter would be awesome.

Survey

Hey, this is John Miller's Education 300 blog!  I've never made a blog before, and really had no interest in making one before this class, but here goes!