Wikis

I think that it is a good idea to share ideas with others and to talk about them. I am not sure that I would use wikis in my class room because I think that it could get out of hand and would take a great deal of the teachers time to mounter them and the students use them. I think their are just as effective ways for students to help each other than use a wiki. In Ag we will have a lot of hands on activities and that is a good time for students to see what others are doing and they can give opinions and ideas to others at this time. If my students spent their time on the computer talking about how to weld or how to mange livestock instead of doing it then they will not learn how to do it vary well.

I do think that students learn more when thy can discuss thing with each other than when they are just taking notes in a classroom. However in my class I would rather them be doing something productive like building a trailer as a class. This gives them an opportunity to learn from each other and at the same time learn what they are doing instead of learning how to use the Internet. That is for the computer science teacher to teach them.

I do think that students learn different, we are not all the same and if we were it would be easier for teacher but then the world would be a boring place. In my class I will go over the topic and have the students to take notes, then we will go out to the shop or to the barn and have hands on activities for them to get a idea of what is really going on. This will address all types of learners and at the same time hopefully keep the students attention.

excel

I think that is neat to use excel in all the way that we have this week. I like useing it as a gradebook because it is an easy way to keep up with grades and it does the caculations for you. In my field I am not sure that I would use excel other than as a gradebook. However I will rember what I learned this week and when I start teaching I may find a use for it in other ways.

Inspiration

I enjoyed playing with Inspiration and seeing all it had to offer. I think that it would be good for students to use to organize a presentation for class. I wont be assigning to may papers in my class being an Ag. teacher but I'm sure students will have presentations to do. Say a student was giving a report or presentation over the Bovines(cattle) digestive system. They could set up a diagram or web using each stomic as a categories and coming up with subcategories for each one like what is the purpose of each. Maybe tell what vitamins and minerals a ruminate needs or don't need to survive.

I think that using inspiration can help a student keep his/her ideas organized in a fun and easy way. Some students don't do as well when told to sit down with a pen and paper and to brains storm or to come up with a organized web of their ideas. However the colors and the pictures that are used in Inspiration can help a over active kid focus and have fun learning.

What do you think about using blogs? What and how do you think blogs would be useful for education? Some people think using blogs in classrooms is a waste of students’ time. How would you respond?

So far I think blogging is easy. I do think that it is a good idea for teachers to have a blog so parents have a way to see what is going on in class. I do not think it is a waste of time its an easy way for students and parents to find out what is going on in their school. If students had their own blogs then they could see what other students though of class and discuss school with students that they may not ever talk to in person due to schools being so clickish.

A little about me

My name is Kayla Lee Roberts I live in Paris, Texas. This is my second year at A&M Commerce before that I attended Kansas State. Living in Kansas was an adventure and I learned a lot about myself their but I am happy to be back home in Texas. Before Kansas I lived in Corinth, Texas and attended Lake Dallas High School. Now I live in Paris witch is where my family is from. I have two horses that I have trained myself and currently competing in barrel racing on. I want to get in to team penning but have not had the time to do so yet.