Thursday, March 11, 2010

Week Eight: Rested and Ready for Action?

I am hopeful that I will see some decreased anxiety today.  You have had a week to catch up with the coursework, which should put everyone in a better position to be successful.  The Computer Using Educator Conference was awesome!  I always leave inspired and ready to try new things.  If time permits, I'll share some of the cool tools I saw in Palm Springs.

I am slowly catching up on all of the grading.  I have graded all of the newsletter and regraded all of the intro letters, scans, and EdTechProfiles.  Please check your inbox and your grades to ensure you have a grade or something returned to your inbox.  I should also finish grading all of the Delicious assignments before class time. My goal is to be caught up on TaskStream and the journals by class time next week!!

Today:  I will answer any questions on the PowerPoint/Prezi assignment.  We will create a collaborative rubric to grade the PowerPoints next week.
Afternoon class rubric
Evening Class Rubric
We will also look at Classroom 2.0 ning network and explore a web 2.0 tool that you might want to use on our classroom. This will count as its own assignment as well as journal 6!

Journal 6:  This will be the Classroom 2.0 assignment.  Instructions will be given in class.
Journal 7: "The Beginners Guide to Interactive Virtual Field Trips," by Jan Zanetis.  This is from the March 2010 issue of L&L

This Week's Question:  What is something you learned well without a teacher?  How did you learn it?  This could be a sport, game, etc. . .

37 comments:

  1. I have learned how to play volleyball but that kind of has a teacher because different coaches have taught me throughout my time of playing. I have learned how to play each and every position on the court except middle blocker. I have also learned a lot about what it takes to be a trainer at sea world and have done a lot of on the job training there. I have had to learn for myself since this was my original career path and wanted to know more about the various animals behind the scenes. I learned how to pill fish, how to take care of the marine mammals and how to observe their behavior to understand their individual needs, comforts and frustrations.

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  2. I learned to snowboard by myself by practicing.

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  4. I taught myself how to french braid my hair along with other people's hair. I practiced alot.. :)

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  5. I learned how to pick out really great handbags :) I learned by shopping a lot.

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  6. I learn well y doing things hands on. I learned how cook almost any kind of food by looking and smelling and tasting the food.

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  7. I have learned how to cook. I now how to bake from scratch because of my cousin. Every Christmas she wants to make homemade goodie bags but some how i always get stuck making them.

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  8. to sing! I've never had formal training, but I love to sing and do it all the time when I'm at my house :P

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  9. I taught myself how to french braid as well.

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  10. I have taught myself how to cook. I always used to watch my mom cook when I lived at home, and so now that I'm living on my own, I have kinda just taught myself.

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  11. I learned how to draw by myself by practice and by being very visual.

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  12. I learned how to play basketball by myself. My coaches when I was young didn't really teach me much because they thought I was a lost cause (I was skinny and awkward) but I just kept practicing and watching people and forming my shot and eventually I grew into my body. :)

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  13. I learned how to wrap wire and make various kinds of jewelry without a teacher. It is strange. I have always loved geology and I was always fascinated by rocks. This past summer I was unable to find work and my sister was making jewelry. So I gave it a try, and fell in love with the process. Not to mention I always make an impressive finished piece. Now it has become something of a lucrative hobby.

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  14. I learned to play the piano on my own. I'm hardly a pro, but I figured out the basic science/art behind it. My sister was the one who took lessons - maybe I learned with her by listening as she got better.

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  15. I learned how to cook with out a teacher. I used to watch Food network religiously. But I never got any recipes from them. It was the only thing worth watching on TV. I think I absorbed the ability to cook by watching these shows. I sort of just put everything together or got ideas for recipes from the internet.

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  16. I have learned how to cook various things, while watching my mom and dad, and I'm pretty good at it = ).

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  17. i have taught myself how to cook as well!!! still in the process of learning thoughlol!

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  18. I learned how to play basketball. I jut practiced a lot and felt what was comfortable and just kept doing it. I still play on a weekly basis. I love everything about it, it's my comfort.

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  19. I learned how to bake by experience and looking up recipes online. I also watched my mom bake a lot when I was younger.

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  20. Until I took this class, I basically taught myself everything I know about using a computer. Other than basic typing programs I used as a child to help my typing skills, I never took any sort of technology class

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  21. I am learning how to create a power presentation. Hehe

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  22. I learned photoshop on my own when I was trying to put together a baby book.

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  23. to weave a rug from a retired climbing rope. :) i used a diagram and some instructions online. okay, so i haven't actually finished yet...

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  24. I learned how to bake and cook without a teacher. I like to experiment in the kitchen.

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  25. I taught myself how to wakeboard many years ago. Growing up on a lake and having parents that only knew how to ski, I was forced to teach myself if I wanted to learn. I did this by watching fellow wakeboarders on the lake and by practicing until I finally got it down.

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  26. It would have to be catching a baseball with a glove. I had a bet with my dad that if I learned by myself he would have to sign me up to play in a league. By the age of 7 I was catching a baseball by myself and have been playing organized baseball ever since.

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  27. Build any Lego creation known to man. It was a requirement as the mom of three boys...

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  28. I have mastered the art of composting by trial and error. Hmm, also gardening and cooking by watching others and reading books.

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  29. I learned how to play the guitar through lots of practice and sore fingers.

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  31. I learned my incredible fashion sense on my own, I think! And...in school I learned attention to detail on my own. I've always had the drive to do things my best and I don't believe that was taught to me by a teacher (maybe my parents though who are teachers)!!

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  32. I learned how to play volleyball on my own. I would practice and watch volleyball on t.v until I knew how to play and what the rules were.

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  33. I learned origami when I was 14. My dad brought back books and paper from Japan and everything was in Japanese so I could only learn from the pictures.

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  34. I tried teaching myself Russian just for fun, but, as you can imagine, it kinda fizzled out and I hardly remember any of it now

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  35. I have learned gardening on my own over time. I love the mix of different colors of flowers and the way they bloom at different times of the year. Each day, I love to walk around my backyard to see the changes, and weed, of course. Right now, lots of the flower bulbs are sprouting. In a month, my backyard will look spectacular.

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  36. I learned to draw well by studying faces on my own but learned how to use Conte Crayons, a chalk like substance, to make different tones of shading from a teacher at Palomar College in a head drawing class. It was awesome!

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  37. I learned how to ski on my own. I think it is great to learn by trial and error. I had watched many great skiiers on TV growing up and of course been on the slopes a lot. As long as it is something you really want to do and like doing it is fun!

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