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**__These are my unit reflections:__** The audience for all students work will be fellow 8th grade classmates and all 8th graders interested in the topic. The audience for teacher work wiil be her 8th grade students and fellow colleagues. This is a great closed network that I would not use in class but I would would use it as a tool for students to display their work and chat about improvements they think could be added to our classroom and our lessons. It would also be an arena for students to make suggestions on up and coming lessons.Students could chat to parents and other students and teachers while doing homework. The teacher could upload a video or podcast explaining important procedures for the weeks work. Parents could chat to other parents and also keep the lines of communication open with the teacher.Primarily I would use this as a means of communication ..The page would also be a source of information using hyperlinks to pertinent websites.
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 * __Ning June 29__**

**__Technology Standards for Students__**

**__ Technology Standards for Teachers __**
 * interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.
 * communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.
 * collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation.
 * collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation.

__PHOTO STORY June 26__ What a great way to share stories in a Math class. Math word problems may just become most popular once I incorporate photo story.The teacher will take examples of word problems on inequalities and create a real life story using pictures from gettys.com or evev pictures about her students, this will add a sense of practicallity to word problems.Not only are all the steps self explanatory ,they are easy to use and failure proof...This is the perfect program to allow students to create their own stories on equations, variables and expressions. Students will choose five vocabulary terms and five rules from the lesson on addition and subtraction of equations. They will collect pictures of their own and create a story using the vocabulary and pictures to demonstrate their understanding of addition of equations to the rest of the class.The teacher could use this as lesson openers or even use it to change a lecture on variables to a story on variables.This is a great resource to boost my students confidence by including pictures of them playing sport, music, and enjoying math into my stories .. **__Standards for Students__**

**__Standards for teachers__**
 * **create original works as a means of personal or group expression.**
 * **identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation.**
 * **collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.**
 * **transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies**

Power Points have countless uses. I could discuss the general outline of my unit using this type of presentation.In Groups students could each create one slide to show the next step in a given expression problem, thereafter they could combine their steps and present it to the class for discussion, identifying errors and rules for the simplification of expressions as the discussion proceeds.Students could also display results of projects on power points.Teachers could identify specific problems relating to graphing of inequalities and students could create a power point suggesting solutions.The insert feature would permit me to display real world, hot of the press problems, to my students. These type of problems are especially useful for writing expressions and allows the teacher to keep abreast with the latest trends. **Contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems**
 * ** promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness. **
 * ** develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress. **
 * model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments **
 * __Power Point June 24__**
 * __ Technology Standards for Students __**


 * **Identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation**
 * **Collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions**
 * __Technology Standards for Teachers__ **
 * ** engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources. **
 * ** promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes. **
 * **evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning**

Once you get the hang of the editing this resource could be used in a variety of ways. A note of caution!!!!!!!BE ABSOLUTELY FOCUSED AND METICULOUS WHEN SPLITTING YOUR CLIPS...Movies are an excellent way to generate participation, groupwork and creativity in the Math class.Movies could be used to show how to combine like terms.This can be accomplished by providing students with the steps and rules for combining like terms.They could then be assigned to groups in which they show how we group similar objects and eventually relate this to grouping of like terms using the rules. Students could form groups and create a skit discussing the difference between equations and Inequalities.Developing a comedy about the misinterpretation of language using the math vocabulary in my unit would be another idea to implement using mivie maker.This is one of those tools that are great for both teachers and students. I loved the suggestion made by Ms. Reynolds to record a movie with all the instruction for the days that you are out.. **__Technology Standards for Students__**
 * __Movie Maker June 24__**

__**Technology Standards for Teachers**__
 * **Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.**
 * **Create original works as a means of personal or group expression.**
 * **Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts or others employing a variety of digital environments and media**
 * **Transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies**


 * ** Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes. **
 * ** Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity. **
 * **Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness**



Most copyright infringements occur out of ignorance.It is therefore imperative that as a teacher I educate both my students and their parents on copyright laws.This could be done by placing a copyright tutorial or clip on their wiki or igoogle pages. Alternately we could have a parent student technology workshop in which we discuss these laws During the workshop,copyright jeopardy would be loads of fun for all.To end the evening we could ask families to create a page that they would consider legal following all copyright laws.As a class we would analyse and discuss the page of a volunteer family.The most valuable lesson that I could impart is modelling what I teach. Therefore I should consistently abide by all copyright rules and remind students of what I am doing during presentations and lessons. **__Technology Standards for students__**
 * __Copyright June 23__**

__**Technology Standards for Teachers**__
 * **Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology**
 * **Select and use applications effectively and productively.**
 * ** Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship .**


 * **Advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources.**
 * **Promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and inform**ation.

Even though igoogle has some inappropriate content, it is absolutely valuable as a resource in and out of the classroom.It saves time since it has everything updated with the use of rss.This ensures that all information is most recent.The plentitude of information for just one topic is on our screens with a click of a button. iGoogle has the power to take students that never had the opportunity to explore and travel on a journey of enlightenment.It exposes students to various points of view and encourages an open mind and deletes tunnel vision..My students would find various methods to solve one math problem. iGoogle also caters to the kineastetic ,auditory,visual and creative student.For all the reasons above I would use the igoogle in my class both as a research and a homework tool. BUT!!!!The all important problem, THE AVAILABILITY OF INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT! We could overcome this problem by creating their pages at school where certain blocks are in place.Also as a teacher I could check their pages regularly..We could also have a parent evening in which we educate parents on the both the pros and cons of the igoogle and request their assistance on the monitoring of the students page...The teacher could also effectively use igoogle as lesson openers with a projector. Igoogle presents the perfect opportunity to educate parents and students on copywrite. **__Technology Standards for students__**
 * __igoogle June 22__**

__**Technology Standards for teachers**__
 * ** Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks. **
 * **Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.**


 * ** collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation. **
 * **model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.**

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 * __Podcast June 18__**

**__How I will use Podcasts in my unit.__**

**__Math Standards__**
 * **Students will record a step by step explanation of a multistep equations. They will edit it and add music to it. They will use special features like silencing, fading, and pitching.**
 * **Students will love to create a song/rap or a poemrelated to expressions . They will record their songs and add music to** it.

__**Technology standards for the teacher.**__
 * ** Students will solve multistep equations using the invers operation of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. **
 * **Students will develop flexibility in solving problems by selecting various strategies.**
 * __ Technology Standards for students. __**
 * **Create original works as a means of personal or group expression. Creating poems on expressions using podcast.**
 * **Transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies.Transfer knowledge on multistep equations into a step by step explanation intergrating the use of podcasts.**


 * **Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.Include podcasts as a closure to equations.**
 * **Communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital-age media and formats.I could record important information related to homework, tests and class events using podcast.**

__**06/17/09 Publisher**__



**__How I will use publisher in my unit.__**

**__Technology standards for the student__**
 * ** Creating brochures for a dream destination could work.Students could compare the cost of a particular destination using equations and inequalities.Write problems on the costs of various activities while on vacation. **
 * ** Student`s could create their own calender with unit related problems for each day of the unit that they could share with peers. **
 * **students could create a newsletter with puzzles and word searches using the vocabulary in our u**nit.
 * __ Math Standards __**
 * Students will use Mathematical models to represent and understand inequalities with the intergration of the brochure.
 * Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems using the calender.
 * Use the language of Mathematics to express ideas precisely with the use of a newsletter.

__ **Technology Standards for teacher** __ __**6/16/2009**__ It would be great if I could create a classroom wiki for my students.It could have hyperlinks to songs, videos, games,collaboration,explanations,games and suggested sites/resources.The page would be introduced to students at the beginning of the unit so that they could add and adjust as we move along. For my unit on variables and equations I would like for my students to create wiki. The wiki should consist of a video. The video should include an explanation of one problem for each of the following topics ,variables and expressions, equations, distributive property, combining like terms and inequalities. It should also have a song created by the student related to any one of the topics.Students should include useful sites and resources related to these topics and finally a collaboration page.Most importantly students should include a page on which they would ask questions related to the topics.We would have to use the school`s computer lab, once a week and request the use of lap tops for the rest of the time. **__Technology Standards for students__**
 * ** Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes (brochure) **
 * ** Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.(calender) **
 * **Transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies.(newsletter)**
 * ** Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources. **
 * **Address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources.**
 * __WIKIS:__**


 * || ** 1.02 Use technology terms/concepts to describe and explain strategies used to collect, organize, and present findings for assignments/projects. ** ||
 * || ** 1.08 Cite sources of information used in content area databases. ** ||
 * || ** 2.02 Modify/create and use databases to organize, report, and display data. ** ||
 * || ** 3.07 Plan, design, and develop a multimedia product using data (e.g., graphs, charts, database reports) to present content information. ** ||
 * || ** 3.10 Use evaluation tools to select Internet resources and information for content and usefulness in content area assignments. ** ||
 * __ Technology Standards for teachers __**
 * Model Digital-Age Work and Learning **
 * Model Digital-Age Work and Learning **


 * ** b. ** || ** collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation .** ||