C Major Scale
Chords for C Major
F Major Scale
Chords for F Major
G Major
G Major Chords
A Minor Chords
When The Saints Go Marching In
On Top Of Old Smokey
Greensleeves
Monday, December 14, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Digging for Dinosaurs
Yesterday at school during recess the kids found a large mound of dirt that was from the construction of their new playground. One of the first graders (the grade that I would prefer to teach) had checked out a book about dinosaurs earlier that day and decided to look for dinosaur fossils. They found some dinosaur footprints (dog footprints) and were SO excited about it. They continued excavating for the rest of recess, not once choosing to play on the playground.
This experience taught me that children have fun while learning on their own. Instead of playing on the playground, the students on their own got out their book and dug for fossils with no instruction for me. Their imagination led them to inquire about the dirt and fossils and they had a great time doing it. This experience shows how teaching by inquiry is a great way to teach elementary students because their imagination offers so much. While inquiring, students can have fun and come up with more findings than may have come from a typical lesson plan. They do not get bored or finish early because the possibilities are endless.
This experience taught me that children have fun while learning on their own. Instead of playing on the playground, the students on their own got out their book and dug for fossils with no instruction for me. Their imagination led them to inquire about the dirt and fossils and they had a great time doing it. This experience shows how teaching by inquiry is a great way to teach elementary students because their imagination offers so much. While inquiring, students can have fun and come up with more findings than may have come from a typical lesson plan. They do not get bored or finish early because the possibilities are endless.
Teacher Journal
From now on my blog is going to be a teacher journal. I am going to record specific instances that occur in my job as an after school facilitator at Cherry Tree Elementary.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Emerging Technology 3: Facebook
Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with fellow computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University.The website's name stems from the colloquial name of a book given to incoming students at Zuckerberg's high school, Phillips Exeter Academy. The book shows the faces and names of the school's students and faculty. Facebook currently has more than 250 million active users worldwide.
Facebook is very user friendly but I found this helpful tutorial on it in case you have never used it before.
Facebook allows its users to upload pictures of its users and albums of pictures. This is the main reason I like to get on Facebook, to look at all of the pictures that people upload. Here is another very helpful video that shows you step by step how to upload pictures and albums to Facebook.
I think that Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with current and old friends and it is also a great way to meet new friends. Social networking is very popular now and Facebook, in my opinion, is one of the top social networking sites.
Facebook is a safe site because you can manage your profile so that only people you add as friends can view your profile. You can also edit your settings so that if you don't want certain people to be able to find you on Facebook you can block them.
I use Facebook to keep in touch with my friends. It is really fun to be able to search an old aquaitance's name and find them on Facebook.
If you haven't already, check out Facebook and create your own profile!
Facebook is very user friendly but I found this helpful tutorial on it in case you have never used it before.
Facebook allows its users to upload pictures of its users and albums of pictures. This is the main reason I like to get on Facebook, to look at all of the pictures that people upload. Here is another very helpful video that shows you step by step how to upload pictures and albums to Facebook.
I think that Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with current and old friends and it is also a great way to meet new friends. Social networking is very popular now and Facebook, in my opinion, is one of the top social networking sites.
Facebook is a safe site because you can manage your profile so that only people you add as friends can view your profile. You can also edit your settings so that if you don't want certain people to be able to find you on Facebook you can block them.
I use Facebook to keep in touch with my friends. It is really fun to be able to search an old aquaitance's name and find them on Facebook.
If you haven't already, check out Facebook and create your own profile!
Friday, July 24, 2009
Emerging Technology 2: Moodle
Moodle is like a virtual classroom. A Moodle homepage acts just like a website does. Teachers can post links to the class calendar, links to assignments that need to be completed, an online syllabus, and discussion forums. This gives students the ability to find information they may have missed because they were absent from class. Teachers can also create and give tests, monitor students’ activity, edit content and organize grades. The teacher has total control of the learning environment. Here is a video that explains Moodle a little more in depth.
After going to the Moodle website, I found some more video tutorials that helped me understand Moodle better. Since I am not a teacher yet, or in a class that uses Moodle, it is hard for me to use the software. I am very interested in it, however, and wish to learn as much as I can so that I can incoproate it into my classroom in the future.
Here is a video that shows you how to create a lesson in Moodle. This will come in handy when we are all teaching!
I think that Moodle is a great technology for students and teachers. It is a productive online activity for students and it makes students more aware of what they need to be doing in their classes. It also gives parents the opportunity to see what their children are learning in school and also get a report of how they are doing in school through their gradebook. Moodle is very similar to our class we take through Oncourse, which is a very helpful resource. I think that everyone should check out the video tutorials and website and think about using Moodle in your future classrooms :)
After going to the Moodle website, I found some more video tutorials that helped me understand Moodle better. Since I am not a teacher yet, or in a class that uses Moodle, it is hard for me to use the software. I am very interested in it, however, and wish to learn as much as I can so that I can incoproate it into my classroom in the future.
Here is a video that shows you how to create a lesson in Moodle. This will come in handy when we are all teaching!
I think that Moodle is a great technology for students and teachers. It is a productive online activity for students and it makes students more aware of what they need to be doing in their classes. It also gives parents the opportunity to see what their children are learning in school and also get a report of how they are doing in school through their gradebook. Moodle is very similar to our class we take through Oncourse, which is a very helpful resource. I think that everyone should check out the video tutorials and website and think about using Moodle in your future classrooms :)
Friday, July 17, 2009
Delicious link
Here is a link to my delicious site. While it was a bit time consuming, I know that I will appreciate having all of my bookmarked items in one spot. I looked at other students' delicious links as well and found some great resources. I have bookmarked lots of interesting sites and articles about teaching, feel free to explore!
Podcasting
Podcasts are multi-media files, generally audio and video, that are distributed via the internet for play on personal devices like Ipods. It is sort of like blogging meets Tivo. People download or subscribe to the podcasts that they want to hear/view. Many podcast authors use syndication programs like ITunes, where subscribers automatically get the updated podcast when they connect their device.
I had never podcasted before, so this was a learning experience for me. It really was not that difficult, however. I found a good Tutorial on Youtube that helped me alot. I recommend future students to use this tutorial for help.
I decided to do an easy podcast of something silly like 'Leslie's Random Fact of the Day.' I wrote my script, recorded my voice onto my computer, and then mixed an mp3 music track with my voice. I made two recordings so that it demonstrated the different episodes of my podcast. Then I uploaded my recordings to a public webserver. Then I embeded the audio player in my blog, allowing my podcast to play on my blog.
I loved this assignment because I think it will benefit me greatly in my future classroom. For example, if one of my students missed class I could upload an audio or video recording to my blog so that the student could attend class virtually and not fall behind. Also, if students had questions out of the classroom, they could submit them to me via email and I could respond on my blog with a podcast of the answer. That way I could help other students who most likely would have the same question. I think that emerging technologies such as podcasting will be a great help in future classrooms, such as mine.
I had never podcasted before, so this was a learning experience for me. It really was not that difficult, however. I found a good Tutorial on Youtube that helped me alot. I recommend future students to use this tutorial for help.
I decided to do an easy podcast of something silly like 'Leslie's Random Fact of the Day.' I wrote my script, recorded my voice onto my computer, and then mixed an mp3 music track with my voice. I made two recordings so that it demonstrated the different episodes of my podcast. Then I uploaded my recordings to a public webserver. Then I embeded the audio player in my blog, allowing my podcast to play on my blog.
I loved this assignment because I think it will benefit me greatly in my future classroom. For example, if one of my students missed class I could upload an audio or video recording to my blog so that the student could attend class virtually and not fall behind. Also, if students had questions out of the classroom, they could submit them to me via email and I could respond on my blog with a podcast of the answer. That way I could help other students who most likely would have the same question. I think that emerging technologies such as podcasting will be a great help in future classrooms, such as mine.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
My name is Leslie Kesler and I am a student at IUPUI where I am majoring in Elementary Education. I just recently transferred from the University of Kentucky after completing two years. I loved it there but I am very happy to now be closer to my hometown of Carmel, Indiana. Above is a picture of my friends from college at the Keeneland racetrack in Lexington, KY(I am the second from the left).
Creating a blog was very simple to do. I went to the blogger.com website and watched the video tutorial which pretty much walked me through the entire process.
It took me a little while to figure out how to upload a picture but after some time I got it to work. After creating my blog I added pictures, hyperlinks, and changed the font and colors of my blog. I am really glad that I allowed myself alot of time to create my blog, because I cannot imagine doing this if I was rushed. I suggest for future students to give themselves plenty of time to create their blog and watch the video tutorial.
Also, whenever a student runs into trouble they should visit the Blogger help site. This site helped with all of my questions.
I have never had a blog before and I am very excited to use one from now on. It kind of reminds me of a journal which is something I have always wanted to keep. I am excited to continue blogging on here and hope you enjoy my page!
Here is a link to my PB Wiki on Questioning Technology:
http://lesliekesler.pbworks.com/Questioning-Technology
Creating a blog was very simple to do. I went to the blogger.com website and watched the video tutorial which pretty much walked me through the entire process.
It took me a little while to figure out how to upload a picture but after some time I got it to work. After creating my blog I added pictures, hyperlinks, and changed the font and colors of my blog. I am really glad that I allowed myself alot of time to create my blog, because I cannot imagine doing this if I was rushed. I suggest for future students to give themselves plenty of time to create their blog and watch the video tutorial.
Also, whenever a student runs into trouble they should visit the Blogger help site. This site helped with all of my questions.
I have never had a blog before and I am very excited to use one from now on. It kind of reminds me of a journal which is something I have always wanted to keep. I am excited to continue blogging on here and hope you enjoy my page!
Here is a link to my PB Wiki on Questioning Technology:
http://lesliekesler.pbworks.com/Questioning-Technology
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