Math Stategies video podcasts

Take a look at some of these podcasts created to help math students learn common problem topics:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EB2196CE96D0D750

Enjoy!

Math Blogs

In response to Chrissy's post (go look ;)), I have found a couple math blogs that you may enjoy reading:

http://polymathematics.typepad.com/polymath/advanced_high_school_math.html

http://math-blog.com/

http://homeschoolmath.blogspot.com/

http://mathgoodies.blogspot.com/

Fourth-Grade Teacher Visits Our Class Friday

As we all know, we will have a visitor tomorrow to speak with us. Here is the list of questions that my other class started and we discussed on Tuesday. Take a look, and see if you have any others to add. You can add them in the "Comments" section.

Thanks~

Questions for Mrs. Milite

1. How do you set up your classroom? Why?
2. How has teaching fourth grade changed over the years?
a. Students
b. Staff
c. Assessments/Tests
d. Curriculum
e. Motivation
f. Parents
3. How do you deal with parents?
4. Do you love being a teacher? Why or why not?
5. What is the hardest thing about your job?
6. What is the easiest thing about your job?
7. Has your job ever interfered with your personal life? Does it affect your “outside life”?
8. What is your view on principals and superintendents?
9. Who was your most challenging student? Why?
10. Did you always want to be a teacher?
11. Have you taught any other grades?
12. Have you ever thought about teaching older kids?
13. How difficult is it to find a job? Do you think it will get easier or harder?
14. Have you ever had a student teacher?
15. What do you do in the summer?
16. What was your first year of teaching like?
17. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Bloggers in Action!

Catarina looks on as Deirdre blogs at the Academic Symposium. This experience allowed us to see that blogging can be done practically anywhere (with an Internet connection) and at anytime.

Thanks to the students who visited the Symposium and to the rest of you who have put so much hard work and effort into this educational blog assignment.

Academic Symposium

Today, our blog will be presented at the annual Academic Symposium.

The Academic Symposium provides participating students from all departments with an opportunity to share their research, publications, and other educational projects with the College Community.

Come take a look at our blog as well as other fascinating projects and research!

Final Blog Assignment

This is the end of the official blog assignment. The final date to officially post and respond is Friday, April 25.

At that point, you should have at least 15- 20 blog postings. With that said, I am not being "picky" on the amount of postings, but rather looking at the content and how active you were in posting and responding.

If you have any questions about your status, please let me know. However, if I was concerned with you, you would probably know it by now. ;)

So, on to the final assignment....

Please use your next posting (or two or three...) to reflect on your blog.

• Write about your blog.
• Discuss what you originally thought of the assignment
• Explain what you learned by using it.
• Do you think it was an effective assignment?
• What could make it more effective next semester?
• Would you use it in your future teaching?

Thanks. And again, your blog writing this term was nothing less than amazing.

Bye

"Thanks!

Free Rice!

FreeRice is a website that can help your students increase their vocabulary while helping others.

The website has two goals:

1. Improve your vocabulary

2. Improve your life and the lives of others

Take a look at this site and see what you think...

**FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com.

Randy Pausch

Susan just imformed me that Randy Pausch will be on ABC (channel 7) tonight at 10:00PM.

Thanks, Susan!

Let's watch...

Rapping Vocab

Today in my Tests and Measurements class, a student presented a lesson using this site:

Flocabulary: Hip-Hop in the Classroom
http://www.flocabulary.com/

Take a look and a listen and see what you think.

Vocabulary Website

After our interesting discussion on vocabulary development, I thought I would share this link:

http://www.vocabulary.com/

This site contains root lessons as well as online games and puzzles to increase vocabulary skills and knowledge.

Enjoy!