Thursday, October 23, 2008

POD 10.24.2010

Here is a list of numbers... Please place them in Descending order.

.987
.090
45,987
.456
1,326,879
10
12
456
.1
678,987
.45
7,987

Please close your computer when you are done.

New Definition of Hip: "Blogging in my Classroom"

The question posed is this: How could one use Blogging effectively in the modern day classroom.

Let's picture the ideal situation, in my classroom there would be a mobile lab two days a week. I could post the "POD" (Problem of the Day) on my Blog and have each student respond with an answer and how they attained their answer, as it would be a math question and for all math questions I like to see how the answer was attained. To hedge off laziness I could even post 5 questions and you know, randomly do people with first names A-F do question 1 and people with first names G-L do question two and so forth and so on.

Also! I could post homework assignments and important notes on there for anyone who either wasn't in class or would like further explanation. This could be a FABULOUS tool for peer-to-peer help if the students logged on and blogged back and forth about how they were getting along, and it could be viewed by all, including me to see the dialog taking place.

Who in their right mind would have thought this could be possible?! I didn't even think it until right now, what a FANTASTIC tool!

I wonder how many adjectives beginning with "F" I can put in all caps and in a single blog? Anyone?

:)

Catch ya on the flip side.

How to be a Hip Educator

Greetings! Welcome to the Hip Educational Blog!!

I have two heros at MVNU that guide me in my Dreams to be a Hip Educator.

First: Raynard who Googled "Hip" and came up with some SWEET (a.k.a. Hip) tunes for us all to create some Fabulous Inspriation Maps to, which by the way, was the perfect transition from our tasty dinner back into work.

Second: Is Master D (Damon Osborne) who perfectly defined Hip as: 1970s.

Yea, if thats not a GREAT start to a professional educational Blog then I don't know what would be... I'm just givin' props where props are due.

Catch you on the flip side.