Glogster

Lesson Plan

Objective

• Students will apply current events to biology
• Students will be able raise biological awareness to the public
• Students will see how biology relates to "real life"
• Students will be able to apply biology in a fun creative way

Procedures

1. Have students create a poster once a month
2. Students will research current events dealing with biology (looking through newspapers, Internet articles, problems they have seen personally, pretty much anything that concerns biology and interests them.)
3. Students will write a small paragraph why they are interested in the topic the chose and how it relates to biology
4. A poster will be created addressing the topic
5. Posters will be presented to the class

Evaluation

• By doing this project students will see how much biology is involved with and is applied to daily life
• Students will become comfortable with glogster and be able to use it for other projects
• Students get excited about certain biological aspects

Final Project

For my final project I am working with glogster. This is such a great tool. I am excited to use this in my biology classes because it is an easy way for students to show how biology relates to everyday life. I would use this tool for students to find current events, things brought up in the news, or anything that relates to biology and create a fun poster with glogster about it. A couple examples are: the recent oil spill, or the question of whether or not honey bees are declining and why. These posters could also point out things that people can do to "save" the earth. Like I said before, I am really excited about this tool.

So far with this project I have created my lesson plan and will post that in a little bit and I have played a lot with the glogster program. I haven't started with my sample poster yet, but I think that that should go pretty fast because I have been playing around with glogster so much.

Multimedia Project...Ducks

This video took a lot more time and work than I originally thought it would. I think it turned out great though and will NEVER look at ducks the same way :)

Multimedia Project

I am finished making my video but now need to upload it to youtube. I'll try to get that posted tonight.

My Website Update

I finished my website!

My Website

I added my website to my blog list. It can also be found here.

Internet Safety

Since the alternate activity was strongly recommended for health teachers that is what I did. I am getting a teaching health minor and want to do all that I can to get a job and this seems like a good thing to put on a resume. Although watching all the clips took a LONG time it was well worth it. I had a friend that was directly harmed because of something that started in a chatroom on the internet. I think it should be part of a schools cirriculum to show students these video clips.

COPYRIGHT #2

This is a great video that a girl in tenth grade made about endoctyosis and exocytosis. She used whole songs while she showed pictures that she drew. At the end she gave credit to both songs.
I would be able to use the pictures that this girl drew in my classroom because since they are all part of a collection (all of endocytosis and exocytosis) I would be able to use up to 15 of her pictures and this presentation doesn't have more than 15 pictures.

COPYRIGHT

This is a video I found on you tube of my highschool bowling team. They used a song that they did not site but they were close to following a 30 second rule. They actually used 40 seconds of the song and should have just used thirty seconds. It also says that ten percent of the work can be used and still abide by copyright laws. It is very possible that the part of the song was only ten percent of the whole song. I think that they probably should have credited the song at the end though.

PLN assignment

I have subscribed to The Biology Corner, http://www.biologycorner.com/feed/ , it is a great blog because it contains useful tips and tricks for teaching various biology topics.

I also subscribed to Science Literature-Teaching goals for Advanced Placement Biology, http://www.arn.org/blogs.php. Seeing that I want to teach biology in high school I would love to teach the AP class. This blog gives lots of good insights into what it is like teaching an AP class.

The third blog that I subscribed to is Transforming Life Science Education, http://biologyteachers.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default . This blog would also be good because if I end up teaching at the middle school level this has more basic information. This blog provides additional resources to science teachers.

The fourth blog is Blog U.: Ask the Administrator: What about Teaching High School..., http://www.insidehighered.com/rss/feed/ihe . This blog has so much information and gets input from hundreds of teachers. This blog has information on many topics that high school teachers cover.

I also subscribed to My Boring 286 Blog (which can be found on my blog list) and directed them to a blog that I found titled, Technology Tips for All Teachers, http://teachertechblog.com/feed/.

My Gadgets

I added a picture of my family and a playlist that my sister created but I listen to. The picture of my family is important to me because they are the reason I am the way I am. As for the playlist...well this describes me pretty well. I listen to pretty much anything and don't know many songs, singers, bands, etc....hence why I listen to my sister's playlist.

My Technology Background and Goals

I have very little technology background. I have spent time on the Internet, written papers on Microsoft word, created a couple Power Points, and that is about it. For some reason technology is intimidating to me. There is so much to know, so many ways to do the same thing, shortcuts, tools, buttons, the list goes on. I want to be able to feel more secure in using technology in my life. I know that it is extremely important and as time goes on it will become even more prevalent in the classroom. Technology can be used to help teach my students biological concepts better as it is described by two college students at Haverford College. I want to be able to use technology to improve communication skills with my students and be able to use technology to share my beliefs (whether it be religious, educational, etc.) with others.