Hometown

I come from a very small town called Grant, AL. To give you an idea of just how small it is we have one red light and one caution light. I like my little town because I know about everybody that lives there. My graduating class of 2005 only had 65 people in it. It is very close community were everybody knows everybody jut like the song. There is not realy a lot to do there but there are towns nearby that have lots of fun things to do. I really enjoy my little town and cant ever imagine living in a big city.

Inspiration is so Helpful!

I thought working with Inspiration was so helpful for future brainstorming. It helps keep your ideas together and organized and even looks kinda cool! In the future, I'd like to use Inspiration in my classroom when we are brainstorming about class wide stories and ideas we'll write together. I think Inspirations layout will be easy for children to understand!
Also, I am excited about making a video with my group members. I think it will be fun, and we will learn about Carmelization as we are conducting our experiment.

Video project

I found the discussion about the video project very interesting. We came up with a fun and interesting experiment that we are going to video tape. There are four members in our group, two of the members are going to carry out the experiement and the other members are going to tell the scientific information about the experiment. I think this will be a fun and helpful experience and will allow collaboration with my group members. This experience will also allow me to get use to using a video camera to record things which could also be helpful in my classroom in the future. I look forward to participating in this experiment and think it will be a fun learning experience. I could use this in my classroom in the future for a fun way for the children to learn about science or other subject areas. This type of collaborative project would also help the children build team and social skills that will be helpful later on in life. This could be my favorite project we have done so far in this class I think it will be lots of fun!!!

Video Project

The video project we are going to do is going to be alot of fun. We are going to make a video and share it with other groups in the class I feel as though this is a good project to do because we could use this project in our own classroom setting. It is on a science fair project on something we have to make and talk about. In the classroom when we talk about science or social studies the kids can get involved and do a video and other kids can participate and learn from it!

Video Science Project

I like what we learned today; I think it will help us to create creative video projects for our future class. Our groups discussion went very well. We found a great cooking experiment idea we want to use and were able to brainstorm many ideas for our video project. We have basically everything we are going do for our video worked out we just need to iron out a few of the details. Through this assingment I can see how a teacher creating an at home instructional video such as this would create a better and more engaging learning environment. Without actually leaving the classroom the students can be transported to a whole new learning environment through video. I know when I was in school, elementary all the way through highschool, the science experiments that realted to everyday life were the ones that stuck with me the most. Creating projects like this for young students to participate in or even watch will be a great way to get them intrestead in science at an early age and show them that science is not just a bunch of boring facts. Also, for this experiment it helps with the saftey factr since we are dealing with high heat.

Copyright Assignment - Jessica

1.The most surprising thing I learned about copyright laws is the restrictions using multimedia. I didn't realize power point photos and things such as that had to be evaluated before you used them.
2. When I use copyrighted materials in my classroom I want to first try to look up the laws and make sure everything I am doing is legal, but also I will not hesitate to call a professional that knows more about them than I do.

Copyright Assingment (Katie)

One of the most suprising facts about copyright to me was that govenment documents such as laws, ammendments, etc can not be copyrighted. The most suprisng part was that speeches made by government officals can not be copyrighted either. I did not know that documents such as these go straight into pulic domain for everyone, including educatiors, to access and use.
Also, if I came across some copyrighted material that I wanted to use for educational purposes in my classroom to further the educational experience of my students I would need to seek approval from either the creator, author, or holder of the copyright. This could be attained several ways. I could either get permenat permission to use all or a part of the work or just one time permission. Regardless of what type of permission I get it would always be a good idea to attain, and keep, a copy in writting just incase any question of the legality of using the copyrighted material ever came up. Even if I attained the permission over the phone I would ask the person or persons giving the permission to send a copy in writting.

Holidays

My favorite holiday is of course Christmas when all the family and friends are all together sharing great memories. Everyone receiving gifts and eating wonderful food! Family from all around come together to share such a great time. My birthday is also in the month of December its very close to Christmas so thats always fun I get double gifts. Christmas goes by super fast I hate it when its all over because its such a great time of the year!

Hobbies

I have several different hobbies I love to go shopping and eat out with friends. I love just being with family and friends. I hate be alone that is very boring. I love to go to the beach and swim and get a sun tan. I do not live for from the beach at all. I use to be a cheerelader in high school but now that Im in college and I do not have time for that anymore but that was always very fun. I love to watch children and play with them. I work at a daycare and I love it they are so very cute!