This Week in Photography

Alex Lindsay is running the show and Frederick Van Johnson is the host. They have guests each week that are experts in photography. They talking about when they shoot, there likes and dislikes and what they use when taking pictures or are in a shoot. This blog goes over the latest news in photography and the latest cameras that are coming out. They talk about different ideas in photography while having a normal conversation. This podcast is very informative because I can tell that the people are young but they have a lot of experience. It is just people using life experiences to better their craft which is photography.

Technology 4 Teachers

This podcast offers different topics for teachers and looks at technology and education and how the two connect. The podcast that I listened to was about personal health. Sean Martinson thinks that you need to be physically and mentally healthy to to have a long career and excel in what you teach. He says that first you need to understand your obstacles, and then suck it up and overcome your obstacles. In the beginning he quit everything because he had no clue how to effectively work out and did not have time and did not have the money to hire a trainer. It sounded like he was afraid of contracts but his iphone came to the rescue because it has applications for health and fitness. Actually once he finally did the commitment it actually helped go. He does not like to work out around other people so he would go around dinner time. Whenever he gym only needed his iphone and a bottle of water and he could suck it up and get healthy!

Kidscast UK

In this podcast there is a lot of music and songs to entertain kids, my daughter is dancing to the music. They use cartoon and character voices in the beginning of every podcast to I guess draw the children in and make them want to listen to the rest of the podcast. These podcasts are made with a lot of music, jokes, stories, and lots of fun. They have stories about sci-fi, a hyonotist is in one episode, pirates, strange meetings, tours in London and sherlock homes. These are all great topics I think kids would be interested in and could learn a lot from.

The Kidscast podcasts seem to be more engineered rather than talking so much. There are lots of sound effects, characters and digitized music that makes them seem very interesting. These podcasts could be used in the classroom as a regular lesson on reading or language development.

Teaching with Smartboards

These different podcasts show how to use the Smartboard within a math class. They are different lessons two teachers use that get students more involved with the lesson through a new technology that students do not usually get to have hands-on experiences with. The podcasts seem to cover topics such as just getting started, to all different math classes, to innovative lesson plans for math classes.

These seem to be recorded in a very casual format including personal information as well as technical tips for using a smartboard.

Vicki Davis: Harness Your Student's Digital Smarts

This is a great video for new teachers to see and learn how other teachers are engaging and empowering their students in new innovative ways. With technology used as it was originally meant, as a tool, students are collaborating with others from other nations, they are teaching their teacher as they learn themselves, and they are building social networks that will increase their global thinking.

This teacher spoke to how she designs her class to be customized for the group of students she is teaching. Customizing a technology class is a great thing to be able to do so that the really advanced students do not get bored and the average student has the chance to learn and grow as well. The class seemed so excited about everything they were doing.

Sir Ken Robinson: The Importance of Creativity

Sir Ken Robinson: The Importance of Creativity by Sir Ken Robinson hits close to home for me because I have a daughter about to start school. I think that Sir Robinson has a lot of good points about children and creativity.

He begins by stressing the importance of creativity. He thinks it is as important as literacy and should be treated that way. I agree I want my daughter to learn to read and write, but I also want her to be creative with everything she does and think outside the box. Sir Robinson believes to be creative you cannot be afraid of being wrong. Kids are very creative because they are not afraid of making mistakes or what other people think.

Sir Robinson says if you are not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original. As you get older and more aware, I know that I started to care what other people thought and was scared of being wrong in a classroom in front of other people. I worried about what other people were going to say about my work. I think that this is what we need to change. Children do not need to be afraid to express how they feel and be creative. Being creative is a wonderful blessing. Sir Robinson believes that kids grow out of creativity because of this reason. Also another great point he has is that a lot of kids are not allowed to become a rock star or be an artist because they will not make enough money or maybe will not succeed and cannot find a job.

Did You Know? 3.0 and Mr. Winkle Wakes

Wow! Have you ever watched Did You Know 3.0 by Carl Fisch on YouTube? It is definitely an eye opener. This video has many different pieces of information that will make you scratch your head or your jaw hit the floor. One thing that stood out to me was that there are 31 billion searches on Google every month. Who were these questions asked B.G. (Before Google)? Another statistic that I thought was really neat was that 1 out of 8 couples that were married last year met on the internet. Maybe I should try one of those websites….. I work for a big cell phone company and I had no idea that the first commercial text message was sent in December of 1992. Did you ever realize that today the number of text messages sent and received everyday exceeds the total population of the planet? Now that is crazy!

On a more serious note, this taught me that the top 10 jobs in demand in 2010, did not exist in 2004 which means we are currently preparing students for jobs that do not exist. The U.S. Department of Labor is telling me that I will have 10 to 14 jobs by the time I am 38. I hope this does not come true! Also it is hard for me to believe that Bermuda is the number 1 ranked country in broadband internet penetration and that the U.S. is number 19. That is wild. The last bit of information that I thought was really cute on this YouTube video is that 67 babies were born in the U.S. while I was watching this video and 395 were born in India that is quite a few more than in the U.S.!

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My name is Haley

Hello! My name is Haley Mills. I am a junior at South this semester. I am 24 years old, from Mobile and am working toward a degree in Physical Education.

My classes so far this semester seem to be great! I am taking a pe course, this educational media course, an online course in Human Development, and also a special education course.

My current job is full time at a local cellular phone business as a customer service technician, but hopefully with the amount of homework that I have already been assigned I will be able to reduce my hours dramatically.

I have one daughter, Camille, 20 months old. My sister is a senior in high school this year.