Post 15-Final Reflection

PLN Summary

Well my PLN has come a long way. I have added some more websites that I visit regularly and I have put in some different colors. I still use it everyday. I love having everything I need all in one spot and not having to type it all in. I set one up for a friend because she liked mine so much.

C4T summary

Classroom Chronicles
by: Henrietta Miller-This post is entitled, "Hacking the System." It talks about not having time to get everything done and finding ways of doing it. The blog talks about some tips that a person with an busy schedule can use.
1. Get someone else to do it
2. Automate it
3. Pay someone else to do it
4. Make it redundant
5. Don't do it
6. Do it so you don't have to do it again in a long time
7. Clear everything and do it in a big concentrated block
I commented and said thanks for the post and that those little tips sure did help. I am always on the go and I seem to have a hard time setting down and just doing things that need to get done. I said I will take this tips and put them to good use now and when I am a teacher.

The second post I read was about classroom spaces. She talked about how she is setting up the classroom in different ways and seeing if it works. The different areas include:

• Quiet please, genius at work
• Group work station
• Thinking space
• Quiet please, I need to think today
• Feel free to join us
• Do not disturb we are concentrating
• I need help today

I commented and said this seems like a good idea and I can't wait to have a classroom of my own so I can try using this method. I think it will work out for the best.

SURVIVOR EDM-310-FINAL

Blog Post #14-Special Assignement on Metaphors

1. Why did you miss the metaphor in Tom Johnson's post, or, if you "hit the nail on the head", why do you think you understood the metaphor and why do you think that others in the class missed the metaphor?
-I don't know why I missed it. I guessI am just so use to seeing them that I just didn't think anything about it.

2. What metaphors have you encountered since I asked you to create a log of them?
-I don't think I have encountered any lately but one of my favorite is "it's raining cats and dogs".
3. What other things can we do as educators to help our students to understand and to use metaphors?
-I think letting students try and making some up themselves and having worksheets

4. Why do we use metaphors?
-I looked up the defination of it and it says, Metaphors expand our way of thinking about things. It requires one to use prior knowledge to decipher the real meaning of what is being stated.