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How Can You Provide Meaningful Feedback to Your Peers?

Peer editing is critiquing work of someone your age. The three steps in peer editing are to make compliments, suggestions and corrections. It is important to stay positive when it comes to editing, we do not want to be a negative Nancy. Complimenting can be picking out the parts that you can relate to and commenting in a positive way. Starting with the positive will let your peer know you are not here to attack their writing, only to help them improve. Next comes suggestions on word choice, detail and organization. Did the writer keep you interested with the detail? If not, make a positive suggestion. Tearing someone down about their writing is not the way to inspire improvement. The last step is correction. You can make corrections on spelling, grammar, and punctuation. In the end I know your peer will appreciate the corrections you have made. They can learn from your feedback and work hard not to make the same mistakes again. If your work was never edited how could you improve?

I have learned from the video Top Ten Mistakes that it is important not to become too critical or too careless. You must find a happy medium between Whatever William and Picky Patty. You don't want to offend or embarrass your peers. As a future teachers we will deal a lot with editing. I want to be able to correct my students in a way that will not humiliate them or diminish their creativity.

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In the video Mr. Dancealot the professor is teaching a dance class through the lecture method. He is using a powerpoint video to demonstrate the different position and dances. He does not allow the students to practice the dance but instead expects the students the meet the requirements of the final just by taking notes. The central message of this video is you can not learn to dance without practice and experience. In the video the students take notes all semester and in the end they are put on a dance floor and asked to perform the dances learned. The students obviously failed that task due to the lack of personal experience. I agree with the author's conclusion. You can not teach someone to dance simply by showing them pictures and by taking notes. Dance can only be learned through repeated practice.



In Teaching in the 21st century Roberts states that teacher's are no longer the only source of knowledge. He says that students can learn anything, anywhere at anytime just by using google, facebook, twitter, blogs, YouTube and Wikapedia. Roberts also argues that educators should rethink the tools they use in order to teach. He suggest using podcast, RSS feeds and online surveys in order to gather and discuss data. I feel like Roberts is correct about how technology has evolved, and will continue to evolve for classroom learning. As for future educators it will require us to be technology literate. We will have to continue to learn from this point on in order to evolve with our technology advances.

The video Networked student the student was able to collect all the information he needed just by using his resources. The video suggest if he used his networking skills to complete this project, why does he need a teacher? The teacher is there to teach you how to use the resources you have and answer questions when you get stuck. I thought it was amazing how much information he gathered just by reading blogs and information on different cites. Just by asking he was able to get a professor to share his knowledge to the class via skype. I knew the internet was useful but I never thought to use blogs as a source of information, as long as it is backed up with credible information.

Viki Davis' video thesis corresponds with EDM 310. She states that only certain types of children can learn with the paper pencil method but all children can learn through the methods using technology we have today. She connects this classroom with the whole world by using different types of media. Another important thing she shares is that children become empowered when they discover and learn things on their own. I agree with Mrs. Davis, children must be taught to think on their own. When they discover something new independently they are compelled to share with other classmates and it improves self-confidence.

I have never heard the term flipping the classroom however it is familiar. My current math class I am taking now has a site called MyMathLabPlus. In the website there are homework problems and step-by-step tutorials. I think this approach will be useful and most of all be beneficial to the students. They will come to class prepared to work more problems and discuss any questions they may have. They also can go back to the instructional videos if they need extra review.

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This is my first semester at South Alabama so I have never heard anything about EDM310. When I enrolled in the class I received an email from Dr. Strange and I began to read through the syllabus,immediately I was worried. I am only used to those course in which you lecture and take test, so when I saw this was not going to be what I was used to I panicked. Before I started this class I considered myself to be computer savvy but as I can see there is so much more to learn. My fear of taking this course is that my computer skills are not up to par and I will fail miserably, but Google has become my best friend. Knowing EDM310 is a learning environment subsides my fear of mistakes. If you don't know how to do something there is a tutorial or step by step instructions at your fingertips.



Even though we are only a week into this course I can already see EDM310 is defiantly like no other course I have taken in the past. I can adjust well to the courses that are consistent each week, and I know in this class it is something new every time we walk in the door. I have taken numerous courses online and it required a lot of independent learning as well as this class. I have already encountered the most difficult thing for me in EDM310, which is reading over ALL instructions and deadlines before each assignment. After being in this class for the first week I can see now why 9 hours is very important to dedicate to this course. I will arrange my time accordingly and manage the checklist of all assignments and deadlines in order to overcome the difficultly of time management. I'm also so apprehensive about posting things to the internet. It feels so permanent and I feel like it is not good enough for the whole world to see. Even though most things can be edited and altered, I want to leave behind a quality mark. This class may be time consuming but I know it will motivate me to learn outside of my norm.

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My name is Courtney Fields I am 23 years old. I live in Theodore, Al with my mom and sister. I went to Theodore High School and graduated in 2008. After I graduated High School I went to Faulkner State Community College to do my General Education. I graduated in 2012 and decided to pursue a double major in Secondary Education and Mathematics. I would like to stay in between the 6th and 9th grade. The main reason I chose to come to USA is because the company my dad works for, STI, is located on USA's campus so I received half off of my tuition. I also live fairly close, so I am able to live at home. I am currently one of the Assistant Manager's at the Walmart Vision Center. I have sold eyeglasses and contact lenses for about three years and I have discovered sales and customer service will not be my future career choice.

I chose the field of Education because I love dealing with children. I am one of the children's leaders at my local church so I work with kids weekly on educating them on bible knowledge. I am fascinated by their quick wit and hysterical reponces. Children want somebody to listen to them and engage in their intrest, and that is what I throughly enjoy doing. I have also tutored my younger cousins in math and I really find it rewarding to see them understand and succeed. It is exciting to see that they remember and have retained the information I have went over with them. I am determined to give this my very best and succeed.

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