C4T#5 and Blog 10

Blog 10:

My PLE:

This was really neat to learn about this 7th graders PLE. I didn't even know what a PLE was in 7th grade! She used Symbaloo, while I choose to use Portaportal, and I'm thinking that I like Symbaloo better. Symbaloo seems to be a little more organized and up to date. Seeing that even a seventh grader to use the internet in such a successful way makes me that much more eager to have a technologically savvy classroom of my own.

Two Questions That Can Change Your Life:
What is my sentence? I'd say my sentence is "Listen to the fish and learn." This is from Job 12:8 in the Bible, but I think it says a whole lot about how we teach. Imagine the fish are your students, and you have to listen to them just as much as you listen to yourself to have a successful day in the classroom. I like the other question we are to ask ourselves daily because it goes with my theory about motivation. We must motivate our students to want to learn, but we must also motivate ourselves everyday to want to teach our students. Teaching is an infinite cycle of MOTIVATION! It's the most important thing to keep a classroom functioning. Without motivation students become bored, and we the teachers become frustrated and angry. I feel like it is a must to check yourself daily when you begin teaching and make sure that you are more motivating to your students than you were the day before.

C4T#5:
Your Keys to the City-Denver

It was neat reading about the city of Denver; I have passed through it before but never have been able to stop and check out the scenery. The Keys to the City idea was a very interesting idea to get people from all around the city to live out their feelings through these hand-painted pianos. When I first read the title of this post, I was thinking car keys, or even computer keys since I am currently enrolled in the EDM310 class at South Alabama. I hope that maybe one day I'll get the chance to experience the city of Denver in the same enjoyable fashion you did.