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=Brittany Kemper=

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About me: My name is Brittany Kemper. My major is Middle Childhood Education in Language Arts and Mathmatics. This is my third year at the University of Cincinnati. I went to Purcell Marian high school and graduated in '08. I have three younger brothers, one in which just started at UC this year. I coach 8th grade boys and girls volleyball. I work at Independent Anestesioligist, which is a billing office for St. Elizabeth hospital. I've been working there for five years now. In my free time I love to hang out with friends and family, going shopping, and just having a good time. I always like to try new things. I have great friends and family that are always there for me. I love watching and playing all kinds of sports, especially football. I have a puppy named Smokie, she's the best and I live off of campus. I have always liked education, I use to make my brother's be in my fake class in our basement. I loved playing school techer when I was a kid. My mother was a teacher and I think that's a big part as to why want to be one. I want to be able to educate be and be an influence for students the way my teacher's influenced me. I don't have a lot of technical experience. I know the basics of getting on the computer and researcing and that kind of stuff. I know how to use the basic technology things. I have learned so much from this class. For example I have learned how to incorporate technology more and how to use it effectively to help the students learning. I have learned different websites I can go to for help and a lot of information. I also learned how to make seating charts and lesson plans.

ISTE Standard: Reflection 1: 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. b. engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources. I think it is important for students in the classroom to have many tools and resources. It's important for the students to be engaged in their learning. I think it makes the learning more effective and it's more likely that the students will remember the knowledge they learned in class when they are engaged in their learning. Students are more likely to remember information when they are actively learning the information within the classroom. In this class I am learning that it is more effective to use technology within the classroom for the students to learn more effectively. Students are around technology all the time outside of the classroom and bringing it into the classroom will help them feel more connected with the subject being taught. I think students will be more interested in learning the subject at hand when they are using technology. When people think of school they think of sitting in the classroom listening to a teacher lecture them but when a teacher brings technology into the classroom for the students to use it makes it more interesting for the srudents and makes the learning much more effctive then just listening to the teacher lecture. It's more difficult for the student to remember the information when they are only getting lectured and it's more easy for the student to remember the information when they are active in the lesson plans. We did this in class with the Antartica exercise. In this exercise we all had hands on activities to do and it was even better when there were multiple things to do.

ISTE Standard: Reflection 2: Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessments incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S. Teachers: c. customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources In this class I have learned how I can use different kinds of technology tools to help me teach all my students in the most effective way. Every student learns at a different pace and learns in a different way and it's important for the teacher to help the student learn the necesarry material. There are so many different technology tools teachers are able to use now to help them within the classroom. Some students learn by visually seeing things or by doing hands on activities and others learn by having the techer just explaining things to them constaintly. Some ways you are able to use technology to help the students learn better is by making power points, using voice threads, and other different technology things. These technologies can be used to help every student in different learning abilities. It's important to help every student in every possible way in order to learn the necassary material.

ISTE Standard: Reflection 3: Model Digital-Age Work and Learning Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society. Teachers: d. model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning. It's important to keep students as much interested and involved with the lesson as much as possible. Students don't usually want to be in the classroom, they would much rather be outside hanging out with theire friends or talking on their phones that's why it is important for teachers to use effective technology within the classroom. For example many students use YouTube so you could incorporate educational videos within your lesson plans. Using technology tools within the classroom is important because it shows the students you are trying to keep them engrossed and up with the technology they use everyday. This will help students in the learning process and keep them more active in the learning process.

ISTE Standard: Reflection 4: Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices. Teachers: a. advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources. This information is something every teacher and pretty much every student knows. In order to write effective papers and in order to quote certain authors or anyone for that matter you must cite them properly. I have to cite your work to make it creatable and without plagurisum. If you were not to cite your work corrctly you could get into serious trouble not only with the school but higher up as well. It's important for teachers to inform all students consistantly about the proper way to cite works you may use and or qoute. In this class one way we learned to cite things is when we did our tchnology tools presentations. We needed to present the website without plagurising and we had to be able to cite our website with information without coping exactly what they had without putting it into quotation marks. We learned to cite websites we used for other projects as well, for example when we made our seating charts. We used websites to our advantage throughout the whole class and we would not have been able to do this without citing the information we used properly.

ISTE Standard: Reflection 5: Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers: a. participate in local and global learning comminities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning. Teachers are used to teaching a certain way after they have been doing it for so long but what this is stating it that techers need to be open for constent change. Technology is always growing and it's important for techers to keep up with this technology because it can better their education techniques better. Incorporates technology in the lesson plan will hopefully make the students more interested in learning because it may be something they do at home in their free time but they use it in a different way. Showing students you can use technology in a variety of different ways shows them endless possibilities that they can do. We incorpated this in the class by the fact that we used multiple technologies. We were constaintly learning new things about bringing technology into the classroom in a very helpful and effective way. We learned how bringing technology into the classroom is not only helpful for the techer but helps the students learning as well.

Artifact: Name of Technology Tool: Glogster Edu URL Location of Tool: [] Is there a video or tutorial to learn how to use the tool? Yes but not on the website, on google. Is the tool free? Yes the basic package is but there are only a few things you can do. Can I pay to upgrade for more options? Yes, there is a premium package you can upgrade too but there is a monthly fee for that. Would you, as a teacher, use this tool? Yes, I would use the basic package. Who uses this tool? (Teacher, Student, Family Members, Other) Anyone can use this tool but probably mostly teachers and students. What does one use this tool for? In the basic package you can use this to make types of posters to put different information on. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">What is the educational value of this tool? You can use this for a science project or any project for that matter. You can make posters to diplay the information you need to know in a creative way, the way you would like to display the information. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Student's Name: Brittany Kemper

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Title: Tools for Teachers <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">URL: [] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Summary: This website gives teachers many examples for games, worksheets, and quizes. Teachers can use these examples within the classroom <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Student's Name: Brittany Kemper

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Student's Name: Brittany Kemper <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Title of Lesson Plan: Teaching of comprehension with a Difference  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Grade Level: 5-7  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Language Arts  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Standard, Benchmarks, Indicators: These activity focuses on the students skills of listening, speaking, reading (loud and soft), and writing. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Brief description of lesson plan: This lesson plan is a multiple step activity. Students will find multiple newspaper articles and they will be put up somewhere within the classroom after the students will read them silently. Then the students become the teachers. They make questions to comprehend the reading they did in the article. The students will then switch with another student and they are to answer the questions. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Website: [] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Student's Name: Brittany Kemper <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Title of Lesson Plan: Romeo and Juliet License Plates  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Grade Level: 7-12  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Language Arts  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Brief description of lesson plan: After we have read the play of Romeo and Juliet in class the students will be able to make a creative license plate about something or someone in the play. For example someone may do JLTZSUN for Juliet is the sun. This will show the students remembered the play and will be able to have fun and creative with what they remember. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Website: [] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Student's Name: Brittany Kemper  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Title of Lesson Plan: Compound Nouns  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Grade Level: 5-7  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Language Arts  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Brief description of lesson plan: Write one half of a compound noun on one note card and the other half of the compound noun on another note card. Mix up all the note cards and pass them out to the students then the students must move around the room trying to find the person who has the other half of the compound noun. After they have found their match the students will sit together and go through the words and define each compound noun. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Final Course Reflection: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">When I first signed up for this class I wasn't sure what to expect and I wasn't too sure if I was going to like it. I thought it was perhaps going to be a boring class were we sat there listening to the teacher talking about using technology and most likely technology we already knew how to use. Though this class turned out much better then I had expected. I learned so much more about technology and how I will be able to use it within my classroom. It was so neat learning about all the differet websites and applications you could use within the classroom and a lot of them are for free. I loved learning this infomation and I think it will help me in the long run when I will end up teaching students myself. Ths class always kept us engaged and there was always something new to learn everyday and it was all important and effective information to learn. Learning different websites that we could use in making things from rubrics to seating charts is very helpful and clever. I never knew they had this kind of stuff you could use on the internet and now that I know about it I'm sure I wil be using it constaintly. This class made me think outside the box i making lesson plans and I think it's important for techers to come up with new and inventful things for the students to do. I think the more active the student is and if it's something they may never have seen before I think it will be most effective in the students process of learning. It will hopefully be something they will remember because it was something like they have never done before, somethin exciting involving technology something every student pretty much loves to use.