SPEECH PLAY - MY NEW BOOK SERIES FOR 2010

By August, I got three new titles coming out in the market - SPEECH PLAY Book Series. The books are more on learning English as a second language genre.  Originally, it contained a lot of pages introducing the American Sign Language but for some reasons the final edition has been changed. Just the same am glad all are coming out finally in the market.

COOL SITE FOR PIX

 

Exactly.... that's me on the cover of a magazine.Amazing.

this is a site where you can upload your pictures on different settings... it's funny and it's wow. check it out - you might enjoy it => http://www.funnywow.com/  (thanks, susan, for the site)

WELCOME! FINANCE 1 CLASS 2010

You might have a little rough start not because of the topics but more, I believe, on the approach you will involve in this semester - I am pretty sure it's new to you. Yet I know you'll be able to catch up on it and you will be discovering a lot of your potential. We will be learning together.... !

TEACHERS' SUMMER GETAWAY 2010

MY STUDENTS' BLOGS

When the subjects am handling now in the college department were given to me, I asked myself, "alright... so what's relevant and fun that I can use as an approach and of course, the content of  my syllabus for all the subjects I have?". I let the idea just sat for days.... weeks .... and as soon as the school started, everything fell into place. I thought of giving the students something new other than just yack infront of the class. A kind of assessment that is technologically anchored - the Blog. And the result just amazes me! I see a different perspective of the students who are mostly timid and yet are a well of interesting individuals full of talents and life which, mind you, not a glimpse of it in the classroom had I stick to the tried and tested face-to-face teaching approach. I guess this will be an extra-ordinary semester for them as we level up on the blogging approach as part of classroom instruction. Well done, class.... well done.

PLE (Personal Learning Environment)

I always surf  the internet on what's going on in the field of education until I came across the topic PLE or Personal Learning Environment. I read articles/blogs and watched videos (through YouTube) about it and I got so interested. There's this one video that shared an impressive work of a 7th grader - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEls3tq5wIY&feature=related  that opened up one more type of assessment i could use in my classes. Now, I am working on my own PLE at Symbaloo - http://www.symbaloo.com/ - and I find it to be of advantage to my work. It's like having your library/home/school anywhere and anytime. Soon as am done organizing my PLE, I will introduce this to my class and have them create their own PLE. 

PBIS

So my thesis study is all about adapting PBIS in school and see its impact on the referral cases in the Office of the Prefect of Discipline. I am doing now lots of reading and studies on the system and trying to figure out what should be taken in and what will be skipped from the system to fit in the unique needs of the school. As I slowly go into the details of integrating PBIS to the Behavior Management system that is in use now, I find it more and more interesting..... yet challenging ( i think it's in the "challenging" part that I am excited about.). Everyday, new ideas come to mind and replace what I thought were  good ideas so my paper now is like in constant revision! As in Everyday! This Is Fun! I should start documenting the process lest i end up writing nothing on my paper.

JUST A QUICK NOTE FOR TODAY

checking my students' work online takes a lot of time but surprisingly, I get a lot of energy doing it. Seeing them able to make a blog after many attempts (what can I say, it's their first exposure to this type of learning technique and in a place where not everyone is able to access the internet for one reason or another) makes me feel so happy (and excited as well!). Definitely, there's a lot of improvement they can do to have a better blog. But for a novice, i believe it's a good start.

whoooz!

whoooz!
( a test video from Animoto )

whoooz!

whoooz! 
(a test video i made @ animoto)