Haley Knowlton, Practicum 2018

Hello Again! Lots of posts for one day!! For my EDU 223 we were tasked with contacting teachers from our past that have influenced in one way or another. We had to thank them for their influence and ask for a small favor, which included them sharing resources that they think are beneficial to what we are currently doing. It could've been anything from curriculum planning tools to tools that focus on their specific content area.  My first shoutout is to Brandon Dudley, a Secondary Education English teacher at ELHS. He shared with me some specific English related resources he has found helpful over the years. The first was  Chop Bard podcast, which helps with understanding  Shakespeare's writings. The next was the inkwell,  https://wr.english.fsu.edu/College-Composition/The-Inkwell . This focuses with writing based instruction. The last resource was the Perdue OWL which is helpful to get your students understanding and writing in MLA format. Thanks for the resource...

Another assignment for EDU 222 this week was picking three songs that represent or connect to the beliefs each of has about technology's place in the classroom. So for my first song I chose, Lee Brice's Love Like crazy. A little background on the song if you've never heard it before is an older gentleman telling a younger person about the success of his marriage and life. This is the my second song because the lyrics where it says, "They called him crazy when he quit his job, said them home computers boy they'll never take off, well he sold his one man shop to Microsoft". It just goes to show how quickly technology took off, and it resonates with how technology is still one of the biggest advancing industries that we still have today. So I think being able to experience with new technology and programming in the classroom is going to be a key to success. If you can keep up with current technology it will also keep students engaged because you might be able t...

Welcome Back! This week in EDU 222 we were tasked with exploring a google app and how it might be useful to the lesson we are planning. In my Civil War unit I could see the google sites application being supremely useful, in quite a few different ways. I could use it to create myself a digital platform that holds all of the handouts or the daily agendas. It would allow students to click on the hyperlinks embedded in it to get the presentation or document on their computer screens so it was a quick reference or blow up the text size if they had a visual impairment so they can better read the document/slideshow. Another perspective is that it could be used for the students to create portfolios to show evidence of which standards they have met and those that they have yet to work on. Design it as a reflection of themselves, put their own personal spin on it. I had in mind having the students create a timeline, whether physical or digital to present the events or turning points of the ...

This week in EDU 222 we were taken with using typography in two different poems, one about technology in the classroom and the other about tools in our subject area. Technology in the classroom... Historical tools for the classroom...

Hi everyone! My name is Haley Knowlton, and I created this blog was created to document my journey through the second half of my sophomore year. Below you will find my practicum block (Fall 2018 at UMF) class photo and our class norms of how we hope to work together this semester Enjoy!