Survey Repost

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dFUxRGlxVExjMkdybHlEbkRlOE1Cc3c6MQ

Published Survey Post

Here is the link to my public survey document I created on google docs using their new addition to the forms section:

For some reason, I cannot insert this as an actual link. Please copy and paste this link into your browser in order to see the survey I created.

I did not use any other websites besides google docs. I created the survey for my 4th and 5th grade elementary students to find out their interests in order to make class more interestin. This also helped in creating a more relevant learning experience for the students.

Rubistar Assessment

Here is the link to my public rubistar assessment: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tSmLsEk0IMadLtjlZSiweMA&single=true&gid=0&output=html
I used Rubistart.com to help make a rubic to assess my special education elementary students in the 4th and 5th grade and their brochures. The point of the brochure was for the students to gain factual knowledge through research about volcanos along with the ability to correctly export an image from the Internet and import that same image into a word document.

Visual Ranking

With this visual ranking I would like students to recognize numbers in word form, from a word list and write them in order. This is the link to the student log in:http://http//educate.intel.com/workspace/teacher/ProjectListing.aspx

My ID is awcochran@gmail.com
password for team wolfpack is:1111
password for team kitty cat is: 2222

This use of technology with differintiated instruction for students with special needs is helpful for assigning homework without losing track of papers or forgetting them at home. This is also a useful tool for integrating technology within the classroom and having students work together in groups.

Podcast

Downloading audacity and figuring up a script was the simple part of this project. Figuring out how to save the project appropriately and post it in my blog was a whole other story.

In creating the project, I mimicked a lot from the student audio clip to help me out considering this was my first time. Then, once I save the file as I was told and attempted to upload to Podbean - something went wrong. I hit up the discussion board and found that a lot of students had the same problem and suggested using FTP on the Fairmont site to aid in saving and uploading.

ftp://acochran3@studentsftp.fairmontstate.edu/Andrew's Podcast.wav

Prezi

http://prezi.com/4uv4dwcczk0w/ You can click the link above and view my prezi presenation online. I used the website: http://www.prezi.com to create my presentation.
I felt that this program was different from PowerPoint because you have more flexiblity. You do not have to go forward or backward. You can move around - zoom in - zoom out - move all around. I really liked how it felt interactive and entertaining.
I felt the program was the same as PowerPoint because you still created "slides" you just did it all on one canvas and make it easier on yourself to navigate your presentation.
I really do not think there are any disadvantages to using Prezi. This could be because I am like a kid with a new present at Christmas and maybe the newness will wear off soon but right now, I really like this presentation format.
My ISTE NETS T is 2a and I believe it hits this standard PERFECTLY. This is a new interactive design tool to help teach new material in a fun and interesting way to keep student's attention.

On a side note, the zebra tool was not difficult to use at all. It really helped out a lot and was a tool that cut down the amount of clicks you would normally have to use in PPT to resize, move, rotate, etc. It was all-in-one.

Jeopardy Presentation

My jeopardy presentation is based on 3rd grade multiplication review. This tool has been helpful in my classroom as a cooperative learning tool as well as a social skills tool for our Friday fun math activities. After a few hours I figured out how to have my slides connect the right way. The presentation covers CSO M.O.3.1.9 demonstrate and model multiplication. I have it saved to my slideshare guest account. This is the link: http://www.slideshare.net/guest16f9c65/jeopardy092. It is also embedded into my blog.

Animation Motion Path

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Animation Motion Path

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This is an excellent tool for differentiated instruction to provide animation of action verbs or other parts of speech.

Animation Presentation

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Animation Presentation

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Ignite PowerPoint Presentation

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Ignite PowerPoint Presentation

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This webtool is another great way to implement lessons, ideas, and directions in a differentiated instructional style.

Embeded Presentation

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Embeded Presentation

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I feel the same reasons from the blog below can be applied to this blog post and its use in the classroom.

PowerPoint

This is the link to my final presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/guest16f9c65/sequencing-3198166

I used Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 to create the original presentation and then saved it as a ppt. I then uploaded it to the Internet using http://www.slideshare.com.


Slideshare is helpful as a digital tool in the classroom because it offers the teacher another way to save the work they want to show in the classroom. In case you lost your flash drive or you cannot access your teacher file for some reason, you have your presentation made available online. Also, you have given your students the ability to view the presentation online at the leisure either at home (assuming that the student has Internet access) or on another school computer.

Wordle

I am really interested in learning how to do the "word cloud" however I am having a lot of problems with the program itself. I tried and retried to change firewall settings (which didn't make me very comfortable), enable Java (which was already enabled), update Java (the trouble shooting guide said I needed Java 6 update 10 and I downloaded Java 6 update 17). None of these options worked for me. I just kept getting a big red X when I tried all three options to "create" a word cloud.

File Conversion

I have worked for nearly 2 hours trying to figure out what I can do to get this video "embedded" into my blog. So far, the program I was asked to download in order to convert my video caused my screen to go blank and I lost all work I had open on my screen at the time. The program scared me and I do not like downloading programs I am unfamiliar with. Aside from this, the link on our work page to help us learn how to convert did not show up. It kept telling me the link was disabled.

Jing Screencast

http://www.screencast.com/users/Drew38/folders/Jing/media/abea0e4c-bca0-404d-8da1-b07866f23153

This is the public link to my Jing movie I created on how to correct a misspelled word using the Microsoft Office application.

Jing is a useful digital tool for preparing special needs students for online writing assessments. Using Jing, I can create a one-on-one tutorial for each student. As students practice daily in their writing classes, all they have to do is play the clip to remind them how to make a correction without having to stop and ask the teacher to repeat directions.

Jing Graphic 1

Well, here is the first attempt at using Jing. The video tutorial did not do a very good job of telling you how to access the link in order to copy and paste it someone for people to see. I thought it was already on your clipboard and you could just click paste in the blog but I guess I was wrong.

Area Line Bar Pie Scattared blah blah

In short, we were to access student data through the http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/states/ website. Once we accessed the information, we were to click on the http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/classic/ website and generate a graph detailing our findings. We were to review all the information given and choose the most appropriate graph to best display our findings.

Here are the links to my finished assignment.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Af7wZrLOkuTEZGQ4M25wMzRfNDhoaDZicGM4&hl=en
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd83np34_6d9w8kmdw

I used http://crappygraphs.com/user_graphs/makecrap.php once again to help create this assignment. This tool is useful for special needs students, or any students for that matter, to have a more understandable/visual evidence of student progress. For example, Students could view their Dibel Scores through a graph like this and make their own goals for motivational purpose.

Self Portrait

This website was interesting to say the least. I used this link http://www.mrpicassohead.com/create.html to create my self portrait. This digital tool provides students in a special needs environment to integrate art and art history in a new and fun way.

I really think this is a poor portrait of myself but I did my best. I didn't have as many problems as I normally do on these assignments. I just played around with the different images I could click on and played around with the rotate, color, flip, bring forward, bring backward, scale up, and scale down buttons. These were really fun. I got a bit carried away. I'm like a little kid. I played around with the different head shapes in order to get the hair to look "right." Even though I know that's not the point of a Picasso painting, I wanted it to look somewhat "right." I still did not get the hair I wanted. I tried to scale different hair up and down to fit best but it just didn't work. I chose this hair to look like it was blowing in the wind.

Crappy Graphics

This was definitely a crappy graph. I did my best. Here is the link to view my graph as a webpage: http://crappygraphs.com/user_graphs/?id=5333
Here is the link to the webpage I used to create the graphic: http://crappygraphs.com/user_graphs/makecrap.php

The crap graph gives students with special needs the opportunity to draw their own graph that resembles their own handy work. This is most helpful in a special needs environment because students may have difficulty with fine motor skills and this provides the opportunity to draw their own graph with fewer mistakes. For some students, clicking and dragging is easier than actually drawing with a pencil.

Draw Something

I FINALLY learned how to use the snipping tool. I am so sorry it took me this long. I had some trouble trying to figure out where exactly the image went once I "snipped" the image. Okay. So once I figured everything out, I managed to use my "snipper" in combination with my draw something assignment. I had a lot of trouble trying to figure out how to save this image and get it uploaded to my blog. This is where the snippy tool helped out alot.

I really like using graphics and such in Microsoft word. I work in a special education classroom, so when I have to do something quickly, this word application works in a jiffy. The images are already there. All you have to do is click on the one you want and "insert" the image as you want it to appear.

At first I thought this was just anothee JPEG image. When I set my cursor over the image, I found I saved it as a "Bitmap Image." I am not going to say that I know what this means. If you right click on the image in my blog and hit properties, it says the image is a HTML. It also tells you that the image is 20205 bytes in size.

Desktop Graphic

I used the paint program by Microsoft. I used this program because it was easy. I couldn't find many other programs dealing with graphics. I know how to use Microsoft Office 2007 and the graphing tools. I wanted to open up my playbook and show my drawing skills. This is saved through the paint program under my pictures. It is saved as a jpeg image. Paint is easy and fun and elementary kids can sharpen their fine motor skills. Although the progam was easy to use, there weren't many options to create lines, curved lines, and other images that I am skilled in using. I wanted to find a way to insert triangles, squares, and X's among other shapes with just one click of the mouse instead of drawing with the mouse line by line. This paint program would be a great tool to used with my Special Education math students. They work on simple problems and fractions and I would be able to easily draw the problems in paint and have my students come up and draw the answers with mouse.

Print Screen Document

Here is the think to my print screen document: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Af7wZrLOkuTEZGQ4M25wMzRfMmY5cWZxNGRz&hl=en
I did not use a particular program site to create this document. The button can be found on any keypad.

The print screen is a digital tool that is easily adapted into my classroom. This tool is helpful to special needs students who require near visual instructions without changing screens or looking away from the task. The hardcopy handout enables students to complete step-by-step directions independently.

Andrew Cochran's Delicious Account

I started my declicious account and added three links that I use everday in my classroom. Here is the link for you to see these links and check them out.
http://delicious.com/andrewcochran

Have fun!

Andrew Cochran's Resume attempt #2

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Af7wZrLOkuTEZGQ4M25wMzRfMWM1M2M1YzNr&hl=en

I had originally posted this resume document on January 21, 2010. I recently signed back on to check to make sure the link still worked and it did not. I went ahead and reposted the link so that you can click on it and see my resume.

Post #1

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