This is Akiachak a Yupik-Eskimo village with an estimate population of 700, where majority of the people speak the native language. Akiachak is approximately 18 air miles north-east of Bethel.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Akiacuarr
This is Akiachak a Yupik-Eskimo village with an estimate population of 700, where majority of the people speak the native language. Akiachak is approximately 18 air miles north-east of Bethel.
Monday, February 9, 2009
One-On-One
I just got back from a bilingual conference that was held in Anchorage Sheraton. Most of the presenters in the conference were mostly presenting about how teachers can use technology in their classrooms and the presenters let the teachers and/or the people who were presenting the conference that their students might know more about technology than they do.
I have been to classrooms where every student had a laptop. This was at Effie Kokrine Charter school last semester. Students were doing science online but they had a worksheet on-hand to do the assignment instead of how the students in the video reviews were working on their whole assignments and communicating with their teacher through the internet.
I like how every information the students are learning are updated and current. Even I who was in school 8-9 years ago was learning stuff from the textbooks and not the internet.
Creating presentations using technology and still being a highschool or even an elementary student is so awesome. Cause that is not what I was doing. I would very much enjoy doing this as a student and a teacher. This would prepare the students for college especially the students in Rural Alaska.
There was many concerns that were addressed in the video review that I seen and I have wrote a little about some of them. I know that certain sites are blocked through the school system to keep students away from them. And the technology workers will know what the students are doing whether it is good or bad.
Then the chatting was one concern that I was worried about but the students are communicating with each others through technology and not disturbing the class and at the same time they are working on their assignments.
Each laptop will have a number and a student will be assigned to what number laptop he/she has.
And students will have school accounts and a password to get into the computers.
During the bilingual conference one of the presenters and one of the members that were in the conference said that they download some stuff like their Native Language words/numbers/saying into the students' ipod and that is how they are learning their native language.
I have been to classrooms where every student had a laptop. This was at Effie Kokrine Charter school last semester. Students were doing science online but they had a worksheet on-hand to do the assignment instead of how the students in the video reviews were working on their whole assignments and communicating with their teacher through the internet.
I like how every information the students are learning are updated and current. Even I who was in school 8-9 years ago was learning stuff from the textbooks and not the internet.
Creating presentations using technology and still being a highschool or even an elementary student is so awesome. Cause that is not what I was doing. I would very much enjoy doing this as a student and a teacher. This would prepare the students for college especially the students in Rural Alaska.
There was many concerns that were addressed in the video review that I seen and I have wrote a little about some of them. I know that certain sites are blocked through the school system to keep students away from them. And the technology workers will know what the students are doing whether it is good or bad.
Then the chatting was one concern that I was worried about but the students are communicating with each others through technology and not disturbing the class and at the same time they are working on their assignments.
Each laptop will have a number and a student will be assigned to what number laptop he/she has.
And students will have school accounts and a password to get into the computers.
During the bilingual conference one of the presenters and one of the members that were in the conference said that they download some stuff like their Native Language words/numbers/saying into the students' ipod and that is how they are learning their native language.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Software Resources
Arcademic Games
Grade/Age Level: for reading and math in grades 3-8
Subject Areas: Language Arts, Math (Subtraction, Addition, Multiplication, Division, Fraction)
Platform: Mac/Window. This software works with both Mac OS & Windows
Review:
Every since I heard of this website I have not gotten a time to go to it and try it out but it seems fun for the students to do in or out of the classroom. This software was introduced to 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders at the Denali Elementary School where I did my field working for the ED 201. The software does different math racing games and language arts games. It is a good site to go to for students while they are in school or at home. The site for this software does not seem to have advertisements that would be distracting to students. Students just can sign in with a name the system gives them or one of them can be a host and make a password so they would know who all is playing.
Math Playground
Grade/Age Level: Grades 4-6
Subject Areas: Math (at mall, pumpkin multiples, percent shopping, math millionaire, algebra scales, space racer, number invaders, algebra puzzle, weigh wangoodle, making change, math Olympics, alien angles, calculator chaos, locate the aliens, space boy to the rescue)
Platform: I think it both works for Mac OS and Windows. This site requires the latest adobe flashplayer.
Review:
This site was created by teachers who are passionate about math and technology.
The website had ads for any kind of quiz.
School Time Games
Grade/Age Level: K-8 (recommended in the K-8 teaching magazine)
Subject Areas: Social Studies, Language Arts, Science, Math, Sports, Logic, Arcade, Brain Games
Platform: Mac OS and Windows both computers will work for this site.
Review:
This is a recommended site for Teaching K-8 Magazine. I had a hard time with geography when I was playing this game but I won even though I made a lot of mistakes. There are many different kind of games. It would be good for students in the grade 3-5. I didn’t really go through all the games just the social studies.
Grade/Age Level: for reading and math in grades 3-8
Subject Areas: Language Arts, Math (Subtraction, Addition, Multiplication, Division, Fraction)
Platform: Mac/Window. This software works with both Mac OS & Windows
Review:
Every since I heard of this website I have not gotten a time to go to it and try it out but it seems fun for the students to do in or out of the classroom. This software was introduced to 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders at the Denali Elementary School where I did my field working for the ED 201. The software does different math racing games and language arts games. It is a good site to go to for students while they are in school or at home. The site for this software does not seem to have advertisements that would be distracting to students. Students just can sign in with a name the system gives them or one of them can be a host and make a password so they would know who all is playing.
Math Playground
Grade/Age Level: Grades 4-6
Subject Areas: Math (at mall, pumpkin multiples, percent shopping, math millionaire, algebra scales, space racer, number invaders, algebra puzzle, weigh wangoodle, making change, math Olympics, alien angles, calculator chaos, locate the aliens, space boy to the rescue)
Platform: I think it both works for Mac OS and Windows. This site requires the latest adobe flashplayer.
Review:
This site was created by teachers who are passionate about math and technology.
The website had ads for any kind of quiz.
School Time Games
Grade/Age Level: K-8 (recommended in the K-8 teaching magazine)
Subject Areas: Social Studies, Language Arts, Science, Math, Sports, Logic, Arcade, Brain Games
Platform: Mac OS and Windows both computers will work for this site.
Review:
This is a recommended site for Teaching K-8 Magazine. I had a hard time with geography when I was playing this game but I won even though I made a lot of mistakes. There are many different kind of games. It would be good for students in the grade 3-5. I didn’t really go through all the games just the social studies.
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