Tuesday, June 12, 2007

EDTP 620 Blog for 6-12

Hello, Hello, Hello,

In today's first class (not to be confused with an airplane) we began with an activity about words that went into a book but were in a different language. I found it interesting that the book was written by an ESL student on his comprehension of words in his native language. I knew the origins of some of the words, but others seemed to be just misspelled. I think that this activity opened my mind to what ESL students may see on a daily basis from their English speaking teachers.

I also found it great that we are going to make a Digital Story in this class as we did in Teaching with Technology. As soon as I heard it, I started brainstorming ideas about my project. I have decided to do a digital story for the first day of class (for my Algebra students) about why I love to teach math and what they are going to learn and get them motivated for it. I think that if I could make a story about why they need to be excited about learning Algebra and the things they are going to do, then I can filter that throughout the entire year.

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