Takacs



My name is Sandy Takacs. I currently teach at Washington Elementary School in the Boyertown Area School District. My position is described as a K-6 remediation teacher. I would like to use more technology with my students, however my position limits me to what I can use. Because I co-teach 2nd grade, I am able to use some technology in this classroom when teaching math. I mainly use the SmartBoard and interactive websites to enhance our math lessons.

Here is a website to help practice your math skills. Click on the link below to begin practicing your addition, subtraction, mulitiplication, or divisions skills. There are other math topics you can learn about, too.

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__**Social Networking**__

In my honest opinion, Facebook is the upcoming and most popular social networking site to date. I know many who started on mySpace and have switched to Facebook. They both allow video and photo downloads, chat IM's, and overall are very similar. I think that mySpace is more crude than Facebook. The one difference I see between the two is that mySpace has the ability to blog and create forums. I don't know of this application on Facebook. mySpace has a different format and seems less user friendly than Facebook.

**__BLOGS__**

I can see myself using the education blog to communicate among my collegues to collaborate about daily issues and situations, as well as, academics. This would be a great way to discover great ideas, lessons, and opinions about how to teach a lesson, or solve similar issues with students (classroom management).

Using blogs with students could be a useful tool with close mangement by the classroom teacher. Students could use blogs to talk with their classmates to share their thoughts about school and homework assignments. Students could share strategies that work for them for solving problems in math or sharing a great book they've read. As long as the teacher closely monitors their students, this could be a great way to communicate with classmates and the teacher.

Blogs used to communicate with parents would also be a useful commodity. However, all of this could pose problems if not used appropriately. This is something I definitely would look into more. A great web blog to create is with my remediation team. We are only one person in each building and don't have anyone immediately to go to for questions, ideas or suggestions. Using a blog in this situation would be most beneficial.

**__Governing the Internet__**

Then, we will look at some of the rules that govern the Internet and email. To start, go to the Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for Electronic Learners site by following the link listed below. Read carefully the Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for Electronic Learners and give a brief discussion on the following questions and post this assignment **on your page of the wiki**: 2. What do you disagree with? 3. Do you plan to abide by these guidelines? Why or why not? 4. Do you think they leave out anything important? Why or why not?
 * 1) Do you agree with all of the items covered in this Bill of Rights? Why or why not?
 * I do agree with all of the items covered in the Bill of Rights because they are are reasonable and necessary to keep the electronic community safe and accountable.
 * One area that I don't necessarily disagree with, but feel it is a gray area. The idea of having free speech to say every thing you would like to say is something that can be dangerous.
 * I don't see having a problem abiding by these guidelines. I had no idea they existed and feel I have already abided by these rules. As with the US Constitutions, it is the backbone of the electronic community. In order for all to have order, these rights must not be violated.
 * Based on what I read (and able to comprehend) I didn't really see anything that needed to be added or deleted.

5. What's not covered that should be?
 * Again, based on the short quick read done, nothing caught my eye or thoughts that should have been covered in these rights.

1. Backdoor.Win32. Clampi.a: A Trojan Spy program that steals confidential user data and remotely mangaes the victim's machine. (September 25, 2009) 2. Trojan.Dropper.Win32.Agent.albv: A Trojan that has a malicious payload. (April 15, 2009) 3. Backdoor.Win32.Agent.abgg: A Trojan that provides a remote malicious user with access to the victim's machine. (April 15.2009)
 * __ Latest Viruses __**

**__AUP Scenario__**

Students have created blogs. However, one student "Minnie" has chosen to keep her blog private and she doesn't comment on others blogs. Somehow another student found out her URL and adds it to the "friends" list. Unfortunately, her blog is now no longer private. Therefore all has seen that she has not posted favorable comments about her teachers, parents or other students. Everyone is now mad at her.

Our district policy specifically says that employees, Guests or students may not violate the privacy rights of employees and students. . . .Consequences would result in reporting to the Superintendent or appropriate authorities.

__Google Earth__ Blurb:

If I had a classroom or was teaching my fifth grade students again, I would use google earth to take a virtual tour of the Civil War Battles, the Oregon Trail, or maybe the voyages of explorers.

A __Jing__ project about using a hundreds charts to count by 1's and 10's. media type="file" key="Count_10s_on_100s_chart.swf" width="360" height="270"

**__COMMERCIAL__** Click on the "play arrow" on the bar below to hear about an exciting place to learn. A commercial created to advertise my classroom using Audacity.

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__ Embedding a Video __ to my Wikispace. This video is one I could use in my classroom to help me teach addition skills. media type="youtube" key="auem1DFtDrY" width="425" height="350"

__ Movie Maker __ created by ME! My son will turn 21 in January. I have created a movie for his birthday showing life from birth to the present. How time has flown. It is amazing that he will be 21 when I feel it was just yesterday he entered into the world. media type="file" key="Birthday Low Reso.wmv" width="300" height="300"

__Video Conferencing__ is definitely the wave of the future. Sue made a great point when she said that although video conferencing is great for the curriculum and can align with the standards, it also is important to teach the children this technology for their future. The one example about interviewing through this process was an eye-opener for me. I never thought of that before. But how true this is. We are teaching technology natives and teachers are, for the most part, technology immigrants. Video conferencing would be a wonderful tool to use to collaborate with other teachers and bring in another classroom to collaborate with your students. I wish I had this opportunity to video conference with a classroom that my class had as pen pals in Indiana. How great that would have been!

Obviously one site you can go to to find collaborations or video conference ideas is the CAPspace. Magpi.com is another site you can use to find video conferences. Two that I found on Magpi that I'd like to suggest to my second grade teacher are:

1. Cookies with Santa-a great way to incorporate the standards and a little Holiday cheer before the holidays. 2. International Math Challenge Grades K-2-this requires the participants to research a math game play from other countries. Learn the game, create handouts, and on the day of the conference explain the game and play a quick round. This would be something I think the students would really be interested in. It would also give them great insight as to what other students around the world are also learning and compare it to what they are learning. A very novel idea. http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/Cookies-Santa I would like to use video conferencing for pen pals and collaboration with other teachers in my field of work as an intervention teacher.

__**WEBQUEST**__ : www.wesintervention.wikispaces.com