International class blogs

Jody Hayes- Our Lady of Lourdes School- A school of 10 and 11 year old kids in New Zealand.

As i viewed Jody's blog I saw that it was some what different from the blogs that I had looked at from the teacher's in the U.S. On her blog she has some related links on the left hand side of the screen and on the right side of the screen there is a list of her students names. In the middle she has some posts that talk about what age the students are that she teaches and where they are from, she also talks about what it takes to be an effective leader. There is another post that talks about what the students are going to learning about in Term Four. Which is going to be "Fragile Earth"( the picture above is a photo of "fragile earth". As I was looking over Jody's blog it seemed to me that this blog is probably going to be more of for the students parents since the students are so young.

http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1638

Tracy- Nelson Central School in Nelson, New Zealand.

Tracy's class opened with 13 students in February and as the year went on more and more students joined her class. While I was looking at Tracy's blog it was very informative and said alot about what the kids have and are doing throughout the year. The kids had done a "writing instructions" week. Also, Tracy has some other posts of the students doing the cross-country thing at their school. Tracy also has some posts of a trading project that she had her students do. Each student had a bag of 4 identical items and they had to trade among the students in their class to get 4 different items. I thought Tracy's blog was pretty interesting and showed alot of what the students engaged in what they were learning at school.

http://roomelevenncs.blogspot.com/

Blogs in the U.S

Ms. Copley's 5th grade class at Randolph Elementary School-

As I was looking over Ms. Copley's blog for her 5th grade class that provides some really awesome resources for her students. The majority of her blogs provide what the students have done throughout the school year so far. For example, Ms. Copley posts blogs of the students when they were doing their measurement activities. On her blog she also posts the spelling words that the students need to be studying for their test. Last but not least she even posts "Things to Remember" for both the students and parents.

http://blogs.glnd.k12.va.us/teachers/lcopley/

Matthew Wilson- Teacher and Robotics Coach at Gochland High School

While I was previewing Mr. Wilson's blog I saw that he teaches phyics and geometry. His blogs have a lot of information either that he has posted or that his students have sent him for others to look at. Mr. Wilson puts blogs up that have to deal with information for the whole week. He also has a post where students can look to get help if they need it. Mr. Wilson also has some posts about Robotics that he coaches and what their schedule is.

http://blogs.glnd.k12.va.us/teachers/mwilson/category/robotics/

ACCESS

Access stands for Alabama connecting classrooms, educators and students statewide. This helps allow those students of lower income to get a good edcation and able to get the diploma they always wanted. It provides students with either web or video interaction. Through this type of technology students have the opportunity to take more advanced course electives, which therefore prepare them for higher education. This program also allows students to preview something if they dont understand it from learning it the first time, this allows them to understand the material alot better. Today there are 188 Access classrooms available to all students who attend a Alabama public high school.
Access is a great way to let students broaden their horizon and learn more. The vision of Access is to provide a quality instruction throughout distance learning. I think Access is a great opportunity for students and it should if not already be available for students across the country.

JuSt SoMe PiCtUrEs!!!

Just thought I would add some more pictures this is my Junior College Softball after we won Nationals (5th straight year in a row)











This is my boyfriend and I!! He lives in Arizona still =[













This is my nephew.. He is the cutest baby lol!!

ALEX

The Alabama Learning Exchange also known as “ALEX” is a website lets teachers access the resources they need to be helpful to them while teaching. This website provides many resources for studying for all grade levels (K-9). When you go to the website you can have eight different categories you can click on either for a certain course of study, web links, lesson plans, search, personal workplace, professional learning, distance learning and help. On this website you can also find all these eight different categories for all the grade levels. The professional learning option that you can choose it takes you to different states websites that will aid in professional development. ALEX is a neat tool that allows teachers can implement in their own classroom on a daily bases. I think this is a wonderful site for teachers to find work to help them in their classrooms especially if you are a new teacher you can get lots of ideas from this website.
http://alex.state.al.us/index.php