Comments for Computer Teacher, Teach Thy Self!

Comment on Taking the conversation out of the classroom by Ali

Ali — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:39:45 +0000

I find the Blogging world very interesting. You really never know what you can find on the web. I think that online behavior should be important because you represent your school and yourself, also what people say about you is also important. I enjoy the blogging world and you learn more everyday and I am hoping to learn more everyday about the blogging world in my Adv. Computer Class.

Comment on Taking the conversation out of the classroom by Coral

Coral — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:35:26 +0000

Mrs. Cronk: I really feel that we should teach here at VHS about the proper use of the internet so that during classes we can use it to its full potential without violating our privileges! I’m excited for the rest of the semester!

Comment on Taking the conversation out of the classroom by Sade

Sade — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:27:46 +0000

I think that the teacher in New Zealand using Haley’s blog and turning into a lesson that he used in his class is really cool. I can only imagine how Haley feels to know that her experiment is being used all the way in New Zealand. I would be extremely excited and I would the need to change up my blog now that I have an actual audience reading my blogs especially teachers and them using the things I say with in their class rooms…

: )

Comment on Taking the conversation out of the classroom by Simone

Simone — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:27:03 +0000

I really agree with you that Jeff Utecht’s post is a great one. The more we learn about technology, the better we are able to understand it and use it to our advantage. Blogging is a very useful tool which if used correctly, can help us expand our reference area in a positive way. I thought it was so cool that a single student could influence a class on the other side of the world! Thanks for showing this to us!

Comment on Taking the conversation out of the classroom by Satinder

Satinder — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:24:02 +0000

If I was Haley I would feel very special, not only because she gotten praise for making a successful experiment, but also because someone in a completely different country tried it out. This also made me think because you don’t have to be in the same room to learn new things, leading to new ways of learning.

Comment on Taking the conversation out of the classroom by Tamara

Tamara — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:16:34 +0000

Miss Cronk I appreciate you teaching us a different and more educated way to blog. Before this class I was under the impression that blogging was used for social purposes like myspace and other websites similar to that. You have showed us a way to use blogging as a tool for education, and I’m glad that I have this new knowledge.

Comment on Dream Come True by Coral

Coral — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:33:40 +0000

I thought yesterdays conversation on the Obama speech really was thought-provoking. I still don’t totally understand why certain groups of people were judging the speech before he even got to say it, but in Will Richardson’s blog it was clear that this speech was being opposed and that Will himself, seemed to feel that such an ‘uproar’ was unnecessary. Many people thought that Obama’s speech was/is going to change the way kids think about their values instead of how important education is, but i honestly feel that this is not so, and that kids learn many of their morals from their parents/elders and not from one speech, but they can learn about how important education is from this speech. Someone commented on the blog saying “What happened to respecting the position regardless of the person?,” this is what jogged my mind and made me start to think about how disrespectful people are being to our own president. All in all, I think anything involving Obama is interesting, so this blog definitely sparked that interest, but the realization of how distrustful our country is of out leader that we chose, is upsetting and disappointing!

Comment on Dream Come True by Ali

Ali — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:33:12 +0000

As a student in the Advanced Computer Applications class taught by Ms. Cronk, I have learned a lot and thought i would never learn about the blogging world. While in class reading and learning about the Obama speech to all the kids in America have got me thinking and that he wants all of us kids to stay in school and learn. I think that he is right and today teachers are teaching us more stuff than what people have learned 20 or more years ago. Also I must say that i think that politics and also parents have gotten in the way of students learning. I understand parents want the best for the kids but do they really know what there kids are learning everyday? Also many teachers in the world know what there doing and stick to it and some student may have some and some will not, but that is the process of learning and knowing what to see when you go to college and your prepared for the real world. I think the Obama speech will help and inspire students to learn more and stay in school to be prepared for the real world and get the dream job they have always wanted.

Comment on Dream Come True by ernest

ernest — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:27:41 +0000

When talking about the whole speech it gave the class a look at all the different points of view people had on it and how it affected them in different ways. Not only did we get to see others prospectives but we got a chance to elaborate on it ourselves and give our opinions from our point of view.

Comment on Dream Come True by Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:27:01 +0000

Ms. Cronk

It seems that I have underestimated this class a little bit. I loved the videos that we watched as they were learning experiences. I liked how we talked about the Obama speech. It seems that the schools were making a huge deal over this speech by not allowing their students to watch it in the school building. The whole day when we talked about the speech was great and I loved some of the comments that we said in class. It was surprising how we could make the speech more complex by just talking about it and reading some of the comments left by the viewers. I hope to do this throughout the year.