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Day 1 Morning

1. What are your feeling about video games in general

My feeling about video games is that i love them. They are not only exciting to play but they can also be stress reducer. While i was in college video games was my way out of the stress day that i endure from my classes. I love the excitment that I get from playing sports video games, the competition of playing my friends and family members.

2. What are your feeling about video games as learning tools

My feeling about video games as a learning tools excites me because i feel this will make learning more exciting and student will be more engaged into the lesson. Student lives are surrounded by technology and gaming and i feel that student will progress more in the classroom. Having video games as a learning tool will allow the student to see learning as something that can be fun.

Day 1 Afternoon

1. What brings you here / why you here The love of video games/ technology brings me here. The ability to make a video games in which student can play and learn more easier. The ability to say that i have made a video games.

2. What are you excited about? The excitment of making a video games not only for myselfe but for my student. The ability to back home with me the knowledge that it takes to make a computer/ video game. The expericence to know that i can i always tell someone that i was there and made a video game fro someone else and they are learning from it. 3. What are you concern about? I dont really have a lot of concern, but the only thing that do worries me is will my student be able to learn from the program that I made.

Shutdown/power some of the things that i want to reflect for today is the new ways i can corporate new ideals about history and how i can work it across the curriculum with science and math. I really feel that i can make a difference by addin in new technique by showing student that learning history will not be boring but it will be a way a student can have fun at the same time they are learning.

Day 2 Morning

1.How do you use technology in your classroom

The way i use technology goes as followed: the use of a educational game that is loaded on the computer called study island which in turn prepares a student for the end of course exam and the end of grade testing. This technnology align with the standard course of study and prepares students on how question will look on the test. I also use techology called a smartboard in which student can interact with probelm on that computerize board in which they are able to answer the probelm with use of they finger tip or by special electronic marker that write in different color. The use of techology in my classroom goes into the gaming world in which the interactive classroom jeoparady is used to help student learn but at the same time able to see tem being in a real jeporardy game.

Afternoon

1. How does the technology you currently use enhance your student and your teaching/ how do you know?

The technology that i currently use really does enhances my student learning because it just more than just learning from the books it more of a visual learning for them since i deal with exceptional education children. The student along with me learn alot from the technology that i used because once thing are seen with our eyes its hard to forget what we learned. Technology really helped out my student because of it, students and their parent relates to me that they are learning lots from the use of technology because it not just limited to schoool with technology the work they are doing in the classroom they can take it right wioth them if they have a computer that is accessible.

Shutdown/power

1. My reflection on today goes as followed, it was fun to finally to be able to interact with the programs. I finally was able to input things into the programs. I really feel that the program it self is becoming pretty easy to understand. I saw new ideals that i can put into my gaming that my kids are able to to learn much better and at an easier pace.

Day 3 Morning

1. Describe your teaching

My teaching is unorthedox, i feel that the style that I have is very weird but it gets the job done with the student that i teacher. The way that i teach is that i will jumpo around the room like a jack rabbit, interact with the kids because the student that i teach have learning/ behavior probelm that limit their learning. They need the excitement of have fun in class and listening to me make diffent sound with my voice as they learn. Overall i want to say that my teaching style is very positve and my kids actually learn and remeber exactly what the lesson is all about. I never will down grade a student but i will always do my best to uplift them so that they will understand and feel good about themselves in the process of etting the question right.

Day 3 afternoon

1. Describe how your students learn best.

Some of the ways that my student learn best is, when ever they are given the opprotunity to use the internet to learn the work they are doing. My student also leasrn best when i ask them to visualize what the lesson is about. They also tend to learn more with hands on activites as well. Whenever i am teaching history i ask the the student how to step inside the people shoes they are reading about. If they pretend they are the actual person themselves i would ask them how would they feel if this certain thing woould happen to them.

Shutdown/power

Today i llearn alot of new things that will enhance my learning in dealing with the program i will make for my students. I really feel that adding sounds to the program will make student more engaged. I really found some neat sound waves website that i can use to input into my program. This will electricfy my kids as they work within the game as they conitue to learn about the people through history, and the important thing they have accomplished.

Day 4 Morning

1. What do you do well, when connecting with your student.

Some things that i do well when i am connecting with my student is this, i able to go to another level whenever me and the student talk. The student and the connecting that we have entrust in them to let me know whats going on / what probelmsthey are having. The connection goes even deeper because the parent get involved and connect with me also.. I feel very fortunate to have parent that connect with me the way i connect with my student.

2. Do you have any concern about connecting with your students.

I have no concern about how i connect with my student. Just as I said previously the coonection that i get fromj my student is fine. The parent are confidence in the connection that i have with their child. I am able to take my student place on the weekend and i think that the connection is even stronger and at this point i have no coern.

Day 4 Afternoon

1.What interest you in video games in the form of teaching

One thing that i think that interset me is the way of competetion. I feel video game as the from of teaching will engage student as they compete to see which one will get the right answer first. As an experience in the classroom, classroom jeoporady games was used a a form of video game and it involved a from of competetion in which my student compete to see which group is successful.

Shutdown/ poweroff

Today i finally was able to work with the programs. I had a lot of fun interacting with the program. I know it will takes some time for me to get it the way i wanted it. I will conitue to work on the object and the sounds so i can configure to where it will please me and my student. I as learned how to connetec thing together on the program, i hope that the program that i make will be up in running in a couple of week so i can show people the end results of a long hard time working it.

Day 5 Morning

How do you see this as a tool as connecting to your students.

I see this program as a way that connecting with the student i deal with. Student in my class need a visual aid to assist them with thier work so thay can progress futher in their studies. I feel that this will revolutionalize the classroom lesson as kids will be able to learn at ther own pace but they will be able to answer more of the question on their own. This will also help the kids to be able to answer question without prompting of hesitating to see if they will got the question wrong.

Day 5 afternoon 1. Who supports and who benefits from you particpation in this project? I think that everybody will support this project because the student will learn and have fun at it, the parent will be happy that their child is more engaged in learning. My fellow teacher will want to learn more about this project to help benefit their classroom. Lee County school will also benifts from this because they want their employee to stay ahead of the games when it comes to teaching new innovaited ways for student in the classroom

2. What other technology do you wish you could use or have support for? I think that at this time i feel tatc the gtechnology is current and suffeicnet enough for tis program but i know as time conitinue move along thre will be need for new product to assist in the new program that will be coming out.