Some thing hard to find early in my blog history

Previously, when we had to score each other with a rubric, my scoring person could not locate some of my earlier activities. This is because they are under my very first posting as comments.  Yep, I was still learning, so I have copied them here just to let anyone who is going to be viewing this site that they really do exist. To myself, it serves as a testimont as to what I have learned in this course. I went from a bumbling blogger who couldnt even figure out how to put in new posts to someone capturing images, videos, etc and embedding them here. Wow!

It's been a fun and challenging ride,
Chris

Chris Ware said...


Today is the second day of school here at B-UMS. We lived through the first day!



August 27, 2009 9:46 AM

Chris Ware said...

Still learning how to post a link.

This hyperlink is to my resume in progress

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfxh77tr_0fq775wgr



August 27, 2009 6:50 PM

Chris Ware said...

it didn't show up as a blue hyper link.

Argh!



August 27, 2009 6:51 PM

Chris said...

Blog response to TPACK article Aug 31, 2009

1. What are the major themes or ideas in your content discipline?

This year I work mostly with reading and English. With reading, I work with the five themes of reading: comprehension, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, and vocabulary. With English, the push is to focus more on writing, but to integrate the grammar within writing instruction.



2. Does your content discipline rely on specific processes for developing the key themes or ideas?

For writing, we are to follow the writing process, but the difference comes in how people present it. There is no specific process of program which is used, so most teachers vary greatly on this. Some use five square writing, write from the beginning, etc for working through the writing process. In reading, we do not have a specific process, though just like all the other subjects we do need to follow the WV CSO’s. I find that for my special education students, I do a lot of remediation and work with skills to improve their current level.



3. How much of what you know is dependent on the way you learned your subjects?

I conduct my instruction much differently from the way I learned as a student. I’ve been to many conferences, trainings, meetings, and even viewed instructional coaches modeling in classrooms. This has greatly helped with both what I know and how I use it in practice.



4. Do you think in terms of your content by the chapters in a textbook or do you think in terms of your content as an integrated whole.

I rarely follow a text book, but instead try to pull out what I want to use or find goes along with the CSO’s. Sometimes I just look for things that would work well with my students or capture their interest. I don’t always think in terms of integrating everything, especially technology, but if it works in, then that’s rewarding.



5. Does your knowledge of this discipline represent an integration of the concepts and processes that connect them?

I believe so, but I say this because of my accumulated experience thus far. Through trials and learning I believe that I have become more comfortable pulling everything together. There are times when integration is almost a given, with technology that it. I find that with my group, there is very little previous exposure to technology and technology resources.



August 31, 2009 11:36 AM