Student Motivation

When walking down the hall, I hear students being frustrated over going to certain classes. If they are not wanting to go in the beginning, then their motivation is already gone. When I started Globaloria, I thought the motivation would take care of itself. It did in the beginning and has fallen off some as the course becomes more challenging. I really think that when the course started out the boys were more motivated than the girls. I only because say this because the boys play more games than girls. As the girls start working through the course and building blogs and wikis their motivation starts to increase. I am now at the point where some motivation is gone. To regain some student motivation I plan on letting the students replay some of the games. I need help getting back to where we were in the beginning. As for the plans I hope just to continue learning with the students and being a facilitator to them.

Can Math be Fun and Games?

Hello Globaloria Gang, its Friday almost Christmas, but we have to continue working. Not long until you have a break. Now lets talk about or game topic math. Can Math be fun and games? If so, what makes it fun? What can math teachers do to make the subject more interesting for you? Your blog assignment for today is to answer the few questions above and to also research for some Math fun math sites. You can not include studyisland or coolmath. Search for new sites. Tell me why you think they are educational and why you think they may be fun. Don't forget to add your multimedia. Enjoying surfing the internet!!!

Math Games

When talking to many students I have found one common comment from most, that math is not their favorite subject. Math is not easy and takes time for students to learn. So we have to find ways that make math more interesting. Students love to play games and dislike math, but they need math to become a productive citizen in todays society. So if we can use games to teach math maybe student motivation will rise. Here is a math website for you to out. What kind of ideas can you use in your game? In your opinion, will games help math motivation? What was your favorite game you played and why? Did you learn math playing the game? Respond to the questions in your blog for this week. Have a wonderful day.

Busy with PBL

Well it has been a few days since my last blog, thanks to a problem-based learning project deadline. Wow what a lot of work that goes into putting one of those projects together. I knew it was time consuming, but never thought about all the time it took to create all of the documents that go with it. So it is complete with just a few minute details to add. So hopefully you will be able to visit the teach21 website and check it out. It is call the Mall of McDowell. Creating excitement about the need for a shopping mall in McDowell County. Getting the student's engaged is the most critical part of a teaching lesson. Hopefully someone will try to the PBL and tell me what they think. While this has been going on, I have not forgotten about my Globaloria students. They are still working hard and are currently working on the Drawing in Flash tutorial. I am trying to keep down the frustration with flash. As well all know flash can become difficult at times. So far, so good for all of my students. What I have accomplished for the first time is adding a video to viddler.com. So I am going to attach the first video I added.

Educational Gaming

Video games have become more and more popular in the last couple of years. We use the Wii to create exercise while playing. We are now going to try to create videos games for learning. We have all played games to try and help master an educational objective. We have all used studyisland to help use in Math and Language Arts. Now that we are looking at creating games to help future students master objectives I am asking for your opinion on educational gaming. I know most students enjoy playing games while learning, but do you all feel the same?

What are some educational games you played?
Do you remember anything you learned playing a game?
Do you think games can create a learning atmosphere?

Hello students, hope you guys have enjoyed your three day weekend. Tomorrow is back to work. We will start the unit on paper prototyping, you guys will start to look more at your game you will create. Hope everyone's team is working our great. We will be joined by Mrs. Barker's 7th graders for the next couple of days, she will be at a conference. Hope everyone is enjoying the class so far.

Math Blogs

Hello Globaloria students, sorry I have missed you guys the last couple of days. I am really impressed with most of your blogs. Great job, very interesting, especially most of your videos. Well we all know that Friday is our blog day. So lets talk about our topic for this weeks blog. You need to go out and find any blogs about Math and add them to your blog roll. After adding them to your blog, write about why you added those blogs. I have added a couple of math blogs to my roll, you can go and check them out. Check out the optical illusion on the second blog. Also check out the video, see if you can find anything in the picture. Good Luck and I will see you Monday.