Tour info

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1. Provo Utah	Discover the longitude and latitude of Provo, Utah	Picture and facts
2.Salt Lake Utah	Determine the longitude and latitude of Salt Lake City	Picture, facts, and perhaps sound clip
3.Hawaii	Given Hawaii's longitude and latitude coordinates find Hawaii.	Pictures, facts, and sound clip, perhaps video as well
4.Iraq	Given Iraq's longitude and latitude coordinates find Iraq	Pictures and facts.
Details of image overlay / path / polygon:	I will use a polygon to connect each point as it is found given the longitude and latitude measurements.

Content Area - I will be using several different pictures, facts, audio clips, and videos to teach the students about each place they will visit on their longitude/latitude tour.

Pedagogy - I will use an active participant pedagogy to teach this lesson. The students will use tools such as the longitudinal and latitudinal ruler to measure the longitude and latitude of specific locations.

Technology - I will use the google earth program to show my students how to read longitude and latitude measurements. They will be able to understand how everything corresponds to one another.

Digital Storyboard Video

I created a digital storyboard of Kenn Nesbitt's poem entitled I'm Learning to Play the Piano Today. It was really fun and I'm excited that I know how to create a digital storyboard now! I am definitely going to use this in my classroom.

Digital Storyboard

Here are two pictures showing the storyboard for my digital story. My digital story is going to be portraying the story of a poem entitled I'm Learning to Play the Piano Today by Kenn Nesbitt. I'm really excited to bring this poem to life through my digital story! After viewing this digital story board students will learn how to write poetry and then write one poem of their chosing. this will meet the State Objective #6: Write in different forms and genres. They will be writing in the poetry genre.

TPAK questions

The content that we focused on in our science experiment was the difference between fahrenheit and celsius.

The pedagogy we used was experimentation. Students will really learn a concept when they get to experiment with it and figure out solutions on their own.

The technology that we used in our experiment was temperature probes and computers (with an awesome program already installed by the way.)

Explored Technology

I learned how to use a temperature probe. This tool seems very useful because the data can be collected extremely quickly. I also learned how to use a temperature probe. I found it very interesting that a probe can plug directly into a person's computer and information is sent directly to the right program. Because of the quickness of the results students can spend more time analyzing the results.

TPAK

I'm excited to learn how to be a TPAK teacher. I found it very interesting to learn about different types of teachers within the TPAK definitions. First, Technological savvy teachers a teacher can know a lot about technology and know how to use it, but not know a thing about the content matter they are teaching or not know at all how to go about teaching it to students. Second, a Pedigogical teachers can know the best procedures to use when teaching specific students, but not know a thing about technology or about the content matter they are teaching. Third, a Content knowledgeable teacher can know everything there is to know about their subject and not have a clue how to teach it or how to include technology.
After understanding the three different types of teaching skills it was obvious that the best teacher would be one that contains all three components. A teacher definitely needs to know the content that they are teaching and know how to teach it, and at the same time know how to incorporate technolody into their classroom. By having a teacher that is well rounded in these three components the students will learn much more than they ever would have by the power of synergy.