Blog Assignment #3

In watching  What Is Peer Editing?, I learned the three steps in editing my peers.  Be sure to give compliments, make suggestions, and make corrections.  It is important to stay positive and be specific.  In the slide show Peer Edit With Perfection Tutorial,  it  emphasized complimenting, giving suggestions on how to improve, corrections on spelling and grammar, and to stay positive!  The video Writing Peer Review Top 10 Mistakes, talks about criticism that doesn't matter such as Picky Patty and Whatever William that doesn't care at all.  The most important thing is to be helpful as a peer.

I think that it is great to stay positive and try to help your peers.  I think that the three steps are very beneficial.  Everyone needs to be given compliments to stay encouraged and to do their best.  Many may not know what needs to be done differently if suggestions are not made. If I am going to be criticized in order to improve I need to know what I need to improve on specifically. I think that  these are great steps to follow when editing a peer's post.

My C4C Assignment #2

This week my C4C assignment was an overall well written post.  Her spelling and grammar were great.  She was open minded with her thoughts, although sometimes she seemed a little repetitive.  I left a public comment because it was overall a good post.

Technology in Special Education by Lacey Cook is about how technology helps special education students.  Students work better by themselves with technology.  iPads allow help in audio learning.  Using the new technology helps prepare them for the future.  How the iPad works with Academics for Autism demonstrates how a child was not motivated to learn until he got to use an iPad.  iPads help non verbal students communicate.  MathBoard@apple.educationapps.com, Math bingo would be fun for the students while learning.

Children with Autism learning to use the iPad.

Vicki Davis: Harness Your Student's Digital Smarts, she uses digital media and encourages her students to work and communicate with students from all over the world.  Not only is she teaching her students, but they are teaching as well.  I think she has given these students an opportunity to communicate with people that would otherwise be impossible.