Volunteer Schools

1) I have spend 41/2 hrs volunteering at the schools, but I also have two more hours next week which will make a total of 61/2 hrs of volunteering.
2) It was very interesting to see all of the different students tech skills.  There were some students whose skills were way more superior than mine.  Their was this boy who took thousands of still pictures, and put them all together to make a movie that had the characters moving and everything.  The first school that I volunteered at I noticed the students did not have much motivation, but then the teacher was kind of boring.  The school school I was at the students were fully engaged the whole time.  They were excited, and they were making some awesome movies.
3) I learned that I need to improve my tech skills.  I have always been fine at doing things for myself, but trying to help the students was a little difficult.  The first school I went to the teacher actually did not know how to do garage band, so I taught the class how to use garage band.  It was fun to actually teach the kids, and it made me realize you really have to know your skills in order to teach them to someone else.
4) I would like to start blogging at least once a week.  I love to coupon, and people are always asking me how I do it.  I feel like if I start a blog explaining everything that it would be very beneficial to my friends and family.
I would also like to this summer create some podcasts that will correspond with my lessons.  I would like to have this done before I start student teaching, so that I do not have to worry about making them while I am student teaching.    

Internet Safety Reflection

As a health teacher I think teaching internet safety, and cyber ethics are very important!!!!!! I have actual lessons on internet safety, cell phone safety, and cyber ethics.  Standard 4 in the health curriculum is that students will demonstrate the ability to apply prevention and intervention knowledge, skills, and processes to promote safety in the home, school, and community.  Within that standard we have objective 4 that has us examine the dangers of inappropriate use of current technology.  The internet is a fantastic tool that provides us with opportunities that we would not have if we did not have the internet.  The internet can also cause damage though if it is not used appropriately.  We have many students today who are committing suicide because they were bullied over the internet, or they have been made fun of through different websites like face-book.  As a future health teacher, I do not ever want to hear about my students committing suicide or anything remotely close to that.  In order to insure this I am going to make sure that I have lessons that teach internet safety.  I also believe that internet safety, and cyber ethics are something that as teachers we need to constantly remind our students about.  We can not expect our students to learn about it once, and then think they will always be safe.  We need to continually teach them, and warm them about new dangers that may be appearing.  
  Some ways that I can address these issues in class are that they will have individual lessons on each topic, and I am going to give my students different challenges.  For example, on cell phone safety my students will have to put their phone away for an entire day.  I could give my students the challenge of not using the internet for playing games, face-book, and etc for an entire week.  I also think it would be a good idea to have a cyber awareness week.  I could have my students create fliers, posters, movies, and etc that could educate the public on cyber ethics.
Health is a subject that I can easily have my students make fliers, brochures, and newsletters as their assessments.  During the nutrition unit they can make a newsletter about the dangers of different fad diets.  They could make a flier that lets people know the signs and symptoms of eating disorders, drugs, and alcohol.  In almost every single one of my standards I can incorporate a flier, or a newsletter for their assessments.