My feedback of NYU Blackboard

Like: I really like NYU blackboard. Although I did think it was very complicated at the beginning when I started to use it since my English was bad at that time, I get used to it now. For people like me who always forget the place where they store certain articles and reading materials, blackboard can definitely build up a resource pool where I can retrieve all these useful reading back instead of losing them forever. In addition, I can read and download the readings for free instead of buying a second-hand book online. The roster and discussion board work well. I can share my ideas online and in time with my classmates. In the meantime, I can easily find my classmates' emails instead of asking the professor. The outlook is OK for me since I am not a big fan of fancy design.



Suggestion: Make the functions and designs simple, easy, and convenient.

Student teaching 11/29/2012

11/29/2012

This morning’s extension time full of fifth graders I covered it for a while since Mrs. P.G. went to pick up the class. Although they were advanced students, it didn’t mean they would help set up the chairs actively without teacher’s request. When Mrs. P.G. was leaving, only one girl came. It meant I needed to lead them to do warm-up and sing when other students come. I asked first coming students to set up the chairs for other students. And the reward was they could play any instrument for several minutes. Then they needed to go back to chairs and started to do warm-up with me. I didn’t follow Mrs. P.G. warm-up method. Then I taught them the new song, which was Hanukkah is coming. Since they only had lyrics, they failed to differentiate the melodies between phrase no.3 to phrase no. 6, although they really liked the song. Since students knew I was a student teacher, sometimes the solo kid and other boys tried to ignore my instructions and started to talk. I pointed them out and let them sing individually. If they sang it right, I definitely gave them a big compliment. If they failed to sing it well, they knew it and also behaved better when I taught them how to sing it. In this way, I not only resolved the behavior issues and built my authority, but also assessed how much and how well they learned.  For that annoying melody problem, Mrs. P.G. helped me out by doing solfeggio. Instead of singing the words, students only sang the notes names with corresponding hand gestures. After practicing several times, this annoying problem fixed. I figured out I could try other possible methods by deconstructing these music elements when repetition cannot resolve the problem. Then overcome small problems one by one.

Student teaching 12/06/2012

12/06/2012

Today we had rehearsal of fourth grade. Compared to the fifth grade, fourth grade behaved much better. Since Mrs. P.G. found a new song to let the chorus sing to celebrate the Festival, which was Caroling, Caroling. She thought it was short and then she did some rearrangement that was modulating from F to G with repeating the first sentence three times. Since I graduated from composition major, I would say it was not fluent and audible. It was too straight. I did another version of rearrangement by adding three “Ding, Dong” at the end of the F major part while extend the time of each single word. When it came to the G major part, we changed the tempo by making it faster and rushing to the end with students ringing  their jingle bells. We adopted this version. It worked pretty well.

Due time_ 2012 Fall

12/03/2012

Today I am trying to figure out the due time schedule of my all rest classes. Here it is:

2012-12-14Contract, health, hours.-Student Teaching

2012-12-18 Tech music education 11pm

2012-12-14 graduate paper

2012-12-10/12 brass percussion

Three comments on classmates' blog

1. and the piles of work begin to grow...Megan

Megan is my teammate. I like her post of Group Work with a really cute picture. She shared her graduate  life which was full of group working and what these group collaborations bring to her. The group working creates the opportunities for students to share, communicate, and think together. 

Btw, Megan, I am so glad to work with you and Lorraine for our final presentation in Tech Resources class.

Here is the link: http://pilesandpiles.blogspot.com

2. How You Think Outside In-Suhyun Yeon

Suhyun's post of NYU blackboard mentioned the design and outlook of this platform was not attractive and creative. In addition, it was not often been used among the students and professors. For my opinion of NYU Blackboard, please read my next posting. 

Here is the link: http://howyouthinkoutsidein.blogspot.com

3. Dimitry Ekshtut's NYU Blog-Dimitry

Dimitry's post of NYU blackboard is informative since he has been in this school for 6 years. He has his special perspectives of this interface. The interesting thing is that he mentioned NYU Classes. I am curious of what it is and looking forward to using it.

Here is the link: http://de480.blogspot.com

Reflection of the first meeting

10/17/2012

Today was the first meeting that we met our teammates. I was so glad that all of us came from different countries. Megan was a dance education graduate from American. Lorraine also was a dance education graduate from India with working experience in NYC. We introduced our background and talked about the student teaching since all of us were doing the same thing. We found we had a lot of common topics.

For the video, which was Tech Learning Curve: Help Desk - Introducing The Book, I didn't understand it completely. However, it seemed that my American classmates liked it so much. It made to think about my English listening and learning. When I have time, I will watch it again!

The comparison of browser

This is my first post about web browser.

Here is the link where I found all these information.http://internet-browser-review.toptenreviews.com/