Traveling and gathering a little bit more...

As I start to travel little more into the blogging world I have been introduced in many other ways that we create a social media, how we can provide many opportunities to create and change ideas and thoughts. As I began to discover information within blogs, and using search engines in a smarter and faster way. Within time I was able to dig up some more information on my topic such as, "what are laws and rights?"What is the government worldwide? Where there political leaders involved? By using the audio I was able to encounter "History and Politics Out Loud" a nice website that involves the speeches given by political leaders in the past striving for a change. As more and more people are striving to become more involved and one advocacy that I have encountered is U.W. Human Rights and Social Justice .

How I envision using blogs in my future classroom as a teacher and as student projects.

As I skim through and viewed david warlick webpage I found many interesting perspectives and information On 2Cents Worth.

A Techno Teacher's Second Life. ....

As I always have the habit of wondering what if, and if not, what can we do with it. Well, ask I keep on searching through out websites, examples, observing how others use the blogs. And it dawned on me, hello! This would be great for students to use this writing, science, social studies, and so much more. Students can interact by using blogs in engaging with one another in what they have been learning in their classrooms and sharing their ideas that they have been working on in the classroom.

Basically students become our critics, they can inform us what they understand, what they dont understand, what they like, and so forth. They importance that blogging has been emphasized is, students can hold discussions, participate, reflect, motivate, share ideas, take ownership of their own blog.

Blogging "gives students a voice, a audience, a learning environment, a skill that is useful for digital futures". Science Fair projects would be such a great thing for kids to post up on their blogs and get help with one another, book reviews can also be done by the students once they have completed reading a book. Many options are available its just introducing, becoming confident, and using it to its fullest potential.

Veronica L. Gonzalez Inquiry and Project-based learning

Inquiry based learning.

Fund of Knowledge

"Everything now known by humanity"

Inquiry implies a "need or want to know" premise. Inquiry is not so much seeking the right answer, because often there is none. But rather seeking appropriate resolutions to questions and issues.

This is why schools must change from a focus on "what we know" to an emphasis on "how we come to know".

Project-based learning

Students focus on a topic and explore on their own. They learn to become explorers and use the world around them. "Project based learning is also a instructional approach built upon authentic learning activities that engage student interest and motivation"

Essential Question

What are laws and rights?

Unit Question

Why do we need the bill of rights?

Which of the bill of rights is the most important?

Which of the bill of rights needs to be improved?

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social StudiesTEKS 1:10A,1:10B