Flagler College Tallahassee

Instructional Design
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Spring 2014 Jade Williams

THE ORGANS:

Cyber Bullying Fake It Til You Make It? Animoto ActivInspire Email Ettiquette Alternatives to PowerPoint Calendar

Cyber Bullying
What is cyber bullying? It is just as it sounds. It is bullying via the internet. Websites such as chat rooms, social media cites, and emails are different ways that cyber bullying can occur. Cyber bullying is similar to face-to-face bullying. It is a way to make someone else feel inferior. To make them feel down about themselves or to hurt them. The only real differences is that the abuse is not physical and cyber bullying can happen 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Although cyber bullying is not physically abusive it is emotional and psychologically abusive. While some may use the expression sticks n stones, we all know that words can sometimes cut deeper than punches. While online people can access the internet, post mean or absurd comments, and those same comments, in less that 30 minutes, could spread through an entire school. Unlike physical bullying, that may leave bruises, once a comment or a picture is posted on the internet it is there forever. Even if you go back and try to delete it, it will still be there for someone or everyone to see. When children are being bullied at school, they go home and the bullying stops. With cyber bullying, when at school the bullying is going on then when you go home, it continues. The internet never shuts down. The internet NEVER closes. As parents and teachers, it is our duty to protect our children from cyber bullying. We have to let our children know that it is not ok and normal to be cyber bullied or even to cyber bully someone else. References: Hardcastle, M. (n.d.). Retrieved from http:// teenadvice.about.com/od/ schoolviolence/a/ cyberbullying1.htm

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About:
This Newsletter is about some things that I have learned while in Instructional Design.

Fake It Til You Make It?

Why do people fake it til you make it? What is fake it till you make it? The term means that when someone doesn't know what to do or how to do it, they fake it. They pretend to know what is going on and then the make it part? Well that means keep faking it until you actually know what's going on. But, why? I believe that people pretend to know what they are talking about because of fear. Fear that they are inferior in some way because they don't know as much as their peers. They don't want to feel left behind or out of the loop so, they tend to fake it til they make it.

Motion Sickness?
Animito. Animoto is cool new alternative to using a PowerPoint. It creates a fun new way to present any project for any subject of any kind. Unlike the PowerPoint Animoto moves. What do I mean by moves, you ask? It grabs the viewers attention and takes them on a journey.

High definition video quality

Post on Facebook and twitter

ActivInspire
With activinspire teachers can turn a regular classroom into a interactive playground.it allows the kids to be able to participate by coming up to the board and salve the problems themselves. They feel important being able to use the same thing a teacher is using. Oh and the absolutely love getting a question right in front of the whole classroom.
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Etiquette for your Email?

EMAIL POLICY NEGATIVE FEEDBACK/SENSITIVE SITUATIONS
Dont send negative or sensitive emails. No parent likes to hear bad news. Especially through an email .

You discuss with parents at the beginning of the year your email policy. That way the parents will know the dos and donts.

EMAIL BATTLES
Be calm when sending emails. Dont send off emails that are impulsive. Wait until the situation has died down.

Slide Rocket: It allows

you to b able to be creative. It uses themes, layouts, shapes, tables, pictures, audio HD video, and flash to help you wow your audience. It also allows you to access outside sources

Empressr: Empressr is the

first free online storytelling tool that allows you to create,

Narrable: Narrable
uses storytelling through images and narrations to engage students and to draw out important higher order thinking skills.

Prezi: Prezi is a cloud-based

presentation software and storytelling tool for presenting

The Wonderful World of Weebly!

April Issue

JADE WILLIAMS INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN Phone: 7578050730 E-mail: WILLI3XGF@MYMAIL.TCC.FL.EDU

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Lastly, there is my website. I created my website using Weebly.com. Weebly allows you to be creative . It embeds, copies, pastes anything that you

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can think of. I used this to create my classroom website. It was easy to use and its drag and drop feature made the process so much easier.

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April Fools project-In Class

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6 13 20 Easter 27

7 Teacher 14 21 28

Planning DayNo school

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Cards go home

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Fair Project Due

Friday-Easter Egg Hunt

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Meeting

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