The Modern Teaching

             Now a days Internet becomes an increasingly pervasive and persistent influence in people's lives, the phenomenon of the blog stands out as a fine example of the way in which the Web enables individual participation in the marketplace of ideas. And now a days teachers have picked up on the creative use of this Internet technology and put the blog to work in the classroom. The education blog can be a powerful and effective technology tool for students and teachers alike. One of the blog that the use to integrate technology are the blogspot, so the question is what is a blogspot according to article contributed by Mollie Crie A blog (sometimes referred to as a weblog) is a Web publishing tool that allows authors to quickly and easily self-publish text, artwork, links to other blogs or Web sites, and a whole array of other content. Therefore, blogs are set-up like conventional Web sites, with navigation links, and other standard Web site features. Blogs have one standard characteristic. Blog postings are text entries, similar to a diary or journal, which include a posting date and may include comments by people other than the author, photos, links, or other digital media and even the videos that you like or your favorite videos at YouTube. Postings are often short and frequently updated. They appear in reverse chronological order and can include archived entries.

Blogs work well for students because they can be worked on at virtually any time, in any place with an Internet-enabled computer. Moreover, blogs work well for students because they can be worked on at virtually any time, in any place with an Internet-enabled computer. Hence, they can use any kinds of computer as long as it has an internet connections.

       According to the article contributed by Mollie Crie there are some benefits that the blog to Education:

  Educational Benefits of Blogs
In addition to providing teachers with an excellent tool for communicating with students, there are numerous educational benefits of blogs. Blogs are:

• Highly motivating to students, especially those who otherwise might not become participants in classrooms.
• Excellent opportunities for students to read and write.
• Effective forums for collaboration and discussion.
• Powerful tools to enable scaffolded learning or mentoring to occur.

Using the Blog in the Classroom
As an educational tool, blogs may be integrated in a multi-faceted manner to accommodate all learners. Blogs can serve at least four basic functions.

1. Classroom Management
   Class blogs can serve as a portal to foster a community of learners. As they are easy to create and update efficiently, they can be used to inform students of class requirements, post handouts, notices, and homework assignments, or act as a question and answer board.
2. Collaboration
   Blogs provide a space where teachers and students can work to further develop writing or other skills with the advantage of an instant audience. Teachers can offer instructional tips, and students can practice and benefit from peer review. They also make online mentoring possible. For example, a class of older students can help a class of younger students develop more confidence in their writing skills. Students can also participate in cooperative learning activities that require them to relay research findings, ideas, or suggestions.
3. Discussions
   A class blog opens the opportunity for students to discuss topics outside of the classroom. With a blog, every person has an equal opportunity to share their thoughts and opinions. Students have time to be reactive to one another and reflective. Teachers can also bring together a group of knowledgeable individuals for a given unit of study for students to network and conference with on a blog.
4. Student Portfolios
   Blogs present, organize, and protect student work as digital portfolios. As older entries are archived, developing skills and progress may be analyzed more conveniently. Additionally, as students realize their efforts will be published, they are typically more motivated to produce better writing. Teachers and peers may conference with a student individually on a developing work, and expert or peer mentoring advice can be easily kept for future reference.

                 I like this movie because it talks about the teacher who doesn't know the proper way of teaching, he enter as a substitute teacher for the seek of money, so he always do in his class is film viewing then one day he saw his students love the music, the his class turn turn to a music class in short a wannabe rock star in need of cash poses as a substitute teacher at a prep school, and tries to turn his class into a rock band.

                  The film begins with a rock band called No Vacancy performing at a nightclub. Guitarist Dewey Finn (Jack Black) creates on-stage antics that unnerve his bandmates and the crowd. The next day, No Vacancy votes Dewey out of the band and replaces him with another guitarist named Spider. Ned Schneebly is pressured by his girlfriend, Patty Di Marco, to evict Dewey unless he starts paying rent, which is four months overdue. Dewey answers a phone call intended for Ned from Rosalie Mullins, the principal of a prestigious private preparatory school, offering Ned a job.  Dewey impersonates Ned and takes the substitute teacher position for a fourth-grade class.
When Dewey overhears their music class, he realizes they have musical talent. He sets the class a school project: form a band and win the Battle of the Bands, where No Vacancy is competing. As part of their training, Dewey teaches the history of rock music. He befriends Principal Mullins by playing her favorite song "Edge of Seventeen" by Stevie Nicks on a jukebox.
                     The class auditions for the Battle of the Bands, but are rejected for lateness after Dewey talks with Tomika about her singing because she thinks she fat; Dewey gives her examples of positive female role models. Freddy leaves the group to hang out with a group of posers in their van, causing Dewey much anxiety until he finds him. When the Battle of the Bands manager says that Dewey and kids are not what they're looking for, Dewey reveals that the kids have worked their fingers to the bone to play a song for them. With the help of the band manager, pupil Summer Hathaway (Miranda Cosgrove), Dewey persuades the managers to let the students perform by claiming the students are orphans with a rare blood disease. Ned receives a paycheck from the school, realizing that Dewey is impersonating him. At the evening's parent-teacher conference, the parents question Dewey about their children's new interest in rock music. Ned and Patty appear with the police, exposing Dewey. Dewey reveals his true identity, admits everything, and is sacked. After an argument with Patty that results in her storming out, Ned admits that he still misses playing music, but thinks that it's time that Dewey had moved out.
                 The next day, the class decides to go ahead with the Battle of the Bands performance and recruit Dewey to lead them. Ms. Mullins receives numerous complaints from all the parents until she leaves the room and sees a teacher searching for the kids. She notices that the kids have gone missing. Ms. Mullins and the parents go to the venue to take their children back, believing that Dewey has abducted them. Ned and Patty see the Class and Dewey getting ready to go to the venue and Patty threatens to call the police again. But Ned decides to go to the concert and closes the door on Patty in the middle of her rant. The class band, the School of Rock, plays an original song written by their lead guitarist, Zack, impressing the audience. Despite winning over the crowd, School of Rock loses to No Vacancy. However, the winning acceptance is booed at and the crowd demands School of Rock to perform an encore. Sometime later, Dewey opens the School of Rock, an after-school program where he continues to coach the class and Ned teaches beginners. The band plays during the end credits, and they even break the fourth wall by singing

CONTENT

Traditional Music Culture in Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR)

To fully understand music and culture of others it is important to know the environment and living situation they are in. Such knowledge will provide the reason why certain music sounds or functions as such. It will also explain the existence of their traditional instruments and the system on how these instruments are utilized for music making. Hopefully, understanding differences in people and their music will eventually lead to its appreciation by others.

LESSON PLAN IN MUSIC

Target Year Level:    Grade 7

Time Allotment: 60 minutes

Module No.: 1

Lesson No.:  1

Topic:  Music of the Cordilleras

Materials:   paper, TG and LG

I. MOTIVATION

1.  Ask the students about their previous experience in music - creating, appreciating, and producing.

2. Ask them how music relates to one’s self and in the community.

 II. ANALYSIS

1.  Introduce the topic – the music of the highlands of Luzon.

2. Use the K-W-L Chart to determine the prior knowledge of the students about the topic and what they expect to learn in the lesson.

3. Draw the concept map found in the Learning Guide on the board. Discuss the concept map for the music of the Cordilleras.

 III. ABSTRACTION

•  Ask the students to clap their hands alternately, simultaneously, or individually.

• Let them tell the differences in the sound produces through different claps.

• Let the students discover and understand the process of producing music in the Cordilleras.

• Relate the production of music in the life of the village or in the affairs of the community.

IV. APPLICATION

•  Music in the Cordilleras is communal – everybody in the community participates in the production and appreciation of music.

• Ask for volunteers – at least three students. Let the students clap the following patterns: strong, rest, strong, rest ..... Do this as if the students are making a round song.

V. ASSESSMENT

1.  Let the students produce simple music through clapping. Observe the strong – rest – strong pattern.

2. Ask the students to share their stories about the sounds that they hear and how they or their classmates participated in the activity. Let them relate these experiences to:

a.    Family affairs

b.    School activities

c.    Day to day activities in the community

d.    Political system

e.    World order and worldviews

VI. ASSIGNMENT

1.  Let the students bring the following materials next meeting: a piece of bamboo segment similar to tongatong, a piece of round wood at least 1 foot in length and 2 inches in diameter, or bamboo sticks of at least 1 inch in width and 1 foot in length.

2. Write a short reflection about the lesson for the day. Let them answer the following in their Reflection Notebooks:

a.    Which part of the lesson did you like most? Why?

b.    Which part of the discussion did you find difficult? What do you think will be the best strategy for you to learn that part of the lesson?

c.    Which part of the lesson do you intend to learn more? How will you do that?

This lesson plan is based on the K to 12 Teaching and Learning Modules for Grade 7.

source: http://jonathanjimenezinhs.blogspot.com/

Me na Me!

         hi! I'm Alibay D. Kasan, but i want you to call me "Al" to make it short:):) by the way I'm a college students at Notre Dame University taking up BSED-MAPEH and Alhamdulillah, I'am 3rd year college student now.

       I'm very happy with my chosen career because I have a lot of friend's which my co-major, we always happy when we are together and I wish that it won't last and our relationship will stay forever...

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That's us!

 

              Hi! here I'am again, well i just want to share with you what i had experience during our socialization day,well it been my 3 times I had been attending our socialization in our college,but this socialization day was the best socialization day for me, it happens in the day of September 27,02014. I like this socialization day for two reasons, first i like the theme "Remembering first day high" i like it because it is not hard for me to look for the dress or T-shirt to ware because it is easy to look for the dress that fit from theme. Then the second reasons is that i can show my fashion when i was at my first day high.
             Well i had a very happy night at our socialization day because i see all my close friends and we had a picture taking, we eat to together, and after that we a disco... But that disco night was the most embarrassing disco i ever had, because they all lough at me for the reason that i don't know how to dance, well i never had experience to go disco in my entire life that's maybe the reason my i don't know to disco or dance...hehehe!     


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