Powerpoint Presentation

My PowerPoint presentation will include some of the things I love about life and some of the things I don't love about life. There is a lot more to me, but there are not enough slides in the world to cover every aspect of my life. I am pretty easy-going up-spirited person and I think you can see that from the presentation. I am simple, a couple of my favorite things in life would be the people I care about the most! & I am sure that most of the things I do not enjoy will be shared with quite a few people in the class. I hope that everyone likes it because I enjoyed making it.

a little about me..

My name is Amy Moseley! I am going to USA to become a math teacher. I am majoring in education and doubling in mathmatics. My overall goal, however, is to teach high school and go back to school at night and achieve my masters and teach college. I like going to South because it's close to home and I don't plan on moving too far away from Mobile. I've lived in the same house my entire life except for one short year when I attempted to move in with one of my best friends. Needless-to-say, she and I are not friends anymore and here I am back home. I would not have it any other way, I love my family.
When I am not at school, you can find me at Wintzell's Oyster House. I wait tables theres and will most likely be there until I graduate. I absolutely love it (for the most part) because I meet so many different kinds of people. Other than work and school, I don't do too much. What an exciting life I live! :)

ACCESS granted!

Alabama Connecting Classroom, Educators, and Students Statewide (ACCESS) is a plan that was brought about by Governor Bob Riley and Dr. Morton to help bring a higher education to high school students, who otherwise would not be able to achieve it due to lack of resources. The plan is an Internet based set of course that high school students can take over the Internet. High school students can earn credit for classes that they may not have available to them. It achieves this by having teachers who are certified to teach these subjects become e-teachers from feeder schools to other schools that will receive the education. It opens the door to many different opportunities for students like dual enrollment courses, advanced placement courses, advanced diploma options, and much, much more.
Depending on what the school system and the Alabama Department of Education can determine teachers will receive great resources to help fulfill all the needs to this huge project. They will get cameras, new smart boards, Internet service with routers, and specialized training for the e-teachers and the receiver school. It is an extremely expensive plan, costing about $100,000 per school. I know when I was in high school I took 2 dual enrollment courses (that I received college credit for) and 2 advanced placement courses (that I did not receive college credit for) but I can only imagine how far ahead I would have been if sources like this would have been available to me.

a picture for you to view!

This is my dog, Pookie. She is the best thing in the whole world!

ALEX in my classroom?

I have to admit that I was somewhat relieved to be introduced to this website. While I am sure that in the future I will be taught how to create a lesson plan, and whatever else I may need, it was nice to be able to see a glimpse of the future. Being able to see different techniques of getting a concept across is great. Everyone has a different approach of doing things and if I were stuck or did not feel I was being very clear this could easily open my eyes to a different way. My field of study is math and I am wanting to teach the high school level, so I went threw some of the math lesson plans for algebra and algebra II. There were fun projects and all sorts of interesting ways to make a child's learning experience a little more enjoyable. I am just excited to see what will be out there in just three years (when I graduate) and even further down the road that will be there to help me out even more.

Meet ALEX

The Alabama Learning Exchange (Alex) is a helpful database full of information from teachers all over Alabama. This information consists of lessons plans of teachers from all subjects imaginable, and also every grade level from kindergarten throughout high school. Along with the lesson plans there are some examples of what to instruct. There is a place to log in and create your own lesson plans to add to the database. The website itself is very easy to navigate and self-explanatory.
The resources it has available for the teachers are just wonderful. There are links to websites with instructions for eligible grant money. Just thumbing threw the website I came across numerous things that sparked my attention. I found a super helpful "Tips and Tricks" link that basically went over everything we are going to go over in this class. It is so exciting to think about all this technology at our fingertips. I wonder how different my learning experience, as a child, would have been, had this kind of source been available to my teachers.

Shift Happens, Indeed.

This short film has really opened my eyes to the world that we live in today. I can only imagine what is to come. Although I do not have any children, I know I would be very upset to find out they were not being properly prepared for the future ahead of them. I am sure that one day it will be virtually impossible to live without being able to operate a computer or some specific piece of electronic gadget that is invented. It is a somewhat scary thought, however, thinking of one piece of machinery having more knowledge than the entire human population. Will people become even more mindless as they rely on that computer, or whatever it is, to do all their thinking for them? Yet, there is truly no way better to stay in contact with people all over this planet. I found the statistics that were shown about myspace to be very interesting (especially since I am so fond of it). It is impossible for me to imagine the actual number of people that are a part of the huge network. Also, it surprised me to read about the number of jobs a person will go through by the age 38 because I am only 21 and I know I have had at least 10 jobs already. I just really hope that I am fully prepared for what is ahead.