C4T #1

Mr. William Chamberlain's blog (C4T) 

1. For my C4T assignment, I was assigned to read a couple of blog posts from Mr. William Chamberlain's blog. "Whispersync for Voice" is the first blog I've read by Mr. Chamberlain. In this post he introduces a new item called the Whispersync for Voice. This item is a great 21st century teacher tool. It reads books aloud to the class. Personally, I would love to use this product in my future classroom because I love being read to. He also tells us one of the main benefits of this ebook, is that it is a lot cheaper than the actual book. In my comment on this post I let Mr. Chamberlain know that I was very interested in purchasing the "Whispersync for Voice." I told him that as a future teacher I was very excited about possibly using it in my classroom.


2. In the second post I was assigned to read by Mr. Chamberlain I learned a lot of things. He chose to title this post "It Would Have Been More Fun If It Was Figuring Out a Trip for Us: Mr. C, What Is a Real World Scenario Part 2." In this post Mr. Chamberlain's math class is trying to figure out the cost of his up and coming baseball trip. He used this as a project for his class and thought it would be a great break from all of the test prep. This is the comment I left on his post:

Hi Mr. Chamberlain,
I think this blog is very interesting. If I were your student I would be very excited about this project. It teaches them problem solving as well as time and financial management. I think the guidelines you gave your students were very logical and helpful. After the test in math, I think it would be a good idea to actually take the trip! 

Mr. Chamberlain gave his class guidelines to follow. First, they would only be gone 5 days on the trip. Next, they could spend up to $75 per day on food and $50 per day on souvenirs. I felt like these guidelines were reasonable. I explained to Mr. Chamberlain that this taught his class problem solving, time and money management. This post was interesting and I'm curious to know how the ending project turned out.

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