Weekly+Assignments+for+T4T316+and+T4T416

__**Weekly Assignments**__

__**EDU316**__

Week of 1/28/12 Educational Hashtag: I followed the #spedchat hashtag for the week. A lot of the tweets had links to different articles. One article that I found to be interesting was about teaching self-calming skills. I think this is really important for special education students. Another link was to tech tools that are useful in the sped classroom. There was also a few links to articles about autism and IEP's.

Political Hashtag: I followed #HCR - health care reform. One tweet that was somewhat funny and interesting that probably doesn't do much with politics, said that FDA okay'ed a Pennsylvania university to keep dispensing Plan B through a vending machine. You just have to put $25 dollars into the machine. They are not violating any laws because all students that attend are older than 17, and the law allows 17 year olds to get the pill without a prescription. Most of the tweets talked about ObamaCare, some supporting it and some against it. It also talked about some states expanding Medicaid.

__**EDU416**__

Week of 1/18/13 Article Response: Project based learning allows students to be more active and engaged. If you allow students to explore things that they are interested in, they will gain more knowledge of the subject they are studying. I liked the video "Soil Superhereos." The video was about a seventh grade class who talked to experts and did a project in their science class, and then they shared it with their community. I think kids would really be into something like this, rather than doing the traditional projects in the classroom. PB-Online is also a webiste that would be useful to me because it is a resource for projects for middle school and high school students, which is the age I will be working with. The projects on this website are standard-focussed, which is also a positive. There are a lot of useful links in this article that would be great resources for any teacher's classroom.

Week 9: Digital Story: [|http://www.kerpoof.com/#view?s=2gs11dr4iwo3c0hp-c-5c921f-x]