Uploading a downloaded video to You Tube.

For this assignment I used Real Player to download a video from You Tube.  I chose City and Colour - "Cowgirl in the Sand".  When the video was downloaded I went into my You Tube account and selected upload.  I then chose browse and selected the video I had downloaded. The video now is available in my You Tube account.   The link for this is: You Tube upload.

This activity was a treat because I love music.  I think that it fits into the NETS-T standards one and two.  It is a creative activity that could enhance differentiated instruction.

You Tube Account

I already had an account with You Tube.  My account name is dsing1. I had previously used this account to make playlists for myself but had never uploaded a video to my account.

APA Action Research

This assignment was not that difficult until it came to explaining the results, which I did wrong.  To complete the assignment I watched a You Tube video APA format in Word 2010 to set the layout prior to beginning my paper.  I chose my two research questions and included them in the Method section of the paper.  I did the t-Test using the data analysis toolpak and copied the tables into my paper.  The APA style states that tables are to be placed after references and each table needs to be on a separate page.  The lines have to be horizontal in the table and the title needs to be above the table in italics. I used the references APA option in Word to create my references.  I used the link Professor Pierce provided as my first reference link 1st reference link.  I used the second podcast I made discussing the assignment as my second reference.  My podcast link:  Action Research Podcast.

This assignment fits into the NETS-T standards as a way to format action research in APA style.

Finally got the Data Analysis Toolpak

Well guys, after many, many hours of clicking and getting frustrated, the data analysis toolkit works! I didn't have Excel and bought the Home and Student Edition of Microsoft Office for home. I brought it home and installed it.  I kept going to options and selecting add-in and was then selecting data analysis toolpak and got nothing.  Finally I did a search for download data analysis toolpak for Excel 2010.  I selected Excel 2010 data analysis toopak and was able to finally get the program working right.  Now I can get those nifty little data boxes with all the cool stats.

This toolpak fits into the NETS-T standards as a tool for sorting and calculating statistical data.

T-tests Assignment

I have really struggled with this assignment.  Technical issues have been a big part of it.  I was able to do the age and discussion posts tests at work on Excel 2007.  This was after I copied the Google doc. at home and sent it to my email address at school.  The browser on my computer at school does not support the Google Chrome or Google Docs.he worksheet that our class received.  When I copied the spreadsheet and pasted it into Excel at work I selected the entire worksheet and sorted the age column.  I then added the data analysis toolkit to Excel.  I did this by selecting tools in Excel and then selecting add-ins.  I selected the data analysis toolkit and hit OK.  When I finished this I selected data analysis in tools and scrolled down to T-test 2 sample assuming equal variances.  I selected number of discussion blogs for ages 22 to 30 and then the number of discussion of blogs for ages 32-57.  I clicked OK and the statistics replaced the spreadsheet in a box that I widened the columns of to reveal all of the data. This was my result
Age and Discussion Posts.

I purchased Excel 2010 Home and Student Edition yesterday trying to continue on with testing more columns in the spreadsheet.  I installed the program into my computer and imported the Google document into Excel.  I followed the same steps as above with adding the data analysis toolkit.  Then I selected the entire worksheet and sorted ages.  I am trying to figure out how to get the screen that I got with the T-test outcomes like the one in Excel 2007.  So far, I have only been able to get the equal variance and cannot find the new worksheet ply screen.  I also cannot copy and paste the t-test pop-up in Excel 10.  I saved my results of the screen on Jing and am including the links:

Fake quiz and age

Millinial and Age

Teaching and Discussion Posts

This is the homework that Dr. Pierce assigned.  We were to follow the process of sorting the independent variable.  Then select T-test and select the cells for array 1 and then select the cells for array 2.  I have Excel 10 and I put "1" in tails and "2" in type and the result appears. I used this process to complete my homework. On the browser tests I had to change how the data was sorted for Internet Explorer and Firefox so that the other browsers would appear together in order to complete the T-test.

	AGE	Gender	Teaching
Score	0.244535528	0.284534544	0.064918329
D.Posts	0.003893*	0.444181273	0.064722595
MelScore	0.035912082	0.3765718	0.014593073

	Chrome	Firefox	IE	Safari
Score	0.112	0.133	0.027*	0.031*
D.Posts	0.258	0.213	0.193	0.126
MelScore	0.448	0.409	0.140	0.069

I represented my scores in the browser test in thousandths because the example was like this.  We were to put an asterisk by any data that was significant.  Dr. Pierce gave an example with age and discussion posts and score and Internet Explorer.  I put an asterisk by score and Safari because the result of .03 was less than p=.05.

This assignment fits into the NETS-T standard 2.  This assignment definitely was a digital age learning experience and required completing assessments.

Online Class Meeting - October 20, 2011

Tonight was pretty awesome.  My first ever online classroom meeting.  I went to the link Elluminate and logged in.  There were a few classmates on at the time and some of us practiced talking.  We realized quickly that only one person can talk at a time and until the person talking de-selects talk no one else is able to talk.  The moderator asked if we had video cameras and my classmate Jana Woofter appeared.  It was nice to see her.  She helped me at the tail end of Audacity when I was about reduced to tears and suffering from sleep deprivation.  The conversation was good in our meeting with good participation as well.

We discussed data analysis from the link that Professor Pierce e-mailed to us in
Google doc.  Prior to class we were asked to create a research question and hypothesis.  We used the information in the hypothesis  and null hypothesis links to aid us in this task.  The class discussed sort descriptives and averaging in Excel.  Prior to the class starting we were to write a hypothesis  and null hypothesis using the information we were given.  Some of us shared our hypothesis with each other and what a independent and dependent variable would be.  I have looked at the spreadsheet a lot and see many possible avenues to compare. In the discussion one comparison brought up was teaching and number of blog posts vs. not teaching and blog posts.   The teaching students blog more than the not teaching students in our class. My initial hypothesis was that younger students experiment more with various browsers than the older students.  After the meeting I think that my hypothesis was not really what we were supposed to do.  I decided to look at fake test scores for teaching and not teaching students.The meeting ended with the moderator telling us he  was going to give us a lot of "painless" tests.  I hope his definition and my definition of "painless" are similar.
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Hypothesis:  There is a significant difference with fake quiz score compared with students that are and are not teaching.

Null hypothesis:  There is no significant difference quiz scores compared with students that are and are not teaching

Teaching and Fake Score Results

Students 30 and ↓	Students ↑ 30
0.064918329
	Alpha = .05
	Result: Significant

Using Excel for action research is a great way to gather statistical information.  This would be in compliance with NET-S standards.  Students are often asked to do reports and research and using tPublish Posthis tool would make their job easier and also most likely more accurate.

How Millennial Am I?

I went to the link pewresearch.org and took the quiz.  My score was 74%.  I think that this is pretty good considering that I am on the tail end of the Baby Boomer generation.  I think being around my students and going to school myself keeps me more in tune with the world around me.  I also really enjoy Facebook.  According to the chart below I am one of the 30% in my generation to have a profile on a social network.

I think understanding the tendencies within generations is useful in understanding the culture and beliefs of others.  I find it interesting that some traits no longer appear beginning in Generation X and new traits replace the old traits.  Values and  morals are not included in Generation X and the Millennial generation, but I believe tolerance is like values and morals. Technology is not mentioned in the Boomer and Silent Generations.  Work ethic does not appear in the Millennial generation.  Something surprising to me is that the Silent generation was the smartest of all groups. This was an interesting activity.  I think this information reveals the necessity of technology in the classroom and complies with NETS-T standards.