Monday, November 28, 2011

C4T-4- John Burk

#1
Mr. John Burk commented on November 9 about a student that had posted a depressing comment on a social network. This comment streamed from being about this student to how school systems have tried to intervene and prevent teacher/student relationships outside the school. Currently there are many school that do no allow teachers to have those "networks" because it allows more chance for suits against the school system, or so they think. I agree completely with Mr. Burk, with him saying that social networks help encourage relationship beyond just student/teacher but in each student's future. It allows the students to learn how to communicate with adults which is greatly needed. I think it is necessary to maintain a relationship where the student can also see that the teacher is also a person and has good and bad days much like the students do. I hope that the school systems can see this involvement between teachers and student on and off school property is actually a good thing and allow teachers to have these interactions. Had Mr. Burk not commented back to his student that was depressed who knows what might have happened. He might have prevented this student from doing something extreme.

#2.
In his second blog posting that I read was so far over my head I actually had to spend the time and read it three times, which is quite embarrassing to admit. It was about an application that is several years old and pretty much phased out but he loves it and uses it frequently. This application is called "Algadoo". As I was reading his post I thought this application was pretty neat with all the functions it could do and could help in many circumstances. It is all about interactive physics. Check it out for yourself, I thought it was neat and you might too. Interactive Physics-Algadoo .

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