Week Eight

Doing the literature review this week I felt like it was the hardest assignment yet, which it should be because it is the signature assignment. I went through the notes and watched the videos and I still did not know what approach to take to the assignment. After days of brainstorming and a whole lot of scribbling I decided to take more of the approach that the video showed of the three concepts. I was able to break my sources down into the three concepts and I felt it flowed quite well. When I first started the assignment it started out easy, the words were just coming out, but then I felt like I was getting repetitive, and then the frustration started coming. 

After the frustration I stepped back and took some time and came back to it again. I must say this paper is probably one that has given me the most problems in a very long time. Nothing seemed to go right and nothing seemed to make sense. I am so passionate about this subject because not only is it my future career, it is also a subject that I am learn along the way as well because I am horrible at reading and always have been. I'm looking forward to getting the professors feedback on this paper to see what I can do better because I do need to practice for the future assignments to come. 

Week Seven

This week with doing this annotated bibliography I felt very confident with the sources I have used before. I just recently tweaked my research question and narrowed it down to more of the peer reading and keeping these children on a more positive road with reading and fluency. I added a couple more resources that really furthered my knowledge and future teaching skills in the future not only for me but for others. These sources really need to be known because it could really help teachers and their children in the long run. One source that really stood out to me at first made me a little worried because it is based in Korea and not USA, but I think it's one of the best teaching tools I have found yet. I have actually found two really good new tools in both new sources that I used for this assignment, one as simple as opening a book and placing your five fingers on a random page. Tools as simple as that are easy for children to do themselves, along with easy and simple tools just to determine if the difficulty of the book is in range of the student. 

I feel that any fellow teachers or future teachers could really gain great tools and information reading my article and sources. Sometimes just the simple things can make things so much easier, which is always a nice thing when it comes to having to do so much. Leatherby Library I must say as to be my favorite new search engine. Now that I have it down I want to share it with the world because it is absolutely amazing. 

Week Six

The Student Conduct to me is like common sense when it comes to cheating and plagiarizing. It is something you learn about each and every year and it is defiantly something teachers make clear of on the first day of class when going over the syllabus. I also understand that sometimes when you are researching for your class and papers there is so much on the Internet and in books, sometimes you forget what you have read and what belongs to who. But with all the practice and all the sources available to you on the Internet no one should have to plagiarize. If one were to question at all, just cite it, that is how I feel and what I do. I agree citing can get pretty difficult and confusing, but having so much support from our professors and our librarians there is no excuse. 

After reading the actual code of conduct and taking the quiz I defiantly feel like I need to be more careful when it comes to the papers I write and the information that I end up writing on paper. If I question the information at all I'm going to carefully site, because even using someone's else's thought process can be considered plagiarizing. I defiantly miss understood reading the part where a student can use one paper for two separate classes if the instructor accepts it. To me I just remember being told we have to even cute our own work if it comes down to it. I defiantly learned and polished up the rules a little bit going through the code and reading through it. With all the time and effort you put into your research papers for your grades, someone else took time to write down theirs too, so don't steal their information without acknowledging their hard work, just like you would want to be acknowledged for your hard work. 

Week Five

This week I took a little different approach when it came to my researching. When I put in my developing fluent reader in the search engine more about the services available to children came up and how they help them along the way. I never really thought about that aspect of it so I decided to read about it, and it was quite interesting. Being in this class it really made me think outside of the box, more than I have ever before. Using all these resources and seeing all the different kinds it really had me getting deep into my subject. Reading to me is so important because I know the knowledge that comes with reading each and every piece of work. 

Each week the Leatherby Library brings more good sources my way and each week I find more that I can trust with the peer reviews and the academic journals written by people with credentials and experiences in the subject that I will be working in in the near future. Librarians are the first to be looked at when it comes to budget cuts but people need to know how important they really are when it comes to these children and their reading. If children were to be in charge of picking their own books not knowing what level they are capable of reading at many children will get discouraged and unmotivated also with defeated because they would not be able to read what they choose. These librarians keep them on the right track and point them in the right direction to keep them wanting more, broadening their horizons and helping them build their knowledge.