A bit about me...

My name is Danielle Tasker and I am a student at the University of South Alabama. I am studying Studio Art among other subjects. I am a trained Montessori Preschool Teacher and worked at a local Montessori school in Mobile, AL from August 2007-May 2008. In early January of 2008, I was promoted to Assistant Director and remained in that position until I resigned in May after receiving a job at South Alabama's Department of Housing, where I am currently working as a Resident Advisor in the Epsilon area.


I love kids and love working with them. I will most likely home school my own children one day because I have a strong feeling that I will be able to offer them much more than a traditional education could ever offer. I would like to open up my own school for young children blending some Montessori practices with a strong emphasis in the arts. If that happens before I start my own family, I will not home school. My teaching tools below reflect my beliefs on everything from an emphasis in the arts to punishment.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Cyber Hunts

I am a visual and hands-on learner. As a student, I learn best when I have to search for the answer on my own. I am also a strong visual learner so visual presentation (as opposed to auditory-only presentation) is the best way for me to retain information.

In Spring 2008, I took a class on Art in the Elementary Classroom. My instructor, Dr. Baggett, introduced the class to Cyber Hunts. Cyber Hunts can be created via Microsoft Powerpoint. The slides of the Powerpoint are a series of images and text on the computer which help navigate the student to learn about a subject in a technologically hands-on way. The Cyber Hunt may have a question for the student to answer on one slide and ask the student to visit a specific website by clicking on a link and find the answer or come to a conclusion after reading the text on the website. The Cyber Hunt may also use interesting graphics and sounds to grab the student's attention. In my AED class, I created a Powerpoint on an infamous local Ocean Springs artist, Walter Anderson. In my Cyber Hunt, the students viewed a work by Anderson and were given the option to be taken to a (safe, pre-viewed) website that provided the students interactive tools which would help them analyze the work.
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