Chapter Seven deals with evaluating educational technology and integration strategies. It talked about Inspiration and Adobe Acrobat. Inspiration can make webs and maps. Adobe can help you create professional documents that can be distributed through the web. This program will be very helpful as a future teacher. It just shows you have to do lots of different things online. It lets you in on evaluation tools, resources and effectiveness of them. It also gave tips on how to create lesson plans and how to find the funds to support integration of technology into the classroom.
Again nothing new has happened in my technology learning world. Just the same old stuff. I guess I'm improving and practicing on the skills I have.
New stuff...well finals are coming up and I have a few papers due this upcoming week. Which is a bummer because I just got done doing a bunch of stuff this week and now I have a bunch to look forward to. Oh well, the semester is almost done and then its Christmas break which I am super excited for. I love Christmas time; the presents, the decorations and the weather!
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Blog #6 (extra credit)
Chapter Six deals with technology, digital media and curriculum integration. In todays teaching world it is a necessary thing to integrate technology into our curriculum. Kids today are surrounded by technology and they can learn easier and better if they use it in the classroom as well. It sometimes can even allow a student to interact and play a more active role in the lesson. The hard thing is to make sure you know the goal of that assignment and not get off track of the lesson. Along with active learning there is authentic learning experiences that are possible with technology. Technology not only can help administer lessons but it can allow the teacher to organize and plan their lessons more accordingly.
To tell the truth I don't think I've learned any new technology skills. We have started to do research prompts as part of a survey so that is a new thing that has happened in our class technology wise.
This past week has been crazy school wise. I had a group presentation, music journals, a music test, an organizational behavior test, hour report papers and I had to finish a book all by well today. Lots of work this past week but I have seen Graham Gano, the Florida State Football punter twice! Which basically made my week.
To tell the truth I don't think I've learned any new technology skills. We have started to do research prompts as part of a survey so that is a new thing that has happened in our class technology wise.
This past week has been crazy school wise. I had a group presentation, music journals, a music test, an organizational behavior test, hour report papers and I had to finish a book all by well today. Lots of work this past week but I have seen Graham Gano, the Florida State Football punter twice! Which basically made my week.
Blog #10
Every week when we would do our blogs I would love to read what people have done in their lives the past week or so. I don't really know anyone in the class but it was still interesting when we could read about what people were doing. Writing about what I did in the past week was also the most fun part of writing the blog weekly. I like how we had to leave three comments as well, because when we would look through everyones blogs to find someones entry we found interesting we could read others comments and see what they thought about the person too.
While planning our final project in class my friend told me about this program from Microsoft called Publisher. I have never heard of it before. She told me in high school that she used it to make a pamphlet and it sounded really cool. It would also be a useful tool to use for my future classroom or future years of college.
I will probably fulfill my future technology goals by just staying up to date with the technology and programs that come out. In my college career my friends can inform me. Then when I become a teacher my students and fellow faculty can keep me up to date
While planning our final project in class my friend told me about this program from Microsoft called Publisher. I have never heard of it before. She told me in high school that she used it to make a pamphlet and it sounded really cool. It would also be a useful tool to use for my future classroom or future years of college.
I will probably fulfill my future technology goals by just staying up to date with the technology and programs that come out. In my college career my friends can inform me. Then when I become a teacher my students and fellow faculty can keep me up to date
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Blog 9
As a teacher the web is a great tool for us to have and incorporate in our classroom. One web based tool teachers can use are search engines like Google. When you even "google" web teaching devices it gives you pages and pages of resources and information. The Internet if full of stuff and teachers can use that stuff if they choose to, to enhance the classroom.
Using Google, a teacher can use the different results that pop up. Each source that pops up can be used for different things and each one can help teachers of every subject area with that subject. Some results came up with math tools and others physics. One site even had a shape maker which can show kids the different shapes in 2-D and 3-D.
The next technology tool I would like to learn is how to make a web page. Also I would like to know more about ways to make presentations, charts, graphs and things so I can use them in my classroom. It would also be cool to incorporate the charts and things in the web pages. The Internet is such a popular thing now a days its inevitable to avoid it in the classroom.
I think the only way to achieve my technology goals is to keep practicing and keeping up with the latest technology. Every few years I would like to probably meet up or go to a conference or something that would introduce me to the latest technological advances. I think that through just being in the classroom I will pick up different things and learn from then. Not to mention the students will probably keep me up to date.
Using Google, a teacher can use the different results that pop up. Each source that pops up can be used for different things and each one can help teachers of every subject area with that subject. Some results came up with math tools and others physics. One site even had a shape maker which can show kids the different shapes in 2-D and 3-D.
The next technology tool I would like to learn is how to make a web page. Also I would like to know more about ways to make presentations, charts, graphs and things so I can use them in my classroom. It would also be cool to incorporate the charts and things in the web pages. The Internet is such a popular thing now a days its inevitable to avoid it in the classroom.
I think the only way to achieve my technology goals is to keep practicing and keeping up with the latest technology. Every few years I would like to probably meet up or go to a conference or something that would introduce me to the latest technological advances. I think that through just being in the classroom I will pick up different things and learn from then. Not to mention the students will probably keep me up to date.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Blog 8
Chapter 8 deals with all the things that can go wrong with computers. We learn that a compuer security risk is any event or action that can cause a loss of or damage to computer equipment. The chapter defines many bad things that happen to computers such as viruses, programs, theft and failure. In viruses there are many different types. Programs range from one end of the spectrum to the next they can help with anything. Chapter 8 just educates you in the things that go wrong in a computers system.
The new skills acquired have been brought by power point. For an assignment we made a game show and I never knew that was even possible. It was really cool to learn that a program that was simply only used for slideshows could be used to do alot more. I would of never know it was possible without that assignment.
The only new things are I just went home for the weekend so I could see my favorite band, Fall Out Boy perform. The show was amazing. Alot fancier than any of their old shows but still good. In the middle they did a few songs acousticly which topped it off as probably the best concert I've ever been too. Anyway thats really all that is new.
The new skills acquired have been brought by power point. For an assignment we made a game show and I never knew that was even possible. It was really cool to learn that a program that was simply only used for slideshows could be used to do alot more. I would of never know it was possible without that assignment.
The only new things are I just went home for the weekend so I could see my favorite band, Fall Out Boy perform. The show was amazing. Alot fancier than any of their old shows but still good. In the middle they did a few songs acousticly which topped it off as probably the best concert I've ever been too. Anyway thats really all that is new.
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