While looking through my classmates' blogs, I found their ideas for technology assignments very interesting. Rather than just using my own ideas, it was nice to be able to consider others' ideas for class assignments. I also found it interesting how much we've all learned from the first blog. I definitely think every person in the class learned at least one new and wonderful thing this semester, and I believe we will all be better teachers because of it.
Next, I would like to learn about picture editing. I always wish I had photoshop and would love to use it to edit photographs for various personal and professional reasons. I think learning how to professionally edit photos would be both fun and interesting.
I really would like to become an extremely technologically savvy teacher in the future because I feel that knowing about different technologies will help me in many ways. Technology is invented to make our lives easier, but we can't use it if we don't know how. I think that learning about as much technology as possible will help to keep me organized and make me a better educator.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
Post #9
I think that Facebook could actually be used as a terrific tool for teachers. A teacher could create a facebook and ask the parents to do the same. Then, the teacher could have all of her students' parents as friends. This would be an easy and convenient way to share information, photos, assignments, etc.
While I think Facebook would be a great idea for teachers, I feel there should be a difference between a professional facebook or website and a private facebook or website. While teachers love their students and teachers' lives are largely based on students, it is still important that teachers be allowed to have a private life separate from their school.
I think Excel is a terrific way for teachers to manage students' grades. If I were to assign a fifth grade class three math homeworks and a test, I could keep track of their grades in Excel, and use formulas to calculate the class average total and on individual assignments. This would help me to know if my assignments were good for the students or not.
Teachers can also use Excel to keep track of their classroom spending. Excel is a terrific way to manage money for business professionals as well as individuals.
For my final project, my group members and I are using our grant money to purchase iPods for a twelfth grade student body and also purchasing materials to be used with the iPods. So far, everyone has been doing a great job and we haven't run into any problems!
While I think Facebook would be a great idea for teachers, I feel there should be a difference between a professional facebook or website and a private facebook or website. While teachers love their students and teachers' lives are largely based on students, it is still important that teachers be allowed to have a private life separate from their school.
I think Excel is a terrific way for teachers to manage students' grades. If I were to assign a fifth grade class three math homeworks and a test, I could keep track of their grades in Excel, and use formulas to calculate the class average total and on individual assignments. This would help me to know if my assignments were good for the students or not.
Teachers can also use Excel to keep track of their classroom spending. Excel is a terrific way to manage money for business professionals as well as individuals.
For my final project, my group members and I are using our grant money to purchase iPods for a twelfth grade student body and also purchasing materials to be used with the iPods. So far, everyone has been doing a great job and we haven't run into any problems!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Post #8
I feel my Power Point 2 assignment was very good. I really enjoyed the assignment and I feel it shows in my work. I think I followed all of the guidelines, the content was all closely related, navigation was easy, my grammar and spelling were good and my screen designs were interesting.
I know most teachers make use of projectors and projector screens as well as DVD players in showing movies. Also, having students use cameras, scanners, and zip drives to do a project is a creative way to get students thinking. Using these photos and editing them for an educational purpose would also integrate the computer into the assignment.
I think learning how to create the connection links in power point is incredibly useful, especially in the case of making a game for students. Power point in general is a very useful tool for educators and learning about how to use it has helped me a great deal.
I know most teachers make use of projectors and projector screens as well as DVD players in showing movies. Also, having students use cameras, scanners, and zip drives to do a project is a creative way to get students thinking. Using these photos and editing them for an educational purpose would also integrate the computer into the assignment.
I think learning how to create the connection links in power point is incredibly useful, especially in the case of making a game for students. Power point in general is a very useful tool for educators and learning about how to use it has helped me a great deal.
Post #7
I feel that using presentation software in Elementary Classrooms definitely has both positives and negatives. On the positive side, presentation software provides a method of demonstrating lessons to younger children who often learn better when they have a tangible example to go off of. A negative might be younger children's inability to maintain attention for long periods of time, making it hard for them to pay attention to a power point presentation.
Teaching students about an assignment they have using a power point presentation can be effective at any age level. Because the assignment will vary depending upon the grade level, the presentation will vary in length and vocabulary. Power point could easily be used to teach a second grade classroom about an assignment on different kinds of animals or to teach a twelfth grade class about a research paper they've been assigned.
I'm curious to know more about schools that use iPods as a method of learning. I've seen theam at some of the schools I've worked in, and they ususally have lessons on them, however I don't feel that they're so effective that we should use thousands of tax dollars on them.
Teaching students about an assignment they have using a power point presentation can be effective at any age level. Because the assignment will vary depending upon the grade level, the presentation will vary in length and vocabulary. Power point could easily be used to teach a second grade classroom about an assignment on different kinds of animals or to teach a twelfth grade class about a research paper they've been assigned.
I'm curious to know more about schools that use iPods as a method of learning. I've seen theam at some of the schools I've worked in, and they ususally have lessons on them, however I don't feel that they're so effective that we should use thousands of tax dollars on them.
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