Monday, October 26, 2015
07 Powerpoints and Website
Power points are a great way for a teacher to teach things to a class in a constructive visual orderly fashion. From the power points iv made i previous classes, I have always used power points mostly due to its easy nature. You can have a lot of visuals because of it along with your information. In a class id teach I would let kids do power points surely so that they can learn to put visuals with their work. Information with the visuals is a great way of understanding any subject.
In the podcast, adaptive learning way mentioned. This is ways a individual or group of students can learn in their own special way. Not all students learn at the same pace and there are other ways out there in order to teach those students who have different paths to understanding things in their mind. That's what adaptive learning is. A way in which students can adapt to a situation in order to understand something.
The websites we made for class in www.weebly.com were pretty fun to make. It was simple to use and a lot more easier to use than a website I previously used before called wix. I think my website looks pretty good and simple for anyone to understand with a lot of colors. I even added in some resources we used in class like the site www.edmodo.com. I found that adding your calender to it could be kind of confusing but it was simple once i understood how. For the most part it wasnt a hard assignment, if anything it just taught us how to use our brain even more with technology.
Freds Slideshare
I chose this because it shows a detail explanation and presentation of how to keep your software healthy as long as your use of it being healthy as well. Having a healthy computer will make your computer last longer and function like it did when you first bought it. Over time fro the web sites we all go to and the things we do n our computer sometimes makes our computer and its coding overload. Keeping it under control will keep your computer safe and strong from viruses and other malicious activities.
Monday, October 19, 2015
06 Productivity, Web Evaluations
The website I chose to speak about was my very own high school, Rickards High School. I chose this site because of course I went to it but its a straight forward site that's very easy to use for what you want. Anything you want to look for dealing with parent information, sports, contacts academies and other resources are all right in front of your face to see. The tabs at the top are everything you need to have in order to navigate. This site is also reliable because its a Leon county schools website and you can also get to this page from the Leon county schools site as well in a direct link. If I was a parent, id be very satisfied with this site giving me the knowledge I need. http://www.leonschools.net/rickards
Productivity is a main focus that we have been talking about recently. In the podcast its described as something that will help you through your everyday functions. Diigo, which is one of the sites mentioned in the podcast is something students and teachers can use in the classes that lets you edit online things for other possible uses in the future. Something like that is good to h have in the classroom to keep students flexible with using information they handle. Off-the-shelf sources and software as chapter 7 talks about is so easy for classes to use to keep things rolling. Its something id use in a classroom, along with blogs.
The Web Evaluation that we did was a bit confusing at first but once I got it, I was sent rolling and didn't stop until I finished. I learned that a lot of these web sites out on the internet don't have updated information. Things change so rapidly and sources become outdated and this assignment has shown me that first hand. The Wiki me and Jessica made was straight to the point and simple. We pin pointed websites dealing with our topic of Science and Space then evaluated them to see if they were reliable sources of information. The assignment was helpful and wasn't too bad at all along with my partner, she was awesome and direct!
https://sites.google.com/site/9thgradeearthandspacescience/
The Web Evaluation that we did was a bit confusing at first but once I got it, I was sent rolling and didn't stop until I finished. I learned that a lot of these web sites out on the internet don't have updated information. Things change so rapidly and sources become outdated and this assignment has shown me that first hand. The Wiki me and Jessica made was straight to the point and simple. We pin pointed websites dealing with our topic of Science and Space then evaluated them to see if they were reliable sources of information. The assignment was helpful and wasn't too bad at all along with my partner, she was awesome and direct!
https://sites.google.com/site/9thgradeearthandspacescience/
Monday, October 12, 2015
05 Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is definitely is an great thing for students and anyone to use. Web 2.0 is sites and their information used for interaction between people around the web. Since web 2.0 is used for you to have connections with people and sources on the web from everywhere, without it a lot of information wouldn't be out there. The podcast talks about these things and how different sources out online.
A good source in the web 2.0 world for classrooms definitely is edmodo.com and is effective for teachers especially. Along with that one of the sources it talked about that's a heavy hitter in the web 2.0 world is blogs. These can help a classroom keep information found together and shared among each other. If I had a classroom my students would be doing this all the time. It seems like a very relaxed and simple way to connect to the people in your class along with anyone else who wants to see. I currently have a blog myself in which im writing on at this moment for my EME class! That goes to show how cool and easy it is to have one.
With the concept map, it was a big challenging at first. I didnt know how to use it at first and it was slightly difficult but I got through it. Trying to piece together my information with my map was a bit tedious because I kept redoing things. I eventually got all the way through and added all the fancy stuff to it t make it look very nice with my information about ww1. Here is that final product!
A good source in the web 2.0 world for classrooms definitely is edmodo.com and is effective for teachers especially. Along with that one of the sources it talked about that's a heavy hitter in the web 2.0 world is blogs. These can help a classroom keep information found together and shared among each other. If I had a classroom my students would be doing this all the time. It seems like a very relaxed and simple way to connect to the people in your class along with anyone else who wants to see. I currently have a blog myself in which im writing on at this moment for my EME class! That goes to show how cool and easy it is to have one.
With the concept map, it was a big challenging at first. I didnt know how to use it at first and it was slightly difficult but I got through it. Trying to piece together my information with my map was a bit tedious because I kept redoing things. I eventually got all the way through and added all the fancy stuff to it t make it look very nice with my information about ww1. Here is that final product!
Sunday, October 4, 2015
04 Web Hunting
The web hunt helped me not only to use the google search engine in different ways but also of the content I was searching up. The content that I was searching around for were websites that teachers could use for students in their educational uses. Some of these websites were templates for a teacher to make sites for their classes and assignments that they might want to give their students. One of the websites I searched up for designing quality assignments was http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/free-lesson-plans/the-basics-earth-science.cfm. This website was for science and its a template to learn how to make class assignments on all types of scientific things but in this case it was Earth science. This was so cool to me because I had no idea that they had things like this or at least to this extent because it seems extremely helpful.
You can go in so many ways with designing quality things for educational use its amazing. There are more websites out there such as teacher building websites https://educatorpages.com/ and just straight out links to many other educational sources like http://www.21stcenturyschoolteacher.com/cool-websites.html. The way I used my google search engine was just mainly using key words. Like when I did my search for Earth science templates for assignments I made sure when I did my search I made sure I put "Earth science" so anything with that would come up rather than just normal science stuff. The web hunt has helped me in these ways of searching and seeing whats out there for teachers and anybody honestly to use for educational purposes.
Sunday, September 27, 2015
03 Websites and education
The website I'm going to critique about is the website we recently learned to use this past week called Edmodo. This website is basically a site where teachers can learn and work together to form educational things to teach to their students. Its a very social site between you and your group of people so definitely be ready to communicate when your on it. Its sort of like a coaching site to help further you along i your journey of being a teacher to the students your are having and I like it very much.
https://www.edmodo.com/
What i like about this website is that its also so easy to use and everything is all there to get going with your journey. This website is basically of representation of Chapter 9's topic. Chapter 9 mentions how "As the internet has developed , various online tools and services have become available. This is basically saying how, teachers use a lot of online things inside and outside of class to further their education with the students are with just them by themselves. Its alot different from how it used to be from just books and chalk boards.
Another thing we have been doing this past week that I found cool was learning to make newsletters. We was making them in the form of a school teacher format. Its so many ways to do it and a lot of possibilities to figure something out to make a topic about. I have been a having plenty of fun with that because its making me use a lot of functions on Microsoft word that I either rarely use or haven't used before.
https://www.edmodo.com/
What i like about this website is that its also so easy to use and everything is all there to get going with your journey. This website is basically of representation of Chapter 9's topic. Chapter 9 mentions how "As the internet has developed , various online tools and services have become available. This is basically saying how, teachers use a lot of online things inside and outside of class to further their education with the students are with just them by themselves. Its alot different from how it used to be from just books and chalk boards.
Another thing we have been doing this past week that I found cool was learning to make newsletters. We was making them in the form of a school teacher format. Its so many ways to do it and a lot of possibilities to figure something out to make a topic about. I have been a having plenty of fun with that because its making me use a lot of functions on Microsoft word that I either rarely use or haven't used before.
Sunday, September 13, 2015
2 MS, Copyright and Twitter
I used Microsoft word for basically everything and anything I ever typed. Its my favorite thing to use when I need to get a paper done or to even jot thoughts down to save. As a student this is something iv always use in my classrooms and assignments. Using Microsoft word is just easier because in the past iv used a program called note pad to type something when my computer miraculously didn't have ms word and I hated it. I'm going to always use it and try my best to keep up with the up to date versions because they keep getting better, and if I had a classrooms all our writing assignments would be there.
Copyright and fair use is a very serious thing in the technology world. You don't want to be in a legal dispute over anyone elses information and ideas without the consent. I myself have never been in a situation like this. If I had my own class id definitely get them to understand the severity of understanding it through videos and legal disputes about them in the real world. Id even make my students use the safe assign to turn in papers to make sure they are not copying anyone's work.
Using twitter was never a big thing for me. Since iv been using it on the class iv learned to network in a new way. I'm usually a Facebook guy but Twitter adds flavor. When I use it, Twitter is more of a hey let me continue to talk about whats going on for a while type of thing and move on while Facebook is a one stop then move on. There is definitely more interaction with twitter with re tweeting and favoring tweets in which I have been doing. Using this especially with any future career could keep people updated hand fulls at a time with twitter in a short and sweet manner.
Copyright and fair use is a very serious thing in the technology world. You don't want to be in a legal dispute over anyone elses information and ideas without the consent. I myself have never been in a situation like this. If I had my own class id definitely get them to understand the severity of understanding it through videos and legal disputes about them in the real world. Id even make my students use the safe assign to turn in papers to make sure they are not copying anyone's work.
Using twitter was never a big thing for me. Since iv been using it on the class iv learned to network in a new way. I'm usually a Facebook guy but Twitter adds flavor. When I use it, Twitter is more of a hey let me continue to talk about whats going on for a while type of thing and move on while Facebook is a one stop then move on. There is definitely more interaction with twitter with re tweeting and favoring tweets in which I have been doing. Using this especially with any future career could keep people updated hand fulls at a time with twitter in a short and sweet manner.
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