Week 5 Reflections

This week we learned more on how to use picasa and we also learned how to work in live text. I like the picasa project because it is very simple to understand and picasa is easy to use. The live text seems like it will be a challenge to complete, but it should not take long to finish once it is started. I like the idea of using live text and I will possibly try to implement it into my lesson plans in the future. I also think that using picasa to create a project for my classes would be a good idea because it will help the students learn the material a little better than just writing down notes and doing worksheets all the time.

Week 4 Reflections

During week 4 we started the picasa project and learned how to evaluate a website. Groups 1 and 2 also presented their first chapters and we learned about chapter 1 and chapter 2. I like the idea of evaluating a website because that can help teachers decide whether a website is safe to show the class. I can use this in my future classroom to show students how to use certain websites to help them with math homework when they don't have me with them to ask questions. I also like the picasa project because it is a inventive way to let students tell a story with their own pictures.

Week 3 Reflections

This week we learned how to use excel spread sheets. I have never used excel before so it was exciting because I never knew you could make all those charts and sheets from just that one program. I also had fun creating the survey in google docs. It was something that I have wanted to do for awhile, but I had no idea that google could be used to create one. I look forward to finding out all the answers people give me with the survey and I think it will be fun finishing up the rest of that assignment with making the graphs and the power point.

Week 2 Reflections

This week of class was interesting because I learned information about Power Point that I did not know before. The lesson on how to create the power point assignment taught me the information very well and I believe that with this new information I will be able to create a good power point for my assignment. We also learned how to create wikispaces, where we can write reflections like we do on this site. I enjoyed learning all the new material and hopefully it will help me when I have to teach in the future.

What I learned the 1st week of class

We went over how to create a gmail account, how to create a google site, what the ISTE standards are, and lastly we went over how to create this blog site. These all seem to be very helpful for this class and are the basics for learning and teaching with technology. I hope to use these technologies in my future classroom, so that students can create their own googlesite and there they can create a site about what they learned in my class. Then with the blogs they can talk about whether they thought the assignments were too easy or too hard and reflect on each assignment they complete.