One website that I found very interesting and that would be useful as as future teacher is National Geographic for Kids.
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
This website is very informative and makes learning fun and interactive. On this site children can do activities, play games, watch videos, read stories, and so much more. This makes learning different and interesting. It gets boring for a child, or anyone, to simply read facts from a book. Although when you are interactive in the learning it is much more engaging, and you do not even realize that it is an educational site. I find it to be a very good website because the children do not even realize that they are learning while they are surfing through the website.
For example as I was looking around through the site I came across a section that said "games". Kids are instantly attracted to games so I decided to click on it to see what it was all about. It had numerous games with catchy names that would reinforce material learned in science class.
The technology related skill that I would like to learn is how to create an good interactive website for my students. I know the basic skill for creating a website, but I am sure that there are many things that I can do in order to make it more interesting and user-friendly.
Ways that I will achieve my technology related goals when I enter the college of education. I am sure that there are many classes in which I will be required to create websites. And I believe that the best way to learn something is to actually do it. Therefore while doing future projects I will be perfecting a skill that will greatly help me as a teacher.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Research Prompt #3
Each week I decide to spend the most time on whatever is necessary for that week. It seems that teachers just so happen to give all the same type of work around the same time. So in one week I have all my tests, and therefore are studying for those tests. In other weeks I have many chapters to read for each class so I spend my time reading. It seems that this week I have many papers, essays, and projects to do so I spend my time doing things of this sort. I usually do what I intend to do, although sometimes I get side tracked and end up putting on a movie or going on facebook. If I am doing work for too many hours in a row then I get anxious and need a break, so I do something else for a few minutes and that turns into hours. But I have recently discovered a way to stay focused that I never use to do before, the library.
Until this week I didn't know that the library could help me stay so focused on my work. I am not sure what it is, but lately when I go to the library I seem to stay focused on my work for much longer. It may be something about the atmosphere, less distractions, or the fact that everyone else in there is doing work also. I never use to go to the library to study but I have come to realize that it is good to get out of your room to study. Cause your room and apartment is where I have fun, so the library is a place where I can go to study and focus on school work.
So far in this class, I have figured out that to understand what’s going on, I have to. . . write everything down! If I do not write something in my agenda I will not remember to do it. It helps me to organize my life, if I write a to do list.
Until this week I didn't know that the library could help me stay so focused on my work. I am not sure what it is, but lately when I go to the library I seem to stay focused on my work for much longer. It may be something about the atmosphere, less distractions, or the fact that everyone else in there is doing work also. I never use to go to the library to study but I have come to realize that it is good to get out of your room to study. Cause your room and apartment is where I have fun, so the library is a place where I can go to study and focus on school work.
So far in this class, I have figured out that to understand what’s going on, I have to. . . write everything down! If I do not write something in my agenda I will not remember to do it. It helps me to organize my life, if I write a to do list.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Research Promt #2
My work for this class paid off because I did not have to work on my project as much this week. I had gotten enough done last week that all it only took me approximately 20 minutes to complete it. This week I will go to the library again to complete my work because I feel like I got more work done there. I have a certain level of concentration there that helps me to focus because there are less distractions. One thing I will change is I will try to complete my work in one sitting because once I stop working on my project I loose focus, and to get back into it is hard for me.
Because this weeks project was the same as last weeks project I basically got the same out of last weeks project. This class is all about learning new forms of technology or perfecting skills we already know on the computer. In class we learn about the software that we are going to be using and are taught something from it that we probably did not know before. Then I take what was taught in class and apply it to the project for the week.
Because this weeks project was the same as last weeks project I basically got the same out of last weeks project. This class is all about learning new forms of technology or perfecting skills we already know on the computer. In class we learn about the software that we are going to be using and are taught something from it that we probably did not know before. Then I take what was taught in class and apply it to the project for the week.
Research Promt #1
Introduction to Educational Technology is a required course for my major. I am an elementary education major and therefore have to take this course.
The assignment I worked on this week was a non linear power point. I had to create a power point, or game, in order to instruct the students or reinforce a lesson. The thing that made this power point different is it could not simply go from one slide to the next. There has to be active buttons that lead you to a slide that is not necessarily the next slide when it was created. I began a power point for early elementary students where they had to follow the clues for the treasure hunt in order get to the treasure. It is not required to finish the power point in class, and on this project wee had two weeks to complete it. So I began the power point in class in order to get the hang of how to create these active buttons. Through out the week I went to the library in order to finish the power point because my computer had a virus.
The most important thing that I learned this week was how to create interesting power points, games, that can help the children to learn. I learned how to create a non linear power point and now will be able to make them for my students.
The assignment I worked on this week was a non linear power point. I had to create a power point, or game, in order to instruct the students or reinforce a lesson. The thing that made this power point different is it could not simply go from one slide to the next. There has to be active buttons that lead you to a slide that is not necessarily the next slide when it was created. I began a power point for early elementary students where they had to follow the clues for the treasure hunt in order get to the treasure. It is not required to finish the power point in class, and on this project wee had two weeks to complete it. So I began the power point in class in order to get the hang of how to create these active buttons. Through out the week I went to the library in order to finish the power point because my computer had a virus.
The most important thing that I learned this week was how to create interesting power points, games, that can help the children to learn. I learned how to create a non linear power point and now will be able to make them for my students.
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