post 10

While reviewing my classmates' blogs, I found many things very interesting.  First, I saw how we have all learn so much since our first post on the first day of class.  In almost every post, one my classmates said they learned a new tool.  Also, I thought my classmates' post 9 was the most interesting to read because everyone had different web-based tools that would be helpful to teachers.  I am going to consider them all when I start teaching.

I think we have covered all the basic technology skills in class.  Each of these has been extremely helpful.   Next, I would like to learn about Word Notebook.  I've never used it, so I'm wondering if there are any special things about the program.  Maybe next semester the students in this class can learn about it.

I think I will achieve my future educational technology goals by using all types of technology in my classroom.  As I've stated before, I think technology is the future of our education system.  I think by the time I'm a teacher, each student will have their own computer and most of their work will be on it.  I will have a classroom website, online homework, and worksheets on the computer to do.

Post 9

A web-based resource that I might use as a teacher is Youtube.  Some of my college professors, and teachers in the past, show us short clips that help us learn the material.  These short clips are usually funny and entertaining and they get their point across.  This is a fun way to teach because short videos keep children interested.  The link to this website is: www.youtube.com

Some of the web-based resources my classmates thought would be useful are facebook and Google images.  These are both resources I might use as well.  I think there are many web-based tools that teachers can use to keep children learning in interesting ways.

Excel is a great program to use as a teacher, especially a math teacher.  It is very useful when using mean, median, mode, and scales of measurement.  It’s also helpful when making charts and graphs.  Its very easy to input numbers into Excel and the program creates a graph for you.  For example, third graders can calculate mean, median, and mode by themselves and then with a click of a button they can calculate standard deviation.

For my final project, we will be writing to get new telescopes for the astronomy classes at our school.  We will need computers and other technology equipments. We will create a budget.

Post 8

I think my Powerpoint 2 assignment was very good.  I enjoyed learning how to make a game on a powerpoint; I had always been interested as to how people had made them.  My screen designs were interesting and so were my questions.  The navigation is easy and my spelling was correct.  Overall, I think I followed all the guidelines almost perfectly.

There are many ways to teach with computer-based technologies.  In the past, my teachers have used projectors and DVD players to teach.  I think I will use scanners, copiers, and cameras to teach when I become a teacher.  The pictures taken by cameras could be inserted into projects done by the students. 

In the last week, I learned to create a standalone hypermedia program.  I will use this as a teacher to create games to teach the students in a fun way.  I learned how to make navigation buttons so I can jump around to different slides.  Powerpoint is a very useful tool and I know I will use it several times in the my teaching career.