Week 5 Blog

Standards:
S3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
S2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
S1 Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

This week we learned how to create a Picasa video. This is a collection of pictures you acquire on a given topic that you can make into a movie using text as well as music. I think that it can be a great tool to teach my students how to use, they could use this for presentations or just as an activity to supplement a lesson.  We also learned how to use an online photo editor which can be a fun way to mix up any picture you find the way you like to. This could also be used in the classroom to allow your students to be creative and open up their minds a little more, which can be a great tool to conduce learning!

Week four refelection

Standards:
 S3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
S1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
S4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

This week we learned how to make a web quest. A web quest is an online based lesson/activity that gets the students to learn information on the given topic from websites that you provide for them. I thought that this was a great thing to learn. It is something that I can defiantly use in my classroom in the future. It is a great way to not only get your students actively learning in your class but also a great way to involve technology. It is also a good way to share lessons you find effective with other teachers around the world. Overall I thought that this was a great exercise and is something I can for sure use throughout my career.

Week three reflection

This week was very interesting, I felt like I was constantly learning something new. One thing in particular that I found to be interesting and something that I could possibly use in my classroom in the future is the Google survey. This is where you use Google Documents to create a survey that allows you to poll your audience. It is especially helpful because once you have polled your target audience it even puts your data into nice neat graphs for you! They make it very simple for you to create any kind of poll. I think that as a teacher this would be a fun thing to do as like some sort of in class quiz where you could have your students do the poll, then at the end the teacher can see the answers in a nice neat graph to see if the students are grasping the lessons. This is something that I will defiantly use in the future!

Standards:

S3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning

S1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

S2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

Week Two Blog Entry

Standards:
S3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
S1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
S4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

This week one of the things that we learned how to do was create and manage a wiki site. This tool could be used very similarly to my googlesite, meaning it could be a good tool to allow my students to get information I want them to have, as well as post ideas that they may have. Another way that wikis could be a good use in the classroom is to share ideas with teachers from all over the country, or maybe even world. As a teacher you never stop learning and a great way to learn new things is to look at what your peers are doing in their classrooms.
 This week we also learned how to create a blog (your reading it). It is somewhat amazing to me that I have not learned this in the past with all of today's technologies. It seems like you always hear about people blogging this and that but until now I have never had one! So this in itself was very interesting for me!

Week One Reflections

In the first week of class we did quite a few things that I had not known how to do before. Such as we created our own Google site with our own template as well as putting in other hyperlinks to various other things that we have created like this blog its self. This was very interesting, i had never done anything like this before so it was a great learning experience. We also learned how to create a PDF file out of the word documents that we were working on. which, like creating a web site, was something that i had never done before. I think that both of these things can be great to use in my future classroom. for example I could possibly make a web site for my classes and put their assignments and grades on them. Also I think knowing how to make a PDF file can be very valuable because it makes your documents look much more professional which is great for any profession. Some of the ISTE standards that we met by doing these assignments were:
                    S1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity S2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments S3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning S4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility S5 Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership