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UEN Reflection
I think UEN will be a very useful site for when I am a teacher. Not only will it be useful for me, but also for my students. When I am a teacher I can use UEN to post my core curriculum and what I expect from my students. I can post assignments, tests, quizzes and announcements on UEN for my students to see and have easy access to. Students can also keep track of where they are in the class and see what they are missing easily, so they can do the best possible in my class. I can also post information for parents and the public to read and see what is going on in my class if they are interested.
UEN has many convenient tools you can use to make things easier and more accessible. It has cool tools like my bookmarks, the weather, a calendar, a dictionary and a ton more! I am not completely familiar with everything on UEN. But when I get more familiar I know it will be a very useful tool! One thing I learned how to do this week with the UEN website, was pioneer library. On pioneer library my students and I can find a ton of stuff and information we can use for writing papers and completing assignments. It is a good school website that can be very useful and has a ton to offer.
Another task I can use UEN for is to create my lesson plans. I can create them on UEN and that way they will be easy to access and it will keep me organized as a teacher. It will make things flow a lot easier to have everything I need on UEN. Last but not least I can use the interactives. They will help make things more interesting and keep students involved and help them pay more attention. They also will make things more clear.
All in all I think the UEN website is a great tool and will help me as a student, a teacher and my future students. It has a ton to offer and I am excited to get more familiar with it.
This week in computer we learned a lot! We started the week off by creating our own website. We went to a place by the name of sites.google.com which allowed us to choose our own URL which will take you straight to your web page on the internet. I chose mine to be sites.google.com/site/laikynshumway. But anyway after we did that and filled out some simple information, we got to create our own web page. I started out choosing a background which i liked the best, then the design how i wanted it layed out on the page. I just stuck to the regular layout. But from there we listed our top 10 dreams! It was fun to do because i really have not thought of my dreams in a long time and im at the age i should probably start working hard towards them! After i listed my top ten dreams, i listed some bullets of simple things like my hobbies, where i am from, my family, and what sports i play. When I got home i also downloaded some pictures of me and uploaded them onto my web page. I really enjoyed this part! I think having and knowing how to create your own web page will help me out a ton when i am a teacher! There is so many different ways i could use it. One way i think would be a fun way to use it would be to make sort of an online scrapbook of my class that the parents and family members of the students could look at to see what goes on in class. I could take pictures of my class and write about the activites we did that day. I also could use it to tell about myself to give parents of my students a little more information about their child's teacher. That might give them a more safe and secure feeling about sending their child to me each day. I really thought it was cool to make my own web page, and im sure i will use this tool more than once!Another thing we did in class this week was create a uen accout. We filled out some information about us and then created a username and password. This was basically to keep us in the school's network and it will send emails to our UVU email account. We played around with this for quite awhile. We learned how to alter it to our liking. For example we can change the color and how the columns are set up. We also can choose what we have on our main page. Whether we want the weather, documents, polls or even stock markets! I thought that was kinda cool. We also learned how to work the pioneer library and how to find information we will need throughout our college experience.I know i will use my uen account because it has a ton of helpful tools. When i am a teacher i can show my students this and work with other teachers through this tool. I think it will be a very helpful thing to know once i fully understand it and know how to work it good! I learned a ton in class this week and also had some fun!
This week in Edel 2200, we worked with a few different programs. First of all on tuesday we started working with Microsoft Word. We began going over the very basics and then moved on to a little more detailed tools. First off we learned how to create a new document. We then typed two or three sentences and learned how to format them by changing the font, color and size. We also learned about a button in the top left corner which allowed you to high light your text then it automatically formatted it to the rest of the document. I thought this was cool, because i have used word a lot in my life and have never known about this little shortcut. We then moved on the word art, which is a fun little detail that word has. It lets you create fun looking unique titles, phrases and words. With word art, you can make the word have shadows, form a circle or any other shape, make it go vertical or slanted, have any color, shade and even texture! It was really fun to play around with word art. We also learned how to costomize your own microsoft word on your own computer. For instance, if you want to have your text verdana always and size 14 then you can go in and make it so everytime you access word and type it types in verdana and 14 point font with out you having to go in and change it. We then had a fun assignment to create our own dream computer and we filled out info on what we would want our dream computer to be then we copy and pasted pictures from the internet onto the document. I know that word will help me a TON when i become a teacher. Word is where i will want to type up all my lesson plans, Students worksheets, notes to send home with the children and letters. It is a very usful program. I really like working in word, because it is simple to work in once you have learned how to do it. It also has SO many different tools and I want to learn more details about the program one day because it has a lot to offer. Another program we used this week in computer was excel. I have worked some in excel but only know a few of the basics. We made a chart of the top five countries gold medals in an event we chose. And also created a pie chart to give us a visual look at it.I think excel will come in handy when I am a teacher, because it would be a good place to create schedules, charts and graphs for my future classroom.
So this week in computer class we all were encouraged to get a blog, facebook, gmail and engrade account. While doing this, I realized it was the most enjoyable homework assignment I have had in a long time. It was simple to create the accounts, but its taking some exploring to figure out some of the many things you can do on facebook. However, i have already found many of my friends profiles and have had a lot of fun checking them out and catching up on what I have missed back in my hometown. I have also come to find out that many people i know from Blanding also blog! I read some of my old friends and even family member blog pages and it was way interesting. I think facebook, gmail and blogging will help me out not only when i become a teacher, but also as a student. It's because they are very easy, fun and accessable ways of communicating. I thought it was way cool to find out my computer teacher wants me to contact her through facebook and gmail. They also help you get used to computers and how they work. Before this class i was only a myspacer, but i'm beginning to also like facebook! I enjoyed this week of computer class!
