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In computer class this week we did something a little different! We continued using the program powerpoint however, we did a few group activities! We all were supposed to bring our powerpoint books we purchased and we were divided into new groups of five or six. As a group we skimmed through the book and found two activites we thought were cute, fun and ones we would want to do. Next, we started to make a powerpoint of the activity so we could do it as the student would but teach it as the teacher. The first activity my group chose to do was one about smoking. Each letter in smoking stood for a certain fact about smoking or smokers. For instance, S- smoking kills 44o,ooo people each year! We learned some interesting facts about smoking and it was also a lot of fun to do! The next one we chose to do was one about the times we need to wash our hands. Like after using the bathroom, before you each and when your sick. This one was a cute and fun one to do also. Last but not least after filling in the information onto the slides, we decorated them! We added different formats, colors, sounds and transitions to make our slides more exciting and fun to watch! Now next week we get to present them to the class!I thought this week in computer was a lot of fun. I know as a teacher i can really use powerpoint as a good teaching tool!n Its a fun easy program and is very effective. It gives the student a good visual and makes the lesson organized. I can use the many ideas in my powerpoint book for lessons in my classroom. I can also use the powerpoint presentations to teach my class!
I think powerpoint is a funny, easy and effective way to teach!
There are so many different uses for digital cameras! Expeciall if you are going into the teaching field!
One of the many uses for a digital camera is to use pictures for an attendance chart! You can take a picture of each student and put it where they sit on the seating chart., that way you can look and easily see who is in class and if they are in their right seat. This way you can also learn the faces well of the students in your class! It would be a fun creative seating and attendance chart.
You can also use a digital camera on field trips! It would be fun for you and your students to have pictures of the activities and fun times you have while on a field trip. You could create a fun class scrapbook each year from all the fun events you and your class participated in!
Another fun way to use a digital camera is to take pictures of you and your class daily and post them online on your blog or the schools website for parents to look at and see what their child has been doing in class!
There is also many lesson plans that allow you to use a digital camera. For instance when learning the weather you could take pictures outside of the weather and hang them around the classroom. Or when you are learning body parts have the kids take pictures of their different body parts and post them on a bullitin board.
Another fun way to use a digital camera in the classroom is for crafts! Take pictures of the students and make picture frames to frame the pictures for them to give to their parents. Or you could also have them make a collage of all the different pictures they take, or even their own personalized bookmark or thank you cards!
This week in computer we started to learn how to use picaso! We started out by dividing into groups of four or five depending on what grade we were planning on teaching. My group is the second grade group. We then went out side to gather pictures of plants and animals. Once we had taken about ten pictures of horses, trees, grass, birds and so on, we headed inside and put them onto each of our flash drives so we could all have them. We then uploaded them into picaso and started learning how to alter them. It was kinda fun to play with! We made different folders and started to change them but also kept a copy of the original photo. We could make them into sepia, black and white, sharpen the image, spotlight a certain color or area, resize it, flip it and do many other cool effects to it! I really enjoyed playing with picaso, and am excited to learn it better!I know that picaso is a very useful progam and is also fun! I don't know a ton about it yet, but what i do know is that it will come in handy in my future classroom. I can take photo's of my class and activites we do and upload them onto picaso to alter them and make them full of fun effects to decorate my class room to make it fun for the kids. Also if i teach a little older kids we could let them play around with picaso and have their own fun!
This week was a fun week in computer. We learned how to use the powerpoint program. I am somewhat framilar with the powerpoint program already from my middle school and high school days, which made going over it in class more enjoyable for me because i knew the basic's and wasn't confused or stressing over it. It was nice to be able to refresh my memory with the program. In powerpoint there is so many different tools, options and actions you can do. It's actually even fun and intertaining to sit down and play around with because there is so much to explore and figure out! One of my favorite tools to use on powerpoint is the Word Art tool. With word art you can choose a what you want your text or word to look like and there is SO many different options. Then you can make it look 3D, put a shadow behind it, change the size, color, and even make the word into a different shape for example you can make it into a circle, stop sign, star, heart and many more different shapes I thought that was a fun and creative. There is also many more objects and fun things you can add to slides like trasitions, sounds, website links, pictures and clip art! I think Powerpoint will be a very useful program in my future class room. I can make slides of notes that i want my students to write down and show them in class so its easy to understand, write down and read. I can also use powerpoint for lessons and have a different powerpoint presentaion for each lesson i do, that way I will stay organized as a teacher and it will be easier for my students to learn and will give them a visual of what I am talking about in class. Powerpoint also makes things more interesting instead of a teacher just strictly lecturing to her students. I really like powerpoint and think it is definatly a good program to learn and use in a successful classroom.
