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EDEL:2200-01

The first technology I want to talk about it one i learned in the computer class! It's Microsoft publisher! I have never even worked with this tool life! Until the assignments in this class, I discovered it to be a EXTREMELY useful and fun tool! You can use it for just about anything! When you first enter the program it tells you all the different format options you have. For example, it has one for brochures, newsletters, fliers, greeting cards, labels, postcards, calendars, business cards and important word documents. If you click which one you need then it sets up a format for you that is so easy to follow and lets you create a nice newsletter or whatever project your doing easily and quickly. It also makes it easy to upload pics into your project, and also add things like, clip art, fun fonts, lots of colors and borders!

This tool will be very useful if I teach a little bit higher grade like fourth fifth or sixth. The students could use Microsoft Publisher for many of their assignments to make them nice and neat and also formatted correctly. I think they’d really enjoy this tool.

The next technology I found was one that all elementary age kids can use! Its called career voyage! It's hard for kids to know what they really want to do with their life when there are so many choices. We want them to have information on what jobs are growing, what jobs are paying, and what jobs are just emerging. This website is intended to be a helping hand for the kids to research the jobs they might like and to discover some new favorites. It’s not really like homework it’s more like having some fun! It’s a really fun website! It has a quiz for you to take to see what your interested in, then it gives you a list of jobs that match up with your interests! After that there are many videos on each job that the children can watch to see what each job involves!
This tool is extremely fun and interesting! I think elementary kids would love it! I think it will help them decide what they want to be even though it’s a long ways away in their future!

EDEL 2200-01

This week in computer i continued working on all of my projects that are due this week as our final project! I decided to do most all of it in microsoft publisher because i really like the set up of the program! It was simple to do my brochure because its easy to find all the font choices, text colors, sizes and all the fun things you can add to it to make it look fun! I could also choose the brochure format from the begginning and it set up all my columns and helped me through the proccess! I did my brochure about a field trip my class would be taking. It was fun to create and had a lot of good information about the subject that would make it easy to follow and to give an idea to the parents where there child will be going and what they will be doing. It could also help get my students excited.

I think this will be a really useful tool for when i become a teacher. One of the reasons is that in elementary school the kids go on field trips often, so it'll be fun to create brochures to show them what they will be doing and seeing. Not only will the brochure idea be useful for field trips but many other subjects! I had a lot of fun in this computer class and I learned a lot. I think it will really help me in becoming a successful teacher in the future.

EDEL:2200:01

This week in computer I got together with some of my friends and we got a few of the projects done. We starteed out doing the classroom rules. I did it in powerpoint, I chose a fun background and then found five fun pictures that would go along with the rules i chose for my classroom. I also found a background i liked and put it around the rules so it went alot with the requirements for the project. Next, we decided to do the flier. I did it about a fundraiser my classroom was going to do. I told all the information about it and then decorated it with cute colors and pictures. After we did those two assignments we started on our google sights assignment. We found out how to insert the calendar and then then filled out two events for nine weeks on the calendar. These tools will be very useful in my classroom someday. For the classroom rules i can make a decorative list of them in the powerpoint program to print off to hang on my wall. Then for the flier i can also use powerpoint to make a flier to advertise an event that the public needs to see. These tools will be very useful. Google sights will also help me out alot! It will help me be organized by using the calendar. Its easy to use and very accessable. I really enjoyed doing these assignments, because i learned alot!