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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!

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This week in computer was a lot different from the other weeks! Doc Waters gave us a list of all the different things we needed to do for rest of the semester! I really like this idea because its allowing us to work on everything in our own time and at our own pace. I think i will enjoy it a lot more because i wont be stressed about due dates and gettting it done quick i can enjoy doing it and do my best on all of it since i have till the end of the semester!

The thing i started working on was the class rules. We were to make a list of all our class rules as if we were a teacher already. I thought of about ten. A few of them included, treat others how you would want to be treated, give respect and you will gain respect, no swearing, have fun learning, and there were a few more included on my list. I had fun designing and decorating my list. I made it cute and fun to look at so it would add to my classroom decor. I am looking forward to getting the rest of the assignments done and learning how to better from each tool that we will be using over the next few weeks!

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This week in computer was a little different than our normal weeks of class. Doc Waters left us to play with kidspiration and learn how it works and figure out all the things you can do with it! While i did this, I realized that it is a very fun, useful and easy to use tool! I has everything! It has many different sections that include: Picture view, writing view and math view. Each of these bring up a new window that you can type in. You can create word webs, type a paper, insert pictures and a bunch more! Then there is a math, writing, science and social studies button that will help your kids learn each concept and more about that subject!

I think kidspiration is a very useful program for teachers! When I am a teacher I could let my kids play on it everyday for about thirty minutes and im sure they would learn alot! I could also have them do assignments on it and do activitys as a class on kidspiration! Its a fun interactive tool! I also think kids would like it because its a computer activity and kids seem to love to work on the computers! It has so much and would make learning fun and easy! I really liked this tool and hopfully I will get to work with it more later on!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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.