EDEL 3250-01

So this week we went over podcast and vidcasts. And it was cool for me, because I had NO CLUE what a podcast or a vidcast was before this. I think vidcast and podcast could be really helpful in my future class. You can post vidcast and podcasts on your classroom website so parents and students can just click and hear instructions for a certain assignment, or a list of some important things for a future school day! I think children would expecially like the idea of a podcast or a vidcast because how fun is it to see your teachers face on your computer or to hear her voice at home. Also it would be easy for younger children to follow intructions with a vidcast or podcast for instance maybe a kindergartener cause they might not know how to read yet so its easy for them to follow instructions with a visual or listening. We also are getting to create our own vid and pod casts in class in our groups, its fun using the new technology I have never seen or used. We are having fun and thinking of some creative ideas! And I am also so thankful we learned about googledocs cause it has been EXTREMLY useful during this semester being in the program!

This week in our other classes we went over different types of lesson plans! It is insane how many different ways there is to create a lesson plan from backwards to design to an inquiry lesson plan! I am excited to create my own lesson plans to use for our student teaching coming up sooner than later!

WOW! This weeks video really opened my eyes to blogging! Before I watched that video
I didn't realize how important blogging can be! All those reasons for blogging the video showed are really true! Blogs help kids, have a voice, share, create conversation and so much more! One thing that is really going to stick with me is when the movie said, "To prepare students for their Digital Futures" and that is so true! Everyday that passes more things rely on technology. I really enjoyed this video it stated a really good point! I think blogging is definatly a good thing to have in todays classrooms.

Blog #3 EDEL-01

This week in EDEL 3250 we learned about the presentation option in google. I Really like this option because it is more simple version of powerpoint. One big bonus it has over powerpoint is it saves it onto the site not onto the computer so you can access any of your presentations from any computer not just the one you created and saved it to! I think it will come in handy for me as a student and a teacher. I can create alot of presentations for my classes using it and one day as a teacher I can use it to present important information to my class. Also I think it will be a fun tool for my students to use. They can get the chance to research a topic to learn more about it and then use their knowedge and creativity into making a presentation. Another thing we went over in class was igoogle. I think igoogle will be a useful tool for me to stay organized and keep all my sites organized and simple onto one page. I want to experiement with it more to see all it has to offer when i get the chance!

In our other classes this week we also did a ton! To make it simple and summarize it up, we went over creating lesson plans a lot! We were taught how to make one for each subject and some of the many different ways we can do it. It made me a little nervous and stressed because lesson plans are new to me and I have yet to do one in my life. But we will be doing alot of them so hopefully it becomes easy for me! Expecially since its a HUGE part of being a teacher. Im excited about everything I have been learning its really opened my eyes the last few weeks!

This weeks video was a little different. It was about some different technologies for example blogger, wiki, podcasts and a few more. I thought it was educational because it broke down each one of them and gave a deep answer for what they were, however I didn't love it. I got a little lost in it and confused. I know it has the complete potential to be great but I think it needed dumbed down for me! But, I really did like the music and background like you were going through space :D

Blog #2 EDEL 3250-01

This week was a very interesting week. It was the first real week of the program and I have already learned so much! First of all in Doc Waters class I recieved a refresher on everything from a year ago when i took the first computer class from her, it was fun to see how much important stuff I really learned but forgotten. We went over Google Docs and how it works. Not only will it help me a ton throughout the program but also in the future when I am a teacher. In the program Google Docs will make it so much easier for me and the other girls when we are working in groups. We can all upload our part of the project into Google Docs so we can all give each other ideas and edit one another's work and put it all together. I also think it will come in handy when im a teacher because I can teach my students how to use it and it will work the same for them as it does for me. They can work eaiser in groups and view everyones work from any computer. They can also use the fun drawing techniques to make their work more creative I know they will expecially enjoy that since they are elementary aged children. I also love the idea of having our own google site! It makes it so easy to outline the class criteria not only for me as a teacher but easy for my students to view so there is less confusion on what is expected of them and they will have something to refer back to. I think the parents of my students would also love the idea of me as their child's teacher having a google site for the class. This way they can keep track of what their child is doing in school and how the class room functions.

In my other classes we also have went over a lot of useful stuff! In my psychology class we learned how the brain works and some fun facts that can help us with our students. In our Art methods we learned about all the different learners. A color stood for each kind of learner. It was fun to see what color each one of us was and it will be useful because we need to aply different learning ways into our teaching so every child has a chance to learn the way they learn best. In social studies we learned how to incorporate social studies into other subjects such as language arts because teachers are not always giving enough time for social studies and it is important so we can incorporate social studies into other subjects that way everything is covered. A fun fact i learned this week was that teachers that include art into their lessons, their students always test higher then the students of teachers who do not include art. I had a lot of fun this week in all my classes, im really starting to enjoy learning the ways to be a successful teacher in the future.

This weeks video cracked me up!! I thought it was so funny and fun to watch. It was on fractions and I think it would be a great beggining to a fraction lesson. It was very educational and even taught me a few things! I thought it was upbeat and funny, it really put a twist on learning fractions! I would definatly put this to use in my classroom!

EDEL 3250-01 My Ideal Classroom

When i pull up to my future school every morning, I want to see a nice big building with lots of smiling and happy children and fellow employee's. While im walking down the halls to my classroom i want to see walls plaster with students' art work and accomplishments, so they know and see the value of their work. When i get into my own classroom, I want to see a nice organized colorful, welcoming, and learning friendly room. Where students can feel important, safe and comfortable with their surroundings. I want to see my students interacting with eachother. I want my students to have their own belongings organized in their desk and their own space to work comfortably. I want one corner in my room dedicated to a reading area filled with bean bags, pillows, couches, plants and a large volume of books stacked nicely on the book shelfs. I also would love to have a class pet, I think it would be fun to vote as a class on different class pet possiblites and get the favored one to keep in the class. I want my students to show each indivdual personality, I want them to be themselves and not fill like they have to blend in with the crowd. However, I want them to be respectful of me and their fellow classmates. I want my colleauges to be friendly and fun and good teachers and good to work with. I want to get along well with everyone in my work enviroment and get together as teachers and plan fun group activities and think of ways we can all get together for fun learning activites with all of our students together so wer are not resticted to our class only and everyone can get to know everyone.

I want to teach a young age so I can teach my students the alphabet, how to read, writing, spelling, singing, colors, art and how to interact with one another. I would definatly utilize the computers I would love in my classroom to have kids to interactive activites so they can learn in many different ways not just from me teaching up front. My goals for me and my classroom would be to have a happy friendly teaching enviroment that my students love to come to each day and know they will be accepted for them and love to come each day. I also want to make sure I teach them to the best of my ability so as they go to the next grade I know they will be prepared.

Also while watching this weeks video on the internet, I think that internet users should not have to pay for time online. I think that its foolish, and things should be kept the way they are. I like the idea of the video though, I thought it was informational and interesting. I also think it would be good to use in my ideal classroom, I love when teachers mix in different teaching stratagies it keeps things interesting and fun.

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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.