End of the semester

The semester is coming to a close and I must admit this was a very educational class. When I first enrolled, I thought it was going to be boring because I was like "How much technology can she actually teach us?" Well I was surprised. There is so much technology out that I never even realized it existed. I never knew all the short tricks that you can do through word, excel, and PowerPoint. My most memorable part of class would be creating the video, I never made one before or used any of the programs and within a week we created a short clip. It was pretty exciting. I even went and told all my friends to watch it. :)

Electronic Portfolios

Our last big assignment that we had to do was the electronic portfolio to show all of our work we did over the semester. We could also add any other information that we thought would be useful. I thought the electronic portfolio was a great project especially since they are making us create one for our student teaching project. Having this portfolio will would be able to just give the interested employer the address. Also, it could be easily updated. This is a great way to show everyone what you have completed as a teacher.

Lesson Plan trick

I learned something interesting in class on Monday. It is how tab through a lesson plan you are creating. This is a great technique to make formatting lesson plans so much easier. I would always get frustrated during it before because everything would get out of place but now with the tools it will automatically brings it down to the next line. I can not wait to use this in the future with lesson plans.

Social Bookmarking

This weekend I did a project called Social Bookmarking. It is where I found websites that I thought would be beneficial for my classroom and placed them in the website called delicious (a social bookmarking website). This site will allow everyone to see what websites I thought were good to use in a classroom. Having this project made me really look into websites to see what makes a good website and what makes a bad website. There are so many websites out there that give you lesson plans, worksheets, games and even quizzes. Websites even offer video clips that you can watch as a class. This project definitely made me open my eyes to use the Internet for resources and not to start something from the beginning.