Tuesday, April 21, 2009
My EDM 310 Blog Assignments are Now complete
Well class it was a fun semester! I hope you have all enjoyed reading my blogs and getting a little inside on what I think. I hope that we can all keep in touch and help each other grow as future teachers! I wish you all the best of luck!
The things I have learned in this class
This class was nothing like I expected it to be. We learned many interesting things that I think will be useful to me as a teacher and have already been useful to me as a individual. The first thing that we learned about in this class that I have already been able to use is the presentation part of google documents. Unlike powerpoint you can open it from anywhere! There are many times if you use power point and you go to open it somewhere else the versions are different and it does not work. THis is something you do not have to worry about with presentation. Another thing that we did in this class that I felt like I could benefit from a lot is the spreadsheet. I have already bought a house but I used this spreadsheet to go in and just look at our monthly bills and to also see how much I would have to pay and when I would ahve to pay it in order to pay off my house by a certain time. Picasa was a great tool that I have not yet used at home but I am use that I will! I love taking pictures! I have beautiful children to take lots of wonderful pictures of and I am sure this program will come in handy! OH and lets dont forget google earth! That program is just amazing! WHen I looked at my moms house I could see every little detail! I could read her tag on her car that was sitting in the drive way! How cool is that? I could see me really using this program in the classroom to allow the students to have a virtual tour of something and we would never have to leave the classroom and we would save a lot of money! That is always good! I think that is the best thing about all the things we learned about in the classroom, all these cool things and none of them cost you any money at all. I think as a future teacher I will start to appreciate free things a lot more and each day I will always be thinking of ways to better teacher my students while keeping it cheap and I think that all the things that we have learned about in this class will help me to do so!! HAD FUN!!
Monday, April 20, 2009
Twitter was something completely new for me this semester! Actually it was something that I had never done until the day you told us to in class. I have not really read much about it. I have talked to a lot of people about it since then. I am more of a person who has to just experiment with it myself rather than go read about it. I usually do not get what they are talking about if I just read about it. I learned about twitter and I am still learning just by messing around with it and discovering all the things that I can do with it. I do this every week. I wont say that I do it every day becuase I would not be telling the truth. I am a very busy person and it is very hard for me to do it everyday but I do do it at least a couple times a week.
Every time I get on twitter I like to read everything that everyone is saying. I am like that with facebook and myspace as well. I do not see myself twittering everyday jsut because I enjoy just reading what others are talking about more than I do actually getting involved it it. I have though twetted a lot and I have directly sent people messages and got involved in the different tweets. Twitter is a cool thing but I do not see myself really sitting down and doing this a lot. Maybe like a weekly thing but not every hour of everyday.
Every time I get on twitter I like to read everything that everyone is saying. I am like that with facebook and myspace as well. I do not see myself twittering everyday jsut because I enjoy just reading what others are talking about more than I do actually getting involved it it. I have though twetted a lot and I have directly sent people messages and got involved in the different tweets. Twitter is a cool thing but I do not see myself really sitting down and doing this a lot. Maybe like a weekly thing but not every hour of everyday.
Suggestions on our Podcast
There were four podcast that I listen to that our class produced. The first one was the podcast that I was in that was about good websites for teachers. The second was about the pros and cons to using wikipedia. The third one I listen to was Itunes and google earth. And the last one was about Technology in the classroom and they were interviewing Dr. Feldman.
All four of theses were very good podcast. I hate saying that there was anything wrong with them at all because I know that we all worked very hard on them. If we were to do them again I guess we could all find somethings that we could or needed to change. I never want to have to do this again because I do not like recording myself and then hearing me speak. We had to do ours twice which was not fun at all and I still hope that we get a few bonus points for that, it was not our fault it sounded like there was a train in the background.
The first thing that I think we could have all, well not all but most of us, could have worked on was the volume of our voices. SOme of us you could hear very well and then others you could barely hear at all. Another thing was that some of us talked like we hated what we were doing and did not care a thing about what we were talking about. I think that those people need to show a little bit of expression in your voices. At least act like you care. The people who interviewed someone I think they need to add in a little bit more details about the person that they are interviewing and let us know more about them. Also you guys let him do a lot of talking. I think next time maybe you should try and ask him more questions about his answers to your questions, if that makes sense. Another thing I noticed is sometimes people would say something but they would not sound very confident about what they were saying. It was almost like you were scared to say what you were about to say. If you are going to say it just pretend like you know what you are talking about even if you dont!
Overall though we all did a great job in my opinion! I think we all worked very hard on these and the outcome showed it! THe best part is that our podcast are over!!!
All four of theses were very good podcast. I hate saying that there was anything wrong with them at all because I know that we all worked very hard on them. If we were to do them again I guess we could all find somethings that we could or needed to change. I never want to have to do this again because I do not like recording myself and then hearing me speak. We had to do ours twice which was not fun at all and I still hope that we get a few bonus points for that, it was not our fault it sounded like there was a train in the background.
The first thing that I think we could have all, well not all but most of us, could have worked on was the volume of our voices. SOme of us you could hear very well and then others you could barely hear at all. Another thing was that some of us talked like we hated what we were doing and did not care a thing about what we were talking about. I think that those people need to show a little bit of expression in your voices. At least act like you care. The people who interviewed someone I think they need to add in a little bit more details about the person that they are interviewing and let us know more about them. Also you guys let him do a lot of talking. I think next time maybe you should try and ask him more questions about his answers to your questions, if that makes sense. Another thing I noticed is sometimes people would say something but they would not sound very confident about what they were saying. It was almost like you were scared to say what you were about to say. If you are going to say it just pretend like you know what you are talking about even if you dont!
Overall though we all did a great job in my opinion! I think we all worked very hard on these and the outcome showed it! THe best part is that our podcast are over!!!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
+/- of blogging (read Heathers)
After using blogger for a few months now I have seen that you are able to get ideas from others from everywhere! There are people every where that have blogs and you can access at any time! With doing this it is easy to learn about different things that are going on in people's life and how they think or feel about the subject. When I become a teacher and even right now while I am studying to become a teacher this will be a great opportunity for me to learn even more then what I would usually learn in a normal classroom. This gives me a chance to open my education to an endless world of opinions and different things for me to learn.
After reading over Heather Klein's blogs for the entire semester I realize that there are many things that we feel the same about. This could be an advantage because we might be able to help each other see even more clearly about something that we both feel strong about. Also as we continue through our classes here at south there will probably be some times that we need each other to encourage us and get advice about what the other person thinks. I think this is a great opportunity to do this.
Although there are many great things about blogging I also feel there could be a down side to blogging as well. I think that there may be some people out there who may use someone else's blog for purpose that may be very important but maybe the blog that he or she is following does not have very accurate information on it. I see this a being a real problem. There are many times that people will purposely do and say things to lead people in the wrong directions. So I think that people need to be very careful when using peoples blogs to get information. Instead it needs to be used just to see what people think about things not necessary to gather information.
Another thing that I could see being a down side to blogger is that many times there is a lot of personal information on it. On Heathers, and everyone elses in our class, we have things about ourselves. There are some crazy people in the world who may take this information and use it in a way that it was not meant for it to be used. THis is true for any kind of new programs on the internet where people are telling people about themselves. Blogs are fun but at the same time I believe that people need to be a little bit careful about what kind of information they are including in their blogs.
When using blogs in the classroom I think that it could be good thing. Heather and I both seem to agree that this is a great way to share with people what is going on in the classroom. This could also be a great resource for students in the classroom to have an opportunity to learn more about a subject that he or she is learning about in the classroom. This is so because the teacher could use the class blog to give students places to find more information about the subjects being covered in class.
After reading over Heather Klein's blogs for the entire semester I realize that there are many things that we feel the same about. This could be an advantage because we might be able to help each other see even more clearly about something that we both feel strong about. Also as we continue through our classes here at south there will probably be some times that we need each other to encourage us and get advice about what the other person thinks. I think this is a great opportunity to do this.
Although there are many great things about blogging I also feel there could be a down side to blogging as well. I think that there may be some people out there who may use someone else's blog for purpose that may be very important but maybe the blog that he or she is following does not have very accurate information on it. I see this a being a real problem. There are many times that people will purposely do and say things to lead people in the wrong directions. So I think that people need to be very careful when using peoples blogs to get information. Instead it needs to be used just to see what people think about things not necessary to gather information.
Another thing that I could see being a down side to blogger is that many times there is a lot of personal information on it. On Heathers, and everyone elses in our class, we have things about ourselves. There are some crazy people in the world who may take this information and use it in a way that it was not meant for it to be used. THis is true for any kind of new programs on the internet where people are telling people about themselves. Blogs are fun but at the same time I believe that people need to be a little bit careful about what kind of information they are including in their blogs.
When using blogs in the classroom I think that it could be good thing. Heather and I both seem to agree that this is a great way to share with people what is going on in the classroom. This could also be a great resource for students in the classroom to have an opportunity to learn more about a subject that he or she is learning about in the classroom. This is so because the teacher could use the class blog to give students places to find more information about the subjects being covered in class.
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