It's about our university's budget cut for the 2009 - 2010 academic year
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Post # 10
The blog that I found most interesting was Zac's group's idea for creating a digital study room for high schoolers that will be equipped with a lot of up to date technology. I believe this would be a huge benefit for me back in high school. A lot of students don't have the most up to date computers and have trouble printing a lot of the time too. This would give students who are dedicated to school a way to make life a lot easier. Can' t wait to see your presentation!!
The next technology-related skill I would like to learn how to build a website with highly specialized accesories. I want to make a website that I can go to and have links and whatever else I need to get all my schoolwork done, be able to read news on things in life I find interesting, and be able to talk to my friends online. It would be a way for me to just go n the web and not have to search for anything.
Ways in which I will be able to acheive my future educational technology goals is by taking more technology classes. I never really knew a lot about computers until I took this class and I have actually started to enjoy the knowledge that I have gained. i want to take a web-design class next semester in order to try and create the website that I talked about. All in all I have to say this class was crucial tot the development of my education of technology. i had a great experience and really appreciate all the hard work our professor put in this semester.
The next technology-related skill I would like to learn how to build a website with highly specialized accesories. I want to make a website that I can go to and have links and whatever else I need to get all my schoolwork done, be able to read news on things in life I find interesting, and be able to talk to my friends online. It would be a way for me to just go n the web and not have to search for anything.
Ways in which I will be able to acheive my future educational technology goals is by taking more technology classes. I never really knew a lot about computers until I took this class and I have actually started to enjoy the knowledge that I have gained. i want to take a web-design class next semester in order to try and create the website that I talked about. All in all I have to say this class was crucial tot the development of my education of technology. i had a great experience and really appreciate all the hard work our professor put in this semester.
Post # 9
By far i have to say the most interesting tool on the interne has got to be google. Google has the power to bring you to a webssite that is crucial and exact to whatever you are trying to study. However, google is only the path by which you can take to get to interesting tool on the internet. It does indeed make research and everything else internet-based really simple though. An intersting tool I would say would have to be this one website that actually lets ytou disect a frog virtually and it is very realistic.
http://www.froguts.com/flash_content/index.html
This website can be of very good use for high school science teachers. It can give the teacher a chance to let the students disect the frog online before they disect an actual frog so that when they do they are more perfect. This website is just one of the many great sites that science has evolved to gives. ScienceDaily.com is another gereat website that has the most up to date scientific research available for anyone to view.
I will definitely use excel to act as my gradebook. Microsoft office has evolved to meat educational instructors every need. Powerpoint takes care of notes and presentations and excel can act as a gradebook or as a method for students to analyze data without having to do a lot of work. however, I feel this program should not be introduced to students until they reach college or a university, allowing them ample time to gain as much as a hands on education as possible before they enter college and have to use excel to save them time which can help organize their life more.
For my final course project my partner Brittany and I will be doing a project on a photography class for middle school. The class will be issued cameras and all the computers will be updated with a great photoshop program, all for just under twenty thousand dollars. we will use microsoft word to explain the ins and outs of our project, powerpoint ot present the project to the class, and excel to analyzed the budget for the project.
http://www.froguts.com/flash_content/index.html
This website can be of very good use for high school science teachers. It can give the teacher a chance to let the students disect the frog online before they disect an actual frog so that when they do they are more perfect. This website is just one of the many great sites that science has evolved to gives. ScienceDaily.com is another gereat website that has the most up to date scientific research available for anyone to view.
I will definitely use excel to act as my gradebook. Microsoft office has evolved to meat educational instructors every need. Powerpoint takes care of notes and presentations and excel can act as a gradebook or as a method for students to analyze data without having to do a lot of work. however, I feel this program should not be introduced to students until they reach college or a university, allowing them ample time to gain as much as a hands on education as possible before they enter college and have to use excel to save them time which can help organize their life more.
For my final course project my partner Brittany and I will be doing a project on a photography class for middle school. The class will be issued cameras and all the computers will be updated with a great photoshop program, all for just under twenty thousand dollars. we will use microsoft word to explain the ins and outs of our project, powerpoint ot present the project to the class, and excel to analyzed the budget for the project.
Post # 8
My powerpoint 2 assignment was pretty interesting. I used a lot of topics that pertained to my interests such as cars, sports, and animals. I made the slides using different formats for questions than answers. This makes it more visually stimulating for the students to decifer between questions and answers. I also used action accessories to relay from one slide to the next which makes the powerpoint more interesting.
I would use a lot of posters in my classroom as non-computer visual aids. I believe creating a positive learning environment makes for the best experience for students, and posters are the best way to accomplish this. I want to teach chemistry, I believe an essential proponent to every chemistry and siceince class is a big visual periodic table of elements.
A few skills that i acquired in the past week are having the ability now to use powerpoint as a crucial way of conveying information to my students. This will save me count-less hours of scribbling on a chalkboard. Using my more advanced knoweldge of powerpoint that I have gained in the past week will make me able to make the powerpoints a lot more intersting than I could ever have done before.
I would use a lot of posters in my classroom as non-computer visual aids. I believe creating a positive learning environment makes for the best experience for students, and posters are the best way to accomplish this. I want to teach chemistry, I believe an essential proponent to every chemistry and siceince class is a big visual periodic table of elements.
A few skills that i acquired in the past week are having the ability now to use powerpoint as a crucial way of conveying information to my students. This will save me count-less hours of scribbling on a chalkboard. Using my more advanced knoweldge of powerpoint that I have gained in the past week will make me able to make the powerpoints a lot more intersting than I could ever have done before.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Post #7
The biggest advantage in using presentation softare is having the ability to just be able to present the information and not having to write it all out every single time you want to present it. You can make one powerpoint prsentation and use it on a hundred classes if you wanted to. The biggest disadvantage to such technology is the fact that you can't really manipulate the material that is being resented, it is already made up and you would have to stop the presentation to fix something which would take a lot of time.
I could use powerpoint to suport student learning in each knowledge dimension by engaging their visual senses by making a powerpoint presentation that is aesthetically pleasing. This beats using the old chalkboard. I could engage their auditory sense buy activating sound on certain slides. Powerpoints help make student learning more interesting and engage the whole class a lot easier than ordinary chalkboard methods.
An issue related to educational technology is how will we be able to treat each student fairly? We physically can't give everyone the same opportunities when it comes to technology. Schools with more money are going to gain better acess to technology than poorer schools. It might just leave the poor schools even further behind than they already are, nowadays we are trying harder than ever to treat everyone fairly, but technology might make bridging that gap a lot harder.
I could use powerpoint to suport student learning in each knowledge dimension by engaging their visual senses by making a powerpoint presentation that is aesthetically pleasing. This beats using the old chalkboard. I could engage their auditory sense buy activating sound on certain slides. Powerpoints help make student learning more interesting and engage the whole class a lot easier than ordinary chalkboard methods.
An issue related to educational technology is how will we be able to treat each student fairly? We physically can't give everyone the same opportunities when it comes to technology. Schools with more money are going to gain better acess to technology than poorer schools. It might just leave the poor schools even further behind than they already are, nowadays we are trying harder than ever to treat everyone fairly, but technology might make bridging that gap a lot harder.
Post # 6
My thoughts on using Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom vary by age level. For one thing I don't believe in using such technology in any grade below grade 9. i believe this time is for students to learn basic concepts of education and enhance their reading skills. Once students reach high school they should be able to employ this technology to their advantage in gaining a higher education.
My thoughts on using wikipedia as a learning resource are a little bit skewed. I believe wikipedia is a great source to use in a scientific setting since it makes it easy for students to gain quick access to formulas and thorys on short hand notice. However, I sdon't believe wikipedia is a good tool for subjects such as english or humanities classes. Students don't get the same experience reading actual material versus just looking up a main idea on wikipedia.
The skills I gained in the last week that will be especially useful in my educational career are the skills we learned on using certain websites to our advantage as research databases. Also I learned how to asess the reliability/legitability of websites. I wouldn't want to use a website that is biased or false in anyway what so ever.
My thoughts on using wikipedia as a learning resource are a little bit skewed. I believe wikipedia is a great source to use in a scientific setting since it makes it easy for students to gain quick access to formulas and thorys on short hand notice. However, I sdon't believe wikipedia is a good tool for subjects such as english or humanities classes. Students don't get the same experience reading actual material versus just looking up a main idea on wikipedia.
The skills I gained in the last week that will be especially useful in my educational career are the skills we learned on using certain websites to our advantage as research databases. Also I learned how to asess the reliability/legitability of websites. I wouldn't want to use a website that is biased or false in anyway what so ever.
Post # 5
My views on using the internet to support student research are heavily in favor for using the internet. i believe the internet is the future of education in that it is the most readily available tool to use. However, I do beleive that students should not start using the internet until they are in high school. Early childhood should be spent learning concepts and gaining reading skills. Later in life when students have already gained a vast amount of knowledge, they should employ the use of the internet to their advantage.
A way the internet could be used for student learning is right in front of me. The blog posts that we do for this class are a good way for us to reflect upon what we learn in class so that we understand everything we learn even better than if we didn't use this blogging site.
As far as concerns for me go on supervising students in a technology atmosphere, the only thing i would be worried about is immature students looking up inappropriate websites. That is my only fear for all students of all ages.
A way the internet could be used for student learning is right in front of me. The blog posts that we do for this class are a good way for us to reflect upon what we learn in class so that we understand everything we learn even better than if we didn't use this blogging site.
As far as concerns for me go on supervising students in a technology atmosphere, the only thing i would be worried about is immature students looking up inappropriate websites. That is my only fear for all students of all ages.
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