Reflection

1) Did this course meet your expectations? Explain?
* This course did meet my expectations! I learned a lot in this class that I can use in my classroom. I knew that Educational Technology was about integrating technology into the classrooms but i was not aware of the different websites that are out there that teachers can use to make their day a little easier!


2) Why do you think this course should be required for all ED majors?
* I think that it should be offered to ED majors but not limited to other students or anyone else. This class needs to be taught to everyone who will come on contact with technology and that's obviously everyone. Some teachers don't even know how to simply create a powerpoint presentation, technology is changing and continues to do so.

3) How will you implement technology into your future classroom?
*I would implement technology into my classroom as much as i can. When doing my ED 471 practicum in a kinder class, they are using a technological equipment called an ELMO. Even in kindergarten, they are starting! Don't wait until its too late to teach it to your students. I would use all the online websites that we learned about in class for everything that i can.

Overall, this class was awesome! If it weren't for this class, I wouldn't be aware of the online websites that are available for anyone and the best thing about them is that they are free.

Working With Weebly

The assignment was to work on a technological portfolio on a website called "WEEBLY". It's an online website that allows you to do somewhat of a resume online. It's really simple and easy to work with. You can upload pictures, add pages so that it separates the subjects like tabs. You can upload links and there are many themes and backgrounds that you can use or make one of your own. Weebly was fun working with and so easy. This website and assignment helped me kill 2 birds with one stone. I had to include my blog for ED 480 and now that I know about this site, I can easily make one for my ED 471. I liked working with this site because it allows me to add on anything like a blog onto it and it is easy to access and at the same time it builds my portfolio. This site, I would definitely use in the future to allow off island jobs accessible to my resume. I don't have to call or fax ar anything just a simple email. I would also use this in my class for my students to start creating thier own portfolios and this is a perfect way of assessment as well.

Eluminate Live

Elluminate live was really fun and interesting to work with. There were a lot of problems thought that I encountered. Like for one, I was 15 minutes delayed with the presentation but not with the chat. It was cool to upload anything to the screen and the students online can click on the links that was shown on the screen and the best part of Elluaminte live is that we don't have to be in class for a guest speaker. Our guests speakers were off island and we were still able to gain new knowledge about technology from experts around the world. On Elluminate Live we are not limited to guests speakers. Another problem would have to be getting set and ready with the login in and preparing the head set and the mic to work. This problem was probably the most that we encountered. Other than that, this was a fun activity!

Slideshare Presentation

For this Presentation it was fun using the slide share online program. The only problem with slide share is that if you upload your presentations from a 2007 software it will not look exactly how it would. Slideshare would have to upload or update their software system.

Slideshare Presentation

Computer Simulations And Gaming

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PictureTrail Activity

Today in class we worked on sites that can help students construct picture activities. There were three sites and the site that we worked on was www.picturetrail.com. We were suppose to learn about this site; what it offers, what it can do, basically, to know about it. Then we had to come up with a story (fable, fairy tale, legends, etc.) and take pictures on campus to tell about our story. For our group, we did a story based on St. Patrick's Day. The title of our story was "Lucky". Then we had to upload the pictures to the site that we worked on and present it to the class. Our site was alright. I would rate it a 5 from a scale of 1-10 only because it had problems when we tried viewing the finished product and when you add captions to the pictures we couldn't edit it.

Creating Puzzles Online

Today in class we worked on creating different types of puzzles that children can use and have fun with and so as teachers. This website was free you do not need to sign up for both sites. We first did a wordsearch puzzle. On this site, all we had to do was type in the Title of our puzzle then start typing in the words (15) separating it with commas. Then hit create my puzzle. It's that easy.



The other site was to have us create a Crossword Puzzle. This was really easy! All we had to do was type in words on the left column a and hints on the right column. Then hit create my puzzle and it comes out looking like the image above. It's amazing. Easy and fast for teachers to create on any theme that they are working on. Puzzles are also fun for kids to do especially when you have them make it on their own. These websites for creating puzzles is a very friendly website that even students can work with. It's really simple and doesn't take a lot of time to do! I'm glad that I was introduced to these sites and only wished that I could have known about them earlier!!!! I had to create my own crossword and wordsearch puzzles from scratch 2 semesters ago. If I had known about these sites, my life would've been less chaotic! LOL! Great Sites!!!