Making Moves: extra credit

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1. One of the topics that I found interesting was the different feelings people had about technology being used in the classroom. People were definitely back and forth on that subject. Another that I thought was interesting was how people felt about Wikipedia being used as a learning source. Most of my classmates had the same thought - it's ok for knowledge you are interested in but not to base a paper off.
2. The technology skill that I would like to learn next is Microsoft info path. You can make an expense report or meeting reports and I'm pretty sure that can be used for anything. I could use expense report to say all the bills I have and all the money i'm making and all the leftover money I'll have. I could use the meeting reports possibly to keep track of the meetings I have with parents or the principals and what not.
3. I do not really have any educational related goals. I am not technologically savvy and I will be teaching first or k so I don't really need to worry about the computer. I guess if I had to choose an educational related goal it would be to make an A in this class...But I'm pretty sure i'll end up with a B+ if i'm lucky

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1. My experience using twitter this semester can be best described as short. We only really made accounts and were told to follow certain people and make a post ourselves. Thank goodness that was the only thing really required of twitter.
2. No I do not plan on using twitter in any other context. A few of my friends use it and the way they explained to use it sounded funny because they talked about a famous quote or something that you add to you posts but I wouldn't know how to use it. So I think my twitter experience is complete.
3. I do not think that twitter would be a good educational tool. In fact I think it would be more of a distraction than anything, especially if the students had to follow in class. The only thing I would describe twitter as useful for is to put a few sentences describing your day and following the celebs you like to see what they are saying.

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1. My favorite site was diigo. I think that it is cool that you can sticky note things on websites and highlight important information too! It seems like a website that would really help keep me organized and on track. My favorite part about it was that you can collaborate with colleagues or other students on projects as well. http://www.diigo.com/
2. I have mixed feelings about web 2.0 being useful in k-12 classrooms. I think in elementary school, especially in the younger grades that computers and most importantly the web are inappropriate. It would be too difficult to teach younger kids how to use the computer. Older grades especially in high school though I think it is important to know how to use computers and their tools. It is also important to know how to surf the web to find information for essays and such. (As long as it is cited.)

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1.An interesting website that I found was A to Z teacher stuff. It seems well organized and it has a lot of beneficial things that could give you great ideas or ideas and lesson plans and printables that you can save time on! They also have worksheet generators and different themed pages to choose from! This will help me out a lot more than I think for high school classes because it's fun, simple and interesting.
2. I think excel will not be much of a help for me. I want to teach kindergarten or first grade so I wouldn't need math equations and things of that sort. I could use it for attendance purposes or things of that nature but excel doesn't seem like a program ill be using much. Although, inspiration and powerpoint will be pretty helpful in my classroom! http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/

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