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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1. I think I did ok on my power point assignment. I did not make the materials as fresh as I could have but it was still very educational and the pictures were really pretty that I added in it. I did not know how to add the side bar with notes and even if I did I would have said I am saying exactly what is on the slide. I think my idea was original with the flowers and also pretty to see!!! Another thing that I was happy about was I finally figured out how to have more than one theme.
2. A few of my teachers have played jeopardy with power point. That is a really fun activity and it helps you learn too! I woulnd't know how to make it but if I ever did I would do fun activities like that with my students. Another thing that I think would be neat would be to have name that animal or say the letter since I would be working with first graders.
3. The skills I acquired the past week have been really helpful. It helped me understand power point a little more so I can hopefully integrate that into my classroom to make learning fun and colorful!!!!!!!!

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1. I feel the biggest advantage of using presentation software in k-12 is that the materials would be presented in a more organized and easier to follow way. Also, I'm sure the students would be able to access the notes from home. But k-12 is a huge gap and I don't think it would be much more beneficial than standard teaching in the lower grade levels. I do not see any disadvantages that would come from using presentation software for k-12.
2. Powerpoint would be a good tool to use for math lessons. Powerpoint has good tools to use for different dimensions like that. You would be able to make different objects move and or take them away and have the students solve the problem. You could also maybe make it interesting for a history lesson as well or maybe even science. The only think that I do not think would be good to use it for is English.
3. One major issue about educational technology is that critics think using computers take away from traditional learning styles. Critics are worried that students will not benefit as much from a strictly computer/ and presentation software curriculum. They also fear that the teachers will be more wrapped up in making their presentations and finding the information rather than focusing on the students and the problems they might have with certain information

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1.The use of web technologies in k-12 is a topic I feel half and half about. It depends on the grade level you are teaching for the amount of exposure. I think younger kids should just get a glimpse of the internet and not go too much into depth. This is when they need to learn about more important topics rather than how to use a computer. I want to teach first grade and I don't think I will even teach them anything about the internet that is way to young to start using a computer. I think about 6th or 7th grade students should start to learn what the world wide web is and really start to get their feet wet so they can be prepared in high school and college.

2. I think wikipedia is a good way to get knowledge about things that interest you or to get a simple understanding about a topic but not for school papers and things of that nature. There are books and other internet resources that would help students learn about something rather than wikipedia. Although wikipedia does not get credit for the fact that after a certain amount of days if anyone posted false information on a topic it is replaced with the correct information. But again I would not suggest to use it for papers or powerpoints.

3. I know wiki will not help me with anything I have to do in my profession yet alone do anything for me in my own personal life. I just find it to be one of those pointless internet communication resources. I feel like mostly all of them do the same - blog pages, twitter, and wiki and many more are completely pointless. I want to teach first grade and this would be too advanced for them - anything on the computer would be too advanced. But even if the winding road takes me to teach high school I would never bring the things I learned about wiki or wiki into my classroom.

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I have mainly positive views when it comes to using the internet for research uses. Students can use search engines and look for .edu or .gov sites which are "safe" to use. Students can also find interesting applications to make their projects stick out. The negatives about internet is that kids think they can get away with plagiarism or think they can. Students might also be distracted by facebook or myspace and not really work on their assignments.
Another another way to use web based resources is through distant learning. Distant learning is for students who can not attend school on a daily bases. This is an interactive television that attaches to the Internet and you are able to have a teacher actually teach you lessons in what you need. You can record yourself and have your students watch on their own time and do the lessons themselves. This is a good idea because the students will be at home and can hopefully remember the lesson to do their homework.
I do not think I will have much trouble watch students with the computer. I want to teach first grade so they will not really know fully how to use the computer. But I would have a major concern about copy right laws but they wouldnt really be doing assignments like that anyways

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Chapter 7 talks about how outlines and idea maps as an important part of a lesson plan. These can be used in a variety of different ways in the classroom. An outline, is a great way to break down most important parts of a subject or to detail the expectations for a project. An idea map is useful for showing connections between different things and makes students answer the questions. I would def. use these two tools when I am a teacher.

I encourage my students to learn idea map, outline and storyboarding skills because they are all important. These skills would help them organize their thoughts in a more neatly fashion and help them save time. These skills really make it a lot easier to compose different papers or presentations. My students will thank me when they have a job where they are required to know these skills.

In the last week we learned important things about google and how to make searches easier. I found it really interesting the different things that google can look up. And it was cool because I found out they have over 25 billion pages and they are the biggest search engine! I think this would be good in my career because it will help make things a lot easier to find and less time consuming.

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I will plan my lesson plans using the computer. I will use MS word. I will use this technology by using the computer and the different applications on MS word. This would be for grade level 1 so it would be well rounded with math, language arts, reading, science and history.

This website meets or shows all of the rules in chapter six. It definitely justifies the text appropriately, it limits the colors, it keeps text lines short, it provides emphasis, it uses a list, and the screen is organized. Florida State Universities website is a concise and simple site. I do not know how to screen shot on my computer so im sorry for not including one.
In my senior economics class in high school we watched footage of FOX news about a year before the presidential election. My teacher told us he could get into serious trouble for showing the footage in class but showed us anyways to point out the far right side of the spectrum. As a teacher I will deal with these concepts as serious. Whatever footage I do use I will cite my source or credit it in the beginning or end. Students could use sources like

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As a student I have used MS word for writing papers, making power points for projects and now to make cool fliers for whatever I need!!! I have seen my teachers use MS word for power point slides, creating tests or quizzes and I am sure I have seen them use MS word for many other things but I just cannot think of them right now.
Things that I learned in chapter nine that I can use as a teacher would be to make tests using MS word, making tables to organize my students or for some other use I'm sure I can think of later and making links to the internet for different assignments I might give them.I also can import info from other applications and use it on my MS word assignments.
Something really cool that I have learned is how to actually utilize MS word. I have always used it for simple things and never knew the tricks but now I know some of them and can actually make stuff pretty or at least colorful enough to stand out and seem interesting. I can also make fliers for my students which is really neat. I never thought I would say this but MS word is cool!

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To be honest I do not think that computers are an important part of the educational experience, especially when pertaining to first graders. Teachers and students should only use computers for educational reasons to do research, or write a paper, or power point and possibly you tube if there is an educational clip of something important. Other than that there really is no reason for computer use in class. Although I must admit that I do agree with one issue in the book is that computer literacy is critical because even if you don't use it you will need to use it at some point in your life especially in future generations.And I also agree that you should be able to do or fix simple problems with your computer as well.
I hope to only use a computer in my class to hold my grades and maybe for power point slides. In this class I hope to learn how to use some programs that I am not familiar with.
I hope I don't have to teach my first graders computers nor have to incorporate computers with everything I do in class. This course is harder than it needs to be by showing us all of the shortcuts and tricks that you can use on certain programs. It takes something simple and makes it really hard and makes it difficult to comprehend.

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1.My prior experiences using technology come to mind as mediocre. I do not excel with technology but I get the just of it to finish the task at hand for the most part. Personally I tend to use technology as little as possible in my daily life. Most of the time when computer teachers talk 'computer' I feel as though they are speaking in another language and usually ask for help until I sort of understand. I enjoy simple things and technology is everything but simple.

2.One major thing I hope to learn from this class is little tricks that make typing and looking for things on the computer easier than they are now. I really hope to learn about other programs - all I know really is PowerPoint and Microsoft word. I hope to understand some of the vocabulary so I don't seem completely useless my future bosses. And most importantly I want to feel confident when I am using a computer or another type of technology.

3.The questionnaire taught me that I am more of an active learner than a reflective learner, but I did have a 1 on the active side which says I am fairly well balanced in both. Which means I like to apply information or discuss it to others but I can also think about it to myself. The questionnaire also says I am more of a sensing learner than a intuitive learner but again I received a 3 on on the sensing side which means I am well balanced at both. So basically I usually like to learn facts but at times I can prefer to discover the possibilities as an intuitive learner. Also, I was more verbal than visual but again I had a 1 on the verbal side which means I Can retain information from reading and hearing but also from seeing. Lastly I was a sequential learner but this time I was a 9 so I am definitely only a sequential learner. This means I like to go step by step logically to find my answer.

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