blog post 9

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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blog post 8

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!!!!!!!!

blog post 7

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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blog post #6

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.