Monday Presentations

I enjoyed the presentations on Monday. I think they were well done. I enjoyed the interactive websites for chemistry. I personally have to take a chemistry class and I asked the presenter to email me her information so I can use it myself.

I also thought the website that the other presenters included that allowed you to find coins to ride the train was a fun way to get children more interested in learning. I personally thought the dance hall was cute, where you were able to dance.

Presentations done on 11/19/2008

Today I did my presentation on Math. I thought it was very interesting because I learned that even though your presentation may work on your personal computer it might not work when you need it. I also enjoyed the other presentation done today about Math. It was very interesting because it included a movement componenet which, as a health and human performance major, I enjoyed. I thought the website was pretty interesting and I think that the children would like that also.

I could not hear the other Presentation today, I was not sure where the two guys was going with it, because the whole presentation was reading from the lesson plan, and I could hardly hear that. I also did not understand the last presentation. I got lost at the monotonus tone and reading from the powerpoint. I think if the presentation was explained instead of read I would of enjoyed it better.

Week 12

I think the voice thread is interesting. I would not use it personally because I do not communicate with many people online. If i did this sounds like a good program. I use Yahoo messenger for sharing folders, pictures, and using the webcam.

I am not sure exactly how this program works. I will try to figure it out and if it is something that I can use for the presentation I just might use it.

Week 10 Assignment

• I enjoyed the activities this week. I have never used desktop publishing and I did not realize how easy it was to do common projects. For instance, there are many situations that I am able to use brochures and I normally try to make it on Microsoft Word using boxes. However, after this weekly activity I now know an easier way to make a brochure.
• I enjoyed creating a brochure this week. As mentioned earlier, there are so many personal projects that making a brochure would be great for, and I normally use word, but after this project I realized I could use desktop publishing and there are so many different formats that I could use.
• I would say a muddy point for me would be using the resume builder. I have been a stay at home mom for many years. I truly enjoyed it and have seen many benefits from being able to that, however, the negative thing I find is when I try to make a resume my resume seems very shallow. I would like to learn how to spruce up my resume so that when employers look at it they would be interested.
• I believe we could make a flyer. I think a flyer would be a good idea because a flyer has so many uses. A person can use it for a garage sale, or for a church function. Flyers are something that everyone needs to make at some point of their life and if one is done as an assignment the students will have learned a life long skill.

Week 7

1. I think it is very important to use technology because it is the wave of the future. The student will need to be able to use technology in their personal life and it also makes the information interesting and exciting instead of plain when it is just read from the book.
2. I think they are because students have the ability to talk to people from all over the world. Instead of just reading about Egypt, they can instantly talk to someone from there. I think they add instruction for students who want to learn. The students who do not want to learn will try to distract either way. The good thing about students who distract while they are online is other students can always turn them off with a “click.
3. I do not see the benefits of an asynchronous, text-based instruction. Because a lot of information is lost whereas face-to-face communication , I believe communication and understanding is more prevalent.
4. I am an avid supporter of podcasts. I use them and learn so much from the podcast I subscribe to. I believe it enhances learning, but again the student has to have that want to learn.
5. I do not believe so. I am not a supporter of video games I believe it makes people think of unrealistic goals. I have children and would not allow them to play the game everyday. The reason is because I already feel that it makes my children have an unrealistic view of life. They play video games and they seem to become numb to a lot of things they shouldn’t. They also don’t have to learn there are consequences to their actions, because in the end if they make the wrong decision they can just start over.

Week 6

I think the delicious site is interesting because it seems like it will take all of my bookmarks and put them in one place so I have easy access to all of them. It will also allow you to look at your friends bookmarks. They might have sites that I find interesting. I am not sure if I will use it because I already have other software on my computer that allows me to do this also and I am a bit of a private person and I would not want to share my information.

Katrina

Week 5

I think that wikis can be a fun conversation piece, but I do not think that you can judge a person by one type or the other. I believe that would be very difficult because I myself find that I relate to more than one and I also believe that some things are not true in my instance. It just seems to be too broad to judge my students by that standard.

I believe that learning in learning communities would be more beneficial. I find that children who are in schools that encourage individualistic qualities seem to have better adjusted students who excel more academically than children who are in a stifled traditional setting. Traditional settings are geared toward visual learners and do not cater to other learning styles like learning communities does.

I do believe that students have different learning styles because of their personality types. I think it will help know the students better because as a teacher, I will have an indication of what various student learning styles may tend to be. For instance, a doer more than likely will have a kinesthetic learning style because they are always on the move.