About two weeks ago I used the Flip Video for the first time. I was amazed by how easy it was to use. I checked it out of the Education office and brought it home. At first I went around videoing different things at my house to learn the basics of the camera. I then when I showed them to my friends it was so simple.
Then in class today our professor video our presentations with using the flip camera so that they can send the video to ourselves and do a self critique on our presentation. When Professor Newbill first got the camera out he was like, "does anyone know how to use this?" I quickly said it was super easy and showed him the two buttons you have to push to make the whole thing operate. It was fun to see the professor use the camera and how easily anyone can use one.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Before class
Features on Word
-Word Art
-Inserting text boxes, page numbers, pictures, copy and pasting, effects (to pictures like color, and adding 3D effects)
-Spell Check
-Fonts
Power Point
-quick styles
-shape effects
-charts
-slide show (animation)
-Design (for the slides)
Excel
-font
-page layout (backgrounds,effects, colors, and themes.
-graphs/charts (pie charts, bar graphs)
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What students can do with these features:
-With Word the students can create brochure about a place that they want to travel. They can insert pictures and use different fonts to make the brochure look appealing to the eye.
-Power point: Students could create a slide show about certain animal. They could insert sound affects, pictures and descriptions about their animal and present it to the class.
Excel: I would have the students learn about different features. They could pick five features that they though would be useful for themselves and present them to the class while demonstrating them.
-Word Art
-Inserting text boxes, page numbers, pictures, copy and pasting, effects (to pictures like color, and adding 3D effects)
-Spell Check
-Fonts
Power Point
-quick styles
-shape effects
-charts
-slide show (animation)
-Design (for the slides)
Excel
-font
-page layout (backgrounds,effects, colors, and themes.
-graphs/charts (pie charts, bar graphs)
-
What students can do with these features:
-With Word the students can create brochure about a place that they want to travel. They can insert pictures and use different fonts to make the brochure look appealing to the eye.
-Power point: Students could create a slide show about certain animal. They could insert sound affects, pictures and descriptions about their animal and present it to the class.
Excel: I would have the students learn about different features. They could pick five features that they though would be useful for themselves and present them to the class while demonstrating them.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Online Conference
Before I talk about each individual presentation I watched I would like to say how interesting these videos were! Each one was very unique in its own way and gave very interesting ideas to use in future classrooms.
The first conference I saw was titled "Thinking outside the box"-Skateboard
This is probably the least creative out of all three of the videos that I watched. The teacher wanted to give the student a project that would be more exciting to create in wood shop. The teacher Keith Kelly taught the students all the safety rules through online quizzes the students had to take and if the students missed a class they were able to watch a video online about the topic in class. This project was for sixth-eight graders. The students learned how to design their own skateboards during their computer classes and then use a power point thing to project it onto their board and draw it. The students learned every step of creating a skateboard. It was really cool to see the different student’s designs and how excited they were when they were creating their own skateboard. They also intergraded this into gym class with the safety of riding the skateboard. They learned how to ride it in gym class and had high school students come into the school and demonstrate and help students learn how to ride the skateboards. Every day the students had to blog their progress and what they did while making the skateboard.
The next video I watched was titled "Using Computer Games as a Context for Learning and Social Interaction." Their slogan was 'Good teachers' use 'Good tools.' This whole project is surrounded around the video game guitar hero. I believe is how the game first became popular. This project was used between elementary to junior high and then into high school. So each kid experienced it in three different spots in their school career. In the elementary schools they learned about the history of all different rock bands, designed logos for tee-shirts that they actually made, learned about marketing and how they would financially be able to tour in their own little band (students were in groups of four called a band). The stuff they showed on the video of what the kids were doing/learning was incredible! At the end of the time they put on a parent show case where they played music that they had all wrote and they all wore their different designed tee-shirts.
The second stage was for junior high age students. They used this guitar hero and the beginning of the year when all the new students were in new classrooms. The high school students made little 20 minute sessions where they taught the younger students different things (I think the junior high and high school students are on the same campus) like guitar lessons, scavenger hunts about the different songs so that the students became familiar with the campus in a fun way. They got to design CD case covers and compete against people in their class at the actual game.
Then in the third state the designed a post card with features of guitar hero on it and sent it to their elementary teachers. This enabled their present teachers to see what stage they were in writing because most students wanted these cards to look nice so they did their best work.
Overall it is too much to explain everything that I learned about in the video so I would encourage you to watch it because it was really interesting!
The third session I watched was titled "Remixing History: The Cigar Box Project"
This was a history teacher in Canada. The students learned about the history of each Cigar Box and the panel that was created on it. The students learned how to design their own cigar box with graphic design techniques. They had a college professor come in to teach the students about graphic design. They also talked to a collector of Cigar Boxes through a web camera and the students were able to ask him questions like he was in the room. The students were able to go their person’s archives and read their personal journals and letters. The students created their own scripts, imoves, sketches, and pod casts. After they designed their panel they made their own cigar box out of wood. So they learned how to use tools and saws to create them. Their end products were shown on the video and they were amazing.
After watching all of these It shows how much more creative people can be able learning different subjects in school. Very interesting and liked it a lot!
The first conference I saw was titled "Thinking outside the box"-Skateboard
This is probably the least creative out of all three of the videos that I watched. The teacher wanted to give the student a project that would be more exciting to create in wood shop. The teacher Keith Kelly taught the students all the safety rules through online quizzes the students had to take and if the students missed a class they were able to watch a video online about the topic in class. This project was for sixth-eight graders. The students learned how to design their own skateboards during their computer classes and then use a power point thing to project it onto their board and draw it. The students learned every step of creating a skateboard. It was really cool to see the different student’s designs and how excited they were when they were creating their own skateboard. They also intergraded this into gym class with the safety of riding the skateboard. They learned how to ride it in gym class and had high school students come into the school and demonstrate and help students learn how to ride the skateboards. Every day the students had to blog their progress and what they did while making the skateboard.
The next video I watched was titled "Using Computer Games as a Context for Learning and Social Interaction." Their slogan was 'Good teachers' use 'Good tools.' This whole project is surrounded around the video game guitar hero. I believe is how the game first became popular. This project was used between elementary to junior high and then into high school. So each kid experienced it in three different spots in their school career. In the elementary schools they learned about the history of all different rock bands, designed logos for tee-shirts that they actually made, learned about marketing and how they would financially be able to tour in their own little band (students were in groups of four called a band). The stuff they showed on the video of what the kids were doing/learning was incredible! At the end of the time they put on a parent show case where they played music that they had all wrote and they all wore their different designed tee-shirts.
The second stage was for junior high age students. They used this guitar hero and the beginning of the year when all the new students were in new classrooms. The high school students made little 20 minute sessions where they taught the younger students different things (I think the junior high and high school students are on the same campus) like guitar lessons, scavenger hunts about the different songs so that the students became familiar with the campus in a fun way. They got to design CD case covers and compete against people in their class at the actual game.
Then in the third state the designed a post card with features of guitar hero on it and sent it to their elementary teachers. This enabled their present teachers to see what stage they were in writing because most students wanted these cards to look nice so they did their best work.
Overall it is too much to explain everything that I learned about in the video so I would encourage you to watch it because it was really interesting!
The third session I watched was titled "Remixing History: The Cigar Box Project"
This was a history teacher in Canada. The students learned about the history of each Cigar Box and the panel that was created on it. The students learned how to design their own cigar box with graphic design techniques. They had a college professor come in to teach the students about graphic design. They also talked to a collector of Cigar Boxes through a web camera and the students were able to ask him questions like he was in the room. The students were able to go their person’s archives and read their personal journals and letters. The students created their own scripts, imoves, sketches, and pod casts. After they designed their panel they made their own cigar box out of wood. So they learned how to use tools and saws to create them. Their end products were shown on the video and they were amazing.
After watching all of these It shows how much more creative people can be able learning different subjects in school. Very interesting and liked it a lot!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Educational Blog week 11
Here is the Educational Blog that I posted my comment on.
From this blog I learned that there are blogs out there to help intergrade technology into the classroom. This blog is a helpful tool to people who are on the look out for new websites to use in the classroom. Also what is nice is that it gives you step by step instructions on how to access and use the websites that she has listed. Each week this lady adds a "New" technology to the blog. Some of the new technology is just for teachers and how to use it more efficiently in the classroom. For example, short cuts on Power Point or interactive whiteboard resources. So far she has 83 different websites you can click on her home blog.
My comment was kind of like an encouragement to the lady who does the blog. I told her that this was useful for me and many others who plan and are in the education field. Just encouragement to keep doing what she is doing so that others can benefit from it.
From this blog I learned that there are blogs out there to help intergrade technology into the classroom. This blog is a helpful tool to people who are on the look out for new websites to use in the classroom. Also what is nice is that it gives you step by step instructions on how to access and use the websites that she has listed. Each week this lady adds a "New" technology to the blog. Some of the new technology is just for teachers and how to use it more efficiently in the classroom. For example, short cuts on Power Point or interactive whiteboard resources. So far she has 83 different websites you can click on her home blog.
My comment was kind of like an encouragement to the lady who does the blog. I told her that this was useful for me and many others who plan and are in the education field. Just encouragement to keep doing what she is doing so that others can benefit from it.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Reflection 7
I know this was a while ago but it was still something that I learned about in technology.
When I visited the elementary classroom and we learned about the active board. It was interesting to see the differences between the active board and the Smart board. Which on is smarter?? :) It was encouraging to hear that the teacher was not able to learn everything really quickly and that it took her about a year before everything was second nature. The active board had a few different techniques. You were not able to write on the board and it uses something called a flip chart to present information. Also the main difference was that it was not connected to a computer. Everything was done on the board. I don't know if I like this more or not. When people use the smart board in class and it is not working they can easily walk over to the computer and use the mouse to make it work.
I think these two different boards have a lot in common but for now I like the smart board better just because I think I am more familiar with it.
When I visited the elementary classroom and we learned about the active board. It was interesting to see the differences between the active board and the Smart board. Which on is smarter?? :) It was encouraging to hear that the teacher was not able to learn everything really quickly and that it took her about a year before everything was second nature. The active board had a few different techniques. You were not able to write on the board and it uses something called a flip chart to present information. Also the main difference was that it was not connected to a computer. Everything was done on the board. I don't know if I like this more or not. When people use the smart board in class and it is not working they can easily walk over to the computer and use the mouse to make it work.
I think these two different boards have a lot in common but for now I like the smart board better just because I think I am more familiar with it.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
3 questions for Educator Panel
Questions that I can ask the Educator Panel
1. Do you have meetings with all of the teachers on campus about how they could add technology in their classroom or how it could be added. Because in our education classes they are always making sure we are adding that into our lessons.
2. What are some ways that you personally use technology to engage your students or other teachers when having a meeting or teaching a class?
3. What are some new ways that the education program will stay up to date with the changing education all around us?
4. How many students that student teacher get a job at that school?
5. How many students are not able to find work right after graduation?
6. What previous jobs had you had before this and is this what you want to do until you retire?
1. Do you have meetings with all of the teachers on campus about how they could add technology in their classroom or how it could be added. Because in our education classes they are always making sure we are adding that into our lessons.
2. What are some ways that you personally use technology to engage your students or other teachers when having a meeting or teaching a class?
3. What are some new ways that the education program will stay up to date with the changing education all around us?
4. How many students that student teacher get a job at that school?
5. How many students are not able to find work right after graduation?
6. What previous jobs had you had before this and is this what you want to do until you retire?
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