Monday, March 29, 2010
Avatar
Today we learned how to do avatar simulations. It was pretty cool to do this little simulation. We had a guest teacher, Peter Blair. Some ways he suggested that we could use this were to take the class on a field trip. He mentioned a museum that we could take our kids to or he also suggested that we could use it to talk about other cultures and take them to a different land. Another idea was to take them to a castle. That could make for a fun history lesson. I think kids would enjoy this and think it was pretty neat.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Survey link
Today in class we learned how to create surveys and we sent them to three other people. This could be useful at the beginning of the school year to help me get to know my students. It would save on paper and would be help them use technology. This is a pretty cool tool! Here's the link to my first survey ever!
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGZqX0JzX1NEVzdEUGxwdmVRTEVNelE6MA
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGZqX0JzX1NEVzdEUGxwdmVRTEVNelE6MA
Monday, March 1, 2010
More teacher resources
Here's a great teacher website! curriki.org The resources are free and there are resources for teachers K-12. One of the groups that presented shared this website with us.
We learned how to use Excel spreadsheets. This will be useful for making a gradebook. Computers sure can save a lot of time! I can't imagine how long it would take for teachers to calculate grades by hand-crazy! It was a little confusing, but a friend sitting next to me was very helpful. She's pretty good at this technology stuff. Knowing how to use a spreadsheet will be useful for grades but also if there was any kind of research I wanted to do on an informal basis, this could help me organize the information.
The last thing we did was check out a website polleverywhere.com It was pretty cool to see everyone's response come up on the computer screen. Our teacher says she has used this with her classes before. I think students would love to whip out their phones to text in an answer to a few questions. Most of the time texting is so off limits, so I think students would think it's fun. That's about it for today!
We learned how to use Excel spreadsheets. This will be useful for making a gradebook. Computers sure can save a lot of time! I can't imagine how long it would take for teachers to calculate grades by hand-crazy! It was a little confusing, but a friend sitting next to me was very helpful. She's pretty good at this technology stuff. Knowing how to use a spreadsheet will be useful for grades but also if there was any kind of research I wanted to do on an informal basis, this could help me organize the information.
The last thing we did was check out a website polleverywhere.com It was pretty cool to see everyone's response come up on the computer screen. Our teacher says she has used this with her classes before. I think students would love to whip out their phones to text in an answer to a few questions. Most of the time texting is so off limits, so I think students would think it's fun. That's about it for today!
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