ILP "Design" Prezi

I made a Prezi Power Point presentation for my fake 5th grade classroom. My presentation went over everything I would go over on the first day of class "syllabus day." Below you will find the link to the prezi page. I enjoyed making the prezi, it's a great organized way one can present information to a class. Both students and teachers can use prezi.

http://prezi.com/kpaltzakpl-k/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

ILP: "Participtation" -Lynda.com

Activity Log:

• Watched Renaldo Lawrence, a tutorial on Educational Technology for student success. 
• Technology can play a critical role in the classroom, promoting engagement and knowledge retention.

•  list of practical educational technologies that are easy to incorporate into instruction and will help students be successful both in and out of class.
• help evaluate the ed tech landscape, determine what technologies are right for your classroom, and provide concrete examples of how to implement them. 
• The tips cover everything from web resources, apps, and video to maps and eBooks. 
• Start watching to find the tool that will take your students to the next level. 
• Teach your students skills. 
• Engage you students and your students parents.
• Making materials available on and offline.  
• Students and parents can then access the materials and learn with their child. 
• Physically show the parents what their child is learning
• Beware of how to use videos, music, images, and information. 
• Discuss copyright laws. Rather something is legal to use or if you need to pay to use it. 
• The date protection act
• Organize yourself on google drive, how to structure your folder and stay organized
• Create a folder
• Create sub folders
• Creating iBook author for quizzes
• Free google tools anyone can use google form and adobe
• Camtasia studio and fuse 
• Creating a list of links
• Dropbox 
• Animoto
• Padlet.com discussion website
• How to use Google earth 

The tutorial I watched, Educational Technology for Student Success touched on a lot of great information. I learned about all the technology tools teachers can use in the classroom. I had no idea how many there really is. The speaker even explained to me step by steps on how to use the technology with students and parents. Lynda.com is an amazing! The website displays endless amounts of tech video tutorials. I absolutely plan to use this website again. My favorite part was when he talked about using free google tools. As well as when he discussed how important the rules on copyright are, and how a teacher should teach the students how to safely use information that isn't their own.  

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I would use the Data Collection tool to keep record of all of my students grades and absences  well organized. It's a great and easy tool for a teacher to use. A teacher can easily access the data collection tool on excel. If I was a sixth grade science teacher, I would keep record of my students absences, tardies, test, homework, quizzes, project grades as well as any extra credit points.

 

 I found it interesting how there is a wide variety of areas one can go into the education major. One my be interested in teaching special education while another may want to be a high school history teacher. I also liked seeing the screenshots of everyone's weekly assignment. I saw many creative and fun screenshots of how each one did the assignments.

 

 I would like to learn how to use a smart board. Most schools have traded out the out dated black board for smart boards. This is why it's essential that I learn how to use one. I know how to use the smart board a little bit.. But I find it very complex and scary. I plan to learn this coming up week when I go back to visit the tech sand box. I am going to play with the smart board and ask all the questions I have about it. I am determined to learn how to properly use this tech device.

Going to the tech sand box room will help me overcome any fears or obstacles I need to in educational technology. Reading articles and newsletter on new technology can help me keep up to date with all future educational technology devices. Practicing all the tools PowerPoint, Word, and Excel has to offer is another way I can achieve my tech goals.

 

 

A flipped classroom is designed for students who would like to watch video lectures online and then meet in class to discuss the lecture or work on assignments. I think a flipped classroom is an amazing new way students can learn course material. Distance delivery allows instructions to be given to students who are separated from their teachers by time or location. Distance delivery lets the class information be broadly delivered to the student. Blended distance delivery reminds me a little bit more of a flipped classroom, because it allows students to work from their home as well as meet face to face with the professor. Technology has made it easy for students to learn in their own spare time. Wikispaces for Educators is a great educational source that both teacher and students can use. Wikispaces for Educators has shared collaborative activity and resources created and edited by a group of student and teacher contributors on a topic. 

 

http://www.wikispaces.com/content/classroom

 

 I learned how to use hyperlinks to make slides move easily from slide to slide by just a click of an arrow. I enjoyed making up a trivia! I made mine on the show the Bachelor and the Bachelorette. I highly plan and recommend the use of PowerPoint trivia games in classrooms! A trivia game is always a fun way students can study and review before a test. I plan to improve and polish my slides when making one of these again. I will have more time and would like to try to make a jeopardy slide. I found it difficult to add sound to my slide while using PowerPoint on a mac. I could only find or choose from sounds/music that were saved on my I tunes or music files on my computer. 

 

 

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I believe the online classroom is the best technology advancement in education. Taking an online class can sometimes be easier for students versus having to go to an actual class. Especially if you're schedule is too full to physically attend a class. Online classes allow students to do their assignments, test, quizzes, papers etc at their own expense. The student can choose when he/she wants to work on the online class. Online classes are also great for students who like to get ahead in the material. Sometimes a student can even finish an online section ahead of time. Online classes are especially helpful today, since people are using the internet and computer device often. The online class allows a student to work at in their own pace. Most teachers will even upload power points or podcast the student can listen to in their own time. 

The digital divide, there are two different groups. Group A has an advantage because they have access to technology at home and at school. Therefore, they are familiar with using technology. They can do school work with ease and learn the material better. Group B however has had little or no usage with technology in education. The school they attend does not provide the students with technology, and the student does not have access to technology at home. I am on group A side, I grew up having access to technology at home and in school. My teachers always wanted our papers to be typed up on Microsoft word. I even had teacher who would ask the students to turn homework in online. I think the divide might not effect me much in the future, because technology is being used in the classrooms. Most young population do have some kind of access to a computer. If for some reason I am ever faced with a student who does not have access to technology. I will help the students out by giving them the option to use the school library, computer lab, or classroom computer. 

I really enjoyed working on the PowerPoint assignment. I like using PowerPoint! It's a tremendous learning/study tool in education. Everything looks organized and clear on PowerPoint. I have been using PP since my middle school days. PowerPoint helps me visually learn the material, while also giving me the chance to take down notes. I 100% plan to use PP in my future career as a teacher. I can teach my future students the chapter lesson, have study reviews, and even play educational games! 

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I can use Power Point as a creative tool to teach a lesson plan.  Power Point opens up many creative ways to teach and learn text. Students understand and remember information when shown in a power point slide. Applying information to a power point is important to keep a students attention. Analyzing information is a great one can learn better.  Students an take notes while watching the power point presentation.

 Adaptive technology is used for students with disabilities such as handicap, deaf, and blind. Adaptive technology helps the student learn in the classroom. I have seen a blind student in class using adaptive technology. Examples of a adaptive technology for the blind are screen readers and word talk. A teacher can experience many challenges when faces with using adaptive technologies in the classroom. The teacher would need to know how the device works and how she can incorporate the lesson to fit it. As well as how to make all students feel comfortable.

 I knew a little bit about making a website since I made a weebly account in the past. However weebly has updated their website since I last used it. Weebly has added and made it easier for you to create your own website. I really enjoyed adding my own twist and creativity to the website. I 100% can see myself creating a website in the future for my class. I like the idea of using a website as a easy tool parents, students, or guardians can use to keep in contact with the teacher. 

http://mslang3rdgradeclass.weebly.com

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The web is an important teaching tool. Web 2.0 is useful in the classroom. I can't imagine web 2.0 not being used anymore in schools.Teachers can use you tube, wiki, blogs, Diigo, and twitter. You tube is used to stream educational videos. Blogs can be used to open up the creative writing skills. Wikis can be used to engage students in collaborative writing and collaborative knowledge basics. Twitter is great for students to follow scientist, authors, and other public figures. Diigo is social bookmark for sources found online. Students can post notes and questions about the article. The smart board is an example of a effective tool a teacher can use in the class room. 

I would like to use Diigo in the classroom. I didn't know what diigo was until taking this class and I think Diigo could have helped me with a number of class assignments. It's a great tool for students to have access to. Diigo allows student to read reliable article and then use them safely. Diigo also allows students to share any thoughts, questions, and opinions they may have on the topic with other students. A student can use Diigo when writing research papers.

 Concept mapping is a wonderful tool! Concept maps allows teachers to organize, itemize, and visualize information from chapters in a book. It's also a nice tool a teacher can use to make a study guide for students. However, I did not like the program web inspiration. Unfortunately, I found myself working on the concept map for way too many hours. What should of only taken me an hour tops. The problem wasn't making the concept map but finding a way to save the concept map or picture. Next time I'd rather use the one in Microsoft word. I ended up resulting to taking a screen shot of the concept map but it was still difficult to screenshot, the map was so big. I think concept map could be printed for the class, but it would be tough to email to the class or post on a website. There is probably a way to do it but I wasn't sure how to. Maybe if I get more practice I can grow to like it more. I  do like that concept maps can be used as a study tool for visual learners like me.