Reflection

1) Did this course meet your expectations?

The course, Educational Technology, has met my expectation in every way possible. As a class, we have learned how integration takes place within technology and education. It was awesome how we have obtained new skills and knowledge to incorporate technology within education. It was an inspiration having the time to gain new insights as to making the learning enjoyable, meaningful, and fun. This is what I call making the learning memorable in every way possible for students to retain the information.

2) Why do you think this course should be required for all ED majors?

This course should be required for all ED majors so that they could gain insightful knowledge and skills in connecting technology within their classroom. With the use of webquest, teachers can create fun activities for their students to gain knowledge of modern technology. Or they could have different guest speaker for all over the world to present knowledge about their culture, country, and etc… As we all know not all students are fortunate to access technology at home, so as future teachers we are there to make it possible for every student to explore the global world that is advancing in technology. Educational Technology gives new information of the growing world around us, resources to access worksheets to create and use within the classroom, and a lot more. It is a great course that should be continued for all future teachers.

3) How will you implement technology into your future classroom?

I will implement technology into my future classroom in every way possible. We could create activities all most like a scavenger hunt online for students with the use of webquest. Teachers/students can use blog as a portfolio of major projects or assignments that they have completed and accomplish. Teachers can produce a movie out of one the activities where students had to do a play, skit, dance show, puppet show, and etc… and have them watch themselves as how they work cooperatively as a group/tribe. They could also use technology to create their own personal timeline of their life. We could create worksheets/assignments for students.

Weebly Commerical using OneTrue Media

Make an on-line slideshow at www.OneTrueMedia.com

For our final exam, we had to create a educational commerical to present withins our classroom using one of the media sites. As a group we decided to do a commerical advertising weebly as one of the greatest online site to use as a professional resume or portfolio. I was awesome experience developing a commerical. We had lots of fun acting out for our commerical. As a group, we decided to use onetrue media since it was able to upload video clips and pictures. The site was straight forward and easy to use and follow; however, there is a catch to it in order for us to use the editing features we need to sign up as a member and pay a fee and uploading photos took long. Other than that it was fun and awesome to experience. I would use this in my classroom; if my students were doing a play, puppet show, skit, or a dance I would use one of the free media sites to produce a movie out of their activity.

My Professional Portfolio~Weebly

1. What was the assignment?

The assignment given to us was to create a professional resume of ourself using weebly.com. We had to create 7 pages that included home (introduction about ourself), experience, education, skills/rewards, hobbies and interest, references, and blog

2. What did you like or dislike about the assisgnment or about the weebly software.

Well, I really enjoyed the assisgnment and the weebly software was awesome as well. The assisgnment is an advantage for us because it represents a resume that could be updated at any time. No more resume papers to type out; all we need to do is give away our weebly address which is great. It is easy to use with different designs that goes along with it. It was an excellent experience working with the weebly software.

3. How would you compare and contrast weebly with a blog?

Weebly and Blog are both software's that could be use for anyone to create a resume of their own. Blog is easy to use and upload slideshow's, pictures with text just the same as weebly. However with weebly all you need to do is click on the picture and drag it to the page. Weebly are able to create pages to organize according to categories.

4. How would you use this as an educator in the future?

I would use this as my resume of employment instead typing out a resume paper. This saves time and money no more paper and ink wasted. We are going green meaning saving the tree's.

Elluminate Live

Elluminate Live is a great tool for communicating with other people world wide. On Saturday, April 18, 2009 we were able to test out the Elluminate Live with our guest speakers Mrs. Campo from Dubai in the Middle East and Mrs. Raynolds from Washington. The whole experience was something new and exciting that I have learned in this class. It was incredible as to how we were able to communicate with other people from far away most especially living in a small small island.

One of the activity that I remember doing was about twitter. Using the white board, I had to type out the diffinition of twitter and how it was being used.

Although Elluminate Live maybe a great tool; however, there are advantages and disadvantages about the tool. Some of the advantages includes communicating with other people world wide, save time and money, and its easy and fast. As for the disadvantages, communication cuts off time to time, length of time being spend on the elluminate live with the head phones, need to allow for break time to time.

Using Technology As A Remedial Resource To Improve

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Using Technology As A Remedial Resource To Improve

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Slide Show

On February 28, 2009, we did a group presentation on slideshow.com. As a group, we decided to recreate the story "Goldilocks and the three bears". First we used power point to design the background of the story (for each scene). Using a digital camera, we took pictures of the power point background with the puppet character for each scene it possess for. Once we have completed the story, we uploaded the pictures on the computer and saved it in a folder. Then, we open the website on slideshow.com and uploaded the folder that we saved on to the slide show and that was how we created the slide show for "Goldilocks and the three bears".

Online Puzzles

On February 21, 2009, I created a word search and crossword puzzle using different websites. Both websites are great. They both easy to follow and fast to create. There is nothing difficult about creating the puzzles.

Online puzzles help children to learn through spelling words, vocabulary words, colors, numbers, and a lot more. Students will love the activity set for them. It could be challenging for some students but yet the learning is still in progress. It helps them built on their critically thinking on how to connect one another in the puzzle. Word search may be easy for some but crossword puzzle may be a lot difficult depending on the grade level they are at.