This week we have been learning how to build our own google site for our future class. We are creating everything from homework pages to quizzes.
What this means to me as a teach today is that I will have a way to communicate to teachers and students in such an easy way, that I know they will be able to navigate it. We are doing this so we will now about and have access to such valuable tools. To me, technology means being able to do something on the computer that you cannot put on paper, at least for this assignment.
To my future students, this technology can open their minds and even have them make fictional personal websites so projects, as if they were someone else in history, ect. My students will be able to collaborate with others through their website because everything they need to know and have questions to, can be on or answered through exploring their websites. This can help me become a better teacher by me feeling more confident when it comes to technology. I love learning new things because it then makes me think of stuff I have already learned, then helps me to improve on it!
Monday, January 31, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
25 January -- Google Part 1
We are currently learning about all the extremely cool, free stuff that Google has to offer. The assignments we are performing are going and finding educational websites that we can use as teachers. We are summarizing them posting them for all of our fellow classmates to use.
Today, this means that I now know how utilize free tools that Google has to offer, to help me in my teaching. Whether it is making it easier or more interesting. We are doing this because it is so important to know about tools that make life, as a teacher, less stressful and less difficult. Just within this last week of learning how to use Google docs, I have used it daily. No joke, daily. To me, this technology is something that will ease my mind when trying to do anything from documents to spreadsheets. I guarantee that my colleagues find it a lot easier to communicate about assignments that are due. Now, we don’t have to meet up after class or after work and some random place to work on a paper together. Now we can do it through our own home computers!
To my future students, I believe that his technology will help them with their own assignments as well as projects. This new information has made me think of how I have wanted to rip my hair out, when using programs like Word, because now, I don’t have to worry about it changing formats and moving stuff around if I try to open that document from another computer. Assignments that I can give my students, and have them work together, outside of class would be something like a county or state project, where they can both contribute to it and do their own part, without having to be together. I will become a better student and colleague now, because I wont feel like an idiot when my Word document now looks different when I did it at my house. I will be more confident in my work. I am so glad that we were introduced to such a simple, but amazing program that has so many different tools and ideas to help us be better teachers and ease the stress of it too!
Today, this means that I now know how utilize free tools that Google has to offer, to help me in my teaching. Whether it is making it easier or more interesting. We are doing this because it is so important to know about tools that make life, as a teacher, less stressful and less difficult. Just within this last week of learning how to use Google docs, I have used it daily. No joke, daily. To me, this technology is something that will ease my mind when trying to do anything from documents to spreadsheets. I guarantee that my colleagues find it a lot easier to communicate about assignments that are due. Now, we don’t have to meet up after class or after work and some random place to work on a paper together. Now we can do it through our own home computers!
To my future students, I believe that his technology will help them with their own assignments as well as projects. This new information has made me think of how I have wanted to rip my hair out, when using programs like Word, because now, I don’t have to worry about it changing formats and moving stuff around if I try to open that document from another computer. Assignments that I can give my students, and have them work together, outside of class would be something like a county or state project, where they can both contribute to it and do their own part, without having to be together. I will become a better student and colleague now, because I wont feel like an idiot when my Word document now looks different when I did it at my house. I will be more confident in my work. I am so glad that we were introduced to such a simple, but amazing program that has so many different tools and ideas to help us be better teachers and ease the stress of it too!
Sunday, January 16, 2011
January 18-Special Topic Reflection
When I think of an educational hero I don't think of someone in history or someone that has done something good for the education world. I think of someone who has made somewhat of an impact in my life. My educational hero is my Mom. She received her Associates Degree in Nursing from UVCC (Now UVU!) when I was about 6 years old and my sister was 4 1/2. I remember her getting us up early to do our hair before she went to work early in the morning. My dad was not about to attempt to do his two daughters' hair. She has worked as a nurse at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center since she graduated so many years ago. Back then you didn't need a Bachelor's Degree to become a nurse. About 4 years ago, the hospital made it a requirement for all the RN's to receive their Bachelor's Degree in Nursing. While she was going back to school, she had a daughter in junior high and two other daughters also in college. She was the Young Women's leader in her ward and still worked her three, twelve hour shifts a week. She never once complained. She did it with a smile on her face and she is so proud of herself, as are we. I am now going to school with a 19 month old daughter and it is hard. I am trying to do it with a smile on my face and for my family, just like she did.
The reason I want to teach is because when I was in 5th grade, my teacher made me feel like I want to make kids feel when I am their teacher. She always cared and I felt like she was truly one of my best friends. I didn't have a lot of friends and i was extremely shy. She just always made me feel like I did my best and that she was proud of me.
I would like to teach 3rd grade when I am done with school. I work at and elementary school right now and I help in a 3rd grade class everyday. I just love those kids and they are so funny at that age. I also like the curriculum that we get to teach as 3rd grade teachers.
The reason I want to teach is because when I was in 5th grade, my teacher made me feel like I want to make kids feel when I am their teacher. She always cared and I felt like she was truly one of my best friends. I didn't have a lot of friends and i was extremely shy. She just always made me feel like I did my best and that she was proud of me.
I would like to teach 3rd grade when I am done with school. I work at and elementary school right now and I help in a 3rd grade class everyday. I just love those kids and they are so funny at that age. I also like the curriculum that we get to teach as 3rd grade teachers.
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