Sunday, May 1, 2011
Heather Wellman Highlight Showcase Blog Post
I really liked your portfolio showcase that you made. I did not use Weebly to create my portfolio, but I would like to look into it to create a classroom website. From your showcase I learned that I could embed photos, videos, and documents to enhance the overall website. You also mentioned that a teacher could do almost anything they wanted on the website, which makes it sounds very appeasing. With Google sites, which is technology I used, there are not as many features, but it is also totally free. I was wondering what features you had to pay for and which ones were free? I did not realize that you could embed Google docs into this websites, which I think is very useful. As you mentioned you could put a document up for parent teacher conferences and the parents could fill in what times that worked for them. I also liked that you included how you could use this technology in the classroom. I think it is a great idea to have the students use the Weebly as a portfolio to showcase their work to their teacher and parents.
Final Blog Post
For my final project in CEP 416 I made a video using the Jing software about my three favorite technologies that I have learned about this semester. I started off by introducing my blog, which is titled The Thoughts and Ideas of Jessica C. I had the window up of my blog and I was talking over the picture. I said I liked using the blog for three main reasons. The first reason was because I could communicate with the people in my class, more specifically the 3 girls in my house. Whenever I got the chance I could comment on their blogs and tell them what I thought about the topic they were blogging about or give them my thoughts on what the topic that they were blogging about. In this forum we were able to share ideas without all being in the same room. I also said this would be useful to use in the classroom because students could use the blog to share ideas among groups or when they were at home over breaks or on the weekend. The second reason I liked the blog is because I could read my classmates blogs where I would get new ideas about technology, teaching activities, and educational topics. This expanded my thinking and gave me new ideas about teaching. The last reason I liked using the blog is because you can embed pictures, websites, and videos, so the blog is not all text. This makes it more interesting for the students to explore different blogs.
The next technology that I discussed on my video was google docs. Google docs is one of my favorite technologies because more than one student can work on a document at the same time. There are many types of documents that students can work on, like a word document, presentations, spreadsheet, and drawings. All of these programs allow for many different types of student collaboration. Another aspect of google docs that I like is that it makes working on group projects much easier. I have personally used google documents for group projects because you can work in the document at your own convenience and do not have to meet together as often to work on the project. I also mentioned in my Jing project is that I could use this in my internship next year by having the students work on group projects on google docs. The students could work on these group projects at home as well as at school.
The last technology that I learned about this semester that I really enjoyed was google websites. On this website I had an about me section, my resume, lesson plans, and a technology forum. I really enjoyed this technology because I felt that I could use this throughout my teaching career. I could add sections for parents and homework, so that it would be accessible to my students, parents, and employees. This technology will help me throughout my career because I can put my work on the website so employers and parents can see what I am working on in the classroom. I also want to mention that I really liked using Jing to make this video and I know I will use it in the future for other projects. I like it so much because you could switch websites and talk over different websites.
The next technology that I discussed on my video was google docs. Google docs is one of my favorite technologies because more than one student can work on a document at the same time. There are many types of documents that students can work on, like a word document, presentations, spreadsheet, and drawings. All of these programs allow for many different types of student collaboration. Another aspect of google docs that I like is that it makes working on group projects much easier. I have personally used google documents for group projects because you can work in the document at your own convenience and do not have to meet together as often to work on the project. I also mentioned in my Jing project is that I could use this in my internship next year by having the students work on group projects on google docs. The students could work on these group projects at home as well as at school.
The last technology that I learned about this semester that I really enjoyed was google websites. On this website I had an about me section, my resume, lesson plans, and a technology forum. I really enjoyed this technology because I felt that I could use this throughout my teaching career. I could add sections for parents and homework, so that it would be accessible to my students, parents, and employees. This technology will help me throughout my career because I can put my work on the website so employers and parents can see what I am working on in the classroom. I also want to mention that I really liked using Jing to make this video and I know I will use it in the future for other projects. I like it so much because you could switch websites and talk over different websites.
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