Weekly Blog Nuber Three

This week in class we went over more google things. We learned how to make a google presentation. It was very interesting and fun to learn. I was amazed at how easy it was once I understood how it all worked. I thought that it was fun to work with different groups on this project. It was nice to be able to do it on our own time, thanks to our little power outage.

The presentations were pretty fun I thought. It took me a little while to know how to upload pictures from the internet. Eventually I got it. It always seems like the little things that frustrate me the most are usually not that hard after all. I thought this week was fun, and generally easy. I like the whole idea of presentations on the computer, it helps to keep students interested.

As a teacher I plan to use these presentations often. I think that students would enjoy something like an alphabet presentation. I could take pictures of the students holding a picture of something that starts with that letter, and then I could post their picture and the actual letter in the presentation. This way the children are more excited and involved. I think they would enjoy seeing themselves on the projector screen. I just think it is a good way to teach something. It would be good to have visual and audio stimulation as well. I'm excited to learn more about it, it will definately help students grasp concepts; because all children learn in different ways.

I found a video on teacher tube called "Did you Know." Here is the url address http://www.teachertube.com/vie; I think everyone should watch this video. It is eye opening, it talks about how China soon will be the number one english speaking country in the world. That doesn't really say alot about our country. It also said that there are more honors students in China and Russia, then we have students altogther. It just makes me really want to make a differnece in these kids lives. I want to be the kind of teacher who really pushes her students to be all that they can be. The last comment made on the video that I'll share is that because technology and information is constantly being updated every two years; college students by their third year in college half of what they learned will be outdated. I thought this was so crazy. It makes me really scared and worried that whatever education I have is never going to be enough. It was a really interesting video, I hope you watch it.