Weekly Blog Number Fifteen

This week in class we went over more of the final. We have to make two lesson plans that use tools that we have learned this semester. These lesson plans seem a little intimidating, because I have never done one before.

I think that I have a pretty good idea to start off with; it's just a matter of making it inventive and collaborative.I really hope that the more I have experience with lesson plans the better I will be at them. I also was working on my brochure, an newsletter this week. I had a lot of trouble with it last week. I had better luck with my newsletter this week. I was excited that I finally got publisher to work.

In the future I plan to take all the things I have learned in this class and be able to come up with inventive ways of using and teaching technology. I really want to teach first grade, so I know that using technology may be a little bit of a challenge. I just hope that after I go through the program I will be better equipped for the task. I have enjoyed this class and I really do feel like I am a little less technology-challenged then when I started.

The video for this week was: Called Ordinary People Do Extraordinary Things. Here is the URL address:http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=6252&title=Ordinary_People_Doing_Extraordinary_Things. It was a cute video about all the people who have done things that seemed impossible. It was very inspirational. I didn't know that Thomas Edison got kicked out of school for asking too many questions. Crazy.

Weekly Blog Number Fourteen

This week in class we were introduced to the first part of our final. We have to make a flyer, newsletter, and a brochure using any tool that we have learned about this term. I thought it was a fun final assignment.

I had alot of trouble making my flyer at first. I decided to design it in Google presentations. I don't know why I thought this would be a good idea. It was very hard and the program kept malfuntioning. I couldn't get it to look quite how I wanted it to. So I then decided to use Word Publisher. All seemed to go well, it was nice, because this program had templates so it was nice to have a good starting point. All went well, until I tried to open or/and save the file as a PDF. It would open up as a blank page. Everything I tried didn't work. So I ended up just doing the flyer in Power Point using Word. I'm not as excited to do the other two projects anymore.

I hope that through this assignment I will be able to reach back into my memory and utilize tools we have learned this semester. By the end I know that I will realize how easy this assignment is and I will be able to make these kind of documents with very few difficulties in my future classroom. I do know that I will be making these kind of documents in the future.

For the video this week we watched Schoolhouse Rock- A Noun is a person, place, or thing. I thought this video was really cute. I remember watching it when I was younger. I think it is a great way to teach children a concept through visual, and musical aide. I just really enjoyed it. It took me on a trip down memory lane.:)