What I learned.

I learned a lot from this class. I was taught on Excel to do a lot of things, so learning how to use Google was great. I also liked learning how to do blogs and websites. I would like to use them when I begin to teach. Also, I learned how to use Microsoft Word better like the tabs options.
I did enjoy the videos. I am very much of a visual learner, so the videos helped me. I like it better then trying to learn it off of a paper or handout. It helped because you could pause it until you learned that one part.
I did learn a lot from the class.
Thanks!!

Not a packrat!

I read a blog in Fischbowl about a guy who said that since a young age he has always been able to find things on the side of the road. He said that he would find money, jewelry, valuables, and he even found a bike in the woods one time. He did admit that since he has gotten older he has tried not to pick up things that he sees. He tries to clean out his collection often.
I am not like that. I am lucky if I find a dollar in my jeans before I wash them. I would probably never pick up money on the walkway unless it is paper money. I know even that can have germs but the idea of getting coins off the sidewalk kind of gross me out. I guess somepeople are just lucky and things just happen to come thier way.

international blog 2

I found a school in New Zealand that uses a blog. St. Matthews School. The shool uses the blog to tell everyone about their school and has pictures about different events. Right now they have some showing people putting ash on thier heads for Ash Wednesday. They aslo show pictures of people fixing up thier library.Here is the link:

International blogs

There is a school in Bangkok. It is a Christian school. If you go to the blog, it will tell you about different things like new open positions, about the school, and it is a way for the parents to get news. It also tells you things like the fees for the school and how to become a student.

Blogs

I found a website that talks about two teachers who use logs. One is a second grade teacher out of Fredrick Co. MD. Her name is Marisa L. Dudiack. She began using the blog after her class went to a Native American farm. She said the it is great because it allows everyone to have a say without causing a problem in the classroom.
The second teacher is Catherine Poling. She says that when she taught a class, she would have a bunch of hardback journals on her desk. Blogs can do away with this problem. It also allows her to respond to the kids blogs right away.The site is www.nytimes.com

Alex

When I gradute and get a job, I will definitely try and use ALEX. It just seems to make life for a teacher easier. You have an almost unlimited amount of reasoures at your fingertips and you can make it spread.
As someone who is in school right now, I am probably going to be working with older teachers who didn't have this availabe to them when they were in school. They may nort even know that it is available. I will be able to show them and that will allow our school to be more updated to what is out at the time. I only hope that the school that I do work at will have computers so that I will be able to use ALEX.

Alex

Alex is an online site that teachers can use that we allow them to make thier jobs easier. It has a number of links available like lesson plans and coures of study. All a teacher has to do is go to the website, find what they are looking for and ALEX will help find the answer.
One thing that ALEX has that is good is a link for lesson plans. A teacher can create thier own so that they don't have to deal with a book or a bunch of papers. All they have to do is log in and use the format that is available on the computer. I think that this website is great.

Fischbowl

After watching the video and seeing how much computers effect our lives, I feel that we might need to get going. I mean in a lot of was the US is considered a super power. It looks like to me that we aren't when it comes to education and technology. We need to try and help our students now so that when they do get older they will have a good understanding of what is availale now and in the future. Also, I feel that we need to be careful when in coms to advances in technology. We need to make sure that we are doing well with what we have efore we try and make something else.

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Second day of class. It might rain today!! At least it isn't really cold like last week.

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My first day of class was today!!!:)