What I've Learned...

This summer session I have learned many new things that I did not know before about technology. I did not have the slightest clue how to make a website or make a digital story. Throughout this summer session I was able to expand my skills of spreadsheets, newsletters, flyers, and much more. I was able to make my very own website about myself. I enjoyed making the website even though it frustrated me to no end. I also learned how to make a webquest. I was glad that we got to have partners on the webquest. As much frustration as the webquest gave my partner and me, I know that it would be much more if I was doing it by myself. Overall, I am very excited and proud of the way our webquest came out. I am glad I learned how to make one.

Technologically Advanced...

This week in EDU 241, I got to learn a variety of new ways to use technology. For example, I have never had to work with databases before or evaluate software. This week, I had to do both things. I used the database program Access, to make labels for use in the classroom. I had to come up with my own software evaluation and evaluate several different types of software. One thing that I did this week that I thought my time could be better used for would be the spreadsheets. I already knew how to make and use spreadsheets from previous classes and also from being an office manager at a YMCA camp in the summer.

I will be able to use databases in my future classroom when I would like to send information out to parents. It is very easy to put all the names and addresses of my students into a database and make labels. I will definitely be utilizing this short cut in the future!

New and Old.

The new technology that I have learned this week would be how to make a digital story and also how to make a website. I have never done either of these before so I thought it was quite interesting to learn how. I already knew how to make flyer's and a resume so I thought having to do that consumed time that I could have been using to work on my website. I can use many of the different types of technology that I have learned about this week in my future classroom. I can use a concept map to teach a lesson, I can use a digital story as a more fun way to get an important point across, and I can use a website for my classroom and have the students help me make one. This could be our classroom website and it would be a lot of fun to do this project with my students.