SNOW

What do you guys think about the snow? How would you incorporate this into your classroom during the winter time?

I would talk about the four seasons: winter, spring, summer and fall. I would have them do activities in all areas of learning such as math, science, english and art dealing with snow. I think that children would enjoy going outside and exploring snow hands-on. Many lessons could come out of using the four seasons.

Creating a website

This was surprisingly a lot easier than I had anticipated. I remember creating websites when I was in 7th grade and it was much more difficult than it is today. This is because of the technology increases that our society has had since 2000.
The website I created is for an organization that my mom runs in my home town. It's called Friends of Music. It is an education affiliated organization.

iMovie

Doing the iMovie project was fun and informative. It was fun to discover all of the different things you could add to your raw footage. The shooting process itself was fun to do as well because we were able to use our imaginations and do whatever we wanted to represent our specific vocabulary word.

Making a website for the family I babysit for in Cortland

I learned how to make a website on google. I decided to make one for the family that I babysit for. I wanted them to have a place to put pictures and create their own page on the website that tells their name, age, activites they like to do and pictures. The children really enjoye sitting down one by one with me. The parents also thought it was very nice of me to set up a family website for them. They plan on continuing to use the website. The children are excited to type more things and take more pictures to upload onto the website.

I definately plan on using a website for my classroom to communicate with my parents as well as my students. It informs the parents of what is going on daily in the classroom and they can look on the website for upcoming field trips and other events.

Discrepant Event

So how did you guys feel about the discrepant event? I did not enjoy doing this for Orvil's class because I was so nervous to get up in front of the class and talk about my event because we had to memorize what we were talking about. I tried to go the whole time but it was hard to extend my event to meet the five minute mark. I was relieved when it was done, though. I also liked watching the rest of my classmates events, many were very interesting.

Net book

At first I didn't really understand why we needed a netbook and honestly I still don't know why we had to purchase it but in the end I did like having the netbook because it was more convient than toting around my laptop that is heavier. I also liked having the 3G when my wireless internet wasn't working well. Even though I ended up liking the netbook, I am not purchasing it because I don't need 2 computers.

Technology Class EDU 315

I came into this class with very little technology knowledge. I have never used a Mac computer before and now I know how to do several things on it. I have learned about imove, blogs, photo story, puzzle maker, and many other differnet areas included in this class. I will definatly use the knowledge that I have learned in EDU 315 in my cuture classroom. I have learned alot and I plan to continue to learning more about technology through research and workshops.