Description: Creating a slideshow for the Basketball and Cheerleading Banquet.
Standards: TF II F- Planning Designing Leaning Environments and Experiences
TF V D.- Productivity and Professional Practice
Hours: 3 hours
Reflections: On March 31st, my was having its very first banquet for the basketball players and the cheerleaders. This was the first year that we ever had a sports program. One of the teachers wanted to create a type of slideshow or scrapbook. I decided to take on the project, since I was the one who took the pictures. I was able to crop the pictures in Kizoa and placed the pictures to show all the players in action without repeating the players back to back. I played with some of the features the program has. After I got the slideshow together, I tried to put it on a disk put for some reason it cut part of the slideshow off. I decide to e-mail it to the teacher who was organizing the banquet as well as a few others. I tried to open it at school and it didn't work. I had to come up with a back-up plan. On my work computer, I downloaded Smilebox weeks prior to the event, which works at school. I had to recreate the slideshow hours before the banquet. It only took my an hour to recreate the whole slideshow. I e-mailed it to a few teachers and it worked. I was not able to go the banquet due to class, but I did ask a few parents about the banquet as well as the teachers. They liked the slideshow of the students throughout their entire 1st season of basketball. This was a great way for the parents to see their student athletes in action from what they have learned from their coaches. The won third place for the season.
Description: Assisting a Co-worker for her next level degree (Specialist or Doctural Degree)
Standards: TF V A- Productivity and Professional Practice
Hours- 5 hours
Reflection: The last two weeks of March, one of my co-workers was interested about some of the tools I was learning. She is currently working on her next degree that required to to gather information and document inventive learning she is working on with her students. For an hour, I showed her Voicethread and we created a short Voicethread. She did register to have her own account. For another hour, I showed her Delicious. She was very excited about all the features. She created an account and added some sites to her page. We spent most of the time working on her own county webpage. It did not save the first time around but it did on the second. I showed her the different features to create and she did her first blog on her webpage. She is still currently adding more sites to her Delicious Page for her research and writing her paper.
Description: Web Colors Presentation
Standard: TF I A- Technology Operations and Concepts
TF II C-Planning and Designing Learning Enviroments and Experiences
TF III A & B-Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum
TF VIII A-Leadership and Vision
Hours: 4 hours 40 minutes
Reflection: Since I had taken classes on Basics of Design and Web Design, Dr. Julie Moore allowed me to present a lesson on web colors on March 3rd. I created a powerpoint to demonstrate design and colors that would be safe to use for a website. I spent 3 hours visually preparing the powerpoint by creating a few examples of websites by HTML codes. I also did research for an hour to find website that would help to choose the right colors and color combination that would assist for a theme. I did play with each site for useablililty and simplicity to understand. When the day came to demonstrate good website design for the class, I presented my creation, knowledge, and research. It took 40 minutes to present to my classmates all about web colors. The slide is now on my blog and it was uploaded to slideshare for all to see.
Description: Class Voicethread and Slide Show
Standards: TF II D & F-Planning and Designing Learning Enviroments and Experiences
TF III B- Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum
TF VI E- Social, Ethical, Legal, and Human Resources
TF VII B- Procedures, Policies, Planning, and Budgeting For Technology Environments
Hours: 4 hours 30 minutes
Reflections: Voicethread was blocked at my school district so I had to follow the procedures of filling out the paperwork to access the tool. After about a week and a half, I finally got access. I decided to use the vocabulary they were learning to create a Voicethread with students in two of my Reading Classes. The students created the pictures that would be uploading to the program. The pictures they drew had to go with a vocabulary word that I gave them. After the pictures were uploaded, I allowed the students to put a voice with their pictures. If they didn't like their voice or messed up, they redone their recording. I allow the students to record thier voice on my computer. Once every one in my small group finished recording, we watched it on the Whiteboard. This was a great tool for review vocabulary. The students want to recreate one again.
For the slideshow, I had all the students for my Writing Class create a picture for the slideshow and write a sentence that described how to take care of a pet. I uploaded their pictures to Smilebox to create the slide show and added a pawprint background. The students typed their sentence that went with their pictures, usning my computer. None of the classroom computer had Smilebox and the county IT would have to download it for us because of the administration password. Once the slideshow was complete, I was able to add a song. I played the slideshow on the Whiteboard for the students to see. The students were actually reading each sentence as it appeared. The slideshow kept playing and the students were memorized by the class creation.
Description: How to create a Voki
Standards: TF I A & B- Technology Operations and Concepts
Hours: 20 minutes
Reflections: I was reviewing my WebQuest at my work to see what elements of it worked and what didn't. I was happy that my Voki was working. Yes, I found something the district did not block. I decided to show a few students students. One of the students was a little freaked out that my voice was the voice of the cat. So, I decided to show them how to create one. I showed them the different characters and backgrounds. I also showed how they record their voice. Unfortuneatly, my work computer did not have an internal microphone. So, I couldn't show them how it all came together, but they did enjoy the mini demonstration.
Description: Assisting a S.C.O.R.E Student
Standard: TF II A- Planning and Designing Learning Environments and Experiences
TF III C- Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum
Hours: 30 minutes
Reflections: I saw a few score students in the computer lab working on their Greek project. One student was trying to find pictures and placing it in Microsoft Word. From experience, the pictures are place where a cursor is located. There is no freedom to move them around and create a design feel to it. I decided to assist her for her project. I instruct her to go to Publisher. I explained that she will be able to move the pictures around and the words to create a more appealing design. She was able to understand some of the tools quickly. I also told her that she can save the titles the same and it would save both because one was word and the other was publisher. I can't wait to the final project when she is done.
Description: Trying to figure out the design of a WebQuest.
Standards: TF I B- Teachnology Operations and Concepts
TF II A- Planning and Designing Learning Enviroment and Experiences
Hours: 1 Hour
Reflections: While working on my WebQuest, I felt that the design was looking more like a lesson plan, after reviewing some of my classmates comments. I talked to one of my co-workers who has done one before. She showed me some examples on QuestGarden. As she was trying to find some good examples for Science, she was explaining that it was more an individual or small group activity for the students to complete. She did look at my WebQuest to see what I have completed. She found some good examples for me to look at. It look much simpler than what I was creating. Without her help, my WebQuest would have taken me forever to complete.
Description: Showing off what I have learned and created.
Standards: TF I B- Technology Operations and Concepts
TF III A- Teaching , Learning, and the Curriculum
Hours: 1 Hour
Description: Throughout the year, I try to show off the technology tools that I have learned. I would show them to second grade and my mentor. I have showed the slideshow, Voicethread, my webquest, etc. I also show a second person about Delicious. I did trouble shoot with my mentor about Voicethread who instruct me that I needed to fill out a form and turn it in to the principal to be signed. I did e-mail my webquest to my ESOL team. Only one commented on it. Just sharing what I have learned with my peers, I am hoping they will be willing to learn about and using a technology tool for their class. I guess I will see next school year if they want to learn more.
Total Hours: 20
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