4-24-12
Week 4 in the journey-
Today we learned how to use Google Earth. We learned how to navigate Google Earth to find locations and create our own personal tour of locations. The tour I created was of the five highest peaks in Oregon, which is near and dear to my heart, because I love the mountains. I think that it is very important that students know how to use maps and that students would be very excited to use Google Earth to create their own personal tour of locations. I think maps can be integrated into almost any content area and that Google Earth is something I will most definitely incorporate into a lesson if not more than one in my classroom.

4-17-12
Week 3 in the journey-
Today we learned how to create an I-movie. We are creating a movie for a class project to promote eating healthy and exercising and the positive effects it has on learning in the classroom. This is a very cool project and I see many possibilities for this being used in the classroom. I think that students will be excited to create their own movie, and could create a movie to promote or incorporate almost any subject matter. I also think this could be used to help students learn how to work together in a group. which is very important for students to learn how to do. I am very excited about all the cool technology I am learning about and can use in my future classroom!!:)

4-10-12

Week 2 in the journey-

Today we learned how to use photoshop to create a picture using pictures that were taken from a scanner, the internet, and a camera. I really enjoyed learning how to do this and love the picture I created. I think this could be useful in the classroom in several ways. I could see using this technology to teach a geography lesson, in which students pick a country or state and a landmark from that place to study. The students could take a picture of themselves and then find pictures of that place and landmark to create a new photo of themselves at that location. I think this is a great tool to integrate technology into content areas in the classroom.

The first week of spring term has come and gone and I had my first encounter with a smartboard and am definitely impressed. I am excited to learn how to use one and see the different applications it might have in the classroom. I see the smartboard as a way to use technology in the classroom and have it be interactive with the whole classroom, instead of each individual student working at a computer by themselves. I think that the smartboard could be used in a variety of ways and hope that I will have one in my future classroom. I also went to gotoweb20.net and checked out a couple of websites on the site. The first website was one called picfull and     it is free online photo editing website. I thought this website was really cool and could be used in the classroom as a way to just help students navigate the internet and learn computer skills as well as a possibility for art projects or making posters for the classroom. On picfull you can edit photos to old black and white photos or ones that are outlined in pencil strokes and students could color them in. The second website I went to is called erly and it is a website to create events. I think that this website could also be used in the classroom, I think that students would have fun creating events and posting pictures and blogs about the event. It is only the first week of school and I have already learned several different ways I can use technology in the classroom and discovered several different resources in regards to using technology in the classroom. I am excited to think of all that I will learn by the end of the term!