Reflection

I really don't know what to write about in my reflection this week. Because we just worked on our final projects again. I am really enjoying doing them and they are not that hard. I still think that all the tools will be great in my future. I just need to spend more time on getting everything done. I think the hardest part for me is coming up with ideas what to write about. My mind has been a complete blank. I hope in the future i will be able to think better.

Class this week

This week I only made it to computer class one day unfortunately. But the day I went we just worked on our projects that are due for before our final day. It is going to be a lot of work but worth it. I think it will teach me how to use this tools and make other things when I someday have a class of my own. I will learn to be more crafty in it. I just hope that I can do it all right and get a good grade. I did have a little part of the class that I didn't like. I asked someone about it and they were very abrupt and said its in the announcements look there and then looked away. Her tone was rude and I was like ok that was kind of rude. If the roles would of been opposite I would of tried to take the time to explain to this person what she missed. But I guess that I am just different. I am going to use this as that sometimes people will miss a day because they are sick. When I am a teacher I am going to help my students as much as I can. (Even though it was not my teacher that was rude.) I guess from now on when I need help I will just go to someone else who will be nicer about it.

kidspiration

This week for computer class we had to go in and look at the program kidspiration. I found it really interesting. I think it would be a really good tool to use for elementry kids to give them the extra help in their class subjusts.
They had many subjects the first one that I looked at was math. Because I was already thinking about math. In each subject they have a lot of different things that you can do, like addition, subraction even word problems I have always had a hard time with word problems so I thought that it was really neat. I also looked in word and science. The other one that I found intersesting was social studies you could make a map of the us they had all the states in there you just had to put them in place.
Hopefully someday I can use this when I have students and they can learn a little more than I can teach them. I think it would also be fun to get and use for my own children at home.

50 activities on Power point

This week in computer class was fun. We got into groups and had to go through our Activity book for power point. I had a really fun group that was easy to get along with. These activities are easy to do, even though they require some work. They also seem really fun and seem like a good tool that you can use for teaching. They have many different subjects the two that we used were one that you describe a character and you have to put things that they did in your life and the children get to guess who it was. The other one that we did was you are terrific that one was really fun we put everyone that was in our group and put good characteristics about them. For most of us that was the first time we really met each other, but we came up with good things. I think that this will be a really good tool to use in my future, because I think that it will be easy for me to put it together and it will be fun for the children to do it.

Digital Cameras #2

So last weeks reflection was on the articles I read about digital cameras this week I have to mention ways that I will use a digital camera in my class room.
I think that their can be many ways that you can use a digital camera in your class room. Some I mentioned last week.
1- I think that you could use pictures with your students name tags. That way at the beginning of the year it would be easier for you to remember their names and if you have subs come in to know their names.
2-You can use a camera for class projects if the kids are older and you trust them with a camera this would work really well, you could teach them how to print their pictures and they could make a demonstration of it.
3- When you have a class party you can take pictures of the party and make a slide show of it and show it in class or send it to the parents of the students.
4- If you are trying to teach something you could take pictures of it and show the kids the pictures.
5- You could use it as a birthday chart so when it is one of the kids birthdays their picture will be up.
I think that digital cameras are becoming a big thing. I love my digital camera it is so nice to see the picture right after I take it and if I mess up I can take another one. I think that it will be fun to use in my classroom someday. Just so I can have the memories and the children in my class can have the memories of the year.

Digital cameras

This week in computer class, we learned about digital cameras. I already have one and know how to use it so it was really nothing new for me. I think that they are a really neat tool. At least you don't have to buy film and have to wait for the pictures, you have them right away. You can also get pictures developed if you want. I think for my future if I use a camera for classes that I will buy an extra one for my classes. I want to teach preschool and a lot of them learn by pictures, so it will be a good way to go.
The articles that we read, the first one that I read had a lot of different ways that you can use a digital camera the one that I really liked was to have their pictures with their name tag, that way if you have a sub, they will be able to know who all the students are. I think that is a good idea, also to have their pictures with your roll. The second one that I read talked about how they did a case study and they taught kindergartners how to use a camera and download them on a computer. I thought that was so neat that these kids could do that. The last article that I read talked about what you should think about before you buy a camera like what type of pictures you are going to take and the size.
Someday I want a better camera but what I have now will be fine for my needs now.

Power point

I have always enjoyed power point. I think that it is a fun tool to use. This week in class we got to play with power point, I can't wait until we can do actual projects. I tend to be a visual learner so I enjoy when my teachers use power point.
I will use it in my future as a teacher. It will be good when I am teaching and want to have pictures or need help explaining things. I think it helps kids understand it better. I think that after a class party you could also make a slide show of the party and show it to your class. A fun thing that I also would want to do is add pictures from the whole year and give the kids from my class a DVD from the year. I think it would be a fun way from them to remember the year forever.

Internet Safety

This week in class we learned about Internet safety. I think that is one of the best things you can learn. There are so many scary things on the Internet. Not only that but there are websites that can't be good.
I will want to use the safety in my classrooms so that the kids will never look at things that they are not supposed to or get into a situation that they shouldn't be in.
We also learned about how to tell if an Internet site is a good one. Basically if it has accurate information on it. There are many times when I have looked up a topic and it was not the right information.
I will use this information in my future classes, by showing the children which type of sites are good and which are not. So when they look stuff up they will not be misinformed, but know the truth.

UEN Reflection

UEN Reflection
I think that it will be cool to use UEN in my future. It is a good place for my classes to go and find out assignments and have a good reference place to go to. I especially liked the pioneer library, because it had a lot of things for all different ages. So they will be able to understand it better. I really like the searchasaurus. I like that it is kid friendly. This is a picture from that site of a ornate horned frog.


I also like how they have the lesson plans, it will help me plan my lessons for the future and it will be kid appropriate for the age that they are.
The core Curriculum is also nice because it has lessons separated in age group so I will be able to know everything that they need to know. I will be able to have a guideline of what I need.
I really like the virtual tours, they are really fun to watch and they will also help my students learn for their future. Another thing that I liked is that they have the Utah licensing one it. It will be more convenient for me than my students, but it is a good tool.

Google sites/Uen

This week in class we learned about google sites and UEN.
I thought it was a lot of fun to make my google site. It will come in handy someday when I have my own class. Someday when I am a teacher I am going to want to make a site that will tell stories about my class, so parents can look at it and know everything that is going on. You can also put links on it for other sources that you can use for a class.
Today we learned about the UEN site. It has a lot of information on it. What I liked most about it is that you have your private page and also a public page. So you only have to display things that your students will need to see. It has it so you can have a dictionary, calendar, and many others. It will be another good tool for parents to look at. Also there are links to archive so if your class needs to do a report on anything, they can go to the site and look it up.
Someday as a teacher I am going to have both of these things available to my class. What I like about everything that we are learning is that they all work together. They all have a place for links so it will be easier for someone to go from one place to another. That would make it easy so you wouldn't have to remember a lot of different sites.

Microsoft word and excel

This week we learned about Microsoft word. I think that it is good to know about it. You can do so many things just with word. You can make tables, documents, newletters, fliers and many other things. I can't wait to play around with it and see everything you can do. A cool thing that you can do is take pictures and put them in your document. A fun assignment we did this week, was to find pictures on the internet of our dream computer. I really enjoyed doing this exercise. I think it would be fun someday as a teacher maybe around Christmas, have the children make up a wish list or something like that. Or if it is in the Spring they could do a paper of things that remind them of spring.

I have used word before, but it has only been to write papers, I also used it when I was a primary secretary to make the roles and teachers list.

I will use it in my future as a teacher, I think it will be cool as a teacher to have weekly, biweekly, or monthly newsletters that children can take home to their parents, just showing everyone what we are doing in our class. You could even put the children's birthdays on it. If I am working with older Children, we could even do it as a class project.
This week we also did pie charts on excel. It was easier than I thought. That is one thing I like I like about excel it can figure things out like that for you. Excel can also be used for many things, you could do your finances on it, you can do charts, and if you want to you can do grades(though there have been better ways that have came out). For my future classes, I think it will just be fun to show them how to use pie charts or any type of chart.

Wording things right

This week at school has been busy. I had an assignment and a quiz that was harder than it should of been. I think mainly it was because of how it was worded. If I had been studying these subjects for a long time, it would have been easier to understand. But even after talking to a lot of other classmates they had the same problem. I had studied hard for this quiz, but I still don't feel like I did a good job.
I hope that someday when I am a teacher that I will be able to word things right so all of my students will be able to understand and not have any problems with the assignments or tests. If not I hope that I will be able to help them understand after what I meant. It is something I am going to start working on now.