Final Tech. in Ed. Project

All of my project is in my DropBox but here are some links. 
MyRubric
StoryBird
The rest is on DropBox =) 

End of the Semester Reflection

What have you learned regarding technology in education this semester?  
I learned the importance of incorporating the right kind of tech in my future classes. There are a lot of things I want to replicate also many I want to improve on. I will use a lot of the lesson plan ideas I made for this class as well as the lessons that others made. 

 What progress have you made on the NETS for Teachers that you focused on this semester? 
I focused on these NETS:
 Student NETS
 5. Digital Citizenship
Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.
Teacher NETS 
2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S

 I have learned to help students have a global world view and incorporate that into lessons. Students need to understand why they are learning what they're learning.

week 14 Reflection

In my Instructional Design class Camille did a lesson plan using her Gumball Math SmartBoard presentation. It was great. We were very engaged with her game and participating with the lesson. Her use of technology engaged her students. In the future I want to make SmartBoard presentation to engage my students. 

week 14 Response

Before Class:  Do research regarding the future of education and technology.  Post an entry regarding what you found.  Be ready to share in class.
link
Distance education is a major advancement in Education. Technology makes globalization possible. We can attend a school across the country now through the internet. This is the future of Education. This article in the Economist references the term "digital natives" and how student's "tool kit" now has smart phones, laptops, and ipads rather than paper and pen. I am sure that we will go paperless in the very near future.  

Week 13 Reflection

This week was shortened by our Thanksgiving festivities but I saw, in my Structures of English class, technology used very effectively. My professor posted a worksheet on the board for us to all read aloud together. It was a fun little poem to help us understand pronouns. Students gave their full attention and really wrapped their heads around Pronouns! Technology for the win.

Week 13 Response

Before Class:  Create an entry with a list of the features of Word, Excel & PowerPoint  that you use on a regular basis.  List 3 projects that you could have your students do to learn or use Word, Excel or PowerPoint

I use word almost daily. It is used to write papers for my classes mostly. The double space feature and the font, type size, and color features are used a lot. 
I never use Excel and I'm not really sure of how to use it...
PowerPoint is used occasionally. I'm not very good at using this either but I use the pre-made templates and move the text box around often. I have to change the font size a lot through the making of a PowerPoint presentation.

Word: The students would write a journal entry and email it to me.
Excel: The students would tally the amount of times students say "um" during our presentations.
PowerPoint:Students would create a PowerPoint presentation in a group project about their assigned reading.
 

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