Last Day of Class

This term has seemed to just fly by. I have to say that this was my favorite class this term. I liked that we were able to work with such a range of technology. From iPods and iPads to Podcasts to ivideo to creating a webpage. I really like my webpage! http://www.wou.edu/~ssmith07/myweb/home.html It is a collection of the different places that I worked this summer so it was kind of a special project for me =) I had never used dreamweaver before either so if was interesting to create the webpage there. When I get my own classroom, I will now know how to create a webpage for families and the students.

Websites

We started working on how to create websites today. We started off by going to go2web20.com and i chose to go to websites-Lifeyo to create my first practice website. It was fun! I could get pictures off the internet for both the background and for in the site itself, and i could create new pages that i could access from the homepage and put whatever info i wanted in. I think i might use this site when i am a teacher to create a website for my classroom. Then we started working in Dreamweaver. Its pretty confusing. But mainly remember to save it in the public html and use dreamweaver=)

iPads and iPods

Today we got to work with both iPods and iPads. I have never played with an iPad before and that was really fun. We took a look at different applications on both programs that we will take and make a lesson of sorts out of that we could use in the classroom. I found several applications for phonics and word lessons that i will try to create a lesson out of. We also created our own iPod application which was pretty cool. It was about dolphins. we didnt save our projects though =(

PodCasting

Today we took a look at iTunes and different podcasts with relation to education. I found an interesting one about outdoor education n Scotland. There are also some neat ones that other students shared-math, greek gods(Hercules), and language learning. We will then put together our own podcast using garageband.

Real or a Hoax

So today we started looking at websites to try and determine whether or not they were a hoax or real. We learned  that if we go to Snopes and can check the validity of sites. We also worked some with the smart board and got to use the clickers and write on the smart board. I learned that if I ever have to use the board in my room if I become a teacher I will have to practice a lot!

GoogleEarth Day

Today we worked on finishing our iMovie and then we explored GoogleEarth. So we picked a topic to explore with google earth-My topic is "Places in Oregon that have been named after Animals" So for each place, we have use a pushpin/place holder to mark the location and then use use Edit information to add a linked picture and linked information on the location. The addresses were <img src="_______"> <a href="____"> more about___ </a> is the format followed. Now I just have to figure out how to set up the tour to visit all the places on my map!

Class 3

In our third class of technology, we started working with iMovie. Melissa, Jaime and I decided to make a persuasive ad for getting enough sleep and how not getting enough is harmful. So during class, we went and shot some of our scenes. Then we came back and started putting it together on iMovie. We even got as far as to add some transitions and titles!