Blogfolio

1.Introduction Video In this assignment we had 30 seconds to tell the camera about ourselves. Although 30 seconds does not seem that long it was very difficult to come up with things off the top of your head to talk about. I am not shy at all, so this assignment was right up my alley. I enjoyed this assignment because I learned a lot about the other students in the class. This assignment could be something great to use the first week of school in my class room. It would allow my students to know the rest of the class so that they could get along and know one another the rest of the year. The ISTE NETS-T standard met for the assignment is 3C. It meets this standard because we had to use media to introduce our selves to the class rooms by video. 2.Concept Map In this assignment we had to choose a topic that we could teach in our class room. My topic that I chose was high school sports. I used soccer, baseball, basketball, softball, and football. We had to research our sub topics to put information in our concept map. We also had to have two hyperlinks. I choose for my hyperlinks a website that shows children with disabilities play those sports. I choose that to encourage my special needs students to play a sport and that everything is possible. I loved this assignment. It allowed me to see what a great idea this is to use in my class room. The ISTE NETS-T standard met for the assignment is 2A. I think this meets the standard because we had to use a computer which is a digital tool to create our concept map and to research all of our items listed in our concept map. 3.Khan Academy In this assignment we had to watch a video during class on a man named Salman Khan and then we had to write a blog on what we thought about this video. I loved the video because the way he took the time to teach children was amazing to me. The way he took the time to make the YouTube videos to teach certain subjects to help students that have difficulties in certain subjects. This assignment helped me understand that children all will learn different ways. The ISTE NETS-T standard met for the assignment is 3B because Khan used digital resources to teach students learn the materials all different ways that students may learn. 4.Voki In this assignment we had to go to a website called Voki to make a character that could talk just a human. I did not quite understand why this assignment was necessary, but I did that assignment and I played around with it. I that then realized that in a classroom younger student might get help from this assignment. It can better help students in the class remember what was said if an animal is talking to them. ISTE NETS- T standard that was met for the assignment was 2a because we used digital tools to design our Voki character. 5.Gap Minder In this assignment we had to go to gapminder.com and choose a continent to that we wanted to learn about. You could find many things out about that continent like the wealth, the health of people, education, boys vs. girl ratio, work, and so many more. This site was actual overwhelming to choose a subject to blog about. The ISTE NETS-T standards in this assignment were 1b because we had to explore the website that charted problems and information about the continents. 6.World Peace Games In this assignment we had to watch John Hunters World Peace Game. Hunter was a very different character to me, he was very open to his students and got all of them thinking very differently in the class room. For the age I will be teaching I think it is was to in depth for my students to understand and think like that. In this assignment one the ISTE NETS-T standards is video were 1C because we had to reflect what we learning on the video and blog about it. We had to reflect what we learned from him how we might need to teach our students if they need to be taught differently to better understand in the class room. 7.Movie Maker In this assignment we had to choose ten pictures to make a movie video. I extremely loved this assignment. I loved how we could also put in our personal touches into this movie. At first I did not even know that this program existed, and once I started learning about the assignment I wanted to do more. We also had to pick a song to go all with our video to make it more creative. In this assignment one of the ISTE NETS-T standard are 1A because we had to be very creative to make the video and put our on details with the music and pictures in it. 8.Xtranormal For this assignment we had to go to a website called Xtranormal where we had to do a public service announcement. We had to choose characters, their voices, the settings, their hand motions, and facial expressions. My public service announcement was kids fighting hunger. I enjoyed this assignment, it was very interesting and it was something I had never done before. In this assignment one of the ISTE NETS-T standard are 1B because we had to use a digital tool to promote and teach a real problem to others. 9.Software and Hardware Terminology In this assignment we had to all pick our all hardware and software shortcuts. This assignment was very helpful me, especial since I always use a computer. We had to anwer questions about the Mr. Beedle about hardware and software and we had to answer in our blogs. In this assignment the ISTE NETS-T standard 2D because we were assigned question by our teacher based on the technology that we learned. 10. Website In the assignment I believe it was the hardest, it had a lot of detail that we had to enter on our website. I had to be really creative to come up with ideas for a website for my parents to look at online if their child was in my class. On this website we got to make it how we wanted it, add our own personal touches to the website. Since we had to do this website in such a short time I feel like my website was not the best it can be, but I learned what I would need to do in the future so when I will have to do a website for my actual class room I will be more prepared and it will look a lot more professional. The ISTE NETS- T standard met for this assignment was 1A because it talks about being creative, and in when making the website we had to be creative and put our own personal touches to make it like us. Course Reflection When I first started in this class I did not know what to expect, this was actually one of my first classes as a special education major. I enjoyed this class a lot, I loved how we stayed on the computers and learned more about them. I also loved how we learned and talked about the SmartBoard. Since the SmartBoards are now becoming more popular in the class room I loved that we used it some in class and wrote on the board. I also like how we read so many different articles and kept up with the news. My two favorite assignments that we did in the class room were the movie and the website. These were both so interesting to me. I loved how we could add our own personal touches to the website, and when I become a teacher now I will know what to do to better my website for parents of my students can see. The movie maker assignment was very neat also, I did not even know I could ever do that. Technology is going to always be used in the classroom so learning different ways to better my class room was great. I truly enjoyed this class.

Voki #14

To all the colleges that rejected me #17

I think the article was very funny and truthful. I have heard my whole life in highschool that you need to graduate with honors and do community service it will help you get into college. I like her since of humor in this article, she things she talks about I do fully believe, but I believe that the things you can do in highschool can prepare you for college, but it does not make any difference if you do not do these things.

Gapminder #15

On gapminder I researched to population of children from 0 to 4 years old and their life expectancny. The life expectancy 76 percent of children live to age 4. The 14 percent pass away mostly from diseases that they get in the first months of life. I hate that little children lose their lives at a early age becasue of their living conditions.