THIS WEEK IN TECHNOLOGY CLASS!

This week in technology boy did I learn alot! I got a chance to work with the UEN website, and I learned a lot about this website. We had a chance to do a scavenger hunt with this website. Here I leanrned how to upload videos, documents. and pictures. This was so great to learn for one day when I have my own classroom. This will be a great tool for me to use, in uploading videos I would like my children to watch. to help them better understand what we are learning in class right now. For example if we are learning about counting money, I could upload a video onto UEN and have them watch it to better understand the concept. I also can tell the children about myself and post pictures of myself so that they can learn more about me. UEN was a little hard to understand at first but after I go use to it then it was pretty simple, which is a good thing becasue teachers don't have a lot of time to sit and try to figure out computer systems. They need to be fast and easy, and UEN was both of these. UEN was a great thing to learn, and I am so glad that I got the chance to learn it.
I also had the chance to learn about internet safety for children. This is so important to learn becasue we need to be making sure that our children are safe on the internet in our classroom and at home. If teachers take the time to teach children about safety on the internet, then we can help them to be safe. I found lots of great websites to use for internet safety for example http://home.disney.go.com/guestservices/safety, was a great website for children to use that had lots of fun games to play. I also found many other great websites that I can use in my classroom when I have one. They had great games for children to play to learn the tips they need to know. I also got to make an activity I found websites to have the children look at, then I was going to have them make up skits using the safety tips. One day I hope to do this activity in my classroom.
I learned alot in technology this week, that will benefit when I am a teacher, I am excited to learn more next week!

UEN Reflection Paper

UEN REFLECTION PAPER
This week I learned how to use the UEN website. This is such a great tool that one day I will use in my classroom. I loved how I could look up the curriculum and find lesson plans for the grade that I want to teach. It had so many great ideas. They had lots of great ideas on how to teach lessons and, many resources that you could use to teach.
I liked using Pioneer Library you could find cute videos to show the children to watch through emedia, showing different core curriculums. You could also use the tool searchasaurus which is great to use in the classroom to teach children about animals, health, and history etc.
I enjoyed looking through the core curriculum and researching what one day I will teach the students in my classroom. It helped me to better understand the core curriculum. They also had great ideas on interactive to do with the kids. For example they have quizzes that you can use to make sure that the children comprehended the curriculum that we have learned.
I really enjoyed UEN I think that it will be a great way to help children learn how to use computers, and to keep up on school. If they have a website that they can go onto and see what assignments we are doing in class in will be so much easier to understand, and stay caught up on school.

FUN WITH WEBSITES!

This week was a week of making lots of fun websites. I had the chance to make my own personal webpage on google. Here I talked about ten of my dreams, which was fun to write down and remeber, and just to dream. I also wrote a paragraph about myself. This is such a great thing to know how to do for when I get a classroom one day. Here I can go on and talk about myself, and just let the kids know who their teacher is. I also learned how to insert pictures, and use many great tools that can help with any project that I need to do. It was so much fun and I am so grateful that I got the chance to get my own website, and to know that I made a website. I also made a UEN website this week. This is the best thing to have for teachers. Here I can find great search tools to look up ideas for lesson plans, or even to look up meanings of words. It also has a calendar on this website, so that in my classroom I can write down everything we are going to do in class. Then I can write all of the homewrork, and when it is due. This is a great way for students and parents to know what we will be learning in class and what the homewwork will be. I also learned how to make my webpage more personal by decorating it. I decorated it with an orange layout and a pumpkin as my icon, becasue Halloween is coming up. Here i can bookmark all of my favorite websites and just be able to go to my UEN and find my websites from there. Every teaher needs a UEN, and I am grateful that I have one now. This week was a great week in technology class, and more to come.

WOW I learned alot this week in technology class!

So this week in technology class was another great week of learning many new and important things. I never realized how much i did not know about technology, there is so much out there to know about computers it is amazing. We started out the week by making our dream computers using Microsoft Word! My dream computer was an iMac, of course because they are simply the best computers. Doing my dream computer, I learned some of the "secrets" that there is on word. I learned how to use the painter that paints all of your word the same font and color without having to highlight them. That was nice to know because it will help save a lot of time. I also got a refresher of how to insert pictures and text into word which is always a good reminder. This will help me in my classroom, to write notes using word to parents, or simply just to make assignments for my children in the classroom. It is good to know these things so that I can make my assignments with lots of pictures, and fun colorful text. Making it more interesting for the children to look at, and want to do the assignment. I also had the chance to become familiar with Excel. I had never really used Excel before so I learned a lot. With Excel we picked out our favorite olympic event which mine is swimming because of beautiful Michael Phelps. We put down the toal of medals won, and made a pie chart using these numbers. It was so cool to learn how to make a pie chart. This will be a great tool to use in my classroom, I can do grades on there, or I can put in kids math scores in for example then make a pie chart and see how well the children are doing in math, or any other subject. It was so much fun to learn. I am enjoying learning so much, and can't wait to learn more!

What I learned this week in Technology Class!

This week I learned a lot of new things about technology, it was great. I got a blog which I had never even knew how to do. I thought this was a good idea in getting because I can use this in my classroom. It can give the children in my classroom a way to learn a lot more about me. They can know the background of the person who teaches them everyday. It can also give me a way to post up homework assignments, letting the parents know that their child has homework, because a lot of the times the child forgets they have homework, or they just don't want to do it. I also got a face book. I am really glad that I got this because it seems like everyone in college has a face book, and I never had one. All of my friends kept trying to talk me into getting one and I just never got around to getting one. I have now joined the twenty first century, and my friends are all so proud of me that I finally got one! I also got a chance to do a crossword and learn more about the hardware basics of a computer. I did not know a lot of the basics of a computer.I felt that it helped me to become more acquainted with the computer. Now I know a lot more about computers and how they run. Which will be good for the future in my classroom when I need to learn how to use a computer. I really enjoyed learning all about technology this week, and am excited for next week!

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