Powerpoint Presentaions

This week in class we spent time presenting the powerpoints that we made. It was fun to see everyones powerpoints, and to think of ways that I can use them in my classroom. We saw a powerpoint on no smoking I thought that this was a cute idea, to have kids do in the classroom so they can learn about the effects of smoking. There also was another one of guessing who the person was, it gives you facts about the person and then you have to guess who is it. I liked this becasue it gives chilrdren a chance to see if they know the person, and if they don't then they can learn about them through the facts givem. We also had a chance to learn about the solar system. I really liked this powerpoint bedcause it taught me about space. I learned things that I did not know, so I am sure that it will teach children about solar system. We also learned about idioms which was fun.
We learned a lot of great powerpoint presentations that I can use in my classroom. I thought they were all really fun, and I am so excited to use them in my classroom. We also had the chance to dress up and present them. I liked that we did this, because it will help me when I become a teacher and I have to present an idea to my coworkers, I will feel comfortable in doing this.
I also enjoyed working in groups, and hearing other peoples ideas, on how they would like to do the powerpoint. I always think that it is good to work in groups, because it teaches people how to work together. In the world today we all need to know how to work together, therefore I think that this is important to use. The one thing I did not like about working in a group is worrying if the people in your group would do what they were suppose to. If they did not then it reflected on your grade, so that was stressful. All in all I enjoyed it though. I want to incorporate group work in my classroom one day to teach kids how to get along with eachother, and learn how to work together. This a great concept for the children to learn for the rest of their lives. I am glad that I had the chance to learn that when I was young, and still continue to learn it while in college.
It was a great experience, and I am glad that I had the chance to experience it and learn about presenting.

POWERPOINT WEEK

This week in class we got the chance to use our book 50 Quick and Easy powerpoint activities. We worked in groups to create two powerpoint presentations. The two activities that my group chose was the comic strip, and New Year's Resoultions. It was fun doing these activities. I enjoyed thinkning back in the past of what my New Year's Resolutions were back then. It made me laugh when I wrote them down, because they were being nice to my family, playing with my dog, and all of those simple things. Now my resolutins are more complex and totally different from what they are when I was younger. It is interesting to look back and think how simple life was back then and how c0mplex it is now. I enjoyed doing this project.
I am excited that we got a chance to use the book this week, and I enjoyed looking through it and seeing the different power point presentations to do. I hope to use these presentations in my classroom one day. I think it will help to get children aquainted with powerpoint, and learn how to use it and understand it. They are fun activities so they won't get bored.
I enjoyed working with my group we all worked together well, and had great ideas. I am excited to show the class next week our final preojects, and to show them our picture powerpoint presentations.
It was a fun week to learn more about powerpoint, and to get to kn0w the girls better in my class!

More Digital Camera stuff

This week we had to decide 5 ways that we can use digital cameras in our classroom. Here are the 5 ways that I would like to use digital cameras in my classroom.

1. Take pictures of students to put on my seating chart this way I can put the name with the face, and it will help me to learn their names easier.

2. Use pictures on the job chart this way children can see their picture and know that is is their turn to do the job.

3. Take pictures of children showing good behavior, then bring out the picture often to remind them about using good behavior.

4. Take pictures of parties, field trips or activities that we are having in the classroom, post them on a blog so that parents can see what we are doing in the classroom.

5. Take pictures of children to use with an art project, for example making a christmas ornament with their pictures.

These five things are ideas that one day I would like to incorporate into my classroom.

This week in class we used the pictures that we took in groups to make a slideshow presentation using them. Ours was about being safe. This was a lot of fun to do, it is a great learning tool to use in the classroom to keep children safe. I have really enjoyed using digital cameras and I think it is so important to use them in a classroom. It has been fun to learn many different ways that I can use digiatal cameras like taking pictures of the things that we are learning in the classroom, fieldtrips, pictures to make books, making cards and many different things. I am excited to one day do these things in my classroom.

DIGITAL CAMERAS

This week in technology class I learned more about digital cameras and ways that I can incorporate them into my classroom. I was able to read three great articles that gave me ideas on how I can use digital cameras in the classroom. I read a list of 100 ways to use them. I found some great ones like taking individual photos of your studeunts, and using that photo to put in the job chart. I also liked the idea of taking photos of field trips or any parties or big classroom events that you have. I thought this would be fun to do, and then I can email these photos to parents, so that they can see the things that we are doing in the classroom. This will give them a way to be more apart of the things that we are doing in school. I also liked the ideas of taking photos of things that we are learning about in the classroom. For example taking photos of community helpers, to teach the children about people in their community. I also read an article on using a digital camers properly, this was good to read, because sometimes I have questions about my digital camera, and this helped answer some of them. It taught me that if I want to print off my photos then I need to make sure that I keep my resolution turned up to the highest JPEG or TIFF. Also sometimes I forget to bring extra batteries along with me on trips, and this gave me a good reminder to remember to always have a spare battery. I also learned if I want to take pictures of something that is fast moving I need to turn off my LCD screen preview and it should work faster. In the third article I read about incorporating computers in my classroom using digital photography. A kindergarten teacher had her children learn how to use a digital camera and then learn how to upload them to the computer, and then taught them how to crop and change the pictures to look better. I thought this was such a great idea, it taught children how to use cameras, and how to better work a computer. The article said that it really did help the children to become more confident with computers. Someday I would like to do the same with my classroom, because it is very important for students to learn how to use computers.
This week in class was a lot of fun I had a great time working in groups taking pictures. During this time I got to know the girls better, and learned more about the core curriculum. I learned more about Picassa and how to change photos on there and make the pictures look better. It was a great week in class, I am grateful that I had the chance to learn about this stuff.

POWERPOINT FUN!

This week in technology we learned how to do powerpoints. I am pretty familar with powerpoint, becasue in high school I was the publicist of our dance company so I had to make a power point presentation for our end of the year concert. But here I learned how to add music to the powerpoint I was not able to figure out that in high school, so I was excitred to learn how. I also learned how to hyperlink. This is so cool, if there was a website that I want to look at during my presentation I can just hyperlink it to my page and go right to it from there. This was so nice to learn so that during my presentation, I don't have to click out of the whole thing I can just go right from there. I also learned how to add a graph to the powerpoint. I am so grateful that I learned Excel so that I know exactly what to do with my graph, and then to add it right to my presentation.
This will be such a great tool for me to use in my classroom one day. Just like me I will probabaly have children that are visual learners. I can help them in doing my lessons through a powerpoint presentation. I can have pictures of what we are learning about, and music to go along with the lesson plan. This will help the children to see what we are learning right there in front of them.
I am so glad that I learned how to powerpoint presentation, it will be so great to use in my classroom, even if I have to do a presentation, for the teachers that I am working with it is a great thing to learn.