Google Docs

I really liked learning about Google Docs. I have already started using it a great deal for my other college classes. It is a wonderful tool that you could use in your classroom to help keep things in order and limit the amount of paper that you use! I think, even though this is a less fancy tools that we have learned about, it is one of my favorites. I set up a Google Doc today to help out some kids who were missing from my Student Success Class today to provide them with information that they missed!

Picture, pictures and more pictures

These last two weeks I must admit that this was not my favorite assignment. I thought it was going to be hard and that even though I was taught what to do, that I would feel lost. However, as time went on and I started really working on editing all my pictures in Picasa, I realized that i really enjoyed it. I liked seeing how you could have a picture more interesting with those options. It was also good to learn how to do a power point. I think that these have been extremely valuable skills to learn that will assist me in being a teacher and helping keep my students attention in certain lessons.

Photo editing and power points.

This week it has been hard for me to find anytime to actually do this assignment, but what with what I have been able to do I have really enjoyed learning how to use Picasa. It is good to finally know some basics about photo editing. This week I'm very much looking forward to learning about Power Points. I feel very behind the times that I don't really know how to put one together. I think combining these two skills will help me be a better teacher and find new ways to make lessons more attention grabbing. I know that I enjoy my classes more when the teacher has a power point. Currently my Health teacher does a lot of cute fun things with her power points. I want to be able to do that too!

Digital Camera

I think having a classroom camera is a wonderful idea. I know that in my mothers class she had a camera and she uses it to make class posters of the students. I think that would be a cute thing to have up in your classroom. I also think that it is a fun way for them to do their work, because kids today are very skilled when it comes to technology. You could have their name and a little fact about them as a get to know you thing. I also think that it is a good idea to have to kids do assignments with the camera. Whether it is for them to find specific things and take pictures of them... or to create charts, stories, art projects and instructional posters! I think this will be something that I will implement in my own classroom!