Web Site evalutain.

I think that it is important that you make sure that any websites you are using especially to teach with are of a certain quality. I think that by using an evaluation on the website you can make sure you are only using good quality web pages to teach in you classroom. You can also use them to ensure that if you are creating a web site that it is a good quality website.

Google docs.

I have never even heard about a Google doc before I heard about it in this class. I think that it is a great tool. I would use this to teach some editing skills in my classroom. I think that I wold sent an article or two that needed to be edited and have the students go in and edit them.

Web Quest

I have never heard of a web quest until we talked about them in class. I can see how a web quest could be a fun way for students to learn. I think that for a web quest to be useful it has to be well though out and well put together. I think that it needs to be fun as well as educational. I had a hard time critiquing the web quest thinking in a way I usually do not. I find that it is hard to look at something in a way that you usually wouldn't.

Photo Editing.

I loved learning about photo editing with picasa. I love to take pictures of my daughter. As most people who know her know she does not stand still for very long, making it hard to get good shots. I feel like with this software will help me make better pictures. I think that it would be fun to use this in the class to make an all about me collage. Kids could take pictures or even bring some from home and I could scan them and we could make a collage.

I enjoyed learning how to make a story book using power points. I think that this would be so fun fro students. and it is something that would keep them really interested. I think that you could make the story books and have the students present them to their parents. When you use technology in your class room it keeps students engaged, like in the video we wached. If the student are interested and invested in what they are doing, you are less likely to have problems with behavior, and not doing the work.

class 3

I thought that it was interesting to learn about the way we can implement technology in our class. I was thinking about how so many teachers utilize you tube in their class rooms. When I was observing in a kindergarten class right after Barak Obama won the presidency, the kids thought he was Martin Luther King. The Teacher decided to pull some videos about the two off you tube to help the kids understand the difference. I Really enjoyed listening to everyone lesson plan, it gave me some great ideas for future use.

For my lesson plan I chose to do a science lesson and how the moon and earth move in relation to each other, and the phases of the moon. The lesson is for a 3rd grade class. I took my lesson from 2 different lesson plans A moon with a view and as the world turns.

http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview?LPid=21634

http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview?LPid=2351

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=swf::800::600::/sites/dl/free/0072482621/78778/Lunar_Nav.swf::Lunar%20Phases%20Interactive