today was our last workshop! this was a very sad occasion.
today was focused on our photo story presentation. i found this program very interesting. it will be useful for my chosen career. this program will help me to educate my students in an interesting, fun and interactive way. the children remained interested in the lesson and i believe this will enhance the childrens learning.
today we continued working on our inspiration mindmap….. i found today a lot easier as i recieved help from Mark in this lesson. i then started my powerpoint presentation on my interactive whiteboard. i found this not as challenging as the inspiration program as i have had experience with this program before.
both of these programs will be useful when teaching, as they can be used a tool when teaching!
today again we focused alot on our excel portfolio as there was still pieces that we had not done in the previous workshop. we focused alot on working out whether the children passed or failed and what there grade was. this was a long and complicated process but this ws a great activity and i havel learnt now how to compentently use an excel spreadsheet to record as classes marks.
today we learnt alot about excel, and i focused alot on my portfolio item to make sure that everything was correct as i was having trouble working out the adding of the marks and sums etc.
however, once it was explained i understood exactly what i was doing. this lesson was extremely helpful and i will use the skills learnt in this lesson when im in the workforce as a teacher as a useful tool to recorded marks.
Today i published my portfolio item number 4 and then we focused mainly on excel documents. we learnt and practised adding and recording data in our spreadsheet. we gaathered information from people around us. we then learnt how to calculate the numbers in different cells. this is done easy and i know this will be useful when recording different information as a teacher, for example when adding results from assessments. we also learnt a variety of other functions including finding the sum, average, highest and lowest values. also about how to merge and add the date.
during my study week, i ensured that all my weekly posts were up too date as well as my portfolio items. i also ensured that all me readings were up to date and that i understood everything in the readings.
i also completed my portfolio item number four. i found it difficulty to decide what information to put into my autobiography. i found some photos that were relevant to the information that i had talked about. this portfolio item was very useful as i believe i will be able to use this function when i am teaching.
today i spent most of the lesson finalising my portfolio item which was the webquest anaylsis. i learnt new skils while doing this which included adding the hyperlink into my blog, and marking someone else work to this level in which i have never had any experience so far.
we also went through the next portfolio item which was to make a document in word about us and our history, using the publisher software.
i found that both of these portfolios are useful as i will be able to use them in my future career as a teacher as the webquest i can use to help my students learn about a particular topic in a fun and different way. i can also use publisher to get them to make a document in publisher, either as an information or as an english task (biography). overall this was a very useful lesson and i feel i benefited greatly from it!
Today we went through how to write a blog and what the difference between saving and publishing it is. We also went through how to navigaye around our site, as well as adding an attachment by pressing upload and finding the file and adding a title.
I also learnt that i need to add these widgets (search, categories, links and meta) onto my page through the presentation file.
i also learnt how to add someone elses link onto my page through the blogroll option. i also learnt how to put my blogs into a category.
i also learnt some helpful web searching techinques, that will be useful when doing my own uni assignments, researching for information when i am teaching, and helping the children my class research their own assessments. hopefully they will take this information into their secondary years of their education.
i was reading the study guide from week one and found it interesting to read about how ICT was introduced into schools and why it was interested. ICT is technology that can be used when gathering , accessing, presenting or communicating information. i also found it useful to know that while ICT can mean things other than computers such as digital cameras, video camers and computers, ED113 will be limited to computers only.
i also learnt in workshop 3 that the internet means a series of interconnected networks. to find your IT address use this time: DNS (Domain Name System) where every computer has a name and a number and this program will be able to find the name for the user.
