This ICT course seems to be going ok these days, however, I have a love, hate relationship with creating websites! Sometime I want to rip my hair out, ha! I love the idea of a website, but I am finding it hard to be satisfied with it, eventually I will be I hope. I have so far a wide range of subject areas on my classroom website, but I think over the weekend I am just going to narrow it down to Physical Education, because that is the area I would like to teach. I have so many questions that I haven't been able to ask in class, like how to put the wordle on the website? How to put a calander, how to put a "hit" box, and all that cool, engaging stuff that a child would find attractive. The goal for my site is for it to be clean, sleek and easy, not over loaded with a bunch of information. I am also questioning my design, it's darker with a little color, not really "child friendly" if you will, but I kind of like it. This weekend I hope to complete my teacher website, and get a lot done on my ePortfolio, I love the e Portfolio!
Next week in ICT, what is the group presentation about? Hmm...and I am excited for the smartboard since I never really did get to have a look at what it can really do. Also, blogging is actually nice, I want to focus a little more on making my blog page better as well, I have looked at other blog sites and they are awesome! That is all for now, soon I will be going into technology overload lol!
Second year Education student at Brandon University, expanding my knowledge!
Friday, January 25, 2013
Saturday, January 19, 2013
First two weeks in ICT
Coming into the ICT course which is offered at Brandon University I was excited and still am! Although I do not get along very well with technology I am going to try my very best to learn what Mike will be teaching us this term. The first week was basically an introduction and also showing the class cool things on the internet, like wordle. It was very neat to see that there are very neat sites available online to make great use of in your life! Wuth wordle, you could make posters, a word splash...things that we are able to take into our future classrooms. I am a little late in creating my blog, and I don't even know if I am doing it right but I am trying and that's what counts. I was always interested in creating a blog after I was visiting some sites and came across a blogger (she uses wordpress), her son died from a form of childhood cancer and she is soooo raw! Her blog is called "ROCKSTAR RONAN". It also caught the attention of country music super star, Taylor Swift, to write a song about her little boy, Ronan, who also used parts of writing from her blog posts and she was named "co-writer" of the song. The song is titled, "Ronan" and it is such a sweet song. This just goes to show how with technology, we are so connected!
Well, I am looking forward to this term in ICT really, at first I wasn't...but the e-portfolio sounds like a good idea, I never really thought of that until coming into the course. I like how we go over as a class of what types of content we should include in our projects, it really helps me with direction. This week we also had a presentation by Andy and Darren on "What Really Matters" in technology and education. This was a very nice little P.D. sesh, if you will. With the knowledge I gained today and if I didn't have so much work to do, I would make posters or pictures with writing and quotes! Also, I need to start a flicker account.
Sorry for starting up my blog two weeks into the course, but I look forward to blogging each week about the fun and challenging activities that have yet to come, throughout the ICT course!
Well, I am looking forward to this term in ICT really, at first I wasn't...but the e-portfolio sounds like a good idea, I never really thought of that until coming into the course. I like how we go over as a class of what types of content we should include in our projects, it really helps me with direction. This week we also had a presentation by Andy and Darren on "What Really Matters" in technology and education. This was a very nice little P.D. sesh, if you will. With the knowledge I gained today and if I didn't have so much work to do, I would make posters or pictures with writing and quotes! Also, I need to start a flicker account.
Sorry for starting up my blog two weeks into the course, but I look forward to blogging each week about the fun and challenging activities that have yet to come, throughout the ICT course!
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