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!

1 comment:

  1. Great first post, and a nice story that connects tech with people!

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