Videos!

ICT just got even more fun! In highschool I was apart of a video but didn't really get the chance to make one myself. This time around, our group shot one video and we are splitting into two groups and editing the same video. Which should work out cool, being able to see the different outcomes of each video, that is. I missed Monday's class so I did not get the chance to decide on which group I would be in so I joined the a few of the girls from class on Tuesday, and we had a great time shooting! In the classroom this would be such a great tool for students to be interactive and get the chance to develop their understanding and skills with media technology! I only wish I had the chance to do such projects in high school! Being able to incorporate this type of work early in life can perhaps set a student up to make an early career choice, if they are really interested in media technology. I know of a young man who takes beautiful photo's, started without any experience just pure talent and went to College out of highshool for Photography. His name is Tyson Anderson, from Churchill, MB and his work mostly consists of model shots, which are very stunning! Check him out on facebook +Tyson Anderson.
Photography and video making is something I hope to be able to enhance my knowledge and skills in throughout my life for educational and personal enjoyment! I really want to invest in a professional camera and lighting and make a little studio in my home, as a teacher, this is something I plan on doing as a side job...maybe mainly during summer months. With the knowledge of how to make a website and get myself out there, I am confident I can make myself known, hopefully my work will be appealing! I am also on Instagram, I enjoy it.

It was a good week!

I honestly find it a little difficult to get into the loop with technology, however, the things we are learning so far are cool! I will be student teaching in a grade 3/4 multi-age classroom at King George School, and I am looking forward to it! I may have to do a math unit so I am looking into the math games with the smart board and such, I also might do a social studies unit so I have to look into how to use skype, maybe I can somehow reach a classroom overseas and the students can look at how things might be different or similar on the other side of the world. This week I will make a list of ideas and organize the all the things I have learned in this class and make a nice little list, maybe somehow make it on the web if I find a good site. This weeks class highlight was the Animoto site, I really enjoyed that and I think I might subscribe to it! This website will be a great tool to use in the classroom as well and I really want to try in out this placement, for as assignment of some sort. I have to put more thought into it but I think grade 3/4's can definately handle this. I was also thinking of making a time capsule with them, I think it would be a great project.

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This week our group began working on our presentation, our topic is "Using Technology in Physical Education". So far it looks good and I am learning new things about how to use and implement it in a physical education setting. There are a few Apps I know of that a teacher may use on the iPad, such as the Coaches Book, I believe. We also have on our list that we can use a smartboard in physical education, but I don't know how well that would work in a gymnasium, I guess when you actually get out into your career these are the things that you find out, what works and what doesn't. In this class, I made my teacher website based on a Physical Education layout, and this week I just found out that I will now be staying in Brandon for my practicum working with a grade 3/4 teacher at King George School! I am actually really excited about this, because I was set to work with a Physical Education teacher in Norway House and just learned that he had been suspended and I would now be working with a beginning teacher (with zero phys. ed. background) I thought that I would be getting a not so good experience, again. So....grade 3/4 classroom sounds great to me! I can try my best to implement the cool stuff I have learned in the ICT course, this makes me happy!

So many cool things I didn't know, but now I know :)

So far in the ICT course I am enjoying learning about the new things, like how to create a website, symbaloo, wiki's, blogs, and how we can implement these technologies into the classroom. Before this course I honestly was not aware of how much technology is actually used in classrooms today. When I was in schoo, smartboards were just coming out I think, and now it's like some parents are actually buying them for their home! I am also learning more about the ipads and gadgets similar to those, and how they can be used in classrooms. By allowing students to use them, it opens more doors for learning in new ways, heck I wish I could have skyped with others over seas, one time in grade 8 we send a teddy bear over that way with letters, and it never came back. Things change so fast, with myself, the last music device I owned was a discman...I got so behind with things! Then I got a blackberry pearl which I kept for 3 years, now I am a new owner to the iPhone5 smart phone and I love it. I still think it is capable of doing more then what I actually know what to do with it, but eventually I will take the time to figure it out, just too busy right now. Another thing with technology, I have owned one laptop in my life, had it since 2007, it does it's job, probably loaded with viruses but whatever, I am scared to go out and buy a new one now because I might now know how to navigate through it! I would like to get into a macbook, but then I would have to learn the apple software, hmm. For the project that is due, myself and two other classmates are focusing on Technology in Physical Education and how to implement it into Physical Education, I'm looking forward to this project because it will educate myself more on how to use in in the phys ed environment. Oh and this week I also fell in love with Jing, and I hate how fast technology changes. I wish I could see the plans for everything. We see movies now and they have screens in the air or something, I wonder if that will ever happen. I don't know much about technology but that would be cool if it could. Sometimes I feel a little overwhelemed with it all. #technologyproblems!