11/5/09

Good Evening,
Walking into class an hour early has proved to be a helpful thing! I completely forgot to do homework but had time to make it up before class started..phew :)
Rodney Winkler is out public speaker tonight, he is teaching us about the importance of podcasting in schools. He has done this project with his students in his class and brought them in to show us. Hopefully we will be able to make our own podcast's soon and eventually have our own kids do it in the classroom. Can't be rude and type while he is speaking! <3 until next week,

Caitlin Jones

October 15th :o)

To begin with we started out talk about lesson plans. We found this cool website: Lessonplanspage.com It has a whole bunch of lesson plans that other teachers have posted and tried out. Professor Short wants us to use one of the lesson plans that are already on the site and integrade information we have learned about in class.

Amy Rothenberg is our guest speaker for the night. She is a master at the Smart Board and she will be talking to us about ways to use the smart board in our classrooms.

Amy showed us some valuable information about programs that are available through the smart board. Children are able to make graphs and do all sorts of neat things with these smart boards.

She also told us about Smart Sync. Smart Sync is a program that allows the instructor to see all of the students computers and help them through the computer without having to walk around and try to help multiple students at the same time. It also allows a teacher to block websites and log off the computer . All of the tools she is sharing with us are really neat and i cant wait to have one of my own in my own classroom :)

Tonight's class was awesome! I really learned a lot!!

Caitlin Jones

October 1st!

Well.. i was sick last week .. so this is my post for last week!!

Dont work at a daycare with 4 confirmed casses of swine flu :)

The end!

Caitlin Jones

9/24/09 : )

It's almost fridayyy : )

Today i learned how to hook up a Mimio Interactive system!

It is a piece of hardware that turns your whiteboard into a interactive

board. There is a website if you want to browse:

http://http://www.mimio.com/products/index.asp

They are on sale on Ebay and Buynow.com for anywhere

around $600! I cant wait to become a teacher and play

with the technology all day!

Unfortunatly we have a quiz on Chapter 3 : ( !!

We also learned about Microsoft Word and "paint". It was pretty neat!!

I am confused about the lesson plan that is due soon :/

Well it has been another fun night in Ed. Tech : )

xoxo Caitlin Jones

Lynne Corris

Lynne Coris is our guest speaker tonight. She brought in a really neat handout with awesome links and web resources that will help with lesson plans and teaching in general in the long run! We also worked with the Smart Senteo Clickers. They let students click in answers which calculate on the Smart Board! i can not wait to get into a classroom and start playing with these awesome devices :)

Lynne Coris is the guest speaker for tonight! She brought with her a great packet of educational technology standards and an awesome cd full of so many useful websites that i cant wait to check out~

Day 3 : )

To begin with its POURING!
Today in class we are learning about the document projector. It is a pretty neat little camera that displays a document and can also capture the document and freeze it! I thought it was a great idea and way more advanced then the projectors with the transparencies and vis-a-vis :)

We have a quiz today over chapter 2! :/ completely forgot all about it, so i am going to cram it all in right now :) hopefully this goes well!

<3 Caitlin Jones

9/3/09 :)

Today Professor Short brought in some neat pieces of technology for us to see. I would post what they were but the names and numbers are too complicating, just know they are really neat. You can refer to Linda's blog for names and pictures :)!

I also found out today that Wiki-pedia is not absolutly horrible. It is an outstanding website to get a broad overview of the subject, maybe not the best for research papers but not completely terrible.

The smart board is pretty awesome! Can't wait to have one in my classroom :P

We also went over the rubric project that is due next week

Today's class was very successful ;) i learned alot of information that would be neat to incorporate into the classroom!

Caitlin Jones :)

08/27/2009

Today in Intro to Ed. Tech i learned my professors name ( Jim Short) and his background history. I also learned exactly what we will be doing during the next few months of class. We will be doing some fun learning in this class and i hope i can keep up with the technology! I feel that this class is very outgoing and will be a very fun and exciting group to work with! * especially this late at night :) I cant wait to become a 2nd grade teacher! :)

Caitlin Jones!