We had a guest today. He is from the school, and works in the technology center at the library. We learned how to use wordpress to create a website. I like wordpress. It is user friendly, has stylish themes, and is simple. This could be useful when I become a teacher! I plan on making a class website that my students and parents can use, and wordpress makes it easy for that to happen.

Today in class we started off by using Hour of Code. Our goal was to try out different activities on the website, and we got a basic understanding of how coding works. I learned that sequences are very important. Things must happen in a certain order for it to work. When I think about it, sequence is a major part of life. A lot of what we do everyday is in a certain order. After that, we were introduced to Dreamweave. This was a challenge for me. I still don't understand it very much, but I know I will learn how to use it better soon.

May 12, 2015

Today, we have talked about apps. I found a great app in the itunes store called BrainPop! My past teachers have used this app in many ways. BrainPop has MANY different subjects, with plenty of introduction information. I love this app, and can use it in my class in many ways.

May, 5 2015

Hoaxes and Podcasting.
In the beginning of the class, we were given various websites. I had one that was about Martin Luther King. It was a very scary website! This site was organized by a white pride group, and they were saying terrible things about Martin Luther King. None of the information on this site was historically correct. This website is so scary to me because it is one of the first websites that pop up when you Google Martin Luther King. If I was a teacher and asked my students to research Martin Luther King, and they went to this website, they would have a terrible view on him.
Afterwards, we dove into Podcasting. Our assignment is to create a short Podcast. Podcasts can be a great tool to use in the classroom, and they have many different topics.

April, 28 2015

Today we had a guest speaker. He came in from a charter school along the coast of Oregon. He gave us tons of ideas and many different websites that we could possibly use in our classes. From Storybird to Prezi, the websites can be super useful in the classroom everyday. He was very helpful! Storybird is the cutest thing, and it can be very fun for students.

April, 21 2015

This week we used Google maps. We figured out how to make a tour of many different places. I decided that I would base mine around all my favorite places in Portland, Oregon. This could easily be used in the classroom. As a teacher, I could maybe do a geography lesson, and physically show my students where these places are on the map. Along with that, I love that you can put in your own photos to go along with each site.

We are visual learners. With the amazing technology we have it gives teachers a great opportunity to use things such as videos and movie making in the classroom. Students have the opportunity to express their ideas, explain what information they received from a certain topic, and share their knowledge with others with the process of making a video. Today, we also started making a movie. Our goal is to sell an idea. I think it will be fun! I'm very excited on what the other groups are going to do.

Today was all about pictures and images. We started by taking a little test, which included some silly sentences. With this, we learned that it is easier to remember things if we can have a mental image that supports it. Second, we figured out how to tell the difference between a real photo and a photo that has been photo shopped. Third, we played on photo shop and got our next assignment, which is to create our own image using photo shop.

Overall, it was a great class full of information.

Today we created a blog, signed up for Flickr and checked out some other websites that could be useful for our future classrooms. The only trouble I had was getting the mouse to work.