Webquest

Over the past 3 weeks we have worked on our webquest. Webquest is a great tool in the fact a teacher can manipulate it to create projects, reviews, quizes, and test for thier students. It is very efficient for a teacher because once the teacher has created a webquest the students have the task, proccess, and how they are going to be evaluated all in one place so there is no confusion.
Here is a link to my Webquest

The webquest applies to teaching standard

3a. demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations.

Having a teacher create a webquest allows them to test the students on what they know and create a project for the students to learn more about a certain subject. It also allows the students to advance their experience with new technologies and researching based on what the teacher incorporates into the webquest.

Voki

Today we created a Voki and then costomized an avatar. We used this avatar to speak some of our educational philosophy. Here is a my Voki video

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Todays assignment addresses teaching standard

2a.design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.

By using Voki in the classroom I could possibly attract the students attention by them hearing a different voice rather than mine but still presenting the information I want. This could also could be used as a tool to teach a lesson online without me having to explain it to them with me in the room.

New Survey

Today we learned how to create another survey the one major difference in using this survey is we created an answer key and once people take the survey it is self-grading. Here is a link to my survery

Surveys and collecting data

Today we learned how to create web based forms such as a survey. When creating the survey there are 6 types of questions we can use. These 6 different types are text, paragragh text, mutiple choice, checkboxes, choose from a list, and scale. We also had a few of the students in our class take our survey and we learned how to view the results in the spreadsheet and the summary of the results showing bar charts, graphs etc. You can take the survey that I created by clicking here SURVEY  Here is a link to google docs forms to try it yourself. Also here is a link to the spreadsheet with the results from my survey.

New Free Tools

ISSUU is an online PDF viewer. It is a free tool that you can use to view books in a magazine format. This allows you to zoom on different parts of the page all without having carry a textbook around.

Prezi is a free web based tool that allows you to view presentations and create presentations. In Prezi you have one slide in which you put all your imformation and it zooms in on the different pieces of text and images on that slide.We also learned that in Prezi you should group your information so your not zooming all over the slide and making your audience motion sick. Here is a link to to PREZI 
Here is my sample using Prezi

First Prezi on Prezi

Jeopardy games

Today we learned different ways to review for a class by using Jeopardy on the web with Jeapardy Labs and also in powerpoint. Here is a link to Jeapardy Labs. Jeapardy Labs is basically text based compared to creating a jeopardy in powerpoint where we and inserting media and insert different graphics. By using powerpoint we are able to insert sounds and graphics to make our jeopardy game more fun and interesting to my students.
Todays activity relates to teaching standard

2c) customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.

I could use todays activity to help my students review for a test while keeping their full attention because they want to win the game. This can also be used to customize a Jeopardy game to catch my students attention by using a different approach then the normal "writing on the blackboard setting."

Animation in Powerpoint

This week we learned how to use many different types of animation in powerpoint. I learned how to make bullets exit my slide one by one which I though was very useful. I also learned how to do motion animation where we made a motion path with images from clipart. I put a picture into one of my slides then I made arrows and made the labels at the end of those arrows appear and disappear. I also learned how to create button trigger grouping which I could use to show one slide to my students ask them to fill in the blanks then click show answers and all the answers show on the slide.

What we learned this week relates to teaching standard
1a.) promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness. This assignment would help a student's powerpoint stand out compared to others and also put animation to emphasize the student's creativity. I can use many of the things I learned this week to quiz my students in any subject that I teach and test their knowledge in powerpoint.

Here is a little video clip of some of the things I learned to do in powerpoint.