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Spring 2010

Spring 2010 at NMC! I really hope to
make it out alive!


Monday, May 3, 2010

Claudia's Bright Ideas


The assignment is to make a professional on-line portfolio, something we would consider using for potential employment, and to experience builing an amature web page.
The benefits of this on-line portfolio is that it is accessable anywhere there is internet, so potential employers can visit your portfolio conveniently.
I liked this experience, except for the slow uploads.
I would use this in the classroom, for students wo make their own digital portfolio of accompishments and assignments or projects.


Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Elluminate Live!


Today we used Elluminate to conference with Ms. Bree Reynolds, who used to work at HJHS. She is now in Spokane, Wa.

It was cool talking to Bree and she had alot of good information for us, in the way of how to use technology in the classroom, and how to integrate the use of computers with cell phones. She also gave us some information on sites to visit.

2. I liked the distance conferencing, but didn't like that the internet connection was not good.
3. I agree with Bree, that you can use the distance conferencing to learn about issues first hand. Like she said she shared a science topic with her students in Spokane, to students in HJHS.
4. Same as above, I learned that there are applications that allow you to share the computer with the cell phone.
5. I think that is what I will take with me and want to explore, because almost all our upper grade students text, and they continue to because it is against the rules, but if we gave them a reason to text to learn something from the curriculum, that would be cool.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Timeline Project_US Presidents



1. For the timeline project Connie and I were a team. We chose to focus on US Presidents.
Log into free-timeline.com, and create the timeline. Then go to rubistar.com, and create a rubric for your expectations of the students in creating a timeline. To further assess your students knowledge on the given topic, create a quiz at quizstar.com.
2. In creating the timeline it was okay, but now that we need to go back to it, it is hard to retrieve, so I am not fully impressed. we could only get half of our work back. Rubistar and Quizstar were good though, and easy to use.
3. I think I would use the timeline only if I wanted a hard copy submition. I wouls use rubistar and quizstar again.
4. Rating: timeline= 4, rubistar = 7, quizstar = 8.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Slideshare_Teachback


My topic was "How would the teacher implement blogs in the classroom?" Answer the question in the form of a slideshow presentation, and upload to slideshare.net.
Signing in to slideshare was not bad. There were really no challeges there, but i wouldn't say it was fun/or not.
The problem I have so far, is I have successfully uploaded my presentation, but opening it to view is too long, and the program is timing out. So, I'll keep trying.

Okay! I got my slideshare up, but you have to find by user: ED480claudia. Okay? Okay!

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

slide.com_team presentation

Slide.com

Evaluating Slide.com.
This site gives you options on how to design your slide show presentation. You can choose from preset designs, styles, skins, themes, music/videos, backgrounds, effects, size, and privacy settings.
For this slide I uploaded photos from Flickr (that was the fastest way to add/upload photos), chose the pre-set "Drive In", the style is 8mm, the skin is paparazi, with music, but no changes to theme, background, effects, size, and privacy (although I tried them all).
The software is only user friendly if you upload from a "photobucket". there were lots of useful features, and there were ways to search for features that can be found on line. It is good fro teachers to use to showcase stdents work. We are giving this site a "4" due to the difficulty in uploadng presonal photos.

*Connie's gonna upload the group slide onto my blog!*

1. was the software user friendly? only if you upload photos from an on-line photo software program.
2. Did the software hav extra useful features to enhance your presentation? Yes, alot of features, that ban be overlaped, or used simultaniously.
3. Is the software especially useful for teachers? Yes, to showcase students work!
4. Would you recommend this software to other educators? Yes, I would, with instructions about the photo uplaod.
5. If you had a choice to use this software again for a presentation, would you use it? Yes, but not if photos are loaded from a camera.
6. What overall consensus rating would you give for this software? We gave it a "4", for the reason that we could not get photos off the camera.

slide.com_claudia

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Zunal.com

Zunal.com

1. The assignment on Zunal.com was to work in teams, Rosa and Claudia, to create a webquest. We chose a subject, grade level, and topic. We had to go through the steps to create a webquest, make the topic inviting, post photos, add web links, activity sheets, and a rubric for evaluation.

Visit: http://www.zunal.com/webquest.php?w=52761

2. I liked the webques project, alot! I think it is smething i would like to use in the classroom to be sure the students only visit valid sites for the lesson.
3. The challenge was not really with web quest, but trying to work as a team on one computer, because it was not a collaborative tool. We wanted to create task lists, webs, and rubrics, on one computer, while the other was designing the webquest, but all we could do was use the second computer to look up relevant sites, then add them by links to the quest.
4. I think it was fine, just that we needed more time to complete the whole process.
5. I think my students would enjoy the quest, because we are allowing them to use the computers, and explore links. (even if they don't realize that we are restricting them to certain sites)

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Photo Editing

Today we broke up into teams, and googled photo eiting software.
Rosa and I picked pixer.us.

Pixer.us does not require a log- on or user account. Pixer is only for editing photos, so it also does not store your photos.

Use the "browse" botton to choose a photo from your file, then press "upload & edit". Choose the editing option, such as "crop", and edit your photo. When you are ready press "apply". You must save your changes, by clicking on "save", and the file format option will come up. The file is saved to the same location you retrieved it from, except with a new file name "myphoto-1".

The plus side is you can keep your privacy, by not storing your photos on line. The down side is, you cannot create slides, movies, collages, or save your photos on line for convenient access.

I would rate this photo editing software a 7, because it was a little difficult to learn, but I like that I did not need an account for accessing the software.


Pixer.us

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Flickr Badge

Today, we worked on uploading our photos into flickr.com, and created a badge to post on our blog. Add a gadget, >> HTML, title, and copy the HTML info from the flickr site.

I would use this in my class, if we had a class blog, to showcase my students' work. Parents would be able to see what their kids did in class. Also, I could post photos of projects and fieldtrips, as evidence of learning...

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Zoho Writer Collaboration_comments

1. Explain the assignment:
The assignment today was to try new collaborative software, called Zoho. Our team used the Zoho writer, to create a student related activity.
2. How easy or difficult was hte project?
Basically the writer is like the word perfect, but we were able to share the writing, taking turns to post the next lines in the story. We just started out with a typical story that any child might know, and each of us took a turn to write our version of the events that might have occured in the story. It was fun to see and share, the writing as we went along. It was not htat easy though, we had alot of obsticles.
3. how would my students benefit from this project?
I think I would use this tool, in the classroom for the same kind of idea, to have the students collaborate on a story, each adding their own ideas.
4. How would I rate the software, on a scale of 1-10?
I rate the software a 5. Compared to bubbl software, we did more collaborating. I initiated the story, and shared with Connie and Rose. They could edit, and see and share their pieces, but to view the new documant I would have to sign off, and log on again. So it was not a continuous process, for me.

Zoho Writer Collaboration

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Flow Chart

Today we tried to use bubbl.us, to create and collaborate a flowchart. This is my post.

Questions for review are:
1) What is the learning outcome or expected goal of your mind-map. In what way will this mind-map improve your students learning of the concept or characterization? The SLO for mind-mapping are 1.0 use computers technology in the support of instruction, 2.0 plan for the use of technology, 4.0 evaluate and appraise the value of various multimedia, 5.0 to create different computer based visuals in effectively designed learning outcomes, 7.0 use internet technologies in instruction.
2) What did you think was the most important lesson you learned from this activity? the most important lesson I learned is that we can collaborate on-line with bubbl.us, but we need to practice it. Oh, yes! How to attach the HTML to the blogspot!
3) What did you like or dislike about the software bubbl.us? We got confused on the sharing one flow chart on bubbl.us.
4) What would you do differently next time you do mind-mapping and/or use this tool? I would just like to try it again with, less time constrains. So if i find any of you on-line, and you wanna go at it, let me know!
5) Think of another assignment where this mind-mapping tool could be used? Story webbing! Timeline! Character maps! Brainstorming map! KWL charts, I think...









Tuesday, January 19, 2010

ED480_Introduction

Today was the first day of class. We did an energizer activity called "Find somebody who". We went through the syllabus, and got on NMC on-line. We created our first blog!