The Future of Technology

I did not get a chance to read this article, I do not have a book and I went to the library to check it out, but it was not there. So therefore, I could not tell you if it helps us predict the future of computers in education.
Some lessons that I have learned is that if you are going to use something with technology, gather the information first about it and try to learn as much of it as you can.

WebQuest Project

For the WebQuest (WQ) project, Sylwester and I worked together. We made a WQ project about How to Use Picassa and it's basic function. We used SeaMonkey to make our WB. Sylwester understood how use SeaMonkey the most, so he did most of the putting together the project. We had to research Picassa, find picture, links and more.
The title of the Webquest is "Freeware use in art class- Picasa Picture Editor." This project is designed for 9th graders. We taught the students the basic fixes of Picasa. It teaches the student how to crop, straighten, take red eye out of photos, and a couple other different features. I learned a lot from working with my partner. He was fun, I enjoyed getting to know him. That is what I liked best about this project. I also learned something knew about Picasa, this was my first time every using the software and i liked it, and I learned more about SeaMonkey. All-in-All, this was a fun project but very time consuming. :)

Teacher Support Tools

The teacher support tool that I chose was Grade Books. Teachers can either use pencil-and-paper grade book, use a spreadsheet, or use an electronic grade book. The pencil-and-paper grade book is the most difficult and time consuming source to use. You have to do calculations and copy data by hand. A spreadsheet grade book is more difficult to use than an electronic grade book. The spreadsheet grade book takes longer to set up. The electronic grade book allows you to quickly print reports, generate graphs, create seating charts and track attendance.

This website is information on using Excel for a grade book. http://www.internet4classrooms.com/excel_grade.htm.

This is an electronic grade book website.
http://www.mygradebook.com/learn-more.cfm.

Lesson Plan

I selected this topic of cardiorespitory endurance because I am a Physical Education major and I think it is a good concept to know. This lesson plan will help me in the future because I will already have it done and I know I will be doing a lesson on Cardiorespitory Endurance.

Lesson Plan

Subject:

Physical Education

Grades:

9-12

Objectives:

Cognitive: The students will discuss the importance of cardiorespiratory endurance and understand the training principles of it.

Psychomotor: The students will show and demonstrate some training principles of cardiorespiratory endurance.

Affective: Students will get with a partner; they will work out together and give each other positive feedback on the way they are doing their workout.

TEKS:

116.52 (b) 1, 2. (c) 1, 2, 3, 4

MATERIALS:

Gymnasium, student notes and themselves

PROCEDURES:

Introduction: The students will take their heart rate before any kind of workout. They will find out their maximal heart rate. The students will run around the gym 2 times and stretch afterwards. I will then explain what we are going to be going over in the lesson.

Activities: We will discuss the definition of cardiorespiratory endurance. Discuss in words, training for cardiorespiratory endurance. I will discuss the FITT principle to them. The students are going to speed walk around the basketball court 2 times and then take their heart rate again. The students will compare the difference from the beginning of the lesson to after working out a bit.

Closure: The students will stretch out on their own and I will be asking the students questions about the FITT principle, ways they can improve their cardiorespiratory endurance and the importance of it.

Eric's Presentation

Eric was the only one that was left to do his presentation and he did his today. I liked it because it was an overview of technology in the classroom. It was not directed toward any subject. I enjoyed learning a little bit about dynovox (abc check) that he talked about. All in all, it was a good presentation!!!

2nd Day of Presentations

Sylwester and Nicole did their presentation first. Their's was about the ERIC database, different ways to use it, and why it is helpful. I did not realize that it has over 1.2 million items in this database. ERIC will help you do research without having to go digging in the library and having a lot of books.
Tiffany and I did our presentation next.
Loren and Martha went last today and they talked about how to use Technology in Art (not talking about sculptures and painting but talking about music and theatre). Loren began talking about music and different instrumental tools. He also talked about marching band and Pyware and how it is used. I liked that because it showed us a little more about marching and it was so cool to see computer animation of the TAMU-C marching band. Martha talked more about theatre and how it is just not about the actors but behind the scenes. Lights, sound, and set design are very important to a show.
I enjoyed all presentations today! :)

1st Day of Presentation

The first presentation that was done was by Kristen and Erin. They talked mostly about how to use technology in the classroom with Word, PowerPoint, Access and more. They had some very informative sites on how to use these systems. There was one slide that I enjoyed. It was the one about cell division. I like how is showed the process of it and if you wanted you could slow it down into different parts of cell division.
Buster and Taneya did the second presentation. this was about the role of Technology in Sports. They talked about how many schools use video for highlights of the game, for scouting, editing and different ways video can be used. They touched how to use excel for stats of the game, projectors to watch video clips. My favorite part about it was the website that demonstrated football plays. It was very interesting to see how far technology has to come to where you can type in where you want different players and it shows computer images running the play.

Multimedia Project.

In our multimedia project we talked about different ways technology was used in physical education classrooms and nutrition information for kids. Tiffany was my partner and we decided to work on some ideas on our own, then we integrated our projects together. I spent quite a bit of time on it, but I know there could have been more time spent on it. I did not have a hard time finishing it, it was just frustrating at times, for example, getting links to be 'clickable' and so on. Also, it was hard to figure out how to upload the video and the music but once it was figured out, it was much easier. Tiffany and I finished it today after class, I accidentally sent is as an email then and I just dropped it in the drop box this afternoon. I feel confident about our presentation, there is a lot of information that I enjoyed on it. I enjoyed working with my partner. I feel like we got to know each other and we had fun while we were working on our project. I do not have a preference on who I work with or do not work with.

My First Blog

Hello. This is my first blog to ever do. I also have a myspace account by I have never posted a blog on there either. So I guess I will introduce myself... I am 22 years old and I am from Emory, TX. I graduated from Rains High School in 2003. From there I went to Paris Junior College where I got my associates degree. I now attend Texas A&M University at Commerce and I am a senior (I feel like I have been in school for forever). I am currently studying Kinesiology and I am going to be a school teacher one day. (Hopefully sooner than later.) I also want to a coach, softball would be my first sport to choose to coach but I would very much enjoy basketball and volleyball as well. If I had to coach something like tennis or golf, I would be a little skeptical but I would do everything I could to learn as much about it as I could. I think it would be very fun and challenging.

I guess this about wraps up my first blog... woo hoo!