March 29, 2010

Today in class Peter Blair came in and worked with us on a virtual website. The program we used is called Science Sim. You can go in there are create an avatar of yourself and change your clothes and chat with other people on your same island. This was really cool, but i had a hard time staying logged into this program because there were so many people on at the same time. The little time that i was able to be in there i thought that this was so fun and i could explore so much. I felt like this is definitely technology that would be fun for students to explore with. I think it would take a lot of patience as the teacher to get students to understand everything in this program, but it would be a great experience for both the students and myself. I hope to learn more about this and maybe use it in my classroom someday. Peter was so good to help us and work with us until we could understand it. I felt like this was a fun class and i learned something new!!!

Google Surveys!!!

Today was such a fun day in class!!! We created our own surveys in class through Google Docs. We created six different questions and sent them to other people in our class. Then we took each others surveys and found the results out! This was so fun to do! We were able to have some fun with it and also find out about other people! I then posted this survey on my blog so feel free to take it if you wish! I would love to see your response! I am definitely going to use this in my classroom. I think elementary students would love an activity like this and would also learn a lot from it too! An activity like this would be so fun at the first of the year for a get to know you activity! I think the students would enjoy it and get to know the other students in the class!

Take My Survey

I made a survey just for you! You may have to copy and paste it!!

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG1BRC0wLTRUdXB4Q184WDZOUV8tZUE6MA

Excel

Today we learned about excel. We learned how to make our own gradebook and use equations to create our grades. This will be so helpful when i become a teacher. If i can do my gradebook on the computer, that will be so much easier than doing it with paper and pencil. This was so good to learn about and do myself so i can do this again some day. Something else we did at the end of class was the survey poll. This was such a fun website that i want to use in my own classroom. It would be so fun to create questions about what we are learning and then have the students watch the results come in. I think i would enjoy this and my students as well. There are so many fun things that i am learning how to use for my classroom!