Journal 2.2

I learned that you can actually edit a wikipedia page. I thought the pages were read only and created by individuals who were employed by Wikipedia and had the talent and knowledge to create the page. That basically they were experts in the content in what they were writing about. I didn't realize anyone could edit a Wikipedia page regardless of their knowledge, education or background which seems to me questionable. I could go and edit the page on physics and yet my physic knowledge is limited it is scary. Now this makes me question the use of Wikipedia. I thought Wikipedia was a good resource to go to learn more information about any subject and it was a valid resource.


What I still want to learn is how to use it in the class room to be beneficial because at this point I am wondering if it is even beneficial for me let alone students.

I actually learned about animations and how cool they can be to teach a child very quickly about a complex topic. The child can play the animation over and over and by repeating the animation have the material committed to memory by a fun and simple method of learning.

Journal 2.1

I really liked creating the PowerPoint presentations from last week. I would however like to have access to the various PowerPoint presentations everyone created. The reason why I would like to have this access is, it would allow me to go back and see what they did again thereby allowing me to better glean new ideas on how to create better PowerPoint presentations now and in the future. I could also review the content again as to what others selected as interesting and innovative technologies and what they thought was cutting edge. It also allows me to see what the settings were to provide additional features not included by default in their PowerPoint presentations.

Refection 2

I am really amazed at all the technology that is available on the Internet or through a few Microsoft tools that can be used by a teacher. I am also really amazed at all the technology that is so easy and quick to use and free. I really like the PowerPoint, excel and interactive tools such as smart boards and simulation labs.

The use of sound in PowerPoint is a nice feature that you really don't see used much. I had seen it where frog indigenous to this area were shown and then the sounds they make were played in the background.

I want to find out about a lot of the tools we talked about tonight in class such as smartboards, ecobeaker, gnuplot, etc.

3 Things I learned

Three new uses for technology that I learned from the powerpoint presentations we created today in class.

1) Vidoeconferencing - I liked the videoconferencing to use in a classroom to talk with someone who might not be able to come to the classroom. I think this is useful to interface with someone who might have a busy schedule or be in a remote location. For example maybe I might want to videoconference in my classroom with someone like Hillary Clinton.

2)Ecobeacker - Where you can follow populations of animals and learn a lot about ecology following real populations

3) Lab simulations - Where students can learn and perform labs without especially dissections without having to perform the actual lab but a virtual version of it. There are a lot of students who had to dissect animal. I happen to be one. I hated the smell of the formaldehyde and felt the dead animal didn't really help me learn anything about their anatomy because the species was so shrivelled.

Dorothy Sperock

Bonus

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Journal 1

This week I learned about subscription lists, feed readers, aggregator programs etc. Blogging is all new to me however i am finding it is a fun way to communicate and share imformation and I love that it is free. I actually went and successfully subscribed all 24 of my classmates blogs into my google reader account at once.

Reflection 1

I learned how to sign up for myblobber.com and create a blog.
I created a goolge.com account and I meet my professor and his assistant is.
I learned how to join a group on yahoo.
Hopefully I will remember all this next week.

What I expect to learn from class.

I am hoping to learn as much as possible about the various technology tools available to help assist teaching students about the life sciences. I want to learn powerpoint to provide great powerpoint lessons. I also want to learn excel to help with grading and assessment of students.
To become as savy as possible with the latest educational technology.

To be able to use advanded technology such as GPS and incorporate it into a lesson that the students can get hands experience with and learn both about GPS technogy and life science.

I want my students to become as technology savoy as possible and feel comfortable with its use.

To be able to create really interesting and sophisticated powerpoint presentations to my students.

Be able to perform really good internet searches.

First Blog

Try to estabish the first blog of my class Demonstration and Technology in the classroom.