Week 7

"When I was your age, we didn't have digital cameras..." Is a quote I can hear my dad or grandpa saying. Well, now the chance has come that each individual child could and should have a digital camera to explore their world with. I enjoyed todays assignment because it made me think outside the box with cameras. The links opened up new ideas to use them and the fact that it is possible to extend a camera to every child in a classroom. My wife wants to go into Photography so I am going to be enjoying the following 3 weeks of class as I learn more about it myself.

Week 6

Kidspiration! I never had heard of it but after today I basically own it. It's a great program to develop simple ideas that me or my students have. Each week in class I learn of more resources that will help me be a more rounded and better teacher. The layout and working of Kidspiration is simple and fun to work with. The end product it creates appeals to children and will keep them involved. Glad I came and played around with it this week.

Week 5

Learning about the My Documents & Bookmarks manager was great this week! I think that way of linking things (.mp3's, files etc.) looks much better than doing it in a message box. It was a little confusing at first but got a hold of it quick. Each week I amaze myself by the outcome of a new webpage. I am going to somewhat miss myuen after this because I have never made webpages (simple one) before.

Week 4

This week I learned about a world of sources I had not yet known about... the online Pioneer library. It is a database full of interative games, learning, developmentally appropriate educational movies etc. I loved eMedia as it had all the originals I grew up with including: Magic School Bus and Bill Nye the Science Guy. I am grateful there are people out there willing to spend the time to put these websites together for educators like me. I will use this website to find hundreds of other useful websites in the future. My other two favorites I wrote about were World Book and Thinkfinity.