Week Sixteen: April 26- May 2 (Final Week of Classes)

Learning Language in the Digital Era on Prezi

The video above is a presentation of our teach back in the using technology to assist language learning. Feel free to watch and scroll around to learn more about language learning in the Digital Era. This site Prezi, would be helpful to me as a future teacher because of using a paper copy lesson plan, you can do it online. There are many features to choose from to make learning fun and educational. Some of the assignment ideas for using this site is being able to create a lesson plan. Have online assignment for the students etc. I would rate this software as a 10 because it was very convenient. It would be great to have fast internet access to be on the site. If I had to do it again, I don't think I would have done my presentation slide any differently. I like the way it turned out. But one thing I would like better is to be able to show the videos from the presentation. The given software was very user-friendly. I would use it again. Some of the challenges that I was facing was how the site was made. It gave me a headache because it would be moving around a lot. But overall, this was a great site to use and I would use this as a future reference or activity in my future classroom.

Week Twelve: April 19-25 (Prezi)

Today in class, we discussed our final exam teach back presentation. We went through the presentation rubric and other points that are needed to be in our Teach back. The two sites that we are to choose from Prezi and Slideshare. The website that we decided to use is Prezi. It's a more up to date site where you can down load videos. Our topic is: Leaning Language in the Digital Era. So right now we're just putting together our ideas and brainstorming on what to lay down for our teach back. Since we're working on our teach back as our final exam, it's helpful to me as a future teacher to make lesson plans more easier to understand and be able to implement them in the classroom. We're looking at videos on YouTube to help put into our presentation. So far, we're just gathering ideas. I would rate it as being an 8 for now.

Week Eleven: April 12- 18 (Weebly)

My Weebly Online Portfolio

The assignment was a personal site where you describe yourself from all the different areas such as: experience, education, skills and awards, hobbies and interests, references and an additional link of our very own blog site as well. You fill in all those categories with your information, together with a picture for  a more visual understanding.

The benefits of having an online portfolio is that anyone can be able to access your site using the internet. It totally beats a paper copy of your resume. You can be more creative with the site, while with a paper copy is usually just plain and boring. You can tweak your site to your own individuality as well as how to make the site more educational for your future job applications.

Some of the features that I liked with this site is the different templates available. I know that we were supposed to make it educationally based, but it really would be more of yourself adding a picture to whatever description you came up with for your information links. I liked how the links were just based on simple things about ourselves. It is very straight to the point and really easy to understand.

One challenged that I faced was editing the layout. I added the information and picture onto the site, but I really didn't know how to fix up the setting. Like I wanted the information to by on the right hand side of the page, and the picture on the left hand side of the page but it was not cooperating with me. So I basically just left my information on top, while the pictures were left on the bottom. It didn't look messy at all. I just would have preferred to be able to change the setting around to how I would have liked it to be.

I would use Weebly in my future classroom, by having my students be able to do what we did in class, personalize their own online portfolio for future job applications instead of wasting time on typing up a boring resume. I know that the students would be able to enjoy more creating their online portfolio with the different features available. I would also have them present it in class and maybe if it were up to them to publish it and use it as a future reference as well.