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.

Week Ten: March 22-28 (Multi-media Movie)

The assignment for the class was to get into groups to create a multi-media movie about an educational technology. I worked in a group of 3 with Bonny and Loremel. We were given a flip camera to help record the movie. It was really fun using the flipster and coming up with really creative ideas for an educational device. We chose to have a device called "Smart Speed Athletics" where learning and being fit can be fun all at the same time. It was pretty cool to come up with different settings as well as trying to be persuasive as possible.

Some features that we used for the movie was the switching from one slide to the next, it's somewhat hard to really explain what to do but I know it was pretty fun coming up with the different sound effects and the different slides. We used different background sounds as well as the news liner under the news reporting. I really liked working with the different features you can use with the movie maker. One thing I did not really like was there not being a pause button for the flipster. But it was okay I guess because we had time to edit our movies. There was a lot of time consuming with the editing, but it was worth it. So many different varieties to choose from. I personally really like other class' video as well. It was a taste of different personalities.

I would definitely use this iMovie in my classroom. The students will be able to be creative just like the rest of the class has made and also it can help students be able to handle technology at different levels. Other lessons I would probably use this as would be powerpoint presentations, slideshows, creating movies as well as recording any important event in the classroom. Using the flip cams were fun. The quality was really nice as well. One thing that would be cool is if the cams had other special features like the background effects. Different scenes or types of frame settings for the movie.

My overall rating for the assignment would be an 8. I really enjoyed working with my partners and creating an cool invention "Smart Speed Athletics". Definitely something I would consider purchasing!

Week Four: February 9-15 (Classroom 2.0)

The assignment for this week was to evaluate a software using an evaluation form. There were other different sites given that we could look at for further references. The site was pretty interesting to look at. Classroom 2.0 was really easy to understand. The site gives you great information to start and better understand with the digital dialog world. This site is very helpful to me as a future teacher because it will help the students better understand about technology and why it is important to have technology be a part of the learning environment. I believe that technology does open up learning in a whole new different levels. Students will be able to interact digitally. I would rate this assignment to maybe being a 7 because the site was cool and all, but I just wish there would be more of variety selected upon the different assignments future teachers would have in mind.

Week Three: February 2-8 (Blogger.com)

In class, we went onto this other website called blogger.com, I had to create my very own gmail accountant in order for me to sign into the website. I got my new email down and proceeded to creating and designing my very own blog. We got to choose different designs that best described us, but it had to be professional and educational for other people to see. We then had to upload a profile picture to complete the uniqueness of our blogs. After, we then started writing in our blogs about our different days being in the Ed Tech class.

Week Two: January 26- February 1 (Bubbl.us)

The first time I stepped in Ed Tech class was the 2nd week of school. We were learning how to use different websites such as wordle.com and bubble.us website. Before we got into learning how to use wordle, Mr. Jenkins had us write positive word descriptions of each person in the classroom, but the catch was to do it behind their backs so the rest of the students can see how much words were being repeated to describe them. We finally got into the site and we learned how to customize it with different fonts, colors and backgrounds. After, we got into the other website, which is bubble.us where we did web diagrams of which is important in the classroom. Technology was the main topic was what an effective classroom should have. I listed many things that make up a perfect classroom to me. There were students and teachers, faculty and staff. As well as the different school materials and higher authority to help the school be on task. 


Both sites were very helpful. As a future teacher, I could use these websites to help create an organizer for future class activities. It can always be a great way to plan out future lesson plans as a teacher and so on. I would rate the software  used as an 8 because it was very convenient for classroom activities. Students can also be creative in their own individuality.