Week 7 Reflection

Week 7 brought to us some very useful tools. Rubric making websites and tools within Microsoft's Word will be very helpful for us as future teachers. They always seemed difficult to make before this week's lesson. We also added more tools to our Google site that will be helpful. The tools we added will help us create worksheets and differentiate our instruction for students that learn at different levels and paces.
This week brought to us one of the most important standards teachers need to be able to meet. That is successful assessment. If a teacher is to be successful in the classroom they must also make sure their students are succeeding.

Week 6 Reflection

Week 6 brought us to using Voicethread and Windows live movie maker. Both are very useful tools in education. They are both also easy to use since their interfaces are extremely user friendly. Voicethread was the most fun and useful lesson this week. Having a lesson available online for all students to access would be very helpful.
This lesson being posted online and staying online helps to create an online learning community. An educational standard that we needed to and succeeded in meeting. This program could also help to spur student's creativity and collaboration. Two more important standards our students need to be able to meet.

Week 5 Reflections

Week 5 we made picasa videos and edited some of these photos. We also wrote reviews of academic websites. All very useful skills for teachers. I think the video made in picasa would be the most useful in the future. Students like watching videos a lot more than reading. Videos can help make boring information more easily digested.
With this project, all 6 ISTE standards for students could in some way be met. This is the first week that I have felt that way. This might point to this week's lesson being the most valuable thus far.

Week 4 Reflections

This week we only had one project. That was to create a webquest. A webquest is an easy website to set up that creates a learning experience that uses both the internet and in class participation. I think this can be very useful since almost all schools will have internet access when I enter the classroom as an educator. Webquests will provide fun lessons that will help keep the students involved in learning without dreading all the upcoming lessons.
Webquests use both community communications and critical thinking and problem solving. Both of those are ISTE standards that students must know in order to become a successful student in the 21st century.