Terra-Cotta Army of Emperor Qin, The - Stories - HighlightsKids.com

Terra-Cotta Army of Emperor Qin, The - Stories - HighlightsKids.com

Last Class!!!

It's the end of the semester and I look back on myself when I stepped through the doors to begin my first Education Technology class. I am a totally different student! When I first started this class I didn't even know how to do a PowerPoint! My attitude was that although I was certainly going to try my best in this class, I wasn't sure anyone would be able to make me computer literate. I am glad to say that at the conclusion of the semester, I feel confident I can not only provide my students with creative and colorful PowerPoints but I can do a gradebook, create a webpage and do a class newsletter.

I really love when I take a class and I come away from it feeling as though I have learned information that will enhance my prospective teaching career and will be useful in the classroom. This class was definitely like this! I won't walk into the class feeling as if the students are light years ahead of me when it comes to technology! I AM NO LONGER REMEDIAL!!! And it's a great feeling! I definitely want to thank Dr. Wang for having the utmost patient with my remedial questions when I'm sure she HAD to be silently chuckling inside! Where I walked into the class as pessimist, I have emerged an optimist and I owe a great amount of that to Dr. Wang! Thank you Dr. Wang for having the patience of Job!

Lastly, I really love meeting new people and I have definitely met people who have been in the trenches with me through my quest to be "techno-literate". It was fun to see other students' creations as they navigated the technological waters with me! I also was able to get some great ideas from other students, which I believe is the greatest form of flattery!!!

All in all, I really am glad this class was on my required list because otherwise I might have steered clear in fear of failing. I believe every prospective teacher should take this class because as we advance into the computer age, it is essential that we have as much information as we can, and am able to incorporate it into our class instruction as much as possible. Again, thanks Dr. Wang and I am soooo glad I took your class!

Teacher Support Materials

I finished this last night and due to this class, I like PowerPoints, so I decided to do a powerpoint presentation for this project. I went into detail about a subject that I kind of glossed over in the webpage assignment. The subject was the causes of the French Revolution and when I am teaching this in a classroom, I will definitely have to go in depth on this topic so this was a good time to do so. I will use the powerpoint I created in class so this assignment helped me out for the future too!

Student Support Materials

I had fun with this assignment. I did a Magic Square which, once I figured out how to make it work, is a fun activity for students to do. These are the type of student learning worksheets/puzzles that I would have enjoyed as a student. It has the potential to make school work fun. I also definitely plan on making my students write because I think it is very important. Therefore, my second support activity supported this. I really had fun with this one and enjoyed it!

French Revolution Webpage

Again, this was another project which I find would be extremely useful in the classroom. I would say out of all of the projects we have had to do in class that this one was the hardest. Also, again I had to pull some creativity out of me with some strong pliers!!! It was fun though and well worth the final product. Even though it has not been graded yet, I am proud of the final product!

Newsletter

The newsletter was fun. I enjoyed writing the articles from the perspective of a reporter from the time period. If I were a student that would make the project more fun because I would get to put in little expressions that would be relevant to the time period. Again, this was a project that I would definitely use in class, even if I would not have access to doing it on the computer. I could also have students do this same project on poster board. I enjoyed this project a lot. I am not a very creative person but this project did pull some creativity out of me!

I finished the student PowerPoint project and I must say, I enjoyed this! I had a lot of fun finding pictures and finding creative ways to put them on the screen that would be visually engaging for students. I love when I learn something useful and I will definitely be able to use this! As a matter of fact this past week I had to teach a lesson on Thomas Jefferson and slavery at Shades Valley IB School for my EHS 568 class (here's a shoutout to Dr. Miller!!!) and I sure am glad I knew how to do a PowerPoint to lecture with!!! Bless you Dr. Wang!!!