Portfolio

Today, we worked on our professional portfolio. The purpose of the portfolio is to show growth, showcase teaching abilities, and to evaluate cumulative achievement. We created our electronic portfolio using Google sites. Using Google provided us with the opportunity to select from a variety of templates. Dr. Pierce suggested one that he particularly liked. Google sites allowed us the opportunity to create a more structured presentation of our work and it also allowed us to edit/select certain pieces to tailor our portfolio.

Photo Story

Today in class we had to upload our photo story to google docs. and then share our photo story on you tube. Click here to see my photo story or click the play button below.



Within this project we imported files into a variety of program
and used resources to create our digital story.

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
   a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness
2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
  a. design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote  student learning and creativity.
3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
  a. demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations
  d. model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.

Prezi

Today, for class we had to  create a prezi presentation and include a YouTube video within the presentation. Our Prezi presentation had to include our slides from our PowerPoint presentation that we created earlier this week.

Slavery on Prezi

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:

a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.

c. promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.

 

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments 

a. design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity. 

c. customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources. 

 

3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning

d. model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.  

 

Powerpoint 2

Today in class we learned how to change a PowerPoint into a pdf. file and into a JPEG. If you double click on the PDF file (acrobat reader) you can turn each slide into a page. In order to turn your PowerPoint into a JPEG all you have to is go to save as and select format. There are a variety of formats, just select JPEG and voila your done. We also learned that the difference between a PowerPoint and a show is that if a computer doesn't have PowerPoint the show will still work (if saved as a show.) If you have a plain old PowerPoint and try and open it on a computer without the PowerPoint program then it will not work. The show keeps the PowerPoint format as well. We also discussed how to make presentations into a photo story which is basically a digital movie.

Next we learned about Prezi. This is an online program that makes presentations much more interesting and enjoyable to view!

PDF/Power Point

Today, in class we had to edit a PDF document by saving it to our desktop, then open a word document and convert the PDF to the word doc and made corrections if needed. I noticed that when I converted it to word, my images turned black. Dr. Pierce stated not panic that I all I would need to do is go back to the original version and copy/paste. Before class ended we discussed power point presentations. We also viewed a power point about H2O.

Click here to see my Jing video of how to convert a PDF file.

click here to see my power point presentation

Powerpoint instructional tech

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