Friday, February 19, 2010

personality types

I do believe that students personality has a big part to do with their learning styles. Every one acts differently and thus they learn in different ways. Knowing a kids personality would be a very benifitial to the teacher to help set up activities for the student to learn better.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

excel blog

A spread sheet is valueabe tool to use a teacher. As seen in the gradebook assignment it makes things easier to keep in order and calculate info. This tool makes things alot easier on teachers before you would have to do all this by hand. Time is saved by using spreadsheets. I will use spreadsheets for sure in my classroom.

The spreadsheet is used to make things simpler and quicker. a spreadsheet is better than a calculator because it saves time. you dont have to go through and look back at your grade book to get the grades and then enter it into the calculator. The computer takes the info already entered and with simple functions you get the calculations. I think the functions of the spreadsheet are a great tool. they make life so much simpler by taking away some of the responsibility of teachers. who already have a busy work load.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Inspiration post

I found that this inspiration software can make doing projects alot simpler. It has everything you need on one program to do your project. It gives you simpe branstorming map and outlines. It can take the information from the map and turn it into note format, an if you want it can do the whole power point if you want. You mayuse inspiration in class to do projects. You shouldnt use it every time it can take away from the kids learning.

Working in groups in my opinion is the best way to use technology in the classroom. This way they get to learn from their own mistakes and the mistakes of others and get feed back from your peers. you could use all those web sites and programs to help the kids but i believe working with people is the best way. You could have your kids post their papers on web site or a blog for them to get feedback from other people. Teaching a new subject is difficult sometimes after i taught it i felt like i knew the subject better.