Reflection

The beginning of the semester our focus was designing a website bibliography. This helped me to gain information throughout websites and collecting information for future classroom activities and enhancement learning. Once I gathered information over science, history, mathematics, technology and special education I then contributed the different websites, discussed the activities, and evaluated each category. This will be great information for the future as lesson plans and set curriculums to show and explore as further assistance.
The introduction PowerPoint was a great way to introduce the students to a teacher’s life, culture and background. I enjoyed this assignment because I was able to upload and scan pictures, hyperlink websites, explore my family and our adventures. PowerPoint is a technology tool to increase knowledge through teaching students in a different atmosphere. Through my PowerPoint, using narration to entertain, I enhanced videos, and followed my objectives. Although, the narrations were nerve racking to record I felt that it brought out my anxiety and helped me pursue a higher intellectual intelligence by writing down a few sentences and then talking through the recorder. Dr. Flatt helped me to understand the FLV converter by watching YouTube videos and then copying and pasting the link, which would automatically format where I inserted it into the PowerPoint.
Before the semester started, I stated objectives for each class and that was to push myself and fulfill each goal until I received a great extent of the material. This class has helped me learn technology in a different way than from High School especially after using a Mac for four years and learning new programs. In this computer software class, I learned to maintain one file for each project and to save each item to that one folder otherwise the file might become corrupt or information does not follow through. The Windows Movie Maker was a bit of a challenge because once I had all pictures in place the adjustment on the words would move which went into the transitions but eventually it worked out. I enjoyed downloading free music tones and testing each one on the movie to make sure it went with all my daughters’ pictures. I also found it interesting to include and watch videos for my final Capstone project because it helps the children understand the information by upbeat activity. I think that the different options through font, drawing, design and animation are a creative option also for children to understand the art of learning. It also is a great technology tool for the classroom such as introduction to the school, graduation, memories and commercials.
On each assignment, I stated my sources/references because I plan to use them in the future but I will never forget the six by six rules because it is easier for the children to read especially at younger age. Throughout my other classes, I learned that each student accommodates certain learning styles which rambling can often lose attention but regaining their attention by technology is a great effect. This has been an experience and a challenge at times especially when the MSSU computers did not function quite up to par but I have learned information that I plan to use in my classroom with the younger students.