Assignment 7

I created my electronic portfolio on weebly.com. It was very organized and simple to do the layout. I am glad I made the website because I will definitely continue to keep up with it for the future. I added my resume, contact information, all the assignments in class, and some information about me. The layout is organized and the links work correctly.

Assignment 6

For this assignment, I created another rubric using RubiStar and evaluated a website. The website I chose was pbskids.org. It is a great website for children to play games and learn. It has all the television show characters from PBS Kids. I evaluated the website 19/20. For the second part of the website, I researched 5 websites for kindergarten teacher resources. I wanted to do this topic because I am going to be a kindergarten teacher and I know that I will use some of these resources someday. I was glad we did this assignment because it will help me in the future. It also was good practice for annotated bibliographies.

Assignment 5

Felicia worked on this project together. We used the template in RubiStar to make a rubric for an educational software. Since RubiStar did not have that in their options, we changed most words but used their template. The website we evauated was http://www.uptoten.com/kids/uptoten-home.html. This software program for children seemed great, and it is in different languages. It is possible to switch the language. I thought that was great. This project was helpful because we will need to be making rubrics, and I saw that I liked RubiStar. We evaluated the software 19/20.

Assignment 4

This project was good for me because I am going to be a teacher. I imagined that the students brainstormed different things that have to do with each season. I am working in a preschool classroom and this is definitely an activity that I would do with them. It was basic enough, but the program CMAP made it simple and organized. I also learned how to put it into the Power Point. The only thing I forgot was to hide a page on the Power Point and make action buttons. I completely forgot that that was part of this assignment, because we had already practiced that in other Power Point presentations.

Digital Storytelling

I enjoyed doing this project because I got to look at my videos and pictures from Italy. I have only used iMovie once before, and definitely became familiar with it from this project. I recorded my voice, added pictures and transitions and videos. I even sent the youtube clip to my family and friend who went to italy with me.

Powerpoint

The grade book that I made was helpful to learn because I will be able to use something like this when I am teaching. Learning to do it on the computer makes it quicker and easier to keep grades on the computer. I am able to teach others about how to make and update a grade book. I now feel comfortable making powerpoint presentations, and this project gave me another chance to practice. I also wrote the "principal" a letter about how I did the grade book, and added the grade book into the word document. I was able to incorporate these three parts of Microsoft Suite, and now I feel comfortable to use them and also teach others.

Website

I really enjoyed this assignment. I know that I will use this website when I become a teacher. I have a few years to really improve it, add recommendations, my resume, and more aspects to make it more professional. I enjoyed using Kompozer because I found it easy to use. I know that I will comfortable enough to open up Kompozer and start a new webpage. I really understood how to use it. I liked adding pictures and links. I definitely found this project useful and I learned a lot.