Graphing Tools

Finding out the comparisons on the National Average for 4th grade in math, science, and reading.

Using Kids Zone to make the graphs.

Finding the information on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

Movie Maker

I used a previous powerpoint assignment in this class: Cyberbullying for my movie maker.

Now once again I am having trouble uploading my movie onto my blog. I can get it on here but it is taking a long time to upload the video.

Once I downloaded the movie maker application and applied my powerpoint presentation
this was an easy activity to do. Everything was self explantory. If I wanted to make a movie in the future, I would definetly use this application.

The ISTE:

Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

promote, support, and model creativity and innovative thinking and inventiveness.

Model Digital-Age Work and Learning

demonstarte fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations.

Wordle

This is a very creative tool! Students would love to use this program. I used words for physcial education activities, what we can do in the gym. Variety of colors, shapes that is can be made into and its all under a one button, how convenient.

Video response

Open Letters to Educators


Times have changed drastically from the time I started college until now. After watching the video with Dan, he wants educators to get enthused about technology. We want to get our students pumped up about education. Lectures, out with the old, Technology, in with the new! No one wants to sit in class and listen to a boring lecture for about 40 minutes about nothing. Getting up to speed with technology will get our students more involved. Technology will always be changing and will be the future. I have learned a lot from this technology class and hopefully use the applications in my classrooms to help my students. Like Dan says, "the world is always changing, if you don't do something about it, it will change without you." Let's get motivated and do something about it.

Tiny URL

We had to make one of our URL's a smaller version, so I chose my blog address. It started out as http://shell3-dhj.blogspot.com/ and now it is blog address . What an easy to shorten. I never knew you could do this. What a great tool if you need to shorten an website that is very long.

http://tiny.cc/chn9p What a difference!

Google Forms

This application was fun to work with. Very easy to follow directions, and the tutorial was very helpful. It allows you to make any type of question you would like. I chose a Volleyball Test with ten questions. I thought I would try another lesson besides the Food Guide Pyramid this time, yea!!!

Jeopardy

I thought this activity was a lot fun. The only hard part about it was thinking of the questions. Of course, I chose food as my title, considering I've done the food guide pyramid throughout all my
blogs.



The ISTE:

Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity

Promote, support and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness

Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning

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

BatchGeo

Still working on it. Having difficulties copying and pasting the addresses. Don't know what's wrong with it. Ok, finally got it to work, woohoo!! I had to use keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste. My map!

PhotoStory PSA

Well at first I was panicking about this assignment because I didn't know where to find the pictures for the video. But after reading it over and over again, it finally clicked. Once I got started in PhotoStory and rearranging my pictures, I actually got the hang of it and really enjoyed this project. Kind of scary talking in the microphone at first but I didn't mind after it a while. I wanted complete silence while doing the narrating part and thought maybe the phone would ring, my dog would've started barking, who knows, but it worked out. I really enjoyed working with PhotoStory! After watching the tuturioral about how to save in a different file also helped. Plus I learned about CyberBullying, didn't realize how much information there was about it and how much of it goes on with our kids. A very informative lesson.

The ISTE Standards is: Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Customize and personalize learning activities to address students diverse learnign styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.

Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations.

Prezi

Once again I used the food guide pyramid for my lesson. If my kids don't learn about the
food guide pryamid by now, then I don't know what to tell them. Since I have used this presentation several times now. Prezi was easy to use once I got started. All the tools were easy to access and put to good use in my presentation.







The difference between the tools is on Prezi they use a wheel tool called a "zebra". This lets you place the wheel on your text to enlarge, move, and turn your text around. I think the advantage on Powerpoint is it has more tools to work with than Prezi. But Prezi is simple and to the point without all the gadgets to work with. Depending on what you need to teach your lessons will help you decide which one you need to work with, Prezi or Powerpoint.

The ISTE that best fits the Prezi assignment is: Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
model an dfacilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, anaylzye, and evalute, and use information.
Design and Develop Digital-Age Learing Experiences
design or adapt relevant learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiositites and become active participants.

Motion Path

Showing a technique in passing a basketball.
I went ahead and sent this to Dr. Pierce through his gmail. Having trouble
uploading here in my blog.

Show/Hide Labels

I did my animation on the Food Guide Pyramid. Click on the boxes with the different
colors and it shows what food group it belongs to and the text will go away.

Ignite

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Ignite

View more presentations from shelly barnett.

Ignite

I decided to do my presentation on planning a birthday party on a budget.
I hope this information is useful and helpful to others who have children
and know the expense of planning birthday parties. I have three children
of my own and they are not cheap. I have planned many parties for my
own children and my friends and I enjoy it very much. So I hope these
ideas will you get you started and you may have a few ideas yourself.

Powerpoint

Using powerpoint I created a lesson on the Food Guide Pyramid: How many
servings should we eat? Uploading my presentation onto Slideshare.

ISTE Standards:

#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.

Jing Graphic

The proper way how to dribble a basketball. My graphic has three cues on how to dribble a basketball: make sure you are looking up, the correct way to place your hand on the ball and feet spread apart.

ISTE Standards:

#5 Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong

learning, and exhibit leadership in their school

d. contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching

profession and of their school and community.

Jing Screencast

Jing Screencast: Self portrait using Picassohead.

Learning Outcomes:

1. What file types come out of Jing?
Images and screencasts, PNG Image files (*.png) and SWF video files (*.swf)

2. Where might we save these files? Where are the files stored?
To your personal computer, personal storage device, in the history file of Jing, or electronically by URL .

3. How do you link to a Screencast?
By capturing an image of your entire computer screen then clicking on the video button to start to recording what you are doing on the computer while you are working.

4. How do you save and retrieve Jing objects from the History area?
After capturing an image you click the save button and the image you saved will automatically be stored in your Jing object history. To retrieve this image use the sun icon at the top of your screen and click on the history button. Your image will be displayed in a window for you so may continue editing it.

5. How to import Jing objects into our blog posts?
Once you finish working with your project click on the share via screencast.com button and Jing will automatically generate a URL for you to paste into your blog.

6. What file type is a Jing screencast?
SWF Video file (*.swf)

7. Can we convert the Jing objects including images and videos?
The images and videos can be uploaded into programs such as YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook or imported into different software programs to create slideshows, powerpoints, or other media projects.

ISTE Standards:

#4 Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

a. advocate, model, and teach safe, lega, and ethical use of didtal

information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual

property, and the appropriate documentation of sources.

Google Draw Tool

I went through Mozilla Firefox to get this program to work. Had no problems after that. This tool was easy to work with and had a lot of choices to pick from. I used the different shapes to create my graphic and using the arrow and line tools and the text box to incorporate text into my graphic. Found out you can change colors in the text and fill in colors in the shapes too. I used Jing to embed my graph. I am so excited I figured that out and it actually worked.

ISTE Standards:

#4 Model Digital-Age Work and Learning

d. model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools

to locate, anaylze, evaluate, and use information.

Glogster

Just for starters I set up my Glogster account and played around and made a poster. This has a lot of neat ideas to incorporate into your work. Its actually a lot of fun. I am working on the video and audio part and will update my glogster with that next. I would like to add friends to my Glog but don't know anyone's screen names. If you could send me some I will add you. Thanks!
(mine is sbarn03) I don't want to accept someone that's not from our class.

I finally set up my video: a 10 minute jump rope cardio workout. Looks like a lot of fun.
Great exercise for only 10 minutes out of your day.

Learning Outcomes:

1. What is a glog? It is a social network that allows users to create free interactive posters, or glogs. The glog is short for graphical blog, is an interactive multimedia image. It looks like a poster, but readers can interact with the content.

2. How might you use a glog in your class?
The user inserts texts, images, photos and audio (mp3), video and special effects and other elements into their glogs to generate a multimedia online creation. It is based on flash elements. They can be shared by people.

3.. What ISTE NETS T does the use of Glogster most likely correspond with in your opinion?

#1 Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

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

4. What is the problem (if any) with this program?
There doesn't seem to be a problem. This program seems to be a fast growing one. And in the near future they are going to produce an enhanced version of Glogster EDU 2.0. Over 150.000 teachers use this method now.

Self Portrait

shell by shelly: "Picassohead"

Here is an image of my self portrait. Very plain I know, I am not very creative.

Pablo Picasso images are very edgey. Using the tools given you can create many styles. Use your imagination to create some really funky images. Looking through the gallery there are a lot of creative work and vivid imaginations. I went back and embedded my portrait using Jing. I believe Jing is a very useful tool.

ISTE Standards:

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

c. customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse

learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.

Learning Styles Test

Results of learning styles test were completely different from what I chose. My results were:
Visual 1
Aural 2
Read/Write 8
Kinesthetic 5

I have a mild read/write learning preference. Here is a more depth description of verbal learning styles. Prefer using words, both in speech an writing.

Learning Outcomes:

1. What are the learning styles?
Visual, Aural, Verbal, Physical, Logical, Social and Solitary

2. How can awareness of learning styles improve performance in a learning environment?
If knowing how a student learns better through one style or another will help the teacher guide them in the right direction and understand what the student is capable of doing on certain tasks. It would only benefit the teacher to know so she could work on her skills to provide better teaching skills on her part for the students.

ISTE Standards:

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

d. provide students with mulitple and varied formative and summative assessments
aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform
learning and teaching.

Learning Styles

There are seven learning styles traits to choose from: I believe my first style would be: Physical, I am a hands-on learner. I think my actually performing the work you can learn quicker and absorb the material a lot faster. Second choice would be: Visual, looking at what needs to be done can show you how to accomplish the work. Next, social, sometimes it helps when others are in a group and you can work together on a project. Get everyones ideas is very helpful instead of working alone.
I don't think I've ever taken a learning style tests that I can remember.

Snipping Tool

My computer does not come with the snipping tool. If I could use the tool I would cut out a image of the proper way of dribbling a basketball. Placing the right hand form on the ball, where you should be looking, and you move.

Voice Thread

I created my voice thread account. Very interesting tool to come across to add comments to various things you create. For the invite from Dr. Pierce I typed my comment in instead of doing a voice action. A voice thread experiment lasting for 30 seconds, a brief bio of yourself and what are your interests and teaching experience if any and what are your plans for the future? It was very interesting to hear and read all the comments from the students from the class. I liked it because its all on one page and you don't have to click in and out of it like the discussions we have to read back and forth. Its also nice to see a picture of everyone, get an idea of who everyone looks like.
What ISTE NETS T would you consider this activity most closely matches and why?
#1 Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

d. model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning
with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.


Learning Outcomes:

1. What is a VoiceThread and how can they be used in any learning enterprise?

It is a collaborative, multimedia slideshow that holds images, documents, and videos, and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in five ways- using voice, text, audio file, or video (via webcam).

Google Reader/Google Profile

I have created my Google Profile, which was a very easy step by step process to follow. Google Reader page you can find here.

Looking through all the blogs I have decided to follow the one called: Look at my happy rainbow. He talks about his journey through kindergarten. The second I chose was School Food Matters. I am interested in finding out more about this new program they just launched called CHEW, children eating well by Caroline Walker. When you click on this is starts you from birth to ages up to 18. Both should be interesting to follow throughout the semester and find out some new information.

Learning outcomes:

1. What is a blog syndication and how does it differ from your previous strategies for information gathering? You can syndicate your blog content for free or you can earn money by syndicating your cotent through an ad-supported blog syndication service. There are three types of syndication: free, ad and licensed. Depending on how well written your blog is. Only syndicate your content through services that meet your short term and long term blogging objectives.

2. What does RSS stand for? Really simply syndication

Google Docs

Resume

Personality Test

After taking the personality test the results came back and recognized me as Guardian, which I also picked first in my first blog.

I would use this information from the testing to my best abilities for my students and hope to pass along this information so they could also benefit by having some of these traits. Teaching them how to become independent and self-confident among others. Work hard will always pay off.

Learning outcomes:

1. What are the personality types?
Guardian, Idealists, Rational, and Artisan

2. How can awareness of personal characteristics improve performance in a learning environment?
Knowing what traits you have can definelty improve your performance in a learning environment cause you can pass along those traits to someone else and help them learn what you been taught.

Personality Profile

I would catergorize myself as: guardian, idealists, artisan, and rational after reading the different descriptions.

I would definelty would recognize myself most with the guardian temperment because I share a lot of the qualities it has mentioned. I have always worked hard to get where I am today, and I am very independent. I am a parent of three children who I strive to make their life happy and their environments safe as possible. Trying to make sure what is the best for them is not always an easy task but if I take it day by day we will survive in this crazy world we live in today.

Diigo

I have set up my Diigo Account.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the 3 steps to recommend in the film to get started social bookmarking?
highlighting paragraph, add a comment, bookmark the page for easy retrieval.

2. Desrcibe is Web 2.0, and how it differs from previous stages of the web?
Web 2.0 is commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the world wide web.
Draws together the capabilities of client and server side software, content syndication, and the use of network protocols.

3. What is social bookmarking and what advantages does social bookmarking offer that traditional storage and retrieval of web sites does not?

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online.
A social bookmarking has several advantages over traditional automated resource location and classification software, such as search engine spiders.

Browser Wars

A web browser is software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.

List the most popular four web browsers used currently?
1. Mozilla Firefox
2. Google Chrome
3. Safari
4.Opera

Browser war is a metaphorical that refers to competitions for dominance in usage share in the web browser marketplace. The term is often used to denote two specific rivalries: the competition that saw Microsofts Internet Explorer replace Netscape Navigator as the dominant provider browser during the late 1990s.

Internet Connection Test

Results of the Internet Connection Test:

I did the first test around 10:00am: Download speed: 10174 Kbps (1271.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload speed: 367 Kbps (45.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

The second test around 3:30pm: Download speed: 16264 Kbps (2033 KB/ sec transfer rate)
Upload speed: 368 Kbps ( 46 KB/sec transfer rate)

My internet provider is Time Warner Cable. Yes, we do have other providers to chose from. But I prefer this service because I can get cable, phone and internet service on one bill. Every month the average bill will cost $33.00 a month.

Learning Outcomes:

1. What is broadband?

is a high data rate Internet access.

2. How is it measured?

3. Who are the providers?

Verizon, DirectTV, AT & T, Comcast

4. What is the cost?

Time Warner $34.95 mth. / Verizon $44.99 mth.

Introductory

Hello Everyone! My name is Shelly Barnett and this is my 3rd semester in the MAT program. Looking forward to student teaching in the spring. I am married with three children: 15, 7, and 3. I have been a substitute teacher in Harrison County for three years now. I enjoy doing Zumba and being involved in my children's activities which includes cheerleading and the band. After completing this program I hope to become a full time Physical Education teacher in Harrison County. I wish everyone good luck with this semester.