blogging

The thought of blogging much like facebook and twitter is hinged on thinking your thoughts and your life is important enough to broadcast. I do not think this. I am not one who posts things regularly and such found it tedious to post on a blog. Now in terms of a classroom blog I can see the merits and I responded to a few blogs of my classmates as they are far more interesting than I am.

my lesson and others

I like creating a lesson, especially for my students. Being a teacher I can put myself easyily in the classroom and see how I would go about teaching this and what would be needed. Looking at the other lesson was a real treat but I must say even as a teacher I find it hard to be critical of others work. I know how hard I worked on this lesson and I would like think they did too, and they were beautiful lessons and deserve praise.

powerpoint in the classroom

Powerpoint presentation are becoming a norm in our classroom at least at the upper levels. In college very few do not use them, and even a few professors are requiring them. In High School with the wide spread use of the smart board more and more teachers are finding them handy. In my little inner city school we just got a smart board and its just the one but its a start. I believe that at some point it will be the primary way we teach. At the touch of button you can connect with videos or actual photos of a place it is beautiful. There are some chances for abuse or I should say a lack of teaching. It is very common for a teacher or a presentor to just start reading the powerpoint slides and this isn't teaching this is presenting.

wow web 2.0

So I waiting on this one trying to get my head wrapped around web 2.0 with blogging, and wiki an facebook, and twitter, and flixr and the library thing and well you get the point. I have to say that on the surface there is not excuse in the education world now not to have open lines of communication, well except that if you work in urban setting or a setting where most of your population does not have a computer all this stuff doesn't matter. On a higher note we have our first smart board and we are getting new computers at my school so progress is being made. It does pay sometimes to be poor and have nothing sometimes you get stuff from the government during election times on the other hand the rest of the year all you get is ignored...but dont get me started.

Microsoft word

I think any techonology used properly is valuable in the classroom. Microsoft word used the right way allows teachers to specially design tests for particular students, and this is always for the best. The more personal education gets the better as no one knows students better than the teachers. I found the design of the flyer and newsletter as exciting as the rest of this course so far. There is so much I do not know about these programs, and with the case of microsoft word I thought I really had it down. How wrong I was.

Principles

A lot of what the principles talk about is to a certain degree common sense. To make sure everything on the page is connected. To make sure to give a feel of connection to it with a lot of the same colors, and ideas. To not use colors that are to similar. To me all common sense but at the same time to see it in print makes me think wow that is true.

Hi all-enjoy

Just posting for anyone with the ability to read this for all that is good and perfect do not stay inside this weekend. And if you are a teacher then I know you so deserve this beautiful weekend.