Cindy Barnhill, James, Misty, and Jeff of course

I would be nowhere without my great Instructional Technology friends! They have helped me so much and distracted me at times, but we have come so far together! I will never forget the good times of making WebQuests with James and Misty, eating bagels with with Cindy and helping her through her melt downs. Don't get me wrong, I've had some melt downs myself. My favorite example would have to be the day we started working on our websites and I couldn't get anything to work. Of course, where would I be without the amazing Jeff. I have completely deleted everything we were working on more times than I can count! But he always helped me through it. I have no idea how I could have made it though this class without them!

Earth Day

This post really has nothing to do with technology or our class really, but today is Earth Day! Technology sort of connects because we have learned to rely on technology to minimize waste. For example, when companies send out bills they can now do it electronically to save paper and money. Just think about all of the bills that KUB sends out every month. If everyone would trade in their paper bills for electronic ones how many trees can we save? The impact would be huge! So, as much as I hate technology it really does help us in many ways and in our world today we probably could not live without it.

Websites. . . ahhhh!!!!

Making a website is kind of a nightmare! It was really hard for me and I think it was because I was just totally unfamiliar with with internet stuff. But when I finished I was totally proud of myself because I really felt like I learned something! I fell much more knowledgeable about how servers work and how to run Dreamweaver. I have decided through this project that websites really could be useful in the classroom, especially for parents. If you have a website, parents could go to it and learn about your class and all of the things you've done. It could also really help students to keep up with work if they get behind because it would be something they could easily check at home. So overall YAY for WEBSITES!

Powerpoint is the best!

Today we made simple presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint and then one with Open Office Impress and it was pretty clear that Open Office sucked! I actually had never made a PowerPoint before so it wasn't that I was used to it, I think it was actually better! Open Office did all these weirdo things like having to type stuff before you actually started and it didn't format it for you and you had to do it all yourself, which is kind of lazy, but whatever maybe I'm lazy. So anyway, I kind of liked doing the PowerPoint because it showed me what all the hype was about. I don't know how I've never had to make a one before, but somehow I'm missed that part of school I guess. Overall, what I really learned today it Open Office Impress is not that great.