Webquest

Wow! I was very stressed out about this one. I felt that I was behind on this assignment, and it is worth the most. I gave birth to a little boy last tuesday by emergency c-section which hindered me from sitting at my computer for about a week. Now that I am feeling better, and back at my computer, I feel a tremendous weight lifted off of my shoulders to know that I am finished with this, and I hope it is satisfactory.
I know that someone said in one of the discussions that the hard part was figuring out what the topic would be, and that ended up to be true. Once I got my groove going on the google sites page to set up my webquest, it was a breeze. I think students would have a lot of fun with this one. Here it is!:

Let's Get Physical!

Fun with Data

I did not think that I was ever going to understand this assignment. After getting the formatting done, I was very afraid to mess it up by trying the formulas. I quickly learned that if something I did changed the information in the boxes, there is an undo button...which I used! I finally finished, however I am pretty sure that I took the long way through it. I will be emailing it on the 15th, and we'll go from there!

Google Docs Quiz

Again, this was easy, and worthwile to learn. What a fantastic way to have kids take a quiz and have it sent straight to your inbox. That way, you can keep everything in one place, and be able to pull it up from anywhere instead of carrying around a pile of papers.

Rubic

This was extremely easy, and very useful. A couple of my other professors for the classes that I am taking use this, and now I know how as well. Take a look at mine:

Rubic (Drawing a Tennis Court)

Windows Movie Maker

This was easy, and made my presentation so much more interesting to watch. I added an effect to all the slides, and a transititon in between. Along with those, I added some extra slides, including the title slide, and the credit slide. This is how everyone should present a slide show.

Movie Maker

PDF presentation

This was a tricky one. I downloaded a free powerpoint to pdf converter to my desktop. Then, all I had to do was right click on the presentation that I also saved to my desktop, select the option to convert, and voila! After that, I simply moved it to FTP, and linked it to here.

PDF (Fast food choices)

Google Docs Presentaion

This is a nice alternative to using FTP. I was one of those faithful FTP users because I was comfortable with it, but this is just as easy, if not easier.

Google Docs Presentation

Jeopardy

Again, easier than expected! I can totally see students having a ball with this. This is a great way to review your lesson, and help them retain the information.

Jeopardy

Power Point Web Page

I was a little nervous after reading the directions about "thing 1", and "thing 2", but it worked out fine once I just tried it. Pretty easy!

Here is link to my web page:
Fast Food Choices

Power Point Show

This was actually good to do, because I will definitley be able to hang on to this presentation. I had the chance to do some research, and find some interesting information that I think would be a good lesson. This information is for 9-12 grade Health.

Check it out:
Fast Food Choices

Podcast

Well, this assignment certainly took me literally days to finish. I struggled to completion, but I'm glad that I did because I think this is a program that I will use again. To view my Podcast on Nutrition, click here:



Podcast



To view the script from the Podcast, click here:



Script



To view, or print, the worksheet that corresponds to the information in the Podcast, click here:



Worksheet

Web Album

Well, this could certainly be fun for students. It would be great to create an online web album for each class activity, so that other students or even parents could keep track of what we're doing all day. Also, it could pique an interest of other students to want to take your class, and give your current students something to talk about, and show their families. View mine here:

My Engagement Party

Photoshop Express

This was interesting. It was a lot of fun to play around with the different tools you can use to edit a photo. Not the greatest picture of me, but the easiest to edit.



View my album here:

http://www.photoshop.com/user/eeniev/?galleryid=018a4f446cd445b2b720f1b799fe2961&wf=share&trackingid=BTAGC

Crappy Graphics

This assignment actually didn't take very long. The toughest part was deciding which diagram I would use, and what data would be most helpful in a classroom to help students visually understand. All of the diagram and graph tools will be most helpful to me one day in my own classroom.

Also, view the link here:

http://crappygraphs.com/user_graphs/?id=2726

Online Graphics

This activity caused me to have to be a little more organized. I had about 6 tabs going at once, flipping back and forth to each to compare information, as well as make my graphs. I saved each to FTP so that they would be easily accessible, and not send the viewer all over the place. Take a look...

My Graphs:
http://www2.fairmontstate.edu/users/ecurry/6305graphs.doc

View Sources:
http://www2.fairmontstate.edu/users/ecurry/6305wvmath.pdf

http://www2.fairmontstate.edu/users/ecurry/6305stateincome.mht

Kids Zone:
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/classic/

Image Capture

Okay, so I chose a photo of some nice looking pool that I found on the internet, that I'd like to be laying beside or floating in. Then I saved it as jpeg, and opened it in Paint. I cut off the excess border, and colored it pink. Then I typed the word "Paradise" at the top, and colored the background of the text to match the border. And to give it a little extra look, I used the spray paint tool with white around the edge of the text box, so it wouldn't look so harsh against the beautiful picture. In a Health class, i might give my students a skeleton with all the bones, and give them directions with a list of all the names of the bones, and a color to paint them. They would have to figure out which bone was which in order to know what bone to paint what color. Let your imaginiation take you away at the pool:

http://www2.fairmontstate.edu/users/ecurry/6305pool.doc

Graphics

Well, I think I did it. I created a graphic using Word that I may someday use in either a Phys. Ed. or Health class. I began with Insert a diagram, only to find out that I did not have the skill, or it was not possible to create my pyramid using this function. So, I designed my own pyramid as best as I could in Paint. I copy and pasted the picture to my Word document, and then used Word Art from there, so that I could move the words around easily and make them the size, shape, and color that is most convenient and eye pleasing. I played around with some clip art to match the categories, but found that they made it look cluttered, and harder to understand. An exercise that I might do with this pyramid is have a separate sheet of a bunch of pictures, and let the students get involved by deciding which picture belongs where. Have a look for yourself:

http://www2.fairmontstate.edu/users/ecurry/6305pyramid.doc

Dale's Cone

First, you read through a little bit about how we learn...visual being the best. Then, as you read on, it describes all the research that is done with figures that add up perfectly, and exactly, and how we, as people, just take it for what it is, and move on without question. After reading this, I start totally realizing that I am definitely one of those people. I think to myself, and come to the conclusion that that's true. That numbers like that can't possibly be real. And then I get to see all of Dale's cones that he has constructed that fall directly into this category. You can't fool me anymore, Dale!

To read more about my opinion, click here:

http://www2.fairmontstate.edu/users/ecurry/6305dalescone.doc

FTP

I had never heard of this before, and I have to admit, I was a little nervous. Once I went ahead and followed the directions, everything went as smooth as butter. This is a really useful tool to know how to use.

Resume!

Hopefully someday I will be able to use this resume. I have my goal graduation date beside the MAT section. It's gonna take some major effort after I have this baby, I believe...we'll see!

My adventures with photo story.

For your viewing pleasure, I present to you...Erin's video story posted on teachertube.com!

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=4f94c46eee223355137a

I'm so proud of myself!

Hey everyone! Thanks for visiting my blog. This is the first time I've ever created anything like this, and so far, it's been pretty fun. It's still the first week of class, and I've accomplished more by getting the chance to do this, and explore with Skype (username: erinrcurry), than any other computer class. Check back when you can, and enjoy!