ICT week 5

This weeks ICT gave me a good set of skills to wrap up before I go out for student teaching. This week learning how to edit and crop pictures, and just make them more engaging and creative will most likely be implemented into these five weeks of teaching. Pixlr especially. From creating websites to creating a Wordle, I feel much more confident in my skills on a computer, and feel more knowledgable as well. We will see how the next 5 weeks go and see how much technology I will be implementing into my lessons!

ICT Week 4

This week in ICT there were several notable points to build off of.  I have finally completed my website. Though I have a fairly broad outline on the site so far, I am planning on putting much more material on to the site. Most of the material will be emphasized when I am done my student teaching placements, and when I start my teaching career. I put some videos on their to catch their attention, as well as other links that parents and students can look into. I put some information about myself so that they can get a good vibe of what kind of person I am. I figure this would be important for the parents especially. Also, I decided to include a button on homework assignments. This way the students are well aware of their assignments, and they also can not lie to their parents about not having any homework!  I thought an inspiration page would be good to have as well so the people who visit my site can see that I am happy to be a teacher, and what people drove me to want to be the best that I can be. So far, the kickstart of my website is pretty good. As more information comes in it will get even better. I figure as soon as more information and ideas flow, then I can start using the software Symbaloo. 

Another neat aspect to our class this weak was what we learned today. I found out that there will be smart boards in one of the classes I will be teaching in. The smart board is going to open up many doors to let the creative side of the students flow. I will definitely be getting the students to participate by drawing and writing on the boards. It would work perfectly by creating a centre topic, such as social studies that I will be teaching, and let the students build a web off of the main topic. They can tell me everything they know. 

One more week an student teaching begins! Should be a great experience!