Research Prompt 4

One new study habit that i have acquire through college is the use of note cards. They are a great memorization tool and they are cheap, too.

I believe that differences between reading for fun and reading for learning, are that when one reads for fun, they get into a book and truly enjoy the aspects. But when one is required to read for a class, it sucks the fun out of the book. Every piece of literature, with a few exceptions, that I have had to read for a class, have been the most boring books that i have ever laid my eyes on.

When I get confused about something that I am reading, I read over the text a couple more times to try and understand. If reading over the text again doesn't help, then I usually ask other people's input.

In ten years, I believe that a night out for me will consist of my husband and I going to a nice restaurant for a fulfilling meal and then maybe a movie because I like the traditional, laid back dates, and I would want to spend my nights out with people I care about. :)

Compared with the people I hang out with right now, the people in my future will probably be the exact same.

Most of the people I meet in college are wild and party a lot.

The next time I take a class that requires me to do a lot of work outside of class time, I will reconsider what I am getting myself into!

Research Prompt 3

Each week is getting a little bit tougher in classes, but i manage to stay on top of things and use my time wisely. Although I am getting work done, I still procrastinate a little bit. Until this week I did not know how to work Microsoft Excel, which I still am a little unsure about, but through the SAM program and what Mr. Gentile taught us, I know the basics.

For the Kappa Delta Alumni, I would first like to start by discussing with you all, that as I new Florida State University freshman, I find college a little bit more stressful than high school. I have managed to make high standard grades and I will be starting school as a sophomore in the Spring of 2008. School is a top priority in my life, so i just wanted to share with not only the alumni, but with the rest of my sisterhood that it is possible to incorporate school, Kappa Delta, and even work into one's daily life. I love representing my sorority as a woman of intelligence and of high standards.

During my brief article, the school played the main role because it is the institution where I am educated.

If I wanted to seek out any sort of information I would go about that through the internet. Websites like Google.com and AskJeeves.com are great search engines for basically anything.

Research Prompt 2

The work for this last week resulted in success. I learned how to use Microsoft Excel and I also took a practice test in the SAM program on Power Point. The only thing I will change about my work is that I won't wait until last minute to do it.
I think the most important thing I got out of this class was a better understanding for Microsoft's Power Point. Through the SAM program, I learned more about adding thing to power point then I did the week before.
Well, you need to understand how to work the programs before you actually start a project.
My thoughts on my future still stand the same right now.
I would think that my life mostly mimics my Grandmother's. She went to school and ended up getting a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in teaching, and she became a teacher. Then she met a pretty cool husband and created a pretty nice looking family. So, pretty much, I want to be like her.
I think that my future life least resembles Britney Spear's life. Kidding. Honestly, my whole family is made up of educators, so I can't really answer that question.

Research Prompt 1

I believe that this class will improve my academic success because it will teach me a lot of information about new technology. Not only will it teach me how to work technological programs , but it will also benefit my students when I become a teacher.
This past week I learned a lot of useful information about Power Point that I didn't know. I learned how to make difficult power point assignments and use them to teach others. I believe the most important thing I got out of class was how to create Power Points and more important, how to use them.
In ten years from now, I plan to be a successful high school teacher. I see myself teaching History in another state, such as California or Alabama because I want to teach somewhere with a nice atmosphere and I love both of those states. I also plan to be married with 2 sons and daughter. ha ha
This class will help me create that future by teaching me skills that I may incorporate not only in class, but in a professional aspect as well, such as at school board meetings and more.

Post 8

Free Blog

Post # 7

Chapter six taught me a lot of information about curriculum integration. I learned that a curriculum is the knowledge, skills, and performance standards that students are expected to acquire in particular grade levels, or through sequences or clusters based on subject matter units of instruction. I also learned that technology integration is the combination of all technology parts, for instance hardware & software, together with subject-related area of curriculum to enhance learning. When planning lessons for one's class, a teacher could use the ASSURE Model, which is a procedural guide for planning and delivering instruction that integrates technologies and media into the teaching process. These are just a few things that I learned from Chapter Six.
This past week, I learned how to make a Wiki. i thought it was really cool how one can access other people sites and change things or even just comment. Some of these sites could be used for educational purposes or even just for fun. I also learned a lot about the 2007 presidential candidates, which was pretty cool.
One thing that I would like to discuss with the class this week is a little story about wikis. When I was in high school I had to do a project about my high school, A.C. Mosley High School. I immediately accessed the Internet and went to work. After looking at my school's website and at articles about my school, I went to wikipedia.com. I started reading and I was so freaked out. According to this website, my high school was built on an old grave yard, and it is haunted by ghosts. At first, I thought it was true (at the time I didn't know how wikis worked). So I added this information into my project and when my teacher returned my project back to me, I saw that I received a c. It was a tough lesson to learn, but I learned that wikis are what other people say, they aren't concrete information.

Post 6

In chapter 5, I learned a lot about digital media. I learned that digital media allows users to create new forms of interaction, communication, and entertainment in a digital format. Through digital media, students would be able to interact with computer programs and learn through them. For instance, they could use graphics, animation, audio, and video to teach them lessons. Through digital media applications, teachers could deliver lessons that would improve their students' learning. Some example of Digital Media Applications are computer-based training, electronic books, how-to guides, digital magazines/newspapers, virtual reality, and much more.
Some things that I have learned since my last post was how to make a Wiki and a web page. It was a great learning experience, learning how to make these and I will definitely be using the skills that i acquired through this, in the future.
Working in Tallahassee sucks. I realize that I need to work because I need money, but is just so time consuming. I started working here as a transfer from a restaurant that i worked at, at home, but it was just awful. So i moved to a new restaurant and it is actually making me enjoy work. So come see me at RED ELEPHANT, and tip well. :)

Post 5

Skipped By Permission................

Post 4

Through this chapter this week, I learned a lot about Internet services and a lot about the web. A lot of this material wasn't new to me, but there a couple things that stood out. For instance, I learned the difference between LAN and Wan, which I have always wondered what they were. WAN covers large areas such as school districts, while LAN covers small areas like a house or a school. There are so many ways to get information and technology through the World Wide Web. There are also vast numbers of search engines through websites and customized on your computer. Things that I already new while reading this chapter was what URLs are and how to use search engines. Another new thing that stood out to me was File Transfer Protocol, which allows you to exchange files with other computers on the Internet. Obviously it is possible to exchange files online but i didn't know how it happened. I will probably keep a lot of this information close to me when I become a teacher because they will help me when I need to know anything about websites.
Since our last class, I learned that google has probably about five million different ways of searching for information. There is Google Scholar, Google Image, Google Reader, Google News, and so on. This helps searching for information so much easier because you can get strait to what you are looking for. For Instance if i wanted to look for a certain article published in 1986, I could find that through Google Scholar. Google is an amazing invention and we should thank who ever made it!
Since coming to Florida State, I decided that i wanted to get really involved really fast because I am one of those people who have to be busy all of the time. So I decided to rush a sorority. At first I was really hesitant towards it because its a lot of money and I wasn't sure how I would get along with a bunch of new random girls. It was a great decision, I am now a part of the Kappa Delta Sorority and I am loving every minute of it. It keeps me very busy, but it's worth it.

Post 3

Chapter for was really interesting for me because it gave me a lot of insight about purchasing a computer. I learned that the central processing unit is pretty much the brain of the computer and can be called other things such as processor or microprocessor. Also, there are two different types of memory: volatile and nonvolatile. Volatile memory is erased when the computer is turned off, an example of this would be when you save something to the c drive but the computer is turned off and you lose your work. Read only memory and flash memory are examples of nonvolatile which saves your work regardless of turning the computer off. Another thing that I thought was helpful in purchasing a computer was all the information about input and output devices. An input device is something that lets you enter information into a computer. Examples of input devices are keyboards, mouses, touch pads, joysticks, pen inputs, and audio and video inputs. Output is the information that the input enters into the computer. Examples of output are text, graphics, and audio & video, but examples of output devices are computer monitors, printers, projectors, and fax machines. It's pretty cool how many things go into a computer. One last thing that would help me in my decision to buy a computer is how much storage media it can handle. Storage media is pretty much the hard copy of information that computers use to store. Examples of storage media are: magnetic disks, floppy disks, zip disks, hard disks, optical discs, Cd's & DVDs, and so on. I learned a lot about how computers store information and how many little things go into one great machine through this chapter.
What I would like to share this week is not about this course, unfortunately its about health. If I could give any advice, it is to wash your hands and don't get sick! True story about this week: I started coughing a lot on Sunday, but I just blew it off, i thought it was just a random cold, no biggie. I was wrong. I went to a certain clinic to receive medical attention which was mistake number two. They told me that I had asthma and they sent me home with an inhaler. Well the coughing got worse and the symptoms got to a point where i had to get my roommate to pick me up from work last night and take me to a different doctor. So we went to a walk in clinic close to where I worked and the doctor there told me that the previous doctor I had gone to was wrong. Although I had been having asthma attacks, the cause of these attacks was Bronchitis. So the lesson learned through this story is. Go to a clinic off campus and wash your hands, otherwise you could end up with Bronchitis, and its not fun.
Since my last class, I learned how to use the Inspiration program, which I am in love with. I'm really glad that I was introduced to this program because I know I will be using it in my future teaching career. Through Inspiration, I learned how to make concept maps, which will help significantly in class by showing relationship between topics being discussed. I know for sure that I will purchase this program in the future and apply it to my class!

Post 2

This week when we were asked to look at our book online I went under the secondary education link because I have been very interested in teaching in high schools. Two websites I visited that i found very helpful were Teachers.net and the Microsoft Lesson Plan website. Teachers.net was a really cool site because it had a lot of links that could help teachers who are starting out such as job searches and resume searches. It also has a lot of articles about teaching that you could refer to if writing a paper for your degree or if you were just looking to see how other teachers might teach. One last cool thing about Teachers.net is it has posted lessons that could help you. The other website that I found really helpful with lessons plans was the Microsoft Lesson Plan Webpage. It has different school subjects and under each subject it gives a few lesson plan examples. I have a feeling I will be using a lot of these websites when I become a teacher.
Last week I learned a great deal about Microsoft Word. I thought I knew how to do everything on Microsoft word. But I was wrong, very wrong! I learned how to make a boring, plain newsletter look like a really cool newsletter. I learned how to make columns, add a background, make a heading for my newsletter, and much more. It was a really cool assignment and experience, and I'm glad I learned all of this information because I will be using it in the future.
Through Assistive technologies I found a website with ReadingPen, which is a program to help students with Dyslexia. It is a neat site because it makes it possible for students to listen to what they are reading. It also helps students with reviewing their own written work when they are done with it. ReadingPen is a little device that looks like a pen that goes over sentences and picks up what it scanned and reads allowed that it just scanned. It is a great help for students with Dyslexia.

Post 1

As students, we use technology everyday. Whether we are in class looking for information for a research paper, or even if we are just taking a quiz or a test, technology is everywhere for us. We were born into an age of technology where every breathing moment of our lives, some new technological device is invented. This is great for us because as we grow into adults and move on with our lives we will be teaching others technology. For instance if you are the president of a record label, you will have to teach others the technologies of running the business, or what if your the manager of a grocery story, you will have to teach new employees how to work the cash register, which involves technology. Learning technology is a part of life now and we need to know how to use it in the classroom. In the discussion last week, we learned about the ARCS Motivational Model which a wonderful way of motivating students to want to learn. It involves four different ares of motivation, which are attention, relevance, challenge/ confidence, and satisfaction/ success. Some examples of the ways these can help are grabbing the students attention by playing a movie that is related to the topic you are teaching, or incorporating slides with attention grabbers hidden in them to make sure the students are paying attention. Another example is allowing students to have school blogs so that they maybe post there successful work and receive internal satisfaction for a job well done. The ARCS model really does help in classrooms which leads me to my next point.
Although I didn't technically use it in class, I learned the ARCS model in class, and I truly believe that if I bring it to the classroom when I'm a teacher, it will work. Last week, I also learned a little more about Windows Word Processor. It's weird how you think that you know everything about certain software, then your introduced to new things. I learned out to head the bottom of my pages and how to format my papers to be perfect.
Something that I would like to share is that throughout my whole high school experience, I dedicated a lot of time and effort to a huge passion of mine which is video productions and communications technology. I took five communications technology classes because I was obsessed with creating new projects, videos, commercials. I made all of these using software like ADOBE Premier Pro, etc. That's just a little something I thought that I would share with you all.

Assignment 1

Well, I have been using technology since I was in Elementary school. My dad bought me a computer when I was around seven years old, and ever since, I have been glued to the computer screen. Although I was too young to understand the World Wide Web, I loved playing games! The first time I ever used the Internet was when my Dad subscribed me to some Disney Program online at the age of nine. After that I became addicted. Like most college students I took part in many of the online sites such as: XANGA, LiveJournal, MYSpace, and facebook. In high school I was on our Television Staff and I took 5 communication technology classes. Through those classes i learned how to make make/edit videos on the computer. I have always been a hands on kind of girl, and technology comes easy to me.

Throughout this class I hope to learn how to use things through technology that I don't already know. I want to learn how I can apply this technology to teaching students and, maybe even teach students a little something about it. We now live in an age where technology is taking over and by the time I'm a teacher, students will probably be teaching me something. So to save myself from future embarrassment, I want to learn as much as possible.

I learned through the Learning Style Survey that I am a hands on learner. I can learn better with more visual, rather than audio styles. I realize that I will use these skills to teach others, but I would also like to learn other styles so I can adapt to how others learn.