Weebly

1. On the center is a pic from Weebly.com

2. What was your assignment?
Our assignment was to create an amature web page using Weebly.com

3. What are the benefits of an online portfolio?
It makes it easily accessibly for the user and for other people who would want to view it.

4. What did you like/dislike about Weebly?
I liked the fact that it was user friendly and it was easy to navigate around to find what I liked. As for my dislikes, I don't have any. This site is cool!

5. Would you continue to use it as a future educator? How?
Yes, I would use this site in the future. I could have my students turn in their works online so that it can be easily accessibly to me and the class.

Slideshare.net

Using Audio Podcasts To Enhance Learning

View more presentations from janreyes.

How was the experience of using Slideshare.net?

It was an interesting experience using Slideshare.net. It was a great program because of its availability and accessibility. However, it wasn't too user friendly--it was difficult to log in and it was difficult to upload powerpoint files. I even had to help Joey upload his file because his file was corrupted and always registered as an error 404.

What were the challenges?

The challenges were logging in, uploading files, and checking to see if the file uploaded was registered.

What was fun? Not-so fun?

It was fun to do the powerpoint, but it wasn't fun trying to find the kinks in the site.

If you had the chance to do it over what would you do differently?

None, I think I would take the same approach I did previously.

Illuminate!

1. Describe the experience with Elluminate LIve.

Overall, it was fun. I hate the fact that we usually lost the connection, but it was really fun to use. It was a very basic app for a freeware. My other experience with this included the use of 3 people interacting between one another, which was is very handy.

2. What did you like? Dislike?

I liked the fact that there are new adjustments made on Elluminate since the last time I have used it. The thing I disliked about this is that it eats up a lot of bandwidth which therefore improves the rate of drop (or lost) calls.

3. How would a distance-learning application like Elluminate, benefit students?

People could use this application to access and join their class or even meet up with people if they are able to do it physically.

4. What are some ideas that you learned from Bree?

The sharing of several files can be done easily through the use of different sites, such as on www.officelive.com

5. What will you take with you in more depth? Why?

I would take officelive.com more into depth since it enables file sharing easily and quickly among students. This would be something that I would actually invest my time into when I start my teaching career.

Time line activity

1. Describe your assignment.
The time line activity we did was pretty cool. Joey and I created a time line activity about World War II. From there, we created a lesson, a quiz, and a rubric involving this graphic organizer.

2. What did you like about the time line/Rubistar/Quiz-star?
They were all easy to use. The Rubistar, to be exact, made things very simple for us. The Quiz-Star on the other hand, was pretty complicated at first; however, once we got a hand of it, it was like a walk in the park.

3. How would you use these sites for a classroom assignment?
I could have the students use these sties to create their own time line activity to share and quiz their peers, based on their topic of research.

4. How would you rate each software on a scale of 1-10.
free-timeline.com >> 6 out of 10
Rubistar >> 10 out of 10
Quiz-Star >> 5 out of 10.

Slide.com slideshow!

Today, we explored slide.com. This site could be used to create slides through the use of photos. You are able to modify several different things to make your presentation "fancy." Also, you are able to embed a song coherent to your slides and theme.

1. Was the software user friendly?

No.

2. Did the software have extra useful features to enhance your presentation?

Yes, there was.

3. Is the software specifically useful for teachers?

50/50 because of its user-friendliness.

4. Would you recommend the software for other educators?

I'm not too sure. Further tinker should be done.

5. If you had a choice to use this software again for presentation, would you use it?

It really depends. I would use this if I'm desperate.

6. What overall consensus rating would you give this software 1-10 (10 being the highest)?

Even though I have used this before, I would still rate this a 4 because of it's upload speed and its user UN-friendliness. It said that its MAX upload at one time is 50; but, that wasn't true at all. After the first 8 pictures, it hung! Henceforth the solid 4.

P.S. I created the slide below to test out a couple kinks.

OMG! It's Joey! O_O

Zunal!

1. Describe your assignment.
Our assignment involved using an online software called Web quest in zunal. There we were to either select an already made presentation to present upon OR to create our own presentation. It was like a mini-lesson plan that had the whole "shabang" in it. Our web quest site could be found here.

2. What did you like/dislike about the web quest project? Why?
I liked it because we were able to explore a different educational technology tool that we could use in our future classrooms. Also, I really enjoyed this project because of the sharing of ideas that we were able to do.

3. What were some of the challenges you faced?
Some of the challenges I faced when doing the webquest assignment was trying to find a topic that met our expectations. Instead, we settled for one that didn't. Instead, I used this as an opportunity for a room to grow in. This gave me the experience of using another person's work as for our own. And no, I do not take any credit of the work that the original author did. I found out that there was very little space to work with since we couldn't adjust the author's presentation to our own expectations -- the author did not provide enough activities when we wanted to, there was no quiz when we wanted to design a quiz that revolved around the general food groups, and there was too little information to keep the class (K-2) to stay ON TASK!

4. If you had to do it over, what would you do differently?
If I had to do things over again, I would have created my own webquest assignment. Using a webquest that was previously done was pretty frustrating since it wasn't designed to our (me Joey's) specs. The reason why we chose that one though (The New Food Pyramid) was because we were in a health class together. I really liked it because it talked about health and nutrition -- something which I really enjoyed. So, going back to the question of having the opportunity of doing it over again, I would have surely done things in the same area but incorporate a lot more fun and interactive activities.

5. How do you think your students will like using a webquest?
It's simple. They will like it because it's fun, interactive, they get to use the computer when they research, and best yet, they won't be using paper!