The article was interesting, but I have to admit everything that this class brings up is so worthwhile to us that are going to be teachers! (Kissing up aside :-)) I am shocked that I enjoy technology and I am not running the other way any longer. The article “Teaching Students to Use the Internet as a Research Tool” was good to learn that it can be overload for a student…I have felt it before, too much at once. More research tools like the search engines the better for us and I love this stuff and just add it to my folder for teaching.
The excel assignment was great because I had no idea that I did not know so much! I did not even know that there was more than one sheet per page, or that we could rename them. I will totally use this in the classroom all of the time!! My favorite new concept about excel is making the title line that we can highlight, put into a different color and put at an angle, I thought that was cool. I also never knew that the colors on graphs can correspond with other items like names in the chart or in a different graph like a pie graph.
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I definitely plan on adding some of these search engines to my "teaching folder" as well. I never knew so many specific search engines existed so I will take advantage of many of these educational search engines. I also did not know how much excel can really do. I also thought that the title features such as adding a slant to the writing was a neat and different way to organize sheets. Learning how to rename sheets also will help when organizing the many assignments and various classes being taught!
I too, was quite shocked as to how many search engines were available for students to use. I also, liked the part in the article that gave us as future teachers information on where to go for valuable information on lesson plans and access to speak with other teachers via the web. I thought that was very interesting!!
I am also enjoying this class much more than I thought I would. Out of the three education classes I am currently taking I definately feel that this one is going to help me more than any of the others. I feel that I am learning stuff that I will use throughout my whole teaching career.
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