Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Making a website

I did not know that there were so many ways to create a website. I am excited to get started on creating my own website. I hope I do not get to confused and mess up my website. Google's way of creating a website was difficult at first but then I started using my head and it became a lot easier. The first website maker I went to, Jigsy,  was very simple and easy to navigate through. I thought that the Dream Weaver way of creating a website would be hard but after going through it step by step it did not turn out to be that hard to do. I think I am going to make my website about Peter Pan

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Apps

Getting to play on the ipod was a lot of fun. I liked going through all the applications. I always like to play different games. Thinking of an idea to make my own application was easier then the other times I had to think of an idea. I chose Harry Potter because I am really excited about the last movie coming out on July 15, but sad at the same time. Looking for pictures was a lot of fun and being able to pick the ones I wanted was nice. After making my application, I wanted to be able to put it on my ipod so I could add more things to it and be able to also have it with me.

Podcast or what!?

         Creating a pobcast was a lot of fun. I wish i was able to spend more time on it and really make it amazing. the hardest part was picking a topic. Then the voice over was pretty difficult to do. I do not like listening to myself. I sound weird.
         I liked looking at other people's podcast. I really enjoyed the musical theater podcast. She used songs that kids would know and be able to relate to.
         I enjoy learning to do new things. Making a podcast can in handy sometime but also, it can be used just for fun.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

New electronics and search engine

I enjoy working with the smart board. I have the opportunity to have a smart board in the classroom that I am a student teacher at. The teachers allow me to work with the smart board a lot so I am getting used to it. I really like the clickers. It is very interactive with the students and I have seen that the students pay more attention to what is happening when they have a question to answer at the end. I did not know that there were so many different search engines. I like google and I think I will stick with it because I know how it works. If I must change my search engine, I would most likely go with bing.

Fake or real? That is the question.

I remember my teachers always told me that the website that I can trust and are most valuable are the ones that end in org, edu or gov. After looking at the websites I now know that I still have to be extra careful in the sites I use. Some websites will be easy to spot it it is real or fake but then there are others, like the one I looked at in class, that can be very tricky. I think that it is funny that people make fake websites. I would like to know why they do it.