Katelynn Johnston's Blog – March 2010 Archive (3)

In Ed. Tech. last week I learned about Web 2.0 - what it is and how to classify things within or out of it. In short summary, Web 2.0 includes social networking, interactivity, and is changable. In class, four groups were assigned to activities on different Web 2.0 sites such as Glogster, Wordle, Prezi, and Notaland.

For this week's assignment, we were to create something from Web 2.0, and I chose to…

For this week's assignment in Educational Technology, I had to make a character posters using Microsoft Office's Excel program. My character poster included a picture of me as the background and a word that describes me along with its definition - both displayed somewhere on the poster.

To make the poster on Excel, I zoomed out to view the page at 25%, so that I was able to see the page lines (the…

Last week in Educational Technology we learned about various different programs that we may one day use in our own classrooms. One of the programs, "Kidspiration", helps students brainstorm by creating their own customized webs and outlines. For today's assignment, we were to create a web that contains at least 5 family members and 5 friends. We identified each person with either a picture or one of the symbols provided on Kidspiration. After creating the web, we wrote an outline of the web…