Mai Chan's Blog (6)

Last Tuesday, we learned about Web 2.0 Technology. It has greatly helped all of us to be able to enjoy the Internet and also be able to connect with other users- even if you have never met them before! In class, Mr. Eveland showed us an old game, Oregon Trail, and then played it on the Internet. Using an educational yet fun fames in which students can learn and have fun at the same… Continue

At class last Tuesday, Mr. E. gave out an article about the substitute teacher Mrs. Julie Amero and how she was wrongly accused of looking up adult content while students were watching. But in reality, she had stepped out of the classroom and came back to see the students at at hairstyle site, which ended up having endless amounts of… Continue

For class today, we looked at different kinds of software and played around with it. Needless to say, it was fun to just play around and learn how to use these different software and see how we could possibly use it for our future classrooms.



For our assignment, we had to use the Kidspiration and make a mind map, which would look like this:

We were to make a mind map about our friends and family,… Continue

On Tuesday, our Educational Technology teacher taught us about Character Posters. We used Microsoft Excel to upload our pictures, and then wrote three things: Our name, an adjective that described us, and the meaning of the word. For example, “Friendly: \ˈfren(d)-lē\ adjective 1: of, relating to, or befitting a friend: as a: showing kindly interest and goodwill”. The digital image needed to have a high resolution so that when printed out, it wouldn't look distorted. This was for the whole class… Continue

In third grade on my birthday, I recieved my first cassette tape player. I was overly excited about this device because I had so many tapes that I wanted to listen to. I used this player to read along with the books, and when I was afriad at night, I could listen to the stories on the tape until I was sound asleep. My favorite thing to do with the tape player was to slow it down so slow that the voices would sound low and really silly. You can't… Continue

I took the Multiple Intellegence Test (which was 80 questions) and as I reviewed the results, I saw a lot of what I was. The highest score was Body/Kinesthetic, which is where you learn by being a hands-on type of person. This was the strongest of all of what I had, and I believe that was good. The other scores that are high were Interpersonal, Music, and Visual/Spatial. Being a very loud and social person I am, I knew that Interpersonal would be high. Since I have been brought up playing… Continue