May 18th, 2015

Oops accidentally skipped this class day, but we went over dreamweaver a bit which I found to be pretty confusing and I was happy when blogspot was introduced. I can't really remember what else we did, I finished up some projects and figured out what I wanted to do with my podcast.

May 26th, 2015

On this day we had an in an class presenter who introduced us to wordpress, a website that creates websites. I thought it was cool because I always thought making a website would be almost impossible if you didn't have any tech or computer experience but it was super easy to make and edit. I'm really excited about creating a website for my future classroom, and I think it'll be great to maybe put it on my resume in the future when I want to apply for teaching jobs. We also went over our final project which I also think will be fun and it seems simple enough. Both of these projects make me feel like an actual teacher and that makes me so excited for my future career.

May 12, 2015

Today I first learned how to make a podcast (from last weeks class that I missed) then we moved onto creating a lesson plan using some sort of app. There is TONS of apps for education so combing through those was a little diffcult. My lesson will focus on spanish and I decided to use an app that I have experience with and found useful myself, called duolingo. I'm in the process of creating my lesson plan based off a technology standard for students. We then learned how to create an app which was super easy and I didn't expect that. We did a lot today!

April 21, 2015

In class on tuesday were given 30 minutes to make a short trailer using iMovie, I never even knew you could make a trailer on your own so I thought that was fun. It was nice that the app gave you exact directions for each part of the trailer, it made it super easy. That was a nice little assignment to prepare us to make our actual iMovie project. We were also given the assignment of making a tour of up to five places on google earth, another thing I didn't even know was a feature that could be used. I have yet to start on that but the directions seem pretty clear so it seems like the assignment will be fairly easy. We got to mess around with google earth a bit which was helped me get used to the program a little bit.

April 14th, 2015

Exactly one week ago, I was able to finish up my photoshop project and then we began our lesson on how to make videos for our next project. We watched a few intro videos on why the use of videos is important in todays education and how it can make things more interesting. We then got into groups to start coming up with ideas for our own videos which we will make using iMovie. My groups is doing a short video on Western Oregon University and why others should come here, all we have gotten done so far is we have made a plan of all the shoots we will take. I haven't gotten a chance to mess around with iMovie yet so I haven't had a chance to learn the tricks yet.

April 7th, 2015

I have been forgetting to write in my blog so I decided to go back to each day and briefly explain what I learned that day. On tuesday april, 7th exactly two weeks ago we went over Photoshop. This lesson was interesting to me because I have never done anything with photoshop but always wanted to learn the ways of it. We learned how to layer picture over each other so there was only one picture containing different elements. I learned how to erase the backgrounds of the other images to isolate what I wanted, and the most interesting trick I learned was how to add a shadow to my isolated figures to make them seem like the belonged. I made a single collage (my first one on photoshop ever-so I'm pretty proud of it) which had a picture of an elephant that I got from the internet, a picture of me fishing which I got from my phone, and a picture of a cute little kitten I got from the scanner. This project was challenging for me since I had no previous experience with photoshop but it was fun!

First Blog

March 31, 2015

First day of ED270 and I have successfully made my blog. We have learned the basics of Web 2.0 today- what it is and examples of it- and have been introduced to blogger.com and flickr.com.