The week started off with us looking at a few examples of eportfolios which was great because we got to see former education students actual portfolios that they have used to help get themselves jobs. Each one was different in their own way so it was encouraging for us to be creative and individualize ours.
We also talked about the 3 C’s of the Internet: Create, Communicate, Collaborate! I have come to realize I am a little bit of a rookie when it comes to using the internet with my major experience in creating stuff only coming in the form of creating an email account and facebook account so creating eportfolios and a website is an adventure I am looking forward to! Using the internet to communicate is extremely popular these days with applications like skype, and it is becoming popular in the classroom too. I had attended a p.d last semester and the presenter was a kindergarten teacher who used skype to talk to other classes and even talked to some classes in NewYork. The most helpful C is definitely Collaborate. I intend to stay in touch with my peers over the years to come so we are able to share new ideas and programs with each other. I believe that you can never have too many resources and the fact that they are in the same boat as you just gives more reason to work with them.
I think I am going need a lesson redo for wednesday lesson because our guest speakers Andy and Darren showed us so much so quick. They gave us a quick overview of why technology is important in the education system of today, and showed us some ways to help create pictures for our websites and portfolios. We used the websites compfight.com and pixlr.com. We used compfight.com to find our picture that was not registered or copyrighted by using the creative commons filter. Once we found our picture we used pixlr.com to edit it to our liking.
Well that was the second week of ICT class!
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