Overall Reflection

Overall, I really enjoyed this class! My favorite part was creating a classroom website! I can't wait to use this site with my future students (and create more sites and wikis). I think lots of what we did in class can definitely be incorporated into my future classroom! I mean, current students are growing up completely immersed in technology and I think using these tools in class can hook students into what we're doing and make learning the material more meaningful and easier!!!
Thanks, Jeff, for being such a great teacher! You had a good balance of enthusiasm, lecture, and letting us do our own thing!

Study Habits iMovie

So, I created this movie because I think that students don't know how to study. Also, it was good to remind myself what I should be doing to stay on track during school.
Enjoy!

OME... or should I say OMG?

Well, I guess I have to start off by saying that I can't believe that we're halfway finished with this course! I feel like I've been learning a lot in this course -- from creating a webpage, to blogging, to using Google Docs and Picasa, to embedding powerpoints. My greatest "Aha!" moment came today working with Inspiration! I never know that this software existed and it makes creating graphic organizers and outlines so much easier than doing so in Word or Powerpoint. I'm definitely using this when I teach -- hopefully, the school I will teach in will have the software, too, so that the students can do a more interactive activity on the computer. But, I think it'd also be great to create worksheets for discussions or homework or group activities or to help students learn how to organize their thoughts/study! YAY!

Inspiration Assignment

Today we worked on making an inspiration assignment for our classroom. I chose to do the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology. Hopefully this graphic organizer will help you understand this concept!