Halloween theme....

I learned a lot about Google Earth tonight. It really does have all kinds of features to explore. I am still a little bit stumped about the Great Wall of China though. I tried to find it again, but to no avail. I will try again to get to the bottom of this glitch when I have more time.

I have been thinking about a lesson plan. My initial thought is to have students plan a three week road trip in the United States with the goal of visiting three National Parks. They will have to develop a budget for the trip and use the Google Earth features to locate the National Parks and to find hotels and restaurants in the area, as well as other points of interest. They will also have to calculate the driving mileage and estimate to total cost of the trip for their family.... just an idea for now.

Hope you have a Happy Halloween.....

Tonight's session was a lot of fun! I think I am going to create a lesson plan on crop circles for our Google Earth project. I never knew there were so many tools available with Google Earth, I cannot wait to show my kids!

Paul I received your slides, I will add them to the power point and email it to everyone this weekend.

See you all next week for our first run through!

Happy Halloween, don't eat too much candy!

Kate

Inservice for Google Earth

Hello everyone! That was a great session for GoogleEarth...Thanks Dr.Rivera! You brought all of us all over the world without spending a dime. This is definitely a great way to bring students around the world. Once my class has internet capability I'm going to bring them around the world. I've traveled to a few places and I still get a kick out of Google Earth, can you imagine how our students will react once they see the Earth in relation to where they live; the possibilities are endless, unless they want to see the Great Wall of China. I look forward to everyones lesson plans incorporating Google Earth. Have a great weekend and Happy Halloween!

Google Earth Revisited

What's up everyone! Great session tonight as usual as I learned many new things. Thank you to Kate who started putting our power point presentation together for our Language Arts Conference. I am confident that we will be ready by our dry run on November 13th.

We revisited Google Earth. I learned how to placemark sites and then we took a fieldtrip of the sites that each of us chose during classtime. Some of the sites that my classmates were wanting to see I haven't heard about. Google Earth is so amazing and also I finally found my house! Yay!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN to everyone and have a great weekend!

Google Earth

Google Earth is such an interesting way to explore the world. Just observing Cef navigate Google Earth has peaked my interest. I look forward to exploring what Google Earth has to offer.

Tonight we all discussed how many slides we would use and the format of each slide. We definitely will keep it simple and hopefully have the internet access during our presentation.

image source: www.neolaia.gr/images/google-earth-logo.jpg

Google Google Everywhere!

We had a productive night tonight. Per Greg's suggestion, we set up a document feed at Google Docs so we can communicate with each other about our progress on the conference. We decided on the number of slides for the power point and I offered to put the power point together before our class next week.

We then explored Google Earth for a bit. Like Cef said, my son Jack had to show us how to use the controls. He got a kick out of that. My kids are usually who I turn to for power point questions and anything technical. This class is making me a bit more savvy in the pc world, but I'll bet they still know more than I do.

Making progress....

Tonight we made progress on our Language Arts Conference presentation. We agreed to develop three or four slides for each technology site and e-mail them to Kate. We must then work on practicing how to navigate through the website for 8 or 9 minutes as we talk about its benefits and features. We are going to be dependent on a computer that has fast access to the internet for our presentation. Hopefully things will work out as we are planning...

Quote by Orison Sweet Marden

"Many a one has succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat, he would never have known any great victory."

Orison Sweet Marden

Basically this quote is saying that failure will make you stronger because it is the journey towards your goal which teaches you many things; which is knowledge. It is through the repeated journeys that your confidence will grow. Confidence in life will only lead you to be successful.

Google Earth

We just got done with our meeting. We decided to email our slides to Kate so she could put together. We are going to do 2 to 3 slides for each internet tool. Then Jack, Kate's son taught me how to explore Google Earth. I got so close in finding my house. I got confused after I hit Latte Heights. I will explore more this evening. It was a productive night. Great Job everyone!

Motivational quote....

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

Conrad Hilton

Nothing happens without action. We have the power and ability to make decisions that will affect how we live and what we will become. Stagnation will almost guarantee a life of regrets. Although I may never be wealthy, I will make an effort to continually learn and achieve goals. That is why I continue to take classes at the university. This particular course has really opened up my eyes to the power of the internet and digital technology.

Better late than never

I thought that we had to moodle for Thursday, but I just found out in ED643 that we had to blog. WHOOPS! Thanks a lot Kate. Well, I thought that Thursday night was very productive for all of us. I enjoyed everyone's presentation on their internet tools. Well done to everyone as usual for hitting benchmark.

Here are the two quotes that Dr. Rivera sent us that I liked.

"Failure is success if we learn from it." Malcolm Forbes

From my interpretation, we learn from our mistakes and from that it will only make us stronger individuals.

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." Conrad Hilton

In order to achieve your goals, you must be persistent and hardworking at everything that you do. There will be bumps in the road and you may fail many times, but you should never give up. Obviously Conrad Hilton never gave up as he owns so many hotels and became a zillionaire. Paris Hilton is one lucky lady!

Quoted Quotables

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
B.C. Forbes

If at first you don't succeed, try try again.

The quotations in the email were all very profound and inspiring and also all said by men (not that there's anything wrong with that :) ). Being the only female student in the class though, I felt compelled to add an inspirational quote from a woman:

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
Maya Angelou

To me this says: You must be brave enough to take chances and not fear failure for sometimes success is the result of failure.

Internet Tools

Tonight's class was informative and productive. I enjoyed seeing the other reviews and sites; I took many notes on movies to rent and websites to explore. I think our presentation will be one of the more informative ones at the conference. Many teachers are trying to keep up with new technology and it can get overwhelming. Our presentation will provide a nice selection of useful tools and resources.

Have a good weekend everyone,

Kate

Helpful Hint....

I tried to give step-by-step instructions for capturing an image and placing it into a slide. Go to my technology blog and try it out to see if the directions are understandable and if they get the job done....

http://ed638blog4greg.blogspot.com/

My Internet Tools Review

Please check out my reviews of Teachertube, Flock, and Geocities. Just click on the link to get to my Technology Blog. Thanks! Here is a pic I took four years ago, hopefully it will help all of us to relax a bit because we still have a lot of work ahead. Hope you like it. If my link is not visible just go to http://sekinetechnology.blogspot.com/

Help from my Friends

Things do move fast on the web for an old man like my self but using blog I like that I can talk with people. I have made new comments and posted them. There are some many ways that a person can create and share. This has so much to offer and our class goal seems to be focus and see the various internet tools that we can use. We can even build our own website which is something I did not know how to do until now.

I finally finished my reviews. Check out my blog at this site: http://ed638blog4greg.blogspot.com/.

My Technology Blog

Hi everyone! I just got done with my technology blog despite having a 102 degree fever. Blogging is so much fun regardless if I'm sick. You can view my blog at http://ceftechnology.blogspot.com/

I hope everyone is well and in great health. See you all soon!

Internet Tools Review

I am finally done writing my reviews on Tripod, Google Docs and Learn Out Loud. You can read them here: http://katetechnoblog.blogspot.com/

Like I said in the moodle forum. Having us research technology then use technology to report on our findings was a great way to enhance our knowledge of the Internet. I think the presentation we create for the conference will be very informative and helpful to all educators.

Have a great weekend everyone,

Kate

Good Class Session....

Hello Everyone,

I guess I need to start putting up images to keep pace with the rest of you all....

I enjoy whenever we meet in person. Part of my reasons for taking classes at uog has to do with socializing and meeting different (and intelligent) people. So I do miss the weekly interaction with all of you. However, this is a class on internet technology and I realize that the best way to become technologically proficient is to spend hours and hours and hours on the computer learning different programs, systems, tools, etc.

I thought all of your on-line classroom activities and quizzes were good. Classcentral.com has great potential. Too bad GPSS (particularly Southern HS) does not have the facilities and resources to utilize the internet potential in the classroom(s). I know it will take a lot more time and effort to really get a good grasp of how to actually utilize an online classroom to its full potential.

I also liked viewing the internet tools that were selected for review. In particular, I liked iGoogle and TeacherTube. I think I will investigate them further and start using them on a regular basis.

I hope everybody is keeping our upcoming project in the forefront of thoughts. I am not very proficient at PowerPoint. Hopefully we can all learn how to link slides to websites (instantaneously) and incorporate audio and video into slides. I think we have some good tools to share with the audience and we need to prepare well for this....

Thursday Night

Everyone's Class Central Projects were excellent. I learned a lot with each presentation and how to improve my own in the future. Thanks to everyone for the kind words. Also, what I really enjoyed about last night's class was the internet tools that everyone presented. I really like face to face contact with everyone. It makes the class more worthwhile and enjoyable. I know that our Language Arts Conference presentation will be awesome! See everyone in the next class meeting.

October 2 class

I had a lot of fun in class last night. Everyone's ClassCentral projects were great and most impressive! I think any student would not only enjoy but really benefit from all the lessons that were created.

I appreciate all the supportive comments from you guys, it helped ease my doubts about the lessons I chose.

I'm looking forward to working together on our presentation for the Language Arts Conference. Based on the first review of our internet tools, I think we will be able to come up with a very informative presentation that the audience will appreciate and hopefully feel compelled to choose and use some in their classrooms.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Kate