Last Saturday!

the excel review was good - i know there were/are still shortcuts. the more i use it the more i'll remember... the pod cast was "fun" but all you folks without garage band have no idea how easy it can be - i imagine the same is true if you don't have movie maker... i can see the use for the web sites we looked at this afternoon... i gotta go and bake a few cookies and strudel bites for the morning :-)

Third Saturday

We had another productive day today. The excel project provided a good way to review material that we previously covered. I enjoyed working with my teammates on the pod cast project. The use of the wiki page to collaborate provided a way for us to communicate without ever meeting. It is not my favorite way of communicating, but could be useful in a classroom. The pod cast worked well and I learned some new tricks to make a good presentation.

April 18, 2009

Today seemed like everything was finally all coming together. It was like I had an ah ha moment!!!

weekend 3 day 1

This class is sure challenging for someone who doesn't understand technology very well. However, I will come away having a better understanding on how to use excel and I movie. My goal was to learn something and I met that goal.
The IASB website was very interesting. This is a helpful site for educators to learn about school law, evaluations, etc.
I appreciate Dr. Closen's knowledge and patience. Hopefully day 2 I will have my multi media project completed.

EXCEL fun!!

The gradebook exercise is an illustration for the frustration of learning new things, especially with technology. BUT, once you have these skills, Excel is an extremely useful in regards to data management. Once you learn the basics of the formulas and moving data from page to page, holding data positions, etc., you can really crunch numbers at a high rate of speed and ease.

I had an Excel gradebook from 1998-2005 that I developed until we got Skyward in 2005. But I did not know several of the shortcuts that we have been exposed to in this class. The old program worked for me bakc then, but I sould have cut my time working in half by using what we have been shown over the past few weekends. Thank you Dr. Closen!

Error When Posting?

I've had a hard time posting this time. Every time I try to view the blog, it tells me there is an error and doesn't let me view. Is that happening to anyone else? Hopefully this post makes it on the blog. Our last weekend of class seems like a long time ago...I remember being a little "Exceled" out after that weekend. I did enjoy reviewing the websites and going over them with each other. It was much better than reviewing them all myself. I am a little nervous about our upcoming podcast project...is anyone else?

Movie Maker

I liked learning about the movie maker for personal use. I'm not sure how much I would use it from an administrative stand point. That piece of technology is something that is more my "speed." I was left frustrated on Sunday because I played with the Wiki forever and got nowhere. For whatever reason, my laptop doesn't allow the google gadgets and after I spent forever trying to make it work, Dr. Closen tried helping and we still didn't get anywhere. So, I still have to figure out the wiki. I took the frustration of that situation and applied it to how students feel when they just don't get a lesson that is being taught. After awhile I just gave up because I wasn't being successful and others around me were. I felt too far behind. I can relate to how students get frustrated and quit trying.