My eFolio

Here's a link to my personal self assessment for Educ 520.
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Google Spread Sheet

Here is my google spreadsheet presentation. You should be able to navigate between my spreadsheet and graph. I think this assignment is very useful for me as a teacher. It is an easy way to organize a class gradebook and chart the progress of my students. In this example it is apparent that the students progressively got better test scores from Test 1 through Test 10. It was also important for me to chart the progress of the students below the class average. Even though these students may not be above the average they all demonstrate the ability to get better from Test 6 through Test 10. This chart gives me the opportunity to see they are learning and getting better. Since I recognize the improvement and the fact that these students are learning maybe I can change teaching strategy with this group to try and raise their overall scores.

ScreenToaster

Here is a project Benjamin Sell and I put together that utilized the features of Screen Toaster and Google Docs. This is another great feature that will be beneficial to me in my classroom. It will allow me to put presentations together, narrate them, find materials useful for class online, and combine them into one lesson plan.

Screencasts and videos online

Windows Movie Maker

Here is a little presentation I put together on Movie Maker. I took video clips, spliced them together with pictures and music, and posted them to my blog for the world to see. I enjoyed learning how to upload my own video, create cut ups, snap video shots, gather pictures from the internet, download music, then add it all to my project. Many ideas come to mind on how this can benefit my classroom. One benefit for a teacher would be to spend some time creating a lesson plan on movie maker for a day when they are absent from class. Having a substitute lesson for being absent is a necessity so why not make it fun and interacting for the students. I am going to play around some more with this feature and put together an educational clip in the next week or so. ENJOY!
I ran into some trouble because my MB were too large for my blog. To fix this problem I opened my project in movie maker, went into the file tab, chose the option to publish movie, and then converted my AVI file to "high quality small video." This got my video under the 100 MB maximum. There was also an option to compress my video where I could choose the number of MB I wanted.

Google Doc Presentation

This is my Google Doc presentation. I am so happy I found out about this tool. I have made a presentation for another class, as well as help my girlfriend do a presentation for her class. The best thing about helping her is she is living in Eugene, I am in Salem. She had no clue about this so in a matter of minutes I set her up with gmail, started the presentation for her, and collaborated together online until she figured it out. She received an A. Her teacher and her entire class was very impressed she could log on to a school computer and get into her Google Docs and show a presentation. Very useful tool that will help me in the future as a student but even more as a teacher. There are multiple examples within the presentation that show the benefits of using Google Docs for future teachers.