EXCEL ASSIGNMENT

Today was a challenging assignment.  I had to create an excel document based upon scores given for different classifications of students.  Here is a link to my published document, which I used google documents to help publish.  DOCUMENT  I also concluded, using the ttest, there is no significance between the highest score and other scores among different classifications.  The downfall I may have experienced is when using the ttest and using it correctly. Excel can be very beneficial to math students to help them determine formulas and seeing how different formulas work.  Also I made a chart displaying the average scores among the different classifications.
This assignment was at test, I feel.  We also had to format texts and charts.  I feel I did ok on this, but I may need a little more work on this type of stuff.

This activity goes with teaching standard 3B.-collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation-
Excel is a program that can help students with many different skills.  Formulas, Organizations, Charting, and Graphing are just some of the ideas behind using Excel.  Teachers can use Excel to help give the students more knowledge about those ideas and can allow the students to better the chances of success because the students are able to have a better understanding of those key concepts that they can use basically with whatever they pursue. 

Action Research

The past few class periods, we have been working on an Action Research project.  We have been taking data from a spreadsheet and making calculations based upon gender and student classification.  We now are typing a research paper based upon our findings.  We include tables and charts to help explain our results and to help give a mental image of the gender and classification of students. We just copied and pasted the charts from our excel project. Some of the excel formulas consisted of average, sorting function, and table formatting.  We also had to format our paper in the style of APA.  The teaching standard this goes with is 2d.

-provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching-
Excel can help students understand content, like math formulas, that are hard to explain in class.  They can see it work for themselves as they are doing.

Uploaded Video to Youtube

Today in class, we found a powerpoint and made it into a video using Photo Story.  We then uploaded it to youtube.
It is also embedded below.



Here is a link to the program I used and can be downloaded by clicking below.

Photostory

The teaching Standard this goes with is 2c.
-customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources-
Using Photostory can allow students to edit videos to benefit them and help themselves learn the material their own way.  It is a step-by-step digital tool that is easily accessible, if the computer the student is working on has it. 

Types of Storage

Our assignment was to illustrate the different types of storage devices out there.  Here is a link to the types I came up with
STORAGE TYPES

Also here is the image itself.













Though there are many types of storage each has both good and bad qualities.  With virtual like e-mail and jing, you are able to access it anywhere, but you have to have internet access.  With the physical storage, you can carry it around with you like a cd or thumb drive, but you risk losing the device.  That's why it is nice to save in more than one place to have a back up.  The drawing tool I used was Microsoft Powerpoint.  It is pretty neat because you can oragnize and arrange in any way you want.  I used the table tool to create a table of both storage types. 
The teaching standard this assignment satisfies can be 1C. 
This can allow the student to creatively think of ways to save work.  A student can play with the different ways to save an assignment to allow him or her adapt to the world of technology.  The student can also upload assignments and send them to the teacher to avoid losing a physical copy. 
Knowing the different ways to save work on a physical or virtual space can help preven assignment loss and allow the student to gain a better understanding of technology.

EmBedding Youtube Video

This is an Amazing Video!!!

Using Jing to Make a Video

Today I used Jing to make a small video on how to open an existing File.  This is a neat function of Jing because I am able to do something small to help get a point or a lesson across to someone.  Here is a link to my video online.

MY VIDEO

Here is also my video which is embedded here.

Self Portrait

Using a Picasso self-portrait website, I designed a self-portrait of me.  It turned out pretty interesting. 

Here is also a link to view it online. 
SELF-PORTRAIT

If you would like to draw yourself, you can follow the link below to Picassohead.

PICASSOHEAD



This activity goes with teaching standard 1a.
-promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness-
Students can make a creative virtual Picasso of themselves.  They can explore the creative aspect their mind and can make an image of creativity.

Jing Tool

Today we used the tool called Jing.  I took an image of candles and annotated it and published it to the web.  I ended up installing the update to complete the project.  Here is a link to my picture.   CANDLES
Jing is pretty cool, especially since you can record a video and such.  This can allow students, in my classroom, to share images they may find online.  This can be very beneficial for math because it can allow students to help figure out measurements of sides and angles and share how they got the answer they did.

SNIPPING TOOL

                                                                                                          

Today we learned about an amazing thing called the snipping tool. I snipped this picture of the awesome Statue of Liberty.

For the Technology Teaching Standards, this can fall under 2C.  This tool can allow a student to think outside of the standard copying and pasting.  With this I am able to copy anything, even if the site doesn't allow.  Also I am not limited to pictures or a whole paragraph of text.  I can copy a picture with text or just a half of a sentence.  Also with this piece of technology,. I can annotate the picture, which means I can mark it us.  As shown below. I added the smiley face beside the torch.