Reflection 10

I couldn’t have asked for a better experience in EDIT 2000. The guest speakers we had and the information Justine taught us I truly think will be so helpful when I become a Speech Language Pathologist one day. With our world and technology constantly coinciding, I believe technology will be something I am required to use in my work one day. Now I will know I can reflect back to EDIT 2000 and all of the awesome things that we learned. The stop-animation project was probably my favorite. It was neat to get to see what everyone created, and I think stop-animation videos, as we learned, are great ways to persuade someone to use something you created. Also, I think the LAD project was extremely beneficial to not only mine, but to everyone in the class’s future careers. We all we have to make a lesson plan (or something like it) one time or another in our careers, and now we have experience doing so! We got to see how much time and hard work it takes to make them, but also how beneficial and how great they can be when they are done.

Throughout EDIT 2000, I think it’s great we keep a blog. This morning, I decided to go back through and read all my blog posts created throughout the semester, and it’s cool to see how much I’ve grown and what all I’ve learned through taking this course. Thank you Justine for allowing me to learn so much in your class while having so much fun doing it!

Final Documentation

Campbell, Courtney, and I are extremely proud of the work we did with our LAD project. We worked so hard, and I think the class got to see that when we presented our project. The hardest thing of the project was probably keeping a timeline for ourselves. Since the project was over such a long period of time, it was often difficult to keep on top of what we needed to do next. However, we pulled through, and other than that I really can’t complain. I had teammates that worked extremely hard with me to make this project the best that we could. We hope that we now have created a site that parents and teachers can use to teach students to be healthy. We provided multiple tools for them to use, and also provided them with lots of useful information to teach the students what healthy even means. We are so proud of our project, and we hope that shows through the hard work we put into it!

Documentation for Week 4

11/13

This week was a great week for our project! We had the opportunity to meet with Justine on Monday which was very helpful. She gave us some pointers, approved our technology activity, and we talked through our final plans for the project. Then, she decided to give us the day off from class on Wednesday to use it as a work day for our project. As a group, we accomplished a lot on this day. We worked on and completed our technology activity. I think Campbell had a hard time creating the QR codes, but she ended up doing a great job with it! Another thing we struggled with was trying to think of names for our tabs on our website. Our project is geared toward elementary students, so it has been difficult to try to come up with tabs that they will understand! That is something we need to work on more. We also finished the quiz we created for after the project is over to see what kids learned. In addition, we created the food journal that students will complete throughout the whole project. This will act as our reflection and show what you know combined in a way. Really, the only thing we have left to do is work on our rubric. I think our project is coming along great, and I’m excited for next week when we get to share our hard work and see our classmates work as well!

The Rise of the Interactive White Board

For this reflection, I read the article called “The Rise of the Interactive Whiteboard in Higher Education.” It talks a lot about how interactive whiteboards aren’t only useful with elementary, middle, and high school students, but they are also extremely beneficial to students in colleges and universities. The article states that these technological whiteboards “engage students’ imagination and encourage them to collaborate.” The use of interactive whiteboards are growing in higher education, and I predict they will be in almost every classrooms in the next ten years. One of the best tools these types of whiteboards can do for higher education students is assist with presentations. It will make student’s presentations much more time-efficient, easier to use, and provides many tools right at their fingertips that they wouldn’t normally have in a typical presentation.

This video I found on YouTube shows some cool things the whiteboard can do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLdHbtuCIyY

I personally think whiteboards should be available in every school and business across the country. They are the perfect new and innovative tools to use to better presentation, learning, and creativity. By having a smart board present in places were creativity is vital (like schools and businesses), people will be encouraged and much more willing to get their creative juices flowing. I think these interactive whiteboards are greet tools and will be so beneficial to the learners and teachers in our society. I think they can do nothing but help our schools and businesses.

 

Documentation for weeks 2 and 3

11/6: Last week, we did not have class. Our group used it as an opportunity to get ahead and work on our project. Courtney and Campbell worked on creating activities for our website, and I worked on the lecture for the website. At first, I struggled slightly with how to come up with a lecture. I decided to use PowerPoint since I am already very familiar with that application. Once I started using PowerPoint, I conducted a lot of research in what it takes to be a healthy student. I found a lot of interesting things. When Campbell, Courtney, and I all met to see how our project was going, we were all very pleased with each others’ works. They did a great job with their activities! Last week was a successful week on working on our website.

This week we had presentations. I think it is really great that Justine gave us an opportunity to get feedback from our classmates about our presentations. I found it really helpful, and I’m sure we’ll get constructive criticism on how to make our website even better. We will be meeting with Justine next week to further discuss our plans for the project. This is something we are all looking forward to because we want to make sure Justine likes our plans, and that we are on the right track to a great project. We all are continuing to work on our site, and I think it’s on the way to be great!!