This week, as we finished up our PowerPoint, I learned that they are not too difficult. I was worried that they would be hard to incorporate into classes and hard to make. While working on them the last couple of weeks I have come to see how I can incorporate them into my classes and that it will be a great tool to help the classes I will teach.
In school now I have been learning about making lesson plans. With this new skill of PowerPoint I have been able to use this and put them into my lesson plans to make them more interesting and visually pleasing. I am glad we have learned about PowerPoints so I can use them in my classes right now.
I am excited to use PowerPoints in my future classes. The book we are using in class gave some good ideas on how to use PowerPoints with the students. This will not only be a good tool I can use while giving lessons but also the students can use the PowerPoint to show what they are learning in class. This can help them to do projects and things like that in a fun way.
How not to use PowerPoint
This video was very enjoyable to watch. Even though it was funny I still got a lot out of it. As I am just leaning PowerPoint he gave some great suggestions. I learned not to put too much on a slide so as to make it easier to understand. He also talked about how important the color scheme is. I should have watched this before my webquest because we got docked for the color scheme which now I know if very important to the presentation.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Power Point
This week was a fun class. I am not too familiar with PowerPoint because I have been out of college for a while and it wasn’t something classes required to do back then. I am glad we are doing these so I can learn how we can incorporate it into my future classroom. We did a music PowerPoint with flashcards and it was fun. I love music and as a drama teacher I can incorporate the similar project to my classroom.
As a student now I can use this PowerPoint knowledge for projects and lessons I have to teach in my other classes. . The book we used that we used, 50 PowerPoint activities, will help me think of fun and exciting ways to incorporate PowerPoints in my lessons. I can help others in my groups who may not be too familiar with PowerPoints too.
Now that I have learned this new tool of PowerPoint I will be able to make my future classes that I will teach more visual. There is one activity that is about creating characters. I think this would be a fun activity for my future class because it will help in scriptwriting lessons. The students will be able to make PowerPoint activities while they are coming up with characters for their scripts. They can also do this while they are trying to create their own character they will be portraying.
As a student now I can use this PowerPoint knowledge for projects and lessons I have to teach in my other classes. . The book we used that we used, 50 PowerPoint activities, will help me think of fun and exciting ways to incorporate PowerPoints in my lessons. I can help others in my groups who may not be too familiar with PowerPoints too.
Now that I have learned this new tool of PowerPoint I will be able to make my future classes that I will teach more visual. There is one activity that is about creating characters. I think this would be a fun activity for my future class because it will help in scriptwriting lessons. The students will be able to make PowerPoint activities while they are coming up with characters for their scripts. They can also do this while they are trying to create their own character they will be portraying.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
WebQuest Final and Do you Believe in me Video
WebQuest
As I was working this week on learning more about how a webquest works I found it to have been very helpful in learning what a webquest could be useful for. I was skeptical of it at first about how I could use it in my own classroom. It is hard to incorporate things like this because theatre is so hand on. I found this week while working on the webquest that it can work in a drama setting.
I found that I could use this for my future students to help them learn more about the history of theatre. I think it is a good way to have them learn about certain playwrights too. I can do this by by setting up webquests and have the students learn that way. I feel it is a great way to help them learn and it will be fun for them.
I am happy we are learning these things to help our classes be more interesting. Instead of just getting up and teaching to the students I will be able to have them learn in different ways than traditional teaching methods. I really am finding this class to be very helpful and it’s giving me great ideas to help me teach.
Video
Do you believe in me?
I really enjoyed this video. I think that it is a good reminder to any teacher or a to be teacher the main reason why we should be teachers. We need to believe in these students and help them reach their potentials. It was also a good reminder that as teachers we need to believe in ourselves and the impact we can have on our students. This video gets me excited to help the students succeed.
As I was working this week on learning more about how a webquest works I found it to have been very helpful in learning what a webquest could be useful for. I was skeptical of it at first about how I could use it in my own classroom. It is hard to incorporate things like this because theatre is so hand on. I found this week while working on the webquest that it can work in a drama setting.
I found that I could use this for my future students to help them learn more about the history of theatre. I think it is a good way to have them learn about certain playwrights too. I can do this by by setting up webquests and have the students learn that way. I feel it is a great way to help them learn and it will be fun for them.
I am happy we are learning these things to help our classes be more interesting. Instead of just getting up and teaching to the students I will be able to have them learn in different ways than traditional teaching methods. I really am finding this class to be very helpful and it’s giving me great ideas to help me teach.
Video
Do you believe in me?
I really enjoyed this video. I think that it is a good reminder to any teacher or a to be teacher the main reason why we should be teachers. We need to believe in these students and help them reach their potentials. It was also a good reminder that as teachers we need to believe in ourselves and the impact we can have on our students. This video gets me excited to help the students succeed.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
WebQuest
WebQuest
The WebQuest is a new and interesting way teachers are now discovering, using, and I believe, will continue making for their students in the future. The idea that some homework or assignments in class is all done on the internet is an interesting one for me. It is a new phenomenon that I think is very handy for the students. I don’t think I ever thought about this happening when I was in prep school. I kind of wish we had things like this when I was in High school.
I think it is a great help to the students for example, if they miss a class and your assignment was a WebQuest, they just have go on the internet to see what to do and can do it. I think it is a great way to save paper and a good way to teach research to the students. I think it will be a great resource to my students in class. I will be able to help my students in this way.
One way I could incorporate WebQuests into my classes is to help them in their research of theatrical things. For example I could do WebQuests to help them find more info on different playwrights. I could also help them find links and resources for plays we are reading and help them research different meanings of the plays. One last way I will mention is I could help them see design elements on the internet that would help them understand those things.
Video
I could not find the Three Steps video that we were supposed to watch this week. I decided that I would search Teacher Tube Video’s media and see if there were any videos that pertained to Drama, my content. I came across one that looked as if it was made by a young student. It is called Langley photo story – drama. I think this video could be valuable to my students to show them how simple a script can be. They could make a movie like this. Take a simple story have a conflict and show pictures that go with it. It’s like drama made easy.
The WebQuest is a new and interesting way teachers are now discovering, using, and I believe, will continue making for their students in the future. The idea that some homework or assignments in class is all done on the internet is an interesting one for me. It is a new phenomenon that I think is very handy for the students. I don’t think I ever thought about this happening when I was in prep school. I kind of wish we had things like this when I was in High school.
I think it is a great help to the students for example, if they miss a class and your assignment was a WebQuest, they just have go on the internet to see what to do and can do it. I think it is a great way to save paper and a good way to teach research to the students. I think it will be a great resource to my students in class. I will be able to help my students in this way.
One way I could incorporate WebQuests into my classes is to help them in their research of theatrical things. For example I could do WebQuests to help them find more info on different playwrights. I could also help them find links and resources for plays we are reading and help them research different meanings of the plays. One last way I will mention is I could help them see design elements on the internet that would help them understand those things.
Video
I could not find the Three Steps video that we were supposed to watch this week. I decided that I would search Teacher Tube Video’s media and see if there were any videos that pertained to Drama, my content. I came across one that looked as if it was made by a young student. It is called Langley photo story – drama. I think this video could be valuable to my students to show them how simple a script can be. They could make a movie like this. Take a simple story have a conflict and show pictures that go with it. It’s like drama made easy.
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