Blog 7....I wish it was 11

Here we go again! I know everyone is exhausted from Midterm's but it's time for another look inside the wondeful world of technology. This week we covered alot of information, which I believe will be extremely helpful in the field of education. Within the textbook this week we coered chapter 6, Technology, Digital Media, & Curriculum Integration. Their is one particular aspect that we covered in this chapter, the ASSURE model, which I took a particular liking to.This model is classfied as an instructional model, or systematic guide for planning instruction or a lesson. The ASSURE model, breaks down as follows: Analyze the learner, State objectives, Select methods, media, & materials, Utilize methods, media, & materials, Require learner participation, and Evaluate and Revise. If you follow these steps you are guaranteed to construct a very effective lesson!

If we take a look at our assignment for this week, power point 1, you will find the aspect of this week that I found most helpful and educating. I learned some neat tricks that I did not know about power point. Also this was one of my first attempts putting together an entire presentation. I am familiar with the program, but had never had to utilize it until now. This comes at the perfect time, seeing as in a few weeks I will have to construct a Power Point presentation for another of my classes!

We come yet again to my final paragraph, and my weekly words of wisdom! This week I will divulge a little into the fun of early morning classes. My words of wisdom regarding this subject are if you have an early class, don't go out the night before. I mean if you want to you are all adults, but choose wisely. I understand that their times where you just need to release and get out of your dorm or apartment for a little while. However, the key is to be smart about it. If your class is more active then you should be fine, but I know everyone has that one professor who lectures for hours on end, and when you've been out late the night before that is just plain deadly!

In the Mix with Blog #6!

Alright, I know you missed me but I am back. Coming live at you all in the mix with blog number 6. I will start this week talking about some stuff located in our lovely $100 textbook, i might actually get my money's worth! The main focus of this chapter was on Digital Media. This is a topic that most of us there should be pretty familiar with. Digital Media is defined as "those technologies that allow users to create new forms of interaction, expression, communication, and entertainment in a digital format." The digital media we are most familiar include animation, audio, and video. By using all these files we can make our websites not only educational but entertaining.

For the first time this semester I am walking away from an assignment feeling that I have learned something. This week we teamed up and made a wiki. A wiki is essentially a collaborative site, that allows many users to edit the wiki to make one final project. I feel that once i enter my educational career I would be able to use this newly acquired software to my advantage. This would be an extremely useful tool for group projects, and would make those dreadful group assignments a little more interesting.

By this point everyone knows what to look for in my final paragraph...a little words of wisdom! This week I am going to discuss the fine art of "cramming". Like most students around campus it is midterm time, a time of the school year that is only surpassed, in the fear department by, FINALS! Anyway, this week I had two of those wonderful midterms on Tuesday, one being at 9 A.M. Me being the procrastinator that I am , I put off studying for these tests until Monday night. To make a long story short, I finally fell asleep, or should I say crashed at 5 o'clock Tuesday morning. I awoke 3 hours later and made my way off to midterm land.... Needless to say I have still not recovered from the extreme loss of sleep, and I am really not sure that it was quite worth it.