Prezi- Zooming Presentations

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Prezi is a tool that can be used in a variety of educational settings. This is a tool that aids in the process of presentations, similar to PowerPoint. The difference between PowerPoint and Prezi is the method of delivery. Prezi is designed with paths interconnecting the material, rather than slides that contain information, as in PowerPoint. While both tools are very attractive in their own ways I do not believe one tool is superior to the other, depending on the type of presentation will determine which tool should be used. This tool will be a great aid in many classrooms and the different directions of flow will help to keep students attention and additionally it will help students see direct connections that slides may not be able to represent. I believe that I will use this for many things in my Business Classes.


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Keyboarding on Prezi

ISTE - NETS-T STANDARDS
1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
By using a Prezi Presentation the teacher is able to use their knowledge of subject matter to teach the students new material and facilitate learning through the use of technology, which will help grasp the students attention and encourage student learning and creativity.

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Prezi is a digital tool developed by the teacher and used to communicate necessary information to students.

5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
Using the Prezi the teacher is able to demonstrate how the use of technology in the classroom can be a great tool that can aid in student learning.

Power Point Presentation

PowerPoints are great ways of communicating ideas with the element of visual aids. PowerPoints help you grasp your audiences' attention and inform or persuade them about a topic and reinforce your information with images and other visual aids. In this assignment, we focused on the message that we needed to get across to the audience.

I designed a PowerPoint that I could use in an Introduction to Business Course about Marketing - The Target Market. I believe this assignment will prove to be beneficial in the future. Please see my presentation below.

Marketing - Target Market

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ISTE NETS STANDARDS

All of the standards are met because you are creating a digital production of information and making that information avaliable over the internet. You are developing yourself and encouraging learning and digital age work among your collegues and your students.

1. Creativity and Innovation
2. Communication and Collaboration
3. Research and Information Fluency
4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
5. Digital Citizenship

Personality Test Post 2

In my previous post I made a a guess about the results about my personality test. My prediction was very close. I predicted it would be idealist or guardian. My results reported that I was an idealist. My results show that I am concerned with goals and how to ethically reach those goals.

Concerning a classroom setting this is a great personality type, it will help me to set goals for my students and find ways in which to help my students reach those goals. Idealist are known for their concern for others, avoiding conflict, helping other reach their goals, and helping others work together. These qualities can help improve student participation and increase student achievement. Idealists are also interested in helping other in any way possible and concerned with how others are progressing in life.

Keirsey.com explains Idealists and their work environment - "Idealists at Work
Idealists, as a temperament, are passionately concerned with personal growth and development. They are naturally drawn to working with people and are gifted with helping others find their way in life, often inspiring them to grow as individuals and to fulfill their potential both on, and off, the job. Your attention is naturally drawn to the individual and collective needs, desires, and experiences of people in your environment. In your ideal job, you would be able to use your inner beliefs as a guide for empowering others. Though you are comfortable with leadership, you don’t like arbitrary hierarchies. You care deeply about people as people, and often feel that maintaining official role boundaries interferes unnecessarily with both communication and progress."

As you can see an Idealist want to help people and inspire them, becoming a teacher fits this personality type great.

ISTE-NETS-T STANDARDS

4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
This standard is met by understanding who you are as well as your weaknesses and strengths. This can aid in your teaching styles and classroom management.

5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
Understanding who you are and your strengths and weakenesses also meets this because that is an example of both personal and professional growth

Personality Test

We were required to take a Personality Test.

This would be the first Personality test that I have taken. After reading the 4 different temperaments, I think my personality type will be either guardian or idealist. I feel that I could classify as a guardian, because I find it very important to obey laws and follow rules. I also like to keep an eye on what is going on although I believe I would be more of an idealist. I am always concerned with goals and how I can reach those goals. I think it will be idealist more than guardian.

ISTE-NETS-T STANDARDS

4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
This standard is met by understanding who you are as well as your weaknesses and strengths. This can aid in your teaching styles and classroom management.

5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
Understanding who you are and your strengths and weakenesses also meets this because that is an example of both personal and professional growth.

APA Action Reserach Paper

In this assignment we were asked to complete an Action Research Report based on APA style formatting. Action Research projects are being encouraged for all undergraduate students to complete before obtaining a teaching certification. Practicing the formatting style and learning how to report information based on data and chart representations is great practice for us as educators. This is a great way to learn about your school environment and the type of students that you are teaching. As an educator there are a variety of reasons an Action Research Project could be developed and implemented, and the results are usually very beneficial.

I have submitted my action research paper.

ISTE-NETS-T STANDARDS

5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
Even though this Action Research was not implemented or created by myself the theory of Action Research and its studies meets this standard.

3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
This paper was created to be published and submitted. It is based off of the results we obtained through the creation of our spreadsheets witch met the following standards.

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Student are creating spreadsheet which are created in Microsoft Excel - this is a use of 21st Century Learning Skills as well as math skills. Student are learning calculations and different ways of determine values of data. Students are also placing that data into a visual representation - a graph. All of these tasks are done in Microsoft Excel. This standards is met by creating the spreadsheet and performing the tasks.

3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
This be published to google docs and placed on a blog meets this standard.

Spreadsheet 3 - Action Research

Google Documents is a great way to store your files online; however sometimes it does not always display your documents as you wish. While uploading my documents to google docs I encountered some issues. I believe this was part of the learning process, that when uploading documents onto another format, all parts of the document are not always compatible. The issues I encountered were that formulas were unable to display results and my charts were unable to display. To ensure that I completed the assignment I have included "snips" of my spreadsheet that show I met the criteria. I used the snipping tool, which is a technique that we used earlier in this class. It has proven to be beneficial.

Here is my spreadsheet.

Spreadsheet 3 Results




Spreadsheet 3 Charts




We were asked to create a document that answered questions relating to this assignment. Click here to see my document.

ISTE-NETS-T STANDARDS

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Student are creating spreadsheet which are created in Microsoft Excel - this is a use of 21st Century Learning Skills as well as math skills. Student are learning calculations and different ways of determine values of data. Students are also placing that data into a visual representation - a graph. All of these tasks are done in Microsoft Excel. This standards is met by creating the spreadsheet and performing the tasks.

3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
This be published to google docs and placed on a blog meets this standard.