Frustrating Week

This past has been a really long one and a difficult one for me to work on my assignments. I got a virus and so it has been affecting my computer and its programs. I can not always get into programs and it has become very frustrating. I was excited to work on the weeks past assignemnts but I had to do what I could with my situation and deal with it.

I was able to download Picasa and started to work on that, but I don't understand all the things yet so it was a little difficult for me to finish the Power Point project. I couldn't get the pictures to transfer from one program to another and when I did, it would be the original and not the edited version.

In the web evaluation project, I could open the document listed on the Professor's UEN but could not access the google documents until this morning, when I was able to add my informations to my groups.

Hopefully I can get all of this fixed and prioritize my assigments and understand a little better.

Power Points and other Updates

I really enjoyed this assignment. I never knew there were so many different and creative ways a person could use Power Point. I know that I will definitely be trying many of the activites in our book and see which ones are pretty useful for the future when I become a teacher.
I have also been working on getting my pictures I want to add to my Picasa folder for next week. I am trying to stay on one theme so all the pictures tie together somehow...so I guess we will just have to see how it turns out.

Camera

This camera assignment has been a lot for me. Reading some of those articles were so long, and they had so many definitions and examples that I had trouble keeping them straight. Technology is ever advancing and oftentimes when people buy a product, in just a year or two it is already out of date. There are many different specifications and options when choosing a camera that I would need an expert to assist me in finding the exact camera I needed. But it can also be so useful and a good way of documenting.

Culture Gram...

I really find it amazing how many resources can be found in the Pioneer Library, it is like every time I dig deeper into what they have to offer I find so much information and learn material as well. This past weekt the assignment was to use the Culture Gram link to find a country and create a page on it. The assignment itself wasn't all that difficult or too time consuming....it was just a matter of what country to pick. There were a lot of fun sounding ones. I chose to do Argentina for personal reasons and I learned a lot about the culture and people of Argentina. I already had some backround knowledge of Argentina....but I can imagine the things a student would find interesting on the counties pages.

Power Point

I found the second part of the pioneer library assignment a little more difficult and time consuming to accomplish. Since there was a substitute last week I felt like I didn't really know what was going on. And while he seemed to know a lot about power points I feel as if I would of benefitted if he knew more of what our actual assignment was so he could help in that aspect.

In Class Today....

I was fascinated by what I learned in class today. I have used Pioneer Library before but usually only using EBSCO for school projects. I am excited to go through the links in more detail and see the many possibilities for tools available to me as an aspiring teacher. I will probably be using the e-media, soundzabound, and and the SIRS Discoverer. They all contain many possibilities that I have a feeling I will be spending more than the half-hour minimun time looking at these.

First Two Assignments...

The first two assignments have been really interesting to do. I learned a lot by putting them together. I learned how to use some of the tools that UEN provides...and while I may still be working out some kinks, most things are going great. In the All About Me assignment I tried to add material that made me unique as an individual and yet information that people could relate to. In the K-12 assignment I tried to pick a topic that I always loved in elementary, weather. I tried to find activities and such that would be fun and that kids could learn a lot from. As the semester continues I hope to learn more and perfect on the style of formatting an UEN page.