Week 7 PowerPoint

   There are many writing activities that students will have to encounter in their student lifes. One way I have found to be in my most benefit is creating outlines using concept maps to help organize and come up with ideas for topics. There are many ways to go about doing this there are also programs on the computer called semantic networking tools these give you a more visual and verbal for developing concept maps. Clearly using concept maps for wrighting activities is very helpfull in the classroom.
   PowerPoint is a vital tool in the classroom there are so many different things that you can do with this program in a classroom setting. Although powerpoint can be very usefull in presenting ideas to a classroom it is vital that we do not let this program do the presenting for us. Sometimes people put to many vdeos and effects into their powerpoints that it can take away from the person presenting the presentation. There are a few guidlines we can stick with to keep this from happening one of witch is to just use the same font through out the presentation and too not use so many visual aids and also keeping the presentation short so your audiance does not loose interest.
   There are many writing activitie tools that we can benefit from as teachers and students. We have tools that help us gather information, organize and also help in presentation. Clearly using these programs and aids can help us in the classroom.

Jonassen, D., Howland, J., Marra, R. M., & Crismond, D. (2008). Meaningful Learning With Technology. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.

Week6

   There are many things that you can do with a P D A (personal digital assistant) it can be used for personal use buisiness and also in the classroom. With the PDA you can access the internet keep schedules keep up with a calender there are many different ways they can be used. Also there are  Global Positioning Systems that can be used witch i think would be great for younger students that might be lost and would be easily found due to the GPS. Teachers can use these hand held devices to do things such as keep up with class scheduling and as calenders to keep up with assignments and test. Clearly PDA's are a very good tool for teachers and students in the classroom.
   Online surveys are a great reasource for students to use in the classroom the students can look up data for a class project or for presenting a lecture. Online surveys give you good facts and information on a certain topic that you are reasearching. Also they can give students good feedback on topics that they are reasearching , they can go out and find out what other people are thinking about there same topic.I think one good rule for students writing surveys is that they are able to find info for subjects they are intersted in and also be able to use that and take it to the teacher to learn more about it in the classroom. There are many good online surveys out there for everyone to access and should be used as a viable reasouce exspeacially in the classroom.
  Clearly there are great things that can come from using PDA's in the classroom they are a great tool for not only the teachers but the students as well. Online surveys give you good feedback on certain topics that you may be reasearching and are a great reasource for students.

  Jonassen, D., Howland, J., Marra, R. M., & Crismond , D. (2008) Meaningful Learning With Technology. Upper Saddle River, New Jersy : Pearson Prentice Hall.