Weebly.com portfolio

** My Weebly site: www.vernreyes.weebly.com**

1. What was your assignment?

• Our assignment was to create an online profile using weebly.com. This website enables you to create a free website were you could put anything you want to put, and with our assignment we had to create a website were we had to put up information about ourselves such as hobbies, experience, education just as if you were applying for a job.

2. What are the benefits of an online portfolio?

• There are many benefits of using an online portfolio, one of that benefits is that once you create your portfolio you could go back and edit and aslo input more information you want and also anyone could see your site and veiw things of what you had post.

3. What did you like or dilike about the weebly site?

• There are many things that I like about the weebly site such as it is user friendly because it is very easy to use, all the information needed for you to do is all there for you to use, also i love the fact that this site is free too.

4. Would you continue to use this as a future educator? if so, how?

• I will definetly use this as a future educator, this a good site where i could go in an create a website for updates of my students learning. I could post up school and class announcement, students acheivements and works and many more for parents and the community to be updated with the studetns learnings.

Slideshare Powerpoint Presentation

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1. How was the experience of using Slide-slide.net?
- Using slide-share.net was easy to use because it was easy to upload your presentation and view it as well.
2. What were the challenges?
- I think the only challenge was to view the presentation if you don't have flash palyer 9 on your computer you won't be able to view your presentation.
3. What was fun? Not-so fun?
- The fun part was viewing everyones presentation and the links they added to their sites, the not-so fun part was waiting for the upload part due to the internet connection.
4. If you had the chance to do it over what would you do differently?
- I don't think I would do anything differently, easy to use already.
5. Any other feedback.
- Find a place where the connection is good. Great to use in the classroom.

Elluminate Live

1. Describe the experience with elluminate live.

• Using elluminate live was fun we got to hear Bree who was elluminating from the states, we got to see pictures, hear great and new things about using technology in the classroom. Its a fun way to communicate with others near or far.

2. What did you like? Dislike?

• I like the fact that we all can write to each other like a chat site as well as hear each other say something. the part that i dislike was just the whole starting up the ellumination site too complicated.

3. How would a distance learning application like elluminate, benefit students?

• Sites like ellumination could benefit students if they want to talk to other student abroad or different schools with them. Good for socialization and also with learning they could get ideas from others.

4. What are some ideas that you learned from Bree?

• I learned some ways and the advantages for using some of the recommended sites she posted to use in the classrooms because some of them I wasnt familiar with so she gave some insights on the usage of those programs in the classroom.

5. What will you take with you to explore in more depth? Why?

• I would take the whole skype software and explore it more because skype is what is mainly use in society atleast in my group. Ireally dont know how to use skype so I would want to learn more and how to use it.

Timeline Project (march 16, 2010)

Class assignment march 16, 2010
1.) Describe your assignment?
- Our assignment was to create a time line using the software from www.teach-nology.com, we choosed a topic on what our timeline will be on and researched dates based on the chronological order of that topic. Me and my partner desiree's topic was transportation and our them was Going for a ride!, so we created a time line based on the first types of transportation made. Then we used rubistar to generate a rubric based on students creating their time line and an online quiz from quiz-star which we generated questions based on the time line we made.
2.) What did you like about the time line websites? Rubistar and Quiz-star?
- With the time line websites it was really easy to use because it is simple and fairly easy to create a time line because all you have to do is input the data. With the rubistar and quiz-star it was easy and good as well because all the details were there and all you had to do was input your expectations and questions and the software generates it for you.
3.) How would you use these sites for a classroom assignment?
- The way i would use these sites for my classroom is if I were to have a time line project I would make them go to this website and generate their time line using it so that it is easier for them to create a timeline. Also for the rubistar I would use this site to make rubrics for my students project as well as quiz star to generate a quiz for them as well.
4.) how would you rate each software on a scale of 1 to 10?
- I would rate these softwares on a scale of 8 because even though it was easy you cant really do anything creative with it. But overall it was a good software to use.

Picture Trail Project

1. Was the software user-friendly?

- It was very user friendly because it was easy to use and everything you need is there.

2. Did the software have extra useful features to enhance your presentation?

- Well the provided features were really good and theres alot to choose from so I dont think it needed more because its really good.

3. Is the software specifically useful for teachers?

-Yes because teachers could use this software to show students pictures of them doing their activities, or have a picture slide show to show different things for an activity like showing animals, numbers, etc... Its really good for teachers.

4. Would you recommend the software for other educators?

- Yes I would recommend this to other educators because its really easy to use and its helpful for visual representation.

5. If you had a choice to use this software again for a presentation, would you use it?

- I would surely use this software, because its very decorative, easy to use, and you could use it in many different ways.

6. What overall consensus rating would you give for this software 1 to 10?

- I would give this software a big fat 10 because of its features and easy usage. I love it because it was complicated and you can add many things to your slide show.

Me and Dez web quest project

* if you want to view our web quest our site is http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=52756

1. Describe your assignment.
- Me and my partner did a project called web quest where we created a site for students to participate in an activity that we created through the site zunal.com. Our title was the beauty of a butterfly and its a site where students will learn the stages of a butterflies life cycle. We created an activity that lets them explore, hunt, and observe a caterpillar in real life till it changed in to a butterfly.
2. What did you like/dislike about the web quest project? and why?
- What i liked about the project was that you could create a lesson that a student can go online and participate it following the different links that you created for them to do. Also with the web quest you could do anything to it to make it exciting for anyone to look and do as well.
3. What were the challenges you faced?
- The one challenged I faced was putting up links to sites so that participants could go on and do it themselves that matched my content area or topic. I couldn't find any links that would work.
4. If you had to do it all over, what would you do differently?
- I would change my topic that would be much easier and for it to have alot of resources on the net for me to work with. I would add more details so that the activity would be more fun and interesting for the students to participate in.
5. How do you think students will like using a web quest? why?
- I think students will like using the web quest because they are able to do activities on their own using the computer. The web quest will give them the opportunity to explore with the topic that is provided and have them expand their learning with the different site links you could add on. Students will really enjoy this type of learning because it is computer based rather than lecture or written assignments.

Photobucket.com

1. What were the positive and negative of the Softwares?
- Me and my partner Desiree used the site photobucket.com. The positive part of this software is that there are alot of features that you can do the uploaded pictures. You can add glitter texts, add bubble thoughts, emboss, crop, having a glowing effect, also add cute stickers. The only negative part is that you have to have adobe flash player to go to the edit part of the software that means you have to download the program.

2. On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate it and why?
- i would rate this software a ten because its easy to use, no complicated directions to use and also it has alot of fun features you can do to your uploaded pictures. Its a really nice software to use.