Excel

I like how we used the excel spreadsheets. I had fun doing the different spreadsheets in class. Practice like this will help teachers with the program. Many beginning teachers don’t like excel so they tend avoid it. Excel can be difficult and confusing but showing your students that your willing to work with a program that you have issues with; will show them that working with difficult subjects can be hard but without trying you can’t win.

 I have never been confident in excel unless I was using it all the time. I believe that excel spreadsheet are important and useful for educators to use. If I can master excel I will use it in the classroom. I would make worksheets, graphing charts, and keep a separate grade sheet just in case the schools program breaks down. I can also use the spreadsheet on my smart board to do interactive activities with my class.

Spreadsheets are used to organize information. I think spreadsheets are better than calculators are because you can see what you are doing and label everything. Calculators just use numbers and functions, spreadsheet incorporate everything. The 3 primary functions of spreadsheet are the ones I think of when I work on excel. I would like to add worksheets, study guides, and matching charts to those lists.

Jonassen, D. Howland, J. Marra, R. M. Crismond, D. (2008). Maeningful Learning With Technology. Upper Saddle River, NJ. Merrill Prentice Hill.

Inspiration Program

   I really like this inspiration program. I think investing in this program for a classroom will be great and maybe even having a smart board that way students can get interactive with it. I like that is looks easy to use and this technology would be great to have in the classroom. I would say it is better than Microsoft’s PowerPoint program. But our students should be able to work both programs. This program can be beneficial to students and teachers. As a future science teacher, I can see myself using this for food webs, the animal kingdom, body systems, just anything. This program can be great for study guides for the students.


   I think the web action on the inspiration program is the best way of writing and organizing thoughts. The web will help the students get visual look at what they doing and how much information they have on the topic. Having a limited teaching time, I would have two writing projects. One due during the middle of the first half and then at the end that way the student will have time to revise the paper many times. During the semester, I can revise and comment on the student’s paper through Microsoft word with comment boxes on where they can improve or change things. When teaching a new skill or topic, I like to pick one that I don’t know about. That way the I know which parts of the skill can be difficult to understand. The students and I are learning something new and I can experience the process with them.


   Writing is something that we will always have to do. Technology has made it more efficient and easy for students to organize their thoughts and find information. I know my future students will benefit from this. By the time I graduate there will probably be something newer to help students with writing. These programs are beneficial to students and when I think about when students didn’t have this technology writing was a lot harder.



Jonassen, D. Howland, J. Marra, R. M. Crismond, D. (2008). Maeningful Learning With Technology. Upper Saddle River, NJ. Merrill Prentice Hill.


Inspiration Software. (2010). Inspiration Videos and Webcasts for Using Visual Learning In Your Classroom. http://www.inspiration.com/videos/Inspiration

Week 2 BLOG

     This is my first time using a blog, and I really don’t have an opinion about them. I’ve never really read anyone’s blog. Now that I have this one it will probably be the only time that I use it. I believe blogs are great for people that have a voice and want to share their beliefs. I do think some people use blogs for the wrong reasons especially students. Some students use blogs for cyber bullying and other things. I do believe that internet things like blogs etc. need two be monitored.
     For me personally I plan on using technology in the classroom but I don’t think blogs would be my first choice to use. If I had no choice then I would use it. I would use the blog for the first 10 min of class, something to get the students thinking a quote, journal topic, or brain teaser. I could use it right before class ends and leave my students with a positive quote or saying to brighten they’re day. Another way I can use the blog is by emailing the parents the blog website and keep them updated on homework, classroom behavior, and important things they should be aware about.
    I understand some people could think that blogs are a waste of time. Blogs can be time consuming for the teacher. Teachers already have so much on their plate regarding teaching, tests, grading and other stuff, now they have to write blogs everyday about their class or something of that nature. I could see some teachers not doing it or not putting enough effort into it. Plus to this day not all families have computers or internet access so a blog wouldn’t be beneficial for them.
     As a teacher I would want my students to be creative in everything that they do. I would like to use the wiki’s as a weekly journal. I’d have a page and a journal topic for that week and each student will comment of the wiki page. I personally don’t use wikipeadea as a source and I don’t want my students to use it because anyone can go on there and change the information on the website.






      Jonasse D., Howland J., Marra R. M., & Crismond D. (2008). Meaningful Learning with Technology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.

All about me!!!!!

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My name is Keely and I am new to this whole "Blogger thing". I'm originally from Houston, Texas, but now living in commerce in the country!!!! Oh how i miss the city!!!!!! Well I'm doing this blog for my ETEC 424!! I don't think i would use this in my future classroom.


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