Blogfolio

Introduction Video 
The purpose of the introduction video was to get to learn how to put our basic information about ourselves into a video and tell about it. We had to tell about our background of where were are from, what’s our major in school and classification. The video was also design for our classmates to get to know us and ourselves recording a video for our majors for job interviews. We also had to explain our hobbies and why we chose to take our certain majors. I learned how to modify an upload the video and use the blog site to upload the video and how people can go to your blog and view your post and video. It can be long as you want as long as you talk about yourself and personalities. I had a hard time just focus on making the video about myself because this is the first time I’ve had to make a video. I often had a hard time uploading the video and copy and paste the links for the videos. I will integrate by having practice on recording a class video and being a little more professional. I will also learn how to be creative when it comes to making videos and relax when making them. For the standards, the video met creativity and innovation because it involved using technology for class projects and tools on making a video. It enhances it to the students blog and be creative with the video.
Concept Map
 The purpose of the concept was to pick a subject that you would want to teach in high schools and find the NASPE Standards for that subject. We had to give the main objectives and different things that you can teach with in the subject to students. We also had to put examples and problems beside the objectives we were teaching with in the subject. We created a web map to make it easier in basic steps for every objective. We had to become very creative and be very descriptive with in the standards. I’ve learned while doing this assignment, that there are many different objectives with in the subject that you can choose from to teach younger kids with the standards, but you have to be very descriptive and give good examples. The problems that I encountered was that was picking good objectives that kids would understand and have fun with. I chose math because it’s pretty simple because it’s working with word problems and measuring. There were a lot of functions to choose from but a lot of objectives that were vague and basic. In math you cannot be basic because in math you have to solve problems. I had trouble getting the main focus and some examples of the objectives. I solved the problem by comparing and contrasting the objectives. I will integrate into my teaching by starting off a lesson plan just for the concept map and break down the top subjects and choose from them. The standards the concept map met was critical thinking, problem solving and decision making because we plan to complete a project using tools within making the web.
Web Tools
 The purpose for web tools was to read an article and give our personal opinion on the article. We had to give our opinion on how digital tools track several student’s emotions and mindsets. I gave several tools that our generation likes to use like Microsoft and excel to help them in the classroom. Some students also look to Google ad Yahoo for help with succeeding. It also talks about how the tools help them in school to succeed in areas. It emphasizes on how the digital tools take an effect on student’s emotions and change their mindset in different perspectives. Students look towards the internet for success in school. I learned that some digital tools can sometimes have an effect on your mind and how you feel about them. Using different tools does help out with a lot of class work on and off digital devices. It can help enhance their skills on the computers. I had problems pointing out how they could have trouble using the internet. The way I solved it is by looking at what the students uses the most which is Google and Microsoft. The standards that was used for the web tools was research and information fluency because the students applied and used digital tools to gather, evaluate, and to complete their projects.
Web Page
The web page was fun because we got to create our personal page for students and their parents to look at when they wanted to. It was similar to blackboard but for middle and high schoolers. We uploaded things about what we were teaching and what the students will be doing throughout the semester or year. We set rules and told about our personal background and hobbies. I learned to be creative and using things and getting an early jump on creating a page for my future students. I used things that I use to teach students now out in my career field. The only trouble I had was getting the videos to help the parents understand the class better. The solution to that was getting easy things to do and break it down into simple forms so the parents could understand the basics of what I am teaching. The standard for this was Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility because as a teacher, you have to be creative and at the same time you have to get objective that will help students excel in your classroom.
 Google Groups 
This one was my favorite because we came together as a group and talk about writing a story and coming together. We also talk about the different things in the slideshow and how they similar they are. I didn’t have any problem out this at all because we worked as a group and have different opinions but gave good details to use in each other slides. Communication and collaboration was used because you was working as a team and collaborating great ideas to make the project a success. Movie 
The movie wasn’t hard. I actually enjoyed making it. It was about picking a topic out of our life and I talk about. I talked about my time playing sports while in high school. We had to take ten pictures and describe them. The movie has to also consist of creativity and music. I learned how to be more creative by adding music and controlling the special effects of the movie. The problems I encountered while making the movie was getting the pictures to zoom in and out on them. I solved the problem by cropping the picture and cutting out parts of the pictures that was not needed. The standard that was used for the movie was the creativity and innovation because the work was original and had to be entertaining.
Course Reflection
 In this class I’ve learn how to be very creative at the same time, talk about the objectives and main points in the assignments that were given unto me. I learn a lot dealing with different windows on how to the assignments completed from Google to windows 9. My strong points was given my creativity into projects and given my opinions for the topics of how technology has changed our lives. This was my strong point because I was always creative when it came to creating blog and portfolios while I was in high school. It was like second nature when it came to talking and configuring my major into some assignments in the classrooms because I love sport. My weakness was managing my time while doing my projects and sometimes making things out for my future that will help me. It seemed sometime I overthink some of the projects because of the way the directions were. At the same time I just sometime made the project(s) long. My future goals which is coaching or teaching, will indicate and use only the main points instead of getting off track and continue talking about the subject. I plan on using clickers and kahoot into my classrooms and let the kids become creative and make projects and quizzes the same was as Dr. Beedle did us. Also construct my P.E class with creative theme and rhythms. My opinion on the portfolios and blogs in education are great. They talk about how much technology has changed our world and especially in this generation. It also give teachers to see how creative educational students are creative before they go out to teach or coach and give their opinion.