Science Sim

This was a really interesting activity today to do for sure. I found it honestly pretty frustrating because it was taking forever to down load and there was a lot of problems with the system. Once we actually got it in was pretty cool and what the doctorate student explained to us to how it could be used seems like it should be pretty sweet. Having the tutoring and classroom in the game could be very helpful. You could use it to better help you out and practice what you would do or say in that classroom situation. I liked how he said if you are tech savvy that you could set up different little worlds and teach others about pretty much anything that you would want to create through the program. I think that this seems kind of for older children and I honestly don't know if i would or how i would use it effectively with my little kindergartners. But i think maybe once I'm more exposed to it and get use to working with it then maybe i could utilize it more efficiently. I'm not a huge gamer type of person so to me it was more of a stress thing that a helpful thing. But that might just come with time. Hopefully, will just have to wait and see.

Today we learned how to create a class survey on google. It was relatively easy to create which I was really surprised about. I thought it would be much harder to create something like that and it totally wasn't. I think that this would be a great way to incorporate technology into the classroom because you could have them answer it from their home computer or a family email as well as having them answer them on the school computer under your name. I also think that it could be useful to put the survey up on the smart board and then just have them answer the questions on a piece of paper or something to get an entire class survey. So I think that it is a very useful tool and you can get a lot of valuable information from it.

It was fun to answer questions that others had created and then to see what their responses to your questions where. It was exciting to just wait and see who was gonna say what. So i could see this being very motivational to students as well because it was so motivational to me!


This is my first survery!

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHN5WlluM1JZQks4MDFfZFRFcV9RSXc6MA

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHN5WlluM1JZQks4MDFfZFRFcV9RSXc6MA

Spreadsheets

Today we learned how to make a grade book on word excel and I'm not gonna lie it was a little frustrating. I haven't had to use excel sense high school in my last computer class and that was three years ago. So I had totally forgot how to even use the basics of excel and it took me awhile and a little help from those around me to actually get to the point as to where i was starting to understand and feel comfortable with using the program again. I think that it is a good way to create your grade book for school, it is just something that i am going to have to fiddle with and get more comfortable with so that I can use it in the future. The functions are good to know because it makes your life so much easier when it comes to calculating grades for the entire class. It will be extremely helpful, the only problem is that I'm not sure how to set up the different formulas and functions in the program for figuring out different things. So that is something that I need to figure out how to do.

I also think that the cell phone poll is pretty sweet. This would be something awesome to do in the upper grades and something that I think the kids would LOVE to do!! I couldn't really do this in an Elementary Classroom because none of my little students are going to have cell phones. But I think for future references and for other projects at school or work or something then I think that it would be a sweet thing to do. Its fast its simple and I think that it is something that would be very motivaional to those who would be able to use it.