The last week of class and my presentation

I was really nervous about my presentation, I planned way much more than I could fit in 30 minutes.  I thought I had from 8:45- 9:20.  However, it end up i have only until 9:15, I was disappointed that I did not get to show the powerpoint for my presentation.  I was only able to fit riddles, video and kahoot games.   Maybe cut down the riddles that would give me enough time for presentation.

I still have bit of time to fix my moodle  and back it up so I can use it in the future.

This week we had 4 presentation
caitlin-classdojo-classroom behavior management.
I was not able to login using the code she created for me.  But I used classdojo before, so I knew how to use the system.  It is online points tracking systems where students can hear and track their points for certain behaviors and or taking attendance as well.

Micheal- photography
I was not too keen on the ideas of learning photography because I uses more camera on my phone where exposure and lights are set up automatically.  But after the lesson, I understand why it is useful and why people like to these expensive heavy set camera to create pictures and captures movements.  

Caitlin-fakebook
Creating Fakebook is similar to creating Facebook profiles.  Students are already familiar with Facebook, they watch others status and or they gets news and other informations pass through this huge social media.  Fakebook just eliminate commercials and creating a same kind of space for students.

Jamies-gonoodles websites- for brain breaks.
Gonoodles provides organized videos for teachers or students to watch based on interests, students can watch a video and taking a quick break from learning.  I use gonoodle as reward systems, students used their PRT time to pick a few short videos on Fridays to relax and release some of stress they had over the week.  I thought gonoodles was a good idea.

week 14 online presentation

This week we had a few presentation.
karrie-internet safety and security
I thought kerrie's presentation was very informative, she has given out a lot of helpful information.

Krystal -turtlediary
I thought the website is very useful and I can certainly have my daughter use it.  I don't think the students that I teach will be able to use this website because they are little too old for this type of games.

Kim-Chrome extension
This is probably the most useful presentation that I seen all night because I was able to play with the extension and seen how it is done. I really like the ad blocker extension because I can use to it for blocking annoying ads on youtube.

Week 12 blog
This week I heard almost three presentation.
I was not feeling well today, so the plan of doing homework before class did not go so well.  I ended up getting out of bed at 7:10 PM and turning on my computer.

Julio- Newslela
I missed the beginning 5 minutes of Julio's presentation.  But overall was a very clear presentation, he  showed a few tools after he introduce Newsela.

Catherine- Live Binder
It is very cool idea to have organized binder online that you are able to share with others.  However, I find live binder very difficult to navigate.  Maybe I did not spend enough time on it yet.  When I saw Joe's example on how he turn a turn a PDF copy of a menu online and he was able to search and find thing.  I was really impress by it.  Maybe I could use it to store books.


Joey-Edu blog
This is a tool that I am very familiar with.  I used Edu-blog last year, so I knew how to use some of navigation on it.  I thought interface was user friendly, but there is storage limit for posting different type of media for the free version.

I should be able to do more next week when I feel better.

Week 11
We watched everyone's presentation today. There were a few things that I need to pay attention to:
1. Homework need to be uploaded one week before presentation.  Homework for me to do is register Newsela and read a short article.
2. Scratch may be a good animation tool to use.
3. Put different weeks on the bottom of the page.
4. live cam can be used for fun process such as chicken hatching process.
5. Geocache to create scavenger hunts to bring outside of the class.
6. Use smart notebook file.  I already had a good one for Geography of China that I can use for this project. Be sure to upload one.
7. Jeopardy game will be a good review game.
8. End of course survey need to be put into the Moodle.
9. To loose vocroo branding, use vocroo to record then download as mp3, then embed mp3 file.
10.  To embed google slides.  Use Url add link then click on appearance-open, so that google slides should be embed it.


Alright, since I have a little bit of more time before Moodle project is due.  So I can add a these ideas in.

Week 8  Moodle in the Making.

We are about done with making Moodle website.  But I think I may still need a week on it.  Just to be sure that I cover everything.  More ideas for Moodle posted by Dr. Sponder online already.  He mention that there are website that can host Moodle for free. I think I am going to try to backup my Moodle file and post it on else where.  So the Moodle that I created will be available online as well.

Week 7.
The Moodle project is getting close to end.  We have about two weeks the latest to finish up what we have to do for our Moodle project.  I am not sure if I can finish it all on time because I feel there are so many things that I want to included in Moodle.  I always felt Moodle should be a storage of what it  used to be stored for in class.  Then I after I read the article Dr. Sponder posted for us to read, I realize online learning is not just simple transferring what's done in the class to online.  It should be more than that.  Online learning should be new planing and new way to get students engaged and interactive with others. That's what I learned this week.  Need to go back to adding more materials to Moodle.